Answer key-Test B2-FCE

FCE ANSWER- Test 1
paper 1 Reading ► PART 1
1A- Incorrect: If he`s a three-time world champion, he can`t have lost frequently.
1B- Incorrect: He looks gentle, but he wasn`t gentle in the ring.
1C- Incorrect: He must have fought back to be world champion three times.
1D- Correct: `he was just a hulk who knew how to take a hit`.
2A- Incorrect: After two autobiographies, he has written a novel.
2B- Incorrect: This is the opposite of what the text says.
2C- Correct: `a brilliant first novel ... likely to gain a wide readership`.
2D- Incorrect: `there is far more to it than that`.
3A- Incorrect: The paragraph is about his parents, not about his childhood.
3B- Correct: `His father was an athletic director ... his mother a physical education teacher`.
3C- Incorrect: There`s reference to his parents` educational background, not his.
3D- Incorrect: If it meant background in athletics, the text would say that he came from this stock.
4A- Incorrect: They weren`t afraid. They thought he would get hurt.
4B- Incorrect: They insisted on a college education, not training.
4C- Incorrect: They thought he would quit, not that they wanted him to.
4D- Correct; `I am pretty sure they thought I`d get hurt and quit wrestling`.
5A- Incorrect; He could be in good condition because he has retired, not although he has.
5B- Correct: `He looks in remarkably good condition for someone who spent 20 years in the ring`.
5C- Incorrect: It doesn`t say that that he stopped wrestling five years ago.
5D- Incorrect: He says it`s amazing what retirement can do, not that he is amazed. 6A- Incorrect: He used to resent it, which means that now he doesn`t.
6B- Incorrect: He doesn`t say that wrestlers are not good actors.
6C- Correct: `I used to really resent the acting label, but it is acting`.
6D- Incorrect: He means that the acting aspect of wrestling sometimes comes close to being real.
7A- Incorrect: This didn`t make him quit.
7B- Incorrect: He gave up wrestling partly because of his children`s reaction when he got hurt. He didn`t give up because he was getting hurt.
7C- Correct: `they stopped enjoying it`.
7D- Incorrect: There`s no support for this in the text.
8A- Correct: `Wrestling is all about characters`.
8B- Incorrect: There`s no support for this in the text.
8C- Incorrect: There`s no support for this in the text.
8D- Incorrect: There`s no reference to this in the text.








PART 2
9E: Link between `best-selling video game` in the previous sentence and `Its success`. Also, link between `Its success lies in the use of special effects` and `stunning action sequences that rely on fantasy effects`.
10H: Contrastive link between `film makers have started to realise that they could set films in similar sci-fi future worlds` and `However, the difficulty for the producers of Hollywood appears to be ...`.
11A: Link between `People who enjoyed the film will probably want to buy the videogame` and `This clearly creates a new market opportunity for the videogame industry`.
12G: Link between the question `Why do some players feel disappointed by films based on their favourite games?` and the answer `One reason is technical`.
13C: Link between "your favourite thriller`, `You wouldn`t be interested in watching the film if you knew the identity of the murderer` and `In films you are not supposed to have access to all the information`.
14D: Link between `Suspense and mystery are essential elements of film-making` in the previous paragraph and `This is not true for video games`.
B: Link between "films and video games`, `We go to the cinema to let someone else tell us a story` and `a story and a game`.
PART 3
16B: And I just don`t think it`s a very interesting job.
17C: my mother has always tried to steer me away from taking up the profession
18D: but then I began to think of the disadvantages
19A: he always tried to push me into taking up the same profession
20C: Most of the other actors I`ve met ... strike me as very arrogant people;
I don`t really think I`d get on with them.
21B: my mother wasn`t getting paid very well
22D: I don`t really think my dad`s job affected my decision at all
23A: My dad is a free-lance builder, like his father and his grandfather
24B: there aren`t so many jobs available in pure research
25/6 B: My mother did try to motivate me to take an interest in science subjects.
25/6 D: trying to get me interested in taking a teaching qualification
27C: worrying about where the next job`s coming