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 nothingfrom startfrom scratchfrom zero in adulthood 2 you'ddo youyou mightcan you really tell how hard it is 3 for someone to getfor someone gettingthat someone will getthat someone gets to that level. Or maybe not so hard, 4 because ofsincedue toeven though most of the students who get there find real pleasure in reading and listening to the language, which 5 there isareis known that it isis known to be 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 definitely willare likely toare boundwill likely end up being proficient speakers of that language, because, 7 as for the truthtruth be toldto be truetelling the truth, students tend to lose some of their enthusiasm when they 8 have a sightcatch a glimpsedrop a glancemake a deep look of the vast world of knowledge that still needs 9 to be learnedto have learnedto have been learnedto learn. 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 were climbing'd climbedwould climb'd be climbing a high mountain, wouldn’t it be harder 11 do itdoing thatto do suchto do so 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 hadweredidwould. Language learners can see the summit of that overwhelming mountain at around intermediate level and upwards; that’s the time 13 at whenat whichthatwhose 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 giving upgiving awayto give upto give away hope in order to become another language 15 dropoutmiscarriagecastawaycastoff.