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cumulative test

Units 6–10
Grammar 4 ‘She’ll be there for another half an hour.’
I told him .
1 Complete the text with the correct passive form
of the verbs in brackets. 5 ‘I’m always late with my homework.’

A meeting 1 (hold) at 4.30 p.m. on Friday He said .

14 March and 2 (attend) by five members 6 ‘I’m exactly the same!’
of the committee. The remaining members I told him .
3 (contact) since the meeting and Mark /6
4 (inform) of the decisions that 5

(take) at the meeting. After the year’s accounts

Vocabulary
6 (discuss), committee members voted
on a new chairperson for the club. Mr Davies, the 4 Complete the sentences with the correct
prepositions.
current chair, 7 (replace) by Mr Dryden on
15 April. Notes from the meeting 8 (type) 1 Unfortunately the plans for a new business
up by the club secretary at the moment and project fell .
9 (circulate) to club members as soon as 2 Jan’s parents split after 15 years
possible. together.
3 It’s important for children to have someone to
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look to.

2 Choose the correct answers. 4 He stole the teacher’s bag but he didn’t get
with it.
1 I wish it didn’t rain / wasn’t raining. Then we
5 She gets so well with her boyfriend’s
could go for a walk.
parents.
2 I’d rather you didn’t smoke / couldn’t smoke in
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this room please.
3 Ben wishes he would be / could be here but 5 Complete the sentences with the correct answers.
unfortunately he has another appointment.
1 Which is it for Manchester?
4 If he would earn / earned more money, he’d
A carriage B  track C  platform
move house.
2 I must go to the bank to get some .
5 If only she didn’t wear / wouldn’t wear that
pink dress. It really doesn’t suit her. A discount B  debt C  cash

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the dining room.
3 Report the questions. A portrait B  still life C  cartoon

1 ‘Where have you been?’ 4 Can you call me a , please?

A bus B  cab C  car
Tom wanted to know .
5 The Charles Dickens wrote Bleak
2 ‘I’ve just handed in my homework.’
House.
I told him .
A dancer B  novelist C  playwright
3 ‘Is Miss Barker still in the classroom?’
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He asked me .

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cumulative test

Units 6–10
Listening 8 Choose the best answers.
6 3.12  Listen to the radio interview. Are the 1 On 1 April
sentences true or false? A there are parties.
B people exchange stories.
1 Jim teaches deaf people.
C there are untrue stories in the media.
2 Hearing dogs can make life safer for deaf
2 Tomorrow’s World
people.
A was an educational programme for
3 Other people don’t know these dogs are schoolchildren.
special. B was on TV regularly.
4 It’s a well paid job. C taught people how to invent things.
5 The dogs have better lives as hearing dogs. 3 This particular programme was about
A people on another planet.
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C the problem of people who run away.
4 On the programme you could see
Reading
A the people.
7 Read the text. B the people’s homes.
C the atmosphere.
Life on Mars? 5 The writer
In the UK people celebrate the first day of April A still believes the story.
by playing jokes on each other and sometimes TV B didn’t like the joke.
programmes and newspapers join in the fun! There have C liked the joke.
been some very clever jokes over the years, which people
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believe because they are in the paper or on TV.
One that I remember vividly from when I was young
was on a programme called Tomorrow’s World. This Writing
programme looked at unusual scientific inventions and
9 Imagine you have seen the programme. Write a
stories. It was on every week, and was very popular. Well,
letter to the programme makers. Include these
this particular 1 April the programme started off looking
points:
at the number of ‘missing people’ in Britain over the
last year. They then went on to ‘prove’ that the USA and
• say how much you enjoyed it
Russia were starting a colony on the planet Mars and
• say why you enjoyed it
this was where all these people had gone! They showed
• ask for information about a DVD of the
photographs of the planet with heat rising from the
programme
ground. Apparently the people were living under the Mark /10
ground in specially designed homes.
I believed this story completely! It seemed so real and so 10 Write an essay on the topic ‘The arts have an
possible. That was until I got to school the next day and important role to play in society.’
realised that the whole thing was a joke! But it was a very • an introduction to the topic
clever joke and one that I have always remembered. • 2-3 arguments with supporting examples
• an appropriate conclusion
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