Welcome to Mr Aslanov’s CEFR lessons – LEVEL B2 Get guaranteed intensive CEFR courses with us!!! Call and join our team now: + 998 94 633 32 30 LEXICAL & GRAMMAR COMPETENCE – TEST 23 The Model Millionaire Unless one is wealthy there is no Q1______ in being a charming fellow. Romance is the
privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and
prosaic. It is better to have a permanent Q2_____ than to be fascinating. These are the great truths
of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realised. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must
Q3______ , he was not of much importance. He never said a brilliant thing in his life. But then he
was wonderfully good-looking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his grey eyes.
He was as popular with men as he was with women, and he had every accomplishment except that
of Q4______ his living. His father had bequeathed him his cavalry sword, and a History of the Peninsular War in fifteen volumes. Hughie hung the first over his looking-glass, put the second on
a shelf between Ruff’s Guide and Bailey’s Magazine, and lived on two hundred a year that an old
aunt allowed him. He had tried everything. He had gone to the Stock Exchange for six months; but
what was a butterfly to do among bulls and bears? He had been a tea-merchant for a little longer.
Then he had tried Q5______ dry sherry. That did not answer either. Ultimately he became nothing,
a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession. To make matters
worse, he was in love. The girl he loved was Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired Colonel who
had lost his Q6______ and his digestion in India, and had never found either of them again. Laura
adored him, and he was ready to kiss her shoestrings. They were the loveliest couple in London,
and had not a penny between them. The Colonel was very Q7______ of Hughie, but would not
hear of any engagement. ‘Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your
own, and we will see about it,’ he used to say; and Hughie looked very glum on those days, and had
to go to Laura for consolation.
Q1 A) aim
B) use
C) idea
D) good
Q2. A) income
B) outcome
C) payment
D) benefit
Q3. A) adopt
B) admit
C) adjust
D) admire
Q4. A) doing
B) scratching
C) earning
D) getting
Q5. A) selling
B) sell
C) to sell
D) sold
Q6. A) temp
B) tempera
C) temperament D) temper
Q7. A) keen
B) enthusiastic
C) fond
D) satisfied