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Exercise "Spiders", created by tizeph (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 1 782 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 47.5 / 100 Share


Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): bleuclair64 / FRANCE, on Thursday 12 April - 08:47:
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Stats (1782 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 83.2 %
This leggy * is Maria.

Question 2 passed: 53.6 %
Maria is a phobia counsellor. She helps people get over their * of spiders.

Question 3 passed: 49.2 %
She works with reptile and spider expert Jay. Well, this is Maria and Maria is a Chilean Rose * and she's one of my creepy-crawly counsellors.

Question 4 passed: 67.7 %
Fear of * is called arachnophobia and over 1.8 million people in the UK suffer seriously from it. That's no fun for anyone.

Question 5 passed: 65.2 %
A phobia can just put a restriction on somebody's life. It can stop them doing something. For example, they might not be able to go on holiday because they're * they might bump into a big spider.

Question 6 passed: 29.3 %
So that's where Maria will try and explain the nice things about spiders to try to get people over their fears and *.

Question 7 passed: 48.8 %
This eight-legged * is very young to have such an important job.

Question 8 passed: 55.2 %
She's about four years old now, but that's not that old. She could live till she's about *.

Question 9 passed: 63.5 %
Burt Maria is very * for her age and her calm temperament makes her a natural counsellor.

Question 10 passed: 43.6 %
What's good about Maria is that she's very, very * spider. I always refer to them like the golden labrador of the tarantula world, really.

Question 11 passed: 39 %
Maria puts her * nature to good use, working hard all over the country letting people with arachnophobia hold her so they can see how lovely spiders can be.

Question 12 passed: 25.9 %
We go on a lot of phobia *, as I call them. And Maria is right to try to teach people that spiders aren't so bad.

Question 13 passed: 30 %
For example, there are forty-thousand types of spider on the planet and only thirty of those are * enough to kill a human.

Question 14 passed: 38.1 %
And none of those breeds is native to the UK. Maria herself is a Chilean Rose tarantula and comes from *, in South America.

Question 15 passed: 32.7 %
And she's not the only * employee who works for Jay.

Question 16 passed: 17 %
Apart from Maria, I've got lots of other animals that I take out to deal with phobia, things like snakes, giant *, scorpions.

Question 17 passed: 50.4 %
That's right. Jay employs lots of animals from all over the world who come to the UK to help us * our fears.

Question 18 passed: 26 %
Each of these * creatures specializes in curing people of a particular fear, be it ophidiophobia, musophobia or entomophobia.


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