📝 Use of English Test – B2

Only if you are a proficient speaker of a language that you have learned ____as an adultin adultby adulthoodduring adult in adulthood ____can youyou cancould youyou could really tell how hard it is ____to reachreachingreachreached to that level. Or maybe not so hard, ____sincebecauseasdue to most of the students who get there find real pleasure in reading and listening to the language, which ____ishas beenwasbeing central in the process of learning it. But it’s definitely a long road to travel.

Lots of people start to learn a language excited about the prospect that one day, they will be able to communicate with it. However, only a few of those people ____actuallyliterallyeventuallysurely end up being proficient speakers of that language, because, ____unfortunatelyluckilysurprisinglyinterestingly, students tend to lose some of their enthusiasm when they ____become awareare awarewere awarebecame aware of the vast world of knowledge that still needs ____to be masteredmasteringto masterbe mastered. That is the moment of realisation when language learners mistakenly stop focusing on what they are learning or already know, and start focusing on all the things they don’t know or can’t do.

Suppose you ____were climbingclimbedhad climbedare climbing a high mountain, wouldn’t it be harder ____to keep goingkeeping goinggoto go on if you kept looking at the remote and elevated top, instead of enjoying your every small step along the way? I’m sure it ____would bewill beiswas. Language learners can see the summit of that overwhelming mountain at around intermediate level and upwards; that’s the time ____whenthatwherewhich many of those enthusiastic elementary students leave behind the comfort of their immediate surroundings and dare look up at the extent of the apparently impossible deed. My advice, learn to appreciate the beauty of those small steps, if you don’t want to risk ____losingto loselosehaving lost hope in order to become another language ____dropoutdrop-outfailurequitter.