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    Proficiency Masterclass

    Progress Tests Answer Key

    Progress Test 1

    A 7) What

    1) compulsive/compelling 8) without

    2) highlighted D

    3) poverty 1) to give into pressure to buy

    4) deprivation 2) has received an unprecedented number of


    nominations/has received more nominations than
    5) headway ever before
    6) sympathetic 3) can’t help it if

    7) backdrop 4) are known/said to have caused/to have been


    the cause of
    8) undeniably
    5) once did I lose concentration during
    B
    6) wouldn’t hear of my
    1) The ‘system’ is the welfare system, which is
    supposed to care for people who are in need – this
    includes money for those out of work, help with
    housing, medical care etc. In the phrase ‘the
    system’ these different departments are grouped
    together and accused of being unable to help the
    young family in this docu-drama.

    2) The public knows about the problem because


    we see films, read books, articles about homeless
    people and more than that we see them with our
    own eyes sleeping in doorways, asking for money
    on the streets, etc. The problem confronts us
    physically every day. Also, more and more people
    know someone who has become homeless and the
    problem seems to be getting closer.

    1) being

    2) no

    3) behind

    4) would

    5) it

    6) took

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    Progress Test 2

    1) C 2) B 3) D 4) A 5) B 6) D 7) B 8) A

    1) foolish

    2) rudeness

    3) irreversible

    4) revelations

    5) inexplicable

    6) hilarity

    7) extension

    8) safety

    1) The texting may not be intentionally rude but


    comes across as such, unless the people
    conversing face-to-face are the same age, in which
    case it may be normal for them.

    2) This points to the contrast between the life


    saving rescue and help given with the importance
    placed on saving the phone – which caused the
    accident in the first place.

    1) shouldn’t have attempted the climb without


    checking/having checked

    2) that she was advised to start/that the doctor


    advised her to start

    3) is doing is nothing less than

    4) in people’s/the consumption of saturated fats is


    concerning

    5) tracked down the suspect with the help

    6) to keep an eye on my handbag

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    Progress Test 3 5) impressed by the (dancer’s) beautiful
    performance (of the dancer)
    A
    6) sounds as though your sister is having
    1) rewarding

    2) academic

    3) Successive

    4) attainable

    5) bemoan

    6) Arguably

    7) depth

    8) rethink

    1) follow a different path to that followed by most


    other teenagers today, i.e. choose to do something
    other than go to university

    2) It implies that an apprenticeship used to be


    both a popular and respected option, something
    which had been done for a long time.

    1) any

    2) comes

    3) with

    4) such

    5) find/work

    6) through

    7) of

    8) should/can/could

    1) had the accountants check out

    2) to hear Jim out

    3) jumped down my throat when he found

    4) underfunding, (the) clients had to make do with

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