Reading Part 5 - B1 - Grammar Focus: ADVERBS

Read the instructions to the Exam Task.

1 What do you have to read?

2 What do you have to choose?

3 Where do you mark your answers?

Look at the title of the text and make guesses about it.

1 Is it a story or a text about facts?

2 Does something good or bad happen?

3 Make one guess about what happens.

Read the text quickly and check your guesses.

Don't worry about the numbered spaces for now.

Were your guesses correct?

Look at the sample answer below

Look at Questions 26-35 and choose the answers for the ones you are certain about.

For each question:

Go back and do the other answers.

When you have finished, read the text again all the way through. Do your answers make sense?

Mark your answers on your answer sheet. Check that you have put them in the right place.

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.
 
 Example: 0 A every B some C all D most

Family meals

 Does your family sit down together (0) every day to share a meal? Does someone plan the food carefully, buy it (1) ______ and cook it (2) ______, so that you really enjoy eating it?
 Nowadays, the answer to these questions (3) ______ often 'no'. Adults are usually working and arrive home late. Granny probably lives too (4) ______ away to visit regularly. Children eat fast so they never learn that preparing good food and eating healthily (5) ______ time and thought. In some families, each person eats separately, (6) ______
  television or working at a desk and the children often eat (7) ______.
 By sitting (8) ______ the table with other people, however, children have the chance to learn that a shared meal is a (9) ______ for family members to tell each other their news.
 But if we can't (10) ______ eat together, we should try to have family meals at weekends. It's good for our health, it's good for society, and it's fun.