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8	N A M E :
	Test A

1 Complete the crossword. All the words are jobs.

10

1

2

3

4

5

G

6

7

8

9

1This person works under the ground.

2You can buy paintings from this person.

3This person is like a policeman.

4We need this person to grow our food.

5This person designs buildings.

6You ask this person to fix your car.

7Take your dog to this person if it is sick.

8If you have a legal problem, ask this person.

9This person works with water.

10(down) This person has a very dangerous job.

2 points for each correct answer

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2Complete the sentences with the correct form of should or have to.

1 A chef has to cook many kinds of food.

2Receptionists ______________ be polite to people.

3Tom is ill, he _____________ see his doctor.

4You _____________ try to phone your father this weekend.

5I hope you don’t _____________ go home early.

6Mike _____________ teach many kinds of student.

7I think Patrick ________________ be more polite to his sister!

8Do I ______________ wash up again?

9A postman __________________ get up early every day.

10I didn’t like the job because I ________________

work at weekends.

11I’m depressed. What _____________ I do?

1 point for each correct answer

10

3 Match the verbs with the words in the box.

responsibility	poetry in bed		cruel to be kind
your age abroad		your time	what you’ve missed
a word with someone		being silly	your job

1 take responsibility

2stay ___________

3give up _________

4have __________

5write __________

6take ___________

7act ____________

8stop ____________

9live ____________

10don’t know _________

11have to be ____________

2 points for each correct answer

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4Write questions.

1you / wear / to / glasses / have / do / why / ?

Why do you have to wear glasses?

2to / have / do / university / lawyer / be / to / a / go / you

/to / ?

3you / to / often / dentist’s / to / how / have / the / do / go / ?

4morning / time / do / what / start / in / the / you / have

/work / to / ?

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N A M E :

5your / doctor / did / take / why / temperature / the / have / to / ?

6Read the text again. Write a word from the text with the same sound as these words but with a different spelling.

6English / class / in / the / time / all / you / have / speak / to / do / ?

2 points for each correct answer

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1	four	for
2	know	________
3	wood	________
4	ours	________
5	there	________
6	sore	________
		2 points for each correct answer
				10

5 Read the text. Are the statements true ( ) or false ( )?

MISS CHANEL

She’s 14, American, and speaks no French at all. But six-foot-tall Kimora Lee Perkins is hot news in Paris. She has become the top model at the Parisian fashion house of Chanel. She owes her famous looks to a Korean mother and a black father. But when she was young, back home in St. Louis, Missouri, she cried when she looked in the mirror and saw how tall she was. ‘I felt I was different from all the other kids my age,’ she explains. Her mother Joanne Perkins, 34, recalls, ‘Kimora was a miserable child. It was almost impossible for her to feel like other girls of her age, and some girls were cruel. Growing up was a very painful experience for her.’

When she was 11, her mother took her to a local modelling school. She thought modelling would be an interesting job because then she would be with other tall girls. She began to like it very much, and had to learn how to walk and pose to show the clothes at their best.

Chanel chose her because ‘she has the look of the new century’, and now she spends eight to ten hours a day modelling their latest fashions in various parts of the world. ‘I have to try really hard to keep looking good for the cameras,’ she said.

1	Kimora speaks only French.	_____
2	She’s the top model for Chanel.	_____
3	When she was young she hated being tall.	_____
4	Other girls made her unhappy.	_____
5	Her body hurt a lot when she was young.	_____
6	Kimora liked modelling a lot.	_____
7	She learned how nice clothes are.	_____
8	Chanel chose her because she looks modern.	_____
9	Kimora works in many countries.	_____
10	She always finds modelling very easy to do.	_____

7Translate these sentences.

1 He has to work until nine o’clock every evening.

2 I’m a teacher so I don’t have to work at weekends.

3 We had to study Latin when we were at school.

4A I made a lot of mistakes in my homework. B You should ask your teacher for help.

A B

5A Would you like to come to the cinema with me? B I’m afraid I can’t. I have to do the ironing.

A B

2 points for each correct answer

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TOTAL 100

2 points for each correct answer

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8	N A M E :
	Test B

1 Match the verbs with the words in the box.

responsibility poetry	in bed	cruel to be kind
your age abroad your time		what you’ve missed
a word with someone	being silly your job

1 take responsibility

2write __________

3act ____________

4stay ___________

5stop ____________

6have __________

7don’t know _________

8give up _________

9take ___________

10have to be ____________

11live ____________

2 points for each correct answer

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2Write questions.

1you / wear / to / glasses / have / do / why / ?

Why do you have to wear glasses?

2morning / time / do / what / start / in / the / you / have

/work / to / ?

3English / class / in / the / time / all / you / have / speak

/to / do / ?

4you / to / often / dentist’s / to / how / have / the / do / go / ?

5to / have / do / university / lawyer / be / to / a / go / you

/to / ?

6your / doctor / did / take / why / temperature / the / have / to / ?

2 points for each correct answer

10

3Complete the sentences with the correct form of should or have to.

1 A chef has to

cook many kinds of food.

2I hope you don’t _____________ go home early.

3I think Patrick ________________ be more polite to his sister!

4Receptionists ______________ be polite to people.

5Do I ______________ wash up again?

6You _____________ try to phone your father this weekend.

7I didn’t like the job because I ________________

work at weekends.

8Tom is ill, he _____________ see his doctor.

9Mike _____________ teach many kinds of student.

10I’m depressed. What _____________ I do?

11A postman __________________ get up early every day.

1 point for each correct answer

10

4 Complete the crossword. All the words are jobs.

10

1

2

3

4

5

G

6

7

8

9

1This person works under the ground.

2You can buy paintings from this person.

3This person is like a policeman.

4We need this person to grow our food.

5This person designs buildings.

6You ask this person to fix your car.

7Take your dog to this person if it is sick.

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N A M E :

8If you have a legal problem, ask this person.

9This person works with water.

10(down) This person has a very dangerous job.

2 points for each correct answer

20

5 Read the text. Are the statements true ( ) or false ( )?

MISS CHANEL

She’s 14, American, and speaks no French at all. But six-foot-tall Kimora Lee Perkins is hot news in Paris. She has become the top model at the Parisian fashion house of Chanel. She owes her famous looks to a Korean mother and a black father. But when she was young, back home in St. Louis, Missouri, she cried when she looked in the mirror and saw how tall she was. ‘I felt I was different from all the other kids my age,’ she explains. Her mother Joanne Perkins, 34, recalls, ‘Kimora was a miserable child. It was almost impossible for her to feel like other girls of her age, and some girls were cruel. Growing up was a very painful experience for her.’

When she was 11, her mother took her to a local modelling school. She thought modelling would be an interesting job because then she would be with other tall girls. She began to like it very much, and had to learn how to walk and pose to show the clothes at their best.

Chanel chose her because ‘she has the look of the new century’, and now she spends eight to ten hours a day modelling their latest fashions in various parts of the world. ‘I have to try really hard to keep looking good for the cameras,’ she said.

1	Kimora speaks only French.	_____
2	She’s the top model for Chanel.	_____
3	When she was young she hated being tall.	_____
4	Other girls made her unhappy.	_____
5	Her body hurt a lot when she was young.	_____
6	Kimora liked modelling a lot.	_____
7	She learned how nice clothes are.	_____
8	Chanel chose her because she looks modern.	_____
9	Kimora works in many countries.	_____
10	She always finds modelling very easy to do.	_____

6Read the text again. Write a word from the text with the same sound as these words but with a different spelling.

1	four	for
2	ours	________
3	sore	________
4	wood	________
5	know	________
6	there	________
		2 points for each correct answer
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7Translate these sentences.

1 We had to study Latin when we were at school.

2A Would you like to come to the cinema with me? B I’m afraid I can’t. I have to do the ironing.

A B

3I’m a teacher so I don’t have to work at weekends.

4He has to work until nine o’clock every evening.

5A I made a lot of mistakes in my homework. B You should ask your teacher for help.

A B

2 points for each correct answer

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TOTAL 100

2 points for each correct answer

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9	N A M E :
	Test A

1 Complete the sentences with when, if, before, or until.

1 He had a shower

before he went to school.

2I’ll phone you _________ I arrive.

3_________ it doesn’t rain tomorrow, we’ll play tennis.

4We arrived home _________ midnight.

5The taxi didn’t come _________ ten o’clock.

6Would you like some coffee _________ you leave?

2 points for each correct answer

10

2 Choose the correct verb from the box.

	take get	do make
1	get	angry
2	______	me a favour
3	______	a photo
4	______	friends
5	______	up your mind
6	______	some shopping
7	______	a cold
8	______	some tablets
9	______	care
10	______	sure
11	______	back home
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3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.

1 If I get up early, I (catch)		’ll catch the six o’clock
train. If it (rain)	rains	, I’ll bring my car.

2If the food (be) ________ good, we’ll come here again.

3What will you do if Monica (not pay) ________ ?

4When I arrive, I (phone) ________ you.

5If I have a problem, (help) ________ you ________

me?

6Before you (go) ________ , leave my key on the table.

7If you (not water) the plants ________ , they’ll die.

8As soon as Linda (arrive) ________ , call me.

9What (say) ________ you ________ if Peter asks?

10If you don’t go away, I (call) ________ the police!

11I (not wait) ________ if he’s late again.

2 points for each correct answer

20

4 Cross out the wrong word and write the correct one above it.

on

1What’s for TV tonight?

2Shall we go at a walk?

3She bought the book on mistake.

4My parents live in the second floor.

5This writing is on French.

6I’m reading a book for Charles Dickens.

7Please don’t be late – you must arrive by time.

8We don’t have a car so we always travel in train.

9We’ll be at the station for a moment – we’re nearly there.

10Are you very busy on work this week?

11Who was that at the phone?

2 points for each correct answer

20

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N A M E :

5 Read the text. Are the statements true ( ) or false ( )?

MEGALOPOLIS

The town of Shenzhen, just forty kilometres north of Hong Kong, is the world’s biggest building site. In 1982 it was a fishing village with two main roads, fields, and a population of 30,000. Now it has a population of 3 million. It is growing at an incredible speed. It is spreading north towards Guangzhou (also known as Canton) and west towards Macau. The Chinese government hopes that in less than ten years this area will be the biggest city on earth, with a population of 40 million people.

China is changing. It is no longer a country where absolutely everything is owned and controlled by the state. Developers are welcome. As Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader, said in 1992, ‘To get rich is glorious.’ The old China of bicycles and Little Red Books is disappearing. A world of mobile phones and capitalism is arriving.

The Chinese people seem to welcome dramatic change. They don’t worry about losing traditional ways of life. They want the new. As the posters on the sides of the highways shout, ‘Development is the only way.’

Shenzhen is a shocking place, like nowhere else on earth that I have ever seen. It is a city with no boundaries and no centre. There are new concrete office blocks, factories, and housing blocks as far as the eye can see. Not just dozens of new buildings, or even hundreds, but thousands. And it is all happening so fast. It takes just six months to design, build, and finish a 60-storey, air-conditioned skyscraper. As one architect said to me, ‘If you move too slowly here, someone will walk over you.’

The new Hopewell Highway runs from Shenzhen to Guangzhou, and it takes just two hours to do the 123 kilometres. This superhighway will become the main street of a huge new city, as it gets bigger and bigger until the east meets the west, and the countryside in the middle disappears under concrete.

1	Shenzhen is the largest city in the world.	____
2	In the past Shenzhen was a building site.	____
3	Shenzhen is getting bigger very quickly.	____
4	The Chinese government is worried that too
	many people live there.	____
5	The government owns everything in China.	____
6	More people are buying bicycles now than
	in the past.	____
7	The Chinese people want a different way
	of life.	____
8	There are dozens of new buildings in
	Shenzhen.	____
9	It takes two hours to drive from Shenzhen
	to Guangzhou.	____
10	One day there will be no countryside near
	Shenzhen.	____

6Translate these sentences.

1 They won’t land at the airport until midnight.

2 If he misses the last train, he’ll spend the night in a hotel.

3A What will you do if the weather is bad on holiday? B We’ll visit museums and galleries.

A B

4As soon as I arrive at the station, I’ll call you.

5She’ll have some German lessons before she goes to Berlin.

2 points for each correct answer

10

TOTAL 100

2 points for each correct answer

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9	N A M E :
	Test B

1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.

1 If I get up early, I (catch)		’ll catch the six o’clock
train. If it (rain)	rains	, I’ll bring my car.

2If I have a problem, (help) ________ you ________

me?

3If you (not water) the plants ________ , they’ll die.

4If the food (be) ________ good, we’ll come here again.

5As soon as Linda (arrive) ________ , call me.

6When I arrive, I (phone) ________ you.

7If you don’t go away, I (call) ________ the police!

8What will you do if Monica (not pay) ________ ?

9Before you (go) ________ , leave my key on the table.

10I (not wait) ________ if he’s late again.

11What (say) ________ you ________ if Peter asks?

2 points for each correct answer

20

2 Cross out the wrong word and write the correct one above it.

on

1What’s for TV tonight?

2This writing is on French.

3Please don’t be late – you must arrive by time.

4Shall we go at a walk?

5We don’t have a car so we always travel in train.

6My parents live in the second floor.

7Are you very busy on work this week?

8She bought the book on mistake.

9I’m reading a book for Charles Dickens.

10Who was that at the phone?

11We’ll be at the station for a moment – we’re nearly there.

2 points for each correct answer

20

3 Complete the sentences with when, if, before, or until.

1 He had a shower

before he went to school.

2We arrived home _________ midnight.

3Would you like some coffee _________ you leave?

4_________ it doesn’t rain tomorrow, we’ll play tennis.

5I’ll phone you _________ I arrive.

6The taxi didn’t come _________ ten o’clock.

2 points for each correct answer

10

4 Read the text. Are the statements true ( ) or false ( )?

MEGALOPOLIS

The town of Shenzhen, just forty kilometres north of Hong Kong, is the world’s biggest building site. In 1982 it was a fishing village with two main roads, fields, and a population of 30,000. Now it has a population of 3 million. It is growing at an incredible speed. It is spreading north towards Guangzhou (also known as Canton) and west towards Macau. The Chinese government hopes that in less than ten years this area will be the biggest city on earth, with a population of 40 million people.

China is changing. It is no longer a country where absolutely everything is owned and controlled by the state. Developers are welcome. As Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader, said in 1992, ‘To get rich is glorious.’ The old China of bicycles and Little Red Books is disappearing. A world of mobile phones and capitalism is arriving.

The Chinese people seem to welcome dramatic change. They don’t worry about losing traditional ways of life. They want the new. As the posters on the sides of the highways shout, ‘Development is the only way.’

Shenzhen is a shocking place, like nowhere else on earth that I have ever seen. It is a city with no boundaries and no centre. There are new concrete office blocks, factories, and housing blocks as far as the eye can see. Not just dozens of new buildings, or even hundreds, but thousands. And it is all happening so fast. It takes just six months to design, build, and finish a 60-storey, air-conditioned skyscraper. As one architect said to me, ‘If you move too slowly here, someone will walk over you.’

The new Hopewell Highway runs from Shenzhen to Guangzhou, and it takes just two hours to do the 123 kilometres. This superhighway will become the main street of a huge new city, as it gets bigger and bigger until the east meets the west, and the countryside in the middle disappears under concrete.

1	Shenzhen is the largest city in the world.	____
2	In the past Shenzhen was a building site.	____
3	Shenzhen is getting bigger very quickly.	____

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N A M E :

4	The Chinese government is worried that
	too many people live there.	____
5	The government owns everything in China.	____
6	More people are buying bicycles now than
	in the past.	____
7	The Chinese people want a different way
	of life.	____
8	There are dozens of new buildings in
	Shenzhen.	____
9	It takes two hours to drive from Shenzhen
	to Guangzhou.	____
10	One day there will be no countryside near
	Shenzhen.	____
	2 points for each correct answer
			20

5 Choose the correct verb from the box.

6Translate these sentences.

1A What will you do if the weather is bad on holiday? B We’ll visit museums and galleries.

A B

2She’ll have some German lessons before she goes to Berlin.

3If he misses the last train, he’ll spend the night in a hotel.

4They won’t land at the airport until midnight.

take get do make

1 get angry

2______up your mind

3______ a cold

4______ me a favour

5_________ some tablets

6______ friends

7___________ sure

8______a photo

9__________ some shopping

10_____________ back home

11__________ care

2 points for each correct answer

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5 As soon as I arrive at the station, I’ll call you.

2 points for each correct answer

10

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10 Test A

1 Complete the sentences with use, use to, or used to.

1 You

use

too much salt in your cooking.

2They __________ live in Prague.

3Did you __________ go there often?

4We didn’t __________ have a car.

5No, you can’t __________ my car!

6Didn’t you __________ be an architect?

7Ron and Molly __________ be so happy then.

8We __________ travel to Holland every summer.

9Ben __________ support Newcastle, but not now.

10Paul didn’t __________ smoke.

11Can I __________ this ticket on a later train?

1 point for each correct answer

10

2Complete the sentences with so, such a, such, so many, or so much.

1 We had

such

wonderful weather on holiday.

2My sister wears __________ lovely clothes!

3I don’t like it here – there are __________ people!

4We were __________ frightened by that film!

5Peter is __________ good musician!

6Those shoes cost __________ money!

7They have never had __________ good holiday!

8Please don’t drive __________ fast on these roads!

9Why is there __________ mess in here?

10Don’t put __________ things in that bag – it will break!

11It’s __________ cold day!

2 points for each correct answer

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3 Read the text. Are the statements true ( ) or false ( )?

INTO THE WILD

When Chris McCandless graduated from Emory University, Atlanta, in June 1990, he sent his parents a letter containing his final reports. His letter ended ‘Say ‘Hi’ to everyone for me.’

No one in Chris’s family ever heard from him again.

He drove west out of Atlanta, and invented a new life for himself with a new name. He left his car in some woods and burned all his money, because, as he wrote in his diary, ‘I need no possessions. I can survive with just nature.’

N A M E :

For the next two years, he hitched to various parts of the United States and Mexico. He wanted the freedom to go where he wanted and work when he needed. For him, his life was very rich. ‘God, it’s great to be alive. Thank you! Thank you!’ his diary reads.

Chris came from a comfortable background. His father had a business which he ran efficiently, and he controlled his own family in a similar way. Chris and his father didn’t get on. When his parents didn’t hear from him for several months, they contacted the police, but they could do nothing. In July 1992, two years after Chris left Atlanta, his mother woke in the middle of the night. ‘I could hear Chris calling me. I wasn’t dreaming. He was begging, ‘Mom! Help me!’ But I couldn’t help him because I didn’t know where he was.’

Chris’s dream was to spend some time in Alaska, and this is where he went in April 1992. In early May, after a few days in the Alaskan bush, Chris found an old bus which hunters used for shelter. It had a bed and a stove. He decided to stay there a while. ‘Total freedom,’ he wrote. ‘My home is the road.’

However, reality soon changed the dream. He was hungry, and it was difficult to find enough to eat. He shot ducks, squirrels, birds, and sometimes a moose, and with these he ate wild potatoes, wild mushrooms, and berries. He was losing a lot of weight.

On July 30 he wrote, ‘Extremely weak. Fault of potato seed. Can’t stand up. Starving. Danger.’ It seems that Chris was eating a part of the wild potato plant that was poisonous. He couldn’t get out of the bus to look for food. ‘I am trapped in the wild,’ he wrote on August 5.

He became weaker and weaker as he was starving to death. His final note says, ‘I have had a good life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!’

Then he crawled into his sleeping bag and lost consciousness. He probably died on August 18. One of the last things he did was to take a photo of himself, one hand holding his final note, the other hand raised in a brave goodbye. His face is horribly thin, but he is smiling in the picture, and the look in his eyes says ‘I am at peace.’

1	The last time Chris’s parents heard from him
	was in June 1990.		____
2	Chris was an inventor.		____
3	Chris drove to Mexico.		____
4	Chris’s parents weren’t poor.		____
5	Chris didn’t have a good relationship with
	his father.		____
6	Chris phoned his mother to ask for help.		____
7	Chris lived with some hunters in Alaska.		____
8	Chris died because of something he ate.		____
9	Chris was a religious person.		____
10	Someone took a photo of Chris before
	he died.		____
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N A M E :

4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of verb.

6 Translate these sentences.

1 Do you enjoy (go )

going

to the theatre?

2I managed (do) ___________ all the shopping before lunch.

3My husband hates (choose) ___________ presents.

4He’s decided (buy) ___________ a house near the sea.

5Would you like something (read) ___________ ?

6They hope (spend) ___________ a week in New York.

7Julie enjoys (learn) ___________ Greek.

8The film star doesn’t like (speak) ___________ to journalists.

9We invited her (come) ___________ to the cinema with us.

10She started (feel) ___________ frightened when the door shut behind her.

11Pete would like (open) ___________ a restaurant in town.

1We used to visit our grandparents every Sunday.

2Did you use to smoke when you were a teenager?

3Who did you meet at the airport?

4When did you hear from him?

5Were you surprised at the end of the film?

2 points for each correct answer

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5Complete the sentences with a word from the box. Use each word once.

boring exhausted exhausting worried annoying surprising worrying surprised annoyed excited exciting

2 points for each correct answer

10

TOTAL 100

1 I think museums are

boring

.

2It was very __________ when I lost my keys.

3We were __________ after our long walk.

4Were you __________ when you did the exam?

5The children had a really __________ day at the beach.

6Everyone was __________ to see Mark after two years.

7It was really __________ , shopping for Christmas presents all day.

8It isn’t __________ that no one’s come – it’s so cold and wet!

9Was John __________ to win the championship?

10We’ve just had some __________ news – my uncle is in hospital.

11Pat will be __________ when she sees the broken mirror.

2 points for each correct answer

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