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

 
TEST-10 FUTURE
The human 1)_______ contains, I am told, 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have 
a thousand connections. Such enormous numbers used to daunt us and cause to dismiss the 
possibility of 2)________ a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have grown 
accustomed to advancing at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only several3)______ 
perhaps we will be able to assemble a 4)_______as complex as the 5) ______ brain, and if we 
can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right 
software or by altering the architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that in decades, 
not centuries, machines of silicon will arise first to rival and then surpass their human 
progenitors. 
TEST-11PAPER 
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. 
TEST-12 THE POOR
It is commonly assumed that poor are lazy 1)____________who could work if they were willing. 
In fact, over 60 percent of the 2)____________ consist of children under age fourteen, elderly 
people over age sixty-four, and people working age who are ill or in school. Another quarter 
3)___________ but do not earn enough to rise above the poverty line. This leaves less than 15 
percent of the poor of 4)____________ age who do not work, and the vast majority of those are 
the mother of young 5)_________ . When it comes to work, the poor do not look as bad as their 
reputation, for most of them are too old, too young, too 6)___________, or too busy caring for 
children to work.