Units 1–3 Progress Test

Basic Test

GRAMMAR 4 Complete the sentences with the simple past

form of the verbs.
1 Write sentences in the present continuous.
1 Lucas wasn’t (not be) at school
1 I / write / . yesterday.
I’m writing. 2 Sarah (arrive) late.
2 He / not watch / . 3 Ben (go) to the park.
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4 Chloe (take) her book.
3 they / sit / ?
5 I (not like) the movie.
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6 (you / be) at home yesterday?
4 John and I / play / .
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5 Complete the sentences with the words in
5 I / not arrive / . the box.
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a any some was wasn’t weren’t
6 Beth / run / ?
_______________________________________ 1 There weren’t any blankets on the bed.
5 2 Were there bowls in the kitchen?
2 Circle the correct options. 3 There any water in the lake. It was dry.
1 Maria is coming / comes from Brazil. 4 There were good players on the team.
2 John isn’t going / doesn’t go to school today. 5 there any information online?
3 Are Matt and Ryan watching / 6 There was good reality show on TV.
Do Matt and Ryan watch videos every day?
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4 Where is Sharon going / does Sharon go now?
6 Complete the text with the simple past or past
5 My parents aren’t getting up / don’t get up continuous form of the verbs.
early every morning.
1 I was walking (walk) down the street
6 You’re working / work hard at the moment. when I saw an accident.
5 2 The police came immediately, but they
3 Write the adverbs of manner. (not ask) me any questions.

1 bad badly 3 When it started to rain, George

(ride) his bike in the park.
2 slow
4 His sister laughed when she
3 good (see) him.
4 easy 5 While they (have) lunch,
5 careful James broke a glass.

6 fast 6 (you / have) breakfast when

I called?
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VOCABULARY LISTENING
7 Complete the sentences with the words in 10 Listen to a radio interview with a director.
the box. Circle the correct options.
1 The director has a new movie / documentary.
actor comedy reality show script set
the news 2 The two students have / don’t have a car.
3 The movie is / isn’t a comedy.
1 When you watch a good comedy , you
laugh a lot. 4 The director liked / didn’t like the script when
he read it the first time.
2 Big Brother is an example of a .
5 The people in the movie worked well / badly
3 People watch to see what is together.
happening in the world.
6 While he was making the movie, the director
4 The dialogue in this movie is very good because worked very hard / traveled a lot.
the is excellent.
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5 Javier Bardem is a famous Spanish
. 11 Listen again. Are the sentences T (true) or
F (false)?
6 The actors and the director were filming on the
. 1 The movie is called The Big Trip. F
5 5 2 The two students are in college.
8 Complete the chart with the words in the box. 3 The journey ends in Los Angeles.
4 The two students want to become
blanket bowl dry foggy icy pillow rock stars.
5 The director knew Melissa Morris
good bad
well before she sent him the script.
weather weather bed kitchen
6 Melissa Morris wrote a good story.
dry
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s

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9 Circle the correct options.
1 Be careful when you walk across / between
the street.
2 A plane was flying along / over the town.
3 James walked into / off the room and sat down.
4 I was excited / tired, so I went to bed.
5 Josh was upset / lonely because he did badly on
the exam.
6 I felt embarrassed / bored when I didn’t
remember the new teacher’s name.
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READING 14 Circle the meaning of the highlighted words in
the text.
12 Read the story.
1 great very fast / very big
The Country of the Blind 2 blind not able to see / not able to
Once there was an explorer named Guillermo hear
Núñez. One day, while he was climbing a
3 fell in
mountain in Ecuador, he fell a great distance.
love with killed / started to like a lot
However, he didn’t die. He found a small
community. The people there didn’t have any 4 head most important person / actor
contact with the rest of the world. Also, they 5 marry become the husband or wife
were all blind and thought that everyone else of / teach
was blind, too. Núñez explained that he could
6 remove change the color of / take out
see, but they didn’t believe him.
Núñez stayed in the village and fell in love with 5 5
a girl named Medina-Saroté. The head of the WRITING
village told Núñez, “If you want to marry 15 Circle the correct options.
Medina-Saroté, we need to remove your eyes
first.” Núñez didn’t want to lose his eyes, but he 1 I like pizza, or / but I don’t like pasta.
agreed. However, the morning before his 2 The explorer set off / up on his journey in
operation, he said to Medina-Saroté,“Come with spring.
me! We can escape from here!” But she replied, 3 I was inside when immediately / suddenly, I
“The others are right - you’re crazy! It’s heard a noise.
impossible to leave here!” So, very sadly, Núñez
4 At first / First, I felt tired but later I was fine.
left the village without her.
5 The next morning / At first we found the keys.
Are the sentences T (true) or F (false)?
6 Suddenly / Last Sunday my friend came to visit.
1 Guillermo Núñez had a problem in the
mountains. T
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2 People never came to the village. 16 Write a story with a happy or a sad ending. It
can be a true story, or you can invent one. Use
3 The inhabitants of the village couldn’t hear. the paragraph plan below to help you.
4 Núñez left the village immediately. Write at least 100 words.
5 Medina-Saroté didn’t agree with Núñez Paragraph 1
at the end.
• When did the story happen?
6 Núñez was happy when he left the village.
• Where was the person / were the people?
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• What were they doing?
13 Read the story again. Circle the correct options.
Paragraph 2
1 Núñez was walking / swimming in Ecuador.
• The main events of the story.
2 The people in the village knew a lot / nothing
Paragraph 3
about the rest of the world.
• What happened in the end?
3 Medina-Saroté was Núñez’s wife / girlfriend.
Remember! The ending is happy or sad!
4 The head of the village wanted / didn’t want to
remove Núñez’s eyes. 5 10

5 Medina-Saroté escaped / didn’t escape with

TOTAL SCORE 5 100
Núñez.
100
6 In the end, Núñez lost / didn’t lose his eyes.
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