Upper Intermediate Progress Test Units 9–10A
Listening Vocabulary and Grammar
1 Track 9 Listen to six recordings and tick 3 Complete the words.
correct answers: a), b) or c). 1 Look after your valuables and beware of
1 What did Crimewatch show? p i c k p o c k e t s in crowded areas.
a) actors in the role of pickpockets 2 The police are treating the factory fire as a case of
b) pickpockets on the public transport a .
c) pickpockets abroad 3 Cases of i theft have risen sharply
2 What did the man see? due to internet transactions.
a) a man entering his neighbour’s house 4 V have damaged the new bus shelter in
b) a man leaving his house the town centre.
c) a man leaving his neighbour’s house 5 It was very easy for me to h into your
3 What did most people think of the play the woman computer files – you should be more careful.
went to see? 6 Martin was accused of s after
a) it was very good the store detective found five shirts in his bag.
b) it was very bad
c) it made you uncomfortable 5
4 Why does the woman like Pompeii?
a) She likes being with people eating and laughing.
4 Underline the correct alternative.
b) She can imagine exactly how people lived in that
1 Thank you on / for / with helping me out.
place.
2 Paul accused his neighbour with / at / of damaging
c) She enjoys walking around the ruins.
his car.
5 What does the man think about modern art?
3 Ellie was saved from / for / by drowning by the
a) It is hard to decide whether it is good or bad.
lifeguard.
b) The exhibitions are often very disappointing.
4 I’ve always dreamt with / of / on going to the
c) The people who visit the exhibitions are too
Amazon rainforest one day.
critical.
5 You should apologise to Mrs Johns for / about /
6 What did the driver do?
over your rudeness.
a) He hit the cyclist but he didn’t stop.
6 The building was in / under / on fire so it had to be
b) He nearly hit the cyclist and stopped to see if he
evacuated.
was OK.
c) He nearly hit the cyclist but he didn’t stop.
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5 Correct the two mistakes in each sentence.
1 Sally got knocked back and doesn’t remember
Pronunciation to be taken to hospital.
2 Track 10 Listen and write the words in the out being
correct column according to the stress. 2 Mark can’t have enjoyed his break in the peace
and calm of the countryside.
Oo oO
poignant 3 Dan’s a bit tough and ready but he’ll always stop
helping anyone in trouble.
oOo oOoo
4 Marriage is about get and take, and, of course,
listening, what is also important.
5 5 The defendant was cleared from tax invasion.
6 Paul, what dog is a real nuisance, goes over and on
about how well-behaved it is.
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Upper Intermediate Progress Test Units 9–10A
6 Complete the sentences with the correct form Speaking
of the adjectives in the box.
8 Complete the sentences with the words in the
wide high thick broad deep short box.
1 You can thicken the sauce by adding flour. head as worth apparently back built
2 At almost two metres, Jason is definitely above
average . Why don’t we 1 head over to the Cathedral now?
3 These trousers are too long. I will have to It’s well 2 visiting so I think we should go
them. inside and have a guided tour. The guide is very
4 The council will have to the road to entertaining and very knowledgeable. The Cathedral
deal with the increase in traffic. was 3 in the thirteenth century and can be
5 What’s the of that lake in the middle? seen for miles around. 4 you may know, it
6 I must measure the windows. I need to know what has Britain’s tallest spire and also, 5 ,
to make the curtains. Europe’s oldest working clock, dating 6 to
1386.
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7 Choose the correct answers to complete the
text: a), b), c) or d). 9 Complete the conversations with phrases a)–k)
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b around the city centre the other day, I 2 below.
struck by the 3 of vandalism: graffiti at bus A: 1 When was your bag stolen ?
stops, 4 shop windows, and just a general B: 2 . It was on
mess. I don’t remember 5 so much 6 on the back of my chair. The thing is, if I leave it on the
the streets when I was young. I suppose I must ground, someone might fall over it.
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quite a sheltered upbringing because I A: 3 it had gone?
certainly never saw anything bad going 8 . B: 4 another
Now, according to reports in the local paper, there coffee for me and my friend. We’d been there for
are in the 9 of twenty burglaries every week, about half an hour, I suppose.
which seems incredible 10 me. I know the A: 5 then?
police 11 to spend time getting to know the B: 6 who called the police.
local kids but they don’t seem to be having much A: 7 suspicious?
success with crime prevention. B: 8Only a young girl .
A: 9 ?
1 a) To wander b) Wandering B: 10 who’s about the
c) Wander d) Wondering same age and build.
2 a) am b) was being c) was d) have been A: 11 ?
3 a) amount b) number c) deal d) mass B: I’ll do my best …
4 a) smashing b) smashed
c) having smashed d) being smashed a) Did you notice anyone
5 a) to see b) being seen b) When did you realise that
c) to have seen d) seeing c) What did she look like
6 a) people b) vandals c) rubbish d) letters d) When was your bag stolen
7 a) had had b) have c) had d) have had e) She reminded me of my neighbour’s daughter
8 a) on b) over c) out d) after f) Could you give me a description
9 a) number b) amount c) region d) town g) Yesterday, when I was sitting in the café
10 a) on b) to c) for d) with h) I told the waitress
11 a) regret b) forget c) go on d) try i) When I wanted to buy
j) What did you do
10 k) wearing a hoodie and jeans
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Upper Intermediate Progress Test Units 9–10A
1 Lucy wanted to spend a year travelling around the
Reading world. T
10 Read the article and write true (T) or false (F) 2 She has decided to study a different subject when
next to the statements 1–11. she goes back to university.
3 She is staying in Australia while her friends are
Places that change lives continuing their travels.
A When Lucy Hopkins took a gap year between 4 She has already returned to England.
school and university, she could never have 5 Daniel Laws is still at sea.
imagined how it would change her life. She decided 6 There are some things he misses while at sea.
to go travelling with a couple of her classmates. 7 He flew to Bali.
After hours of research on the internet, they finally 8 He started sailing when he was still at work.
bought round-the-world tickets and started their 9 Marek learned about the history of Prague at
adventure in Australia. First stop Ayers Rock (in the university.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory) 10 Marek’s grandfather doesn’t know as much as
and a five-day camping trip exploring the gigantic Marek does.
sandstone monoliths of the area. But it wasn’t the 11 Emma didn’t like Marek at first.
natural wonders that captured Lucy’s imagination, it
was the history of the Aboriginal people who had 10
lived there long before European settlers arrived.
She decided to stay on after her friends left. She
Writing
wanted to find work at the resort so she could learn
more about the Dreamtime, the myths and legends 11 Underline the correct alternative.
of these extraordinary people. Much to her parents’ 1 Skilfully / Highly directed by Stephen Frears,
concern, she has given up her college place and will the film captures the mood perfectly.
reapply next year for a course in anthropology. 2 The lead roles were harshly / sensitively acted by
the young stars.
B ‘It’s never too late to follow your dreams,’ so said 3 The film was convincingly / heavily criticised for
fifty-year-old yachtsman, Daniel Laws, when we its special effects.
caught up with him recently. He’d just returned 4 Widely / Poignantly praised, the film went on to
from a six-month trip sailing around the Caribbean win eight Oscars.
and was looking forward to some creature comforts 5 In my opinion, the children acted very highly /
in his own home. When asked what had made him convincingly.
give up his job to take to the seas, he said that he’d 6 The composer was highly / harshly praised for his
fallen in love with the Indonesian island of Bali. film score.
He’d stepped off the plane one October afternoon,
straight into a wall of steaming tropical heat. One 10
hair-raising taxi ride later, he found himself in a
beach-side ‘bed and breakfast’ looking out over seas
12 Write a film review and include the
of the deepest blue. He was hooked. From that
information below. Write 140–180 words on a
moment on, he spent all his time either in or on the
separate sheet of paper.
water and he promised himself that he would return
• Setting
when he had his own boat.
• Plot summary
• Recommendation
C Marek Lendl has always been passionate about
history, particularly the history of his city, Prague.
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As a child, he was taken out every Sunday by his
grandfather who taught him about all the buildings,
Total: 100
castles, churches and ruins. They would spend hours
visiting galleries and museums until Marek knew
almost as much as his granddad. He is now a city
guide, taking round groups of foreign tourists and it
is thanks to this passion that he met Emma, an
English journalist who was on holiday in Prague.
They both joke about their first meeting as Emma
kept asking questions about all the buildings they
were visiting. She says that it was because she
wanted him to notice her and he just remembers
being amazed that anyone could ask so much.
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