A text of about 150 to 200 words with eight gaps, four options each: collocations, phrasal verbs and fixed phrases.
A practice text in the shape of B2 First Use of English part 1, written by Words on Repeat. Not an official test and not a predicted grade.
Read the text and choose the right answer (a, b, c or d) for each of the gaps 1 to 8.
Five years ago, a retired engineer in a small market town up with a simple idea: once a month, local people could bring their broken lamps, toasters and bicycles to the church hall and fix them with the help of volunteers. At the first session, on a wet Saturday in March, only a handful of people came along, and few expected the project to last.
, the café soon out to be far more popular than anyone had imagined. Today it attracts around eighty visitors a month, and the volunteers have learnt to keep an eye on the queue so that nobody waits too long. Teenagers, many of whom first got involved purely by chance, now for a third of the helpers.
The organisers are also keen to awareness of how much useful equipment ends up in landfill. Last year they in persuading the council to fund new tools and spare parts. As one volunteer puts it, mending a kettle may seem a small thing, but it a real difference to people who cannot a new one.
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