A2 Key for Schools (KET) Reading & Writing Part 4 Test – School Trips & Excursions 6
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Test 1
Questions 19-24
For each question, choose the correct answer.
A Trip to a Bakery
Many schools take their students on trips to a local bread bakery. It is a great way for children to learn how bakers (19)…………… different kinds of bread.
When students arrive, the bakers show them what they need to use. They learn that to make bread, you need a lot of white (20)…………… . The bakers mix this with water and salt, and put it into a very big (21)…………… to bake. When the fresh bread comes out, it is very (22)…………… and too dangerous to touch.
The children often spend a few minutes just (23)…………… the wonderful air in the bakery. At the end of the trip, everyone gets a small piece to try. The students always enjoy (24)…………… the fresh bread before they go back to their classrooms.
19 A make B do C put
20 A sugar B flour C salt
21 A fridge B box C oven
22 A hot B heavy C hard
23 A looking B tasting C smelling
24 A eating B drinking C cooking
Answer Key & Explanations
19 A (make): 'Make bread' is a very strong, everyday collocation. We use 'make' for preparing or creating food, whereas we do not say 'do bread' or 'put bread' in this context.
20 B (flour): This tests broader context. Flour is the main white ingredient in bread. 'Salt' is incorrect because the very next sentence says they mix this with salt. 'Sugar' is not the main base ingredient for making regular bread.
21 C (oven): Based on the semantic context of needing a place to 'bake' food, an 'oven' is the only logical choice. A 'fridge' makes things cold, and a 'box' is not used for cooking.
22 A (hot): This fits the semantic meaning of the sentence. Food that just 'comes out' of an oven has a very high temperature, making it 'hot' and 'dangerous to touch'. 'Heavy' or 'hard' do not explain this danger.
23 C (smelling): This fits the phrase-level meaning of enjoying the 'air' in the room. We use our noses to smell the air; we cannot 'look' at or 'taste' the air.
24 A (eating): 'Eating bread' is a natural semantic fit and collocation for finishing food. You cannot 'drink' bread, and the students are not 'cooking' it themselves at the end of the trip.
Test 2
Questions 19-24
For each question, choose the correct answer.
A Trip to a TV Studio
Going on a school trip to a TV studio is a very exciting day. When students arrive, they usually walk into a large room with lots of big (19)…………… on the floor. These are used to film the actors. Above everyone's heads, there are hundreds of bright (20)…………… pointing down from the ceiling.
Before the show starts, the teachers always tell the students to keep very (21)…………… . When the actors begin (22)…………… to each other, you must not make any noise. Instead of looking at the real actors, you can also watch everything happen on a large computer (23)…………… in the corner of the room.
At the end of the day, some lucky students get to stand with the presenters. It is a fantastic way to (24)…………… out how people make television programmes.
19 A cameras B radios C telephones
20 A lights B fires C stars
21 A quiet B slow C safe
22 A speaking B calling C telling
23 A screen B board C glass
24 A find B look C search
Answer Key & Explanations
19 A (cameras): 'Cameras' fits the broader context of the text, as the next sentence explains they are 'used to film the actors'. 'Radios' and 'telephones' are used for sound, not filming.
20 A (lights): 'Lights' fits the semantic meaning of bright objects that point down from a ceiling in an indoor room. 'Fires' and 'stars' are bright, but they belong in nature or outside.
21 A (quiet): 'Keep quiet' is the correct English collocation for staying silent. It also logically connects to the following sentence about not making 'any noise'. 'Slow' and 'safe' do not fit this specific instruction.
22 A (speaking): 'Speaking' correctly fits the meaning of actors having a conversation, and it works grammatically with the preposition 'to'. 'Calling' means phoning or shouting, and 'telling' requires a direct object without 'to' (e.g., telling someone).
23 A (screen): 'Computer screen' is a strong collocation, referring to the part of the machine where you watch videos or pictures. You cannot watch a live video on a computer 'board' or 'glass'.
24 A (find): 'Find out' is a correct phrasal verb collocation that means to discover or learn new information. 'Look out' means to be careful, and 'search' does not collocate with 'out' in this way.
Test 3
Questions 19-24
For each question, choose the correct answer.
A Trip to the Newspaper Office
Our class went on a fantastic trip to a local newspaper office last week. When we walked into the large building, it was very busy. Many journalists were sitting at their desks, (19)…………… fast on their keyboards. Everyone was working hard to write the latest stories.
The writers use big (20)…………… to search for information on the internet. Then, we met the people who go out into the city to take the best (21)…………… for the front page. They showed us how they make the images look bright and clear.
Next, we saw the loud printing machines. These machines print the daily (22)…………… so people can learn about what is happening in the world. Before the papers leave the office, some workers spend time (23)…………… the pages carefully to check for mistakes. It is a very important (24)…………… because they want everything to be perfect. We learned a lot about how people make our local paper!
19 A typing B playing C writing
20 A computers B televisions C radios
21 A photos B films C paints
22 A news B messages C letters
23 A reading B looking C seeing
24 A job B work C hobby
Answer Key & Explanations
19 A (typing): This fits the exact semantic meaning. You "type" on a computer keyboard to produce text. You can "play" a musical keyboard, but this is a newspaper office. We do not usually say "writing on" a keyboard.
20 A (computers): This is the correct word based on the broader context. Journalists use computers to connect to the internet and search for information. Televisions and radios cannot do this.
21 A (photos): This forms the very common A2 collocation "take photos." A newspaper uses photos for its front page, not paints. A film is used for video, not for printed newspaper images.
22 A (news): This forms the standard collocation "daily news," which fits the context of a newspaper printing information about what is happening in the world. Messages and letters are personal and not printed on large machines for the public.
23 A (reading): This fits the phrase-level grammar and meaning. You read pages to check for spelling mistakes. "Looking" would need the preposition "at" (looking at the pages), and "seeing" does not mean to check something carefully.
24 A (job): This is the correct noun for the grammatical context. "Job" is a countable noun, so it works with the article "an" (an important job). "Work" is uncountable (we say "important work," not "an important work"), and checking papers is a job, not a "hobby."