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TEST 1-FCE-2015_TB_•TEST1pp4-21-NEW-TB-NEW-Layout.qxd 28/2/2014 4:05 µµ Page 66 FCE Practice Test 1 Paper 1 - Reading and Use of English Paper 1 Reading and Use of English PART 5 You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 31-36, choose the answer A, B, C or D which you think fits best according to the text. "Come along, young fellow," shouted Mr. Watson. "I'll "Then she didn't wash." est 1 3 He swept out of the drawing-room with giant strides, The little boy crowed with delight at the success of his show you the school room." dialectic. Then he caught sight of Philip's feet. and Philip hurriedly limped behind him. He was taken into a long, bare room with two tables that ran along "What's the matter with your foot?" Practice T 8 forms. Philip instinctively tried to withdraw it from sight. He its whole length; on each side of them were wooden hid it behind the one which was whole. "Nobody much here yet," said Mr. Watson. "I'll just "I've got a club foot," he answered. show you the playground, and then I'll leave you to shift for yourself." "How did you get it?" Mr. Watson led the way. Philip found himself in a large playground with high brick walls on three sides of it. On the fourth was an iron railing through which you "Let's have a look." saw a vast lawn and beyond this some of the buildings of King's School. One small boy was wandering discon- "I've always had it." solately, kicking up the gravel as he walked. "No." "Hulloa, Venning," shouted Mr. Watson. "When did you "Don't then." turn up?" The little boy accompanied the words with a sharp kick The small boy came forward and shook hands. on Philip's shin, which Philip did not expect and thus could not guard against. The pain was so great that it "Here's a new boy. He's older and bigger than you, so made him gasp, but greater than the pain was the sur- don't you bully him." prise. He did not know why Venning kicked him. He had not the presence of mind to give him a black eye. 22 The headmaster glared amicably at the two children, Besides, the boy was smaller than he, and he had read filling them with fear by the roar of his voice, and then in The Boy's Own paper that it was a mean thing to hit with a guffaw left them. anyone smaller than yourself. While Philip was nursing his shin, a third boy appeared and his tormentor left 22 "What's your name?" him. In a little while he noticed that the pair were talk- ing about him, and he felt they were looking at his 24 "Carey." feet. He grew hot and uncomfortable. "What's your father?" But others arrived, a dozen together, and then more, and they began to talk about their doings during the "He's dead." holidays, where they had been, and what wonderful cricket they had played. A few new boys appeared, "Oh! Does your mother wash?" and with these presently Philip found himself talking. He was shy and nervous. He was anxious to make him- "My mother's dead, too." self pleasant, but he could not think of anything to say. He was asked a great many questions and Philip thought this answer would cause the boy a cer- answered them all quite willingly. One boy asked him tain awkwardness, but Venning was not to be turned whether he could play cricket. from his facetiousness for so little. "No," answered Philip. "I've got a club foot." "Well, did she wash?" he went on. The boy looked down quickly and reddened. Philip saw 37 "Yes," said Philip indignantly. that he felt he had asked an unseemly question. He was too shy to apologise and looked at Philip awk- "She was a washerwoman then?" wardly. "No, she wasn't." 66