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LANGUAGE AND SKILLS TEST 2 B UNITS 3–4

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

1 Complete the text. Use the correct forms of the words in capital letters. /6

I remember one Sunday afternoon

when I was young. It was raining and I was 0bored. I know BORE

I was 1_______________ because DISAPPOINT

I wanted to go to the beach.

I remember my little sister was really 2 _______________ as well. ANNOY

She kept on talking when I

wanted to read. Then suddenly, my uncle arrived.

We were 3_______________ because SURPRISE

we thought he was in hospital.

He took my sister and me to the circus. It was 4_______________ FASCINATE

but I knew my sister was a bit 5_______________ by the animals. FRIGHTEN

At the end, all of us children

went to the middle of the tent to sing a song. It was a bit

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_______________ but we did it and EMBARRASS

then my uncle took us home.

2 Complete the text with one word in each gap /6

One day, about two years 0ago, I was tidying 1_______________ at home when I found an old
box. I opened it and inside there were hundreds of old letters and papers. I stayed
2
_______________ really late, reading them and I found 3_______________ some amazing things
about my family. There was lots to read and I kept 4_______________ finding more interesting
things until almost morning. 5_______________, I went to bed but the next day I started
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_______________ the book again. It was really great.

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3 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets in the correct form /6

0 Last week I (take) ___took __ two exams. I don’t know my results yet.

1 I (be) _______________ tired yesterday and this morning I (wake) up at ten o’clock.

2 I’m sorry, I (not see) _______________ you there. It’s so dark in here.

3 While you (talk) _______________ on the telephone, I (write) _______________ two letters

4 Look at this. I (find) _______________ it on the way home.

4 Underline the correct answers: a, b or c. /6

When I was young I0_____ to be a professional footballer. I started 1_____ when I was six and I
2
_____ for a team. I was quite good. But, one day, while I 3_____ , I 4_____ my leg very badly. I
was in hospital for two months and, after that, I was never very good again. I 5_____ help train
children but I stopped 6_____ that two or three years ago. Now I only watch football on the TV.

0 a was wanting

b used to wanting

c wanted

1 a training

b train

c trained

2 a playing

b used to play

c play

3 a played

b used to play

c was playing

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 4 a was breaking

b broke

c used to break

5 a did

b was

c used to

6 a doing

b to do

c do

5 Complete the questions and answers. /6

A 0 _Were you waiting_ a long time?

B Yes, 1 ______________________________. I was waiting for two hours.

A 2
______________________________ your English exam?

B No, 3 ______________________________. I got 34%.

A 4
______________________________ to wear shorts to school?

B Yes,5 ______________________________ . And I used to be really embarrassed by them.

A 6
What ______________________________ when the police arrived?

B I was eating lunch. I was really surprised when they came in.

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LISTENING SKILLS
Track 3

1 Listen to Professor Sykes talking about George Orwell. Underline the /7

correct answers: a, b or c.
1 George Orwell’s name was

a John Sykes.

b Eric Blair.

c George Orwell.

2 George Orwell

a was born in England.

b went to school in India.

c lived in India for four years.

3 He started writing

a at university.

b in India.

c at school.

4 After school he went to

a Burma.

b India.

c university.

5 Down and Out in Paris and London was

a published in 1927.

b his first book.

c written in Paris.

6 George Orwell wrote Homage to Catalonia

a in 1936.

b in Spain.

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 c in England.

7 His books are

a easy to read.

b not popular now.

c interesting but difficult to read.

READING SKILLS
1 Read the texts about five important events in recent British history Match /5
the headings (A-F) to the correct texts(1-5).There is one extra heading.

A One day, two great events. 

B Never found. 

C We needed a change. 

D Americans in Britain. 

E Six of the best. 

F The British are coming. 

5 Events That Changed Britain

1 The Great Train Robbery
In 1963 a gang of thirteen men carried out one of the biggest robberies in British history. They
stopped a train and stole £2.3 million. During the robbery, the train driver was hit on the head and
died seven years later. The police found their fingerprints and the gang travelled all over the world to
escape but, in the end, the police caught all thirteen of them. Nobody ever found the money.

2 The Coronation of Elizabeth II

King George VI was a very popular king and the country was heartbroken when he died in 1952. The
coronation of his daughter, Elizabeth, took place on June 2nd 1952. Twenty million people watched
on television and another 11 million listened to the coronation on the radio. While they were listening
and watching, news came in from Nepal that Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing had climbed to the
top of Mount Everest, the first people to do so. They reached the top on May 29th but the news took
four days to come through.

3 Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in Britain in 1975 when the Labour Party
were in power. There were many problems in Britain in the late 1970s. People found it hard to get

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jobs, prices were going up and, in 1979, the Conservative Party came up with a famous slogan:
‘Labour isn’t working.’ In May that year, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, the first woman
ever to be Prime Minister in Britain. She led the country for eleven years and changed it for ever.

4 The Beatles in America

At the end of 1963, The Beatles were the most popular pop group in England. Fans screamed at their
concerts and they sold millions of records. But, in America, nobody knew who they were. No English
groups were popular in America. Two months later, in February 1964, The Beatles were number one
in America and millions of people watched them on television on the Ed Sullivan Show. Over the
next few years, many groups like The Rolling Stones and The Who also went to America and changed
the world of rock and roll.
5 The 1966 World Cup
In 1966, the World Cup was played in England. The excitement started four months before when the
cup disappeared. A dog, named Pickles, found it in a garden and nobody ever knew who took it and
how it got into the garden. When the football started, England made it to the final against their old
enemies West Germany. It was an exciting match, with six goals altogether, England winning 4-2.
Just before the last goal, some fans started running onto the pitch. The commentator famously said:
‘They think it’s all over’ and then, when the goal went in, he continued: ‘It is now.’

COMMUNICATION
1 Complete the text with the words and phrases in the box. /8

was walking/worst/was/terrible/ felt/ remember /happened/when /shocked

It 0happened a few years ago. I 1__________ my last year of middle school. I 2__________fifteen
years old and I was in we had exams, very important exams to see what subjects we could study at
high school. My friend wrote an exam timetable for me – I didn’t have one because I had been ill. I
worked all night because we had a History exam the next day. I 3__________ to school the next
morning 4__________ I met one of my classmates. I started talking to him about the test, asking
whether he knew all the important dates. He looked surprised but he didn’t say anything. When I got
to school, I saw the sign: Today 9-12 Geography. It was the wrong exam! All that work for nothing! I
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__________ really 6 __________. It was a 7__________ time. I passed but I don’t know how. It was
the 8 exam of my life!

Score / 50

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