B1 Vocabulary

Read the text about how we spend out free time. 

Decide which of the four words best fits each space. The select the correct word. 

Multiple Choice

_________ people all over the world are working longer hours. We also have more leisure time than ever before

• In general

• Although

• However

• Despite

Multiple Choice

After sleeping and working, watching TV is by far the most _______ leisure activity the in world. The British watch more TV than any other nation in Europe, but they read more too.

• joint

• common

• regular

• general

Multiple Choice

The _______ majority, eighty-five per cent, read newspapers, and 54% regularly read books.

• huge

• massive

• wide

• vast

Multiple Choice

Two thirds of modern European women work full-time, but they still do the main __________ of the housework too.

• cut

• portion

• part

• piece

Multiple Choice

Husbands help in the household more than they did in former ________.

• times

• ages

• periods

• dates

Multiple Choice

No wonder that many working women say they are stressed and ___________.

• alert

• sleepy

• exhausted

• spent

Multiple Choice

According to the latest ___________ by supermarkets, the average British family spends just 11 minutes preparing for the main evening meal.

• inspections

• examinations

• explorations

• research

Multiple Choice

Almost half of all UK families in the UK eat together only once a month or _____________

• fewer

• less

• least

• smaller

Multiple Choice

More than half of young people in the UK have a fulltime job _____ the age of 19, but the _______ of young Spanish and Italian people do not start full-time work until they are 24.

• by / majority

• with / most

• up to / bulk

• under / mass

Multiple Choice

The average American fourteen year-old __________ only half an hour a day doing homework, and less than a fifth of them participate in sports, music or have other hobbies

• fills

• occupies

• uses

• spends

Multiple Choice

_____________, 65 % say they spend their time chatting on their mobiles and __________ out with friends in shopping malls.

• In spite of / falling

• Despite / running

• Instead / dropping

• Nevertheless / hanging

Multiple Choice

In the UK, pensioners are almost twice as active as teenagers, according to __________ research.

• recent

• newest

• latest

• last

Multiple Choice

People over 65 spend nearly two hours a day ________ physical activities such as walking, cycling or gardening.

• exercising

• having

• making

• doing

Multiple Choice

However, surprisingly, people who use the Internet ___________ do more sport than people who never use it.

• evenly

• regularly

• completely

• wholly

The Bank of England Museum

Some of the lines in the text below have a word which should not be there. If the line is correct type ok into the box. If the line has a word which should not be there, write the word into the box. 

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The museum is being housed within the Bank of England itself, right at the

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heart of the City of London. It traces the history of the Bank from its

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beginnings in 1694 to the high-tech world of modern banking jobs.

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There are gold bars dating from old ancient times as well as coins and a unique

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collection of banknotes. Such other items include Roman pottery and mosaics,

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uncovered when the bank was rebuilt in the 1930s. On the display are

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documents relating to the Duchess of Marlborough and George Washington ,

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both former customers of the world bank.

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The Bank Stock Office, was a late eighteenth-century banking hall designed

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by the great English architect Sir John Soane, has been reconstructed and

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interactive videos give visitors themselves the opportunity of looking behind the

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doors of the nation’s single central bank. Live news and information about

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securities and foreign currency is often given at a dealing desk, which is

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identical to those in daily use in the Bank. There, visitors can imagine

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themselves in the world of high finance money.