Test 11

Gemma ^....... paint really well when she was only four years old. 

In fact she was so good that her parents .....get one of her paintings into a famous art exhibition.

Her talents surprised her parents because they ......to paint at all. 

They ....understand why Gemma was so talented. 

When she was ten, she started selling portraits of people and animals online and ........ to make quite a lot of money

However, although she was successful as an artist, she never

......... to do her homework and she had to stay down in her class a year. 

Now she has extra lessons and thinks she will

........improve her schoolwork enough so that she can join her old class again.

I thought the ___ of the last film was difficult to follow.

1 He ___ his ideas online and he became very successful.

They couldn’t stop ___ when she told them the story. It was so funny.

How many ___ has he won this year?

I can’t wait to read the next ___ in the book. 

There’s ___ all over our garden wall. How did it get there?

John Jacobs, the ..... of that bestseller, lives opposite us in the village. 

...... are always standing outside our house trying to get information about him, but we never say anything. 

He is a private person and I’ve only met him once, when he first came. He never ......in news programmes on television, even though he gets very good ....... for each of his books. 

His first ......was about the village and its residents.

It also had ...... which made it very clear which residents he was writing about.

In fact I think it was very ..... that he laughed at all of us.

The residents haven’t spoken to him since. The

....... of his latest bestseller is a lovely

⁸ / of the village centre, which I did a few years ago.