7 cefr(Multilevel) Reading Part Practice Tests Designed by A. J

 
TEST-8 PAPER 
Several British papers are printed on recycled 1)______, and salvaged paper has long been used 
for making 2)_______ boxes. The technology involved in this is fairly simple, but some 
3)________ new processes have been developed recently. Paper can be eaten; it is softened and 
sweetened in a special machine and then fed to cows. In fact, it has been found that cows 
4)______ on cardboard boxes give particularly creamy milk. Unfortunately, the human stomach 
differs from a 5) _______'s so it seems unlikely that we shall ever be able to read the Times at 
breakfast one day and 6)______ it for breakfast the next day, but stranger things are possible. 

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TEST-9 CASTLE 
On the coast of California, on top of a mountain, stands an 1)_______ castle which looks as if it 
has been lifted out of the Middle Ages and laid on the site. In fact the 2)______, called San 
Simeon, was built for the American newspaper proprietor, William Randolph Hearst but it is 
furnished with objects dating from different historical periods, which were transported from 
Europe. It took thirty years to 3)______ the castle and even then it was not completed. 
Throughout this time, over a hundred workmen were permanently employed on its 4)______ and 
the architect Julia Morgan, was continually obliged to 5)_______ its design, as often as Hearst 
changed his mind. Rooms and whole floors were constructed but then had to be knocked down 
and rebuilt to please him. Agents were set all over 6)_____ to find works of art to decorate the 
castle. Old ceilings and fireplaces, furniture, paintings and statues were purchased and shipped to 
America. An enormous number of 7)_____were bought but many of them could not be used and 
had to be stored in warehouses, some of them not even unpacked.