OK so let's go through another practice test and we're going this one comes from the Cambridge official
a practice test and this is Testim rate reading passage one make this this actually is probably one
of my favorite Cambridge books to practice from.
So I encourage you to go out and get it and use it because as a great practice test it and I think they're
great practice really really great practice.
It's over.
This is this is coming from test eight.
So if you have it with you make sure that you have it you can do it along with us so you can take a
look at our strategy and tactics so we're still looking at Fill in the blank questions and this is our
third example of the fill in the blank question.
So have a look at it.
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almost too big.
Better.
All right.
So this is the Phoenicians and almost forgotten people I know about the Phoenicians because I love history
but you know if you if you don't this is that's what the title this is.
So sometimes you find the reading passages are interesting to read sometimes you don't.
But that doesn't matter because it's really not about your background knowledge it's about your understanding
of strategy tactics and English.
That's what their testing strategy knowing you having good strategy when you're sending English if you
have those two things then you can actually do pretty good on the exam.
So let's keep going and let's move forward in terms of our strategy and tactics.
OK.
So here we have eight while we have eight eight questions that we're doing.
So like I said first thing we want to do with it and the other examples here is look and see which ones
are going to be the easiest to do.
First some of these have some really great words well a lot of you just got a lot of judges are going
to be easy to do.
Number two I would probably start with number two because because it has the words 50 ships and Egypt
number three is also easy to find because of the word king of Israel and Phoenicia
number seven is probably easy to find because of the word carved and the word ceder.
So I would probably start with two three and seven.
That's what I would probably start with two three and seven if I come across the keywords are four five
and six and I recognize them quickly.
I could do those also.
But I think if you're talking about which ones are the easiest to find.
First it will be two three and seven.
Now if you know what number three is and you know we're number seven is that you know numbers four five
and six are in the middle.
You know number you know number one will be found for number two the number eight will come after number
seven.
That's the beauty of having a fill in the blank question.
That's the beauty of it.
Because the question goes in order.
And when you know the question is going order is much much easier for you to be able to handle and manage
your years you know getting them right efficiently.
So I going to start with number two first and then we're going to move on from there and find number
five number three and then find Number seven also.
OK.
So first I'm looking for 50 ships and Egypt and I know for number two when I find my sentence looking
for a person or a person or person in a profession like teacher because it says the word who is an ancient
story a blank from Egypt who so we're talking about a person for number two.
So what if I'm in right center I'm looking for a person or a can be a person or we're like a lawyer.
You know as a person it could be a word that describes a person also.
So take a look.
Some scary.
I mean this ruling passage we have a broken up side by side.
Sometimes it's like that sometimes it's not.
Look for this one is like that.
And that's the way it is.
All right so here's the word 50 years of work.
Here's of these ships and in the previous sentence we have the word Egypt.
So our first question is coming from a combination of these two sentences.
Remember I told you previously what they do sometimes is they'll take two sentences from or from the
reading passage and when they make the question they'll combine information from both of those sentences
into one sentence.
So that's our situation that we have here.
Right.
So it says one of the characters there's work at all if Phoenician merchant living in Tadas in Egypt
Egypt now.
Now Delta has many of as many as 50 ships carry out his business flying back and forth between the Nile
and the Venetian port of Sidon.
So we're looking for a word of a person we're looking for a person here.
So our question again says in an Asian story a blank from Phoenicia who lived in Egypt over 50 ships.
So we can't wait see it says a.
Right so we can't use a person's name here.
You can't say like a Keino which as you know by now is my name.
You can't say a Kino from Phoenicia or Jard from Phoenicia.
No.
So here we look when we look back when we look back at the sentence or the two sentences together one
answer is going to be merchant merchant.
The merchant describes a person and a merchant and find the merchant can follow the word can follow
the Oracle a.
All right so the answer is merchant in an ancient story a merchant prophet Nisha who lived in Egypt
on fifty ships.
So in an ancient story a merchant from Phoenicia who lived in Egypt one of the ships answerers merchant
next will look for a king of Israel and will look for something he built using supplies from Phoenicia
King or Israel and will be connected to something he built something he built
called Boom.
There he is king of Israel right there king of Israel.
So
here we're going to start here Hiram the king of the Phoenician city of Tyr was an ally and business
partner of Solomon king of Israel for Solomon.
So we're still talking about this is our sentence will be speaking of Israel.
But our answer is not coming from this sentence because in this sentence we don't have the word built.
We don't have something that we don't have the war built or we don't have an example of something that
was built.
All right.
Well when we look at this sit ins with the king of Israel we don't have it yet.
So for Solomon solved this is still a good sentence because the word Solomon is synonym for king of
Israel for Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem.
Iran provided craftsmen with particular skills.
So what was built was a temple.
Right that's our answer right there.
Temple
the king of Israel built a temple using supplies from Phoenicia.
We know that's our answer because again it says Chris Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem Jerusalem Hiram
provided craftsman with particular skills that were needed for this major construction project.
He also spoke I so her answer here is Temple Solomon's temple this is what was built.
This is what was built Solomon's Temple.
Now for our next one we're looking for Cedar carved
high hears the words Ceder and hears the word carved.
All right.
So I will look at those.
I will look at these two sentences to get number seven seater and carved.
All right so we look at number seven.
The Phoenicians carved blank as well as Cedar.
So we're looking we're looking for something that was carved.
We're looking for something that was carved Cedar is one thing but we're looking for another object
that was carved.
It has to be a material that was carved.
OK.
The cedar wall was not only exported as top quality timber for architecture and shipbuilding it was
also carved by the Phoenicians So there's about the cedar.
And that same skill was a plot that was adapted to even more precious work in ivory.
So there's other material ivory hides Cedar is.
It is referring to cedar.
So Cedar's one material that was carved in the other material that was carved is ivory.
So I answer is our answer for number seven would be ivory is our answer for number 7 right now.
Now we know what four five and six are in between we know four or five and six or in between numbers
three and three and seven.
So we know they're there within that short space.
And those are going to be fairly easy to find.
All right.
So number four Phoenicia supply Solomon with skilled
Phoenicia supplied Solomon with skills so we we know that it has to come in this area right here.
News four five and six
high.
So high room provided craftsman with particular skills.
There's our.
There's our answer for number four right there.
Hiram provided craftsman with particular skills so skilled craftsman craftsmen for those of you don't
know ever who are vocabulary challenged craftsmen is a it's almost like a carpenter or the or the old
the old name for like an engineer so money built things.
All right.
So the answer for number four would be craftsman because it says skilled skilled craftsman.
Number five the main material that Phoenicia said to Israel was key words in number five main material
definitions into Israel.
What was the main material.
Again we know our answer is they have to come in here
all right.
He also has applied materials particularly 10 Birr.
I particularly tymber including Ceder from the forest of Lebanon particularly particularly as I said
in memoirs our answer is tymber
her answer is tymber the main material What is this particularly.
Right.
That's like saying like mainly particularly especially just like saying especially rice like saying
especially especially this sorry i for number 5 is tymber.
Number six the kings of Phoenicia in Israel formed a business blank in order to carry out trade.
Key word here.
Kings of Phoenicia Israel and formed a business.
Blake.
All right our answer is going to connect to business has to
here we go to kings the Kings.
That's our key word sentence there because the sentence starts about starts off talking about the kings
of Phoenician Israel.
Here is the two kings OK.
And there is no other sentence that talks about the two kings.
So the two kings went into a trade partnership.
Again they love Sydenham language with Isle's exams so trade is a synonym for business.
So the answer is.
Partnership.
Partnership is the answer for answer for number six business partnership trade partnership.
Right now we can find number one and number eight.
Number one is connected to the word skill Phoenician skill at blank.
Help them to trade.
We know number one has to come before number two.
So it's going to be easy to find
is this sentence right here.
This starts with the war both because the word ability is the same as the word skill.
So I know this is the sentence the word ability is the same as the word skill.
All right the previous sentences don't have a synonym for the word skill.
Both of these activities were based on seafaring and ability of the Phoenicians.
So the Phoenicians had the skill of seafaring seafaring seafaring because ability is the same skill.
A certain sense the Venetian skill at seafaring the Phoenicians ability at seafaring.
So an answer that we would put on the blank line there would be seafaring seafaring.
At number eight the Phoenicians also earned a blank for shipping goods they also earned a whatever goes
on that blank line for shipping goods what do they earn for shipping goods.
Key words here shipping goods.
So whatever our answer here is that connect the shipping goods
we know has to come after number 7 which is right here with the word carved in ivory.
So we're looking for something dealing with shipping goods.
Up up up up up up up up up up there is goods.
They took a commission on a much greater range of precious goods than they transported elsewhere.
The answer is commission commission because I question says the Phoenicians also earned a blank for
shipping goods.
Again it's all about sending them language.
They took a commission for shipping goods.
They earned a commission for shipping goods high so shipping and so earned and took turns using a synonym
language and our correct answer would be Commission.
OK so thanks a lot and I hope you hope you enjoyed these examples on how to do the fill in the blank
question and now you're clear on how to do the fill in the blank question.
All right so I'll talk to you soon.
And we're about to now move on to the short answer questions yet.
Next so I can teach you how to do them.
Take care.