B2 English test 5 – text with multiple choice gaps

Only if you are a proficient speaker of a language that you have learned 1 from startfrom nothingfrom scratchfrom zero in adulthood 2 you'ddo youyou mightcan you really tell how hard it is 3 for someone gettingfor someone to getthat someone getsthat someone will get to that level. Or maybe not so hard, 4 due tosinceeven thoughbecause of most of the students who get there find real pleasure in reading and listening to the language, which 5 is known to beareis known that it isthere is 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 6 are boundare likely todefinitely willwill likely end up being proficient speakers of that language, because, 7 telling the truthtruth be toldto be trueas for the truth, students tend to lose some of their enthusiasm when they 8 drop a glancemake a deep lookhave a sightcatch a glimpse of the vast world of knowledge that still needs 9 to learnto have been learnedto be learnedto have learned. 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 10 'd be climbingwould climbwere climbing'd climbed a high mountain, wouldn’t it be harder 11 to do suchdo itto do sodoing that if you kept looking at the remote and elevated top, instead of enjoying your every small step along the way? I’m sure it 12 weredidhadwould. Language learners can see the summit of that overwhelming mountain at around intermediate level and upwards; that’s the time 13 at whichwhosethatat when 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 14 to give awaygiving awayto give upgiving up hope in order to become another language 15 castawaydropoutmiscarriagecastoff.