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 scratchfrom nothingfrom zerofrom start in adulthood 2 you mightyou'dcan youdo you really tell how hard it is 3 that someone will getfor someone gettingfor someone to getthat someone gets to that level. Or maybe not so hard, 4 due tobecause ofeven thoughsince most of the students who get there find real pleasure in reading and listening to the language, which 5 areis known that it isis known to bethere 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 towill likelydefinitely will end up being proficient speakers of that language, because, 7 to be truetelling the truthtruth be toldas for the truth, students tend to lose some of their enthusiasm when they 8 make a deep lookdrop a glancecatch a glimpsehave a sight of the vast world of knowledge that still needs 9 to have learnedto have been learnedto be 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 'd climbedwere climbingwould climb'd be climbing a high mountain, wouldn’t it be harder 11 do itto do sodoing thatto do such 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 weredidwouldhad. 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 awayto give awayto give upgiving up hope in order to become another language 15 castoffdropoutcastawaymiscarriage.