Sample test (B 2 ) reading part 1

 
B Kerry Dunnock 
 
D Karl Yorat 
 
The city where I study is appalling for cheap 
accommodation, and the college has nothing of 
its own to offer you, but I was lucky, I found a 
room in a nice little terraced house with central 
heating which I share with three other girls. I 
have a yearly contract with a private landlady 
and I pay £220 a month for my study bedroom. 
This is not bad as it also has a large walk-in 
wardrobe where I put all my stuff. I share the 
bathroom, kitchen and a small living room with 
the other girls, and we split all the bills between 
us. We tried to make a rota for the washing up, 
cleaning and putting out the rubbish, but it’s not 
always strictly followed. Cooking your own food 
is much cheaper than eating at college, and I like 
it because I have what I want when I want it.
 
I made the big mistake of going to a college fairly 
near my home. It isn’t so much the course that I
don’t like, but the fact that I’m stuck at my parents’ 
house so I don’t feel in touch with what’s going on 
at campus. In some ways I’m lucky because I’m not 
paying out all the money for food and rent that other 
people have to find, and I have someone to do my 
washing, but I don’t have the same amount of 
freedom or privacy as the people who’re living away 
from home. I even have to share a room with my 
younger brother. When I told my parents I wanted to
move out and go into college accommodation, they 
said they’d stop supporting me financially. So, in 
the end, I had to give up the idea, that hasn’t made 
any of us very happy. 
 
 
 
 
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