Vocabulary / Progress test 1 (B1+)

The only thing I was good at when I was at school was tennis. 1 _____, to have a chance of winning the tennis cup every year I had to spend all my free time practising. This meant that I 2 _____ out on other social activities. When I was a child my parents divorced and then both remarried, so I had a large 3 _____ family. Despite this, I often felt lonely as I 4 _____ up because we didn’t 5 _____ up with my relatives very often. So, the tennis team became like a family to me. Like all families the tennis team liked to play jokes on each other. I remember a trick they played on me in my final year. I was really 6 _____ when I noticed that the silver cup I had won was missing from my bag. They all laughed 7 _____ me when they saw how upset I was. Luckily, by the end of the day, the cup had been put back in my bag. Over time I lost touch with all those school friends until one day I 8 _____ into the person who had played the trick on me. At first, she didn’t recognise me, but when I reminded her 9 _____ the trick she played on me with the tennis cup, she remembered me!