Life, Pre-Intermediate, Unit 9 Test

Vocabulary
1 Choose the correct option (A, B or C) to complete the sentences. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
0 Last summer, we ____________ abroad for our holidays.
A went B had C spent
1 You should ____________ waiters a tip in the USA.
A show B give C take
2 On holiday, we ____________ on a campsite.
A rented B stayed C spent
3 We left the cinema because the film was ____________ .
A bore B bored C boring
4 This is no place ____________ young children.
A for B with C at
5 We have to ____________ these challenges together.
A head B arm C face
6 The festival will ____________ place in August.
A get B take C bring
7 We ____________ from that area because of the high crime.
A took across B moved away C went over
8 It isn’t easy to earn a ____________ in this industry.
A live B life C living
9 After the concert, we ____________ to meet Adele.
A took B gave C got
10 We decided to ____________ a hotel online.
A book B play C make
(10 points)
Grammar
2 Complete the story with the correct past simple or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets. There
is an example at the beginning (0).
Last January, David and Emily (0) __flew______ (fly) to Australia. It was a long flight and they (1)
____________ (be) really tired by the time they got there. They (2) ____________ (never / be) to
Australia before, and they (3) ____________ (spend) months saving up for the holiday, so they (4)
____________ (feel) incredibly excited to be there at last. Their friends (5) ____________ (tell) them
what things to do in Australia. As a result, they (6) ____________ (book) trips to Uluru and to the Great
Barrier Reef before leaving England. However, on their first day in the country, it (7) ____________ (be)
so hot that they (8) ____________ (decide) not to go on any trips for a few days, but to head to the
beach. Unfortunately, they (9) ____________ (forget) their swimming costumes so they (10)
____________ (have) to go shopping first to buy some. They couldn’t believe they were in Australia at
last – especially at a time of year when the weather was so awful in Europe!
(10 points)

3 Choose the correct option (A, B or C) to complete the sentences. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
0 I got up early and ____________ to school. I arrived at 8.30.
A walked B had walked C was walking
1 I didn’t realize I ____________ my mobile phone at the club until the next morning.
A left B had left C were leaving
2 The waiter chased after him because he ____________ paid his bill.
A didn’t B hadn’t C wasn’t
3 Many years ago, when he ____________ in the army, my father went to Singapore.
A was B had been C was being
4 We didn’t go to the cinema with Kate because we ____________ the film before.
A saw B had seen C were seeing
5 Where ____________ for your holidays?
A you went B did you go C went you
6 How many people ____________ in this building?
A live B do live C do they live
7 Which student ____________ this essay?
A has he written B has written C he has written
8 Why ____________ like travelling so much?
A they B they do C do they
9 What ____________ outside?
A is happening B is it happening C happening is
10 Who ____________ the key to?
A has given B you are giving C did you give
(10 points)

Life, Pre-Intermediate, Unit 10 Test

Vocabulary
1 Complete the text with the words in the box. There is one extra word you do not need. There is an
example at the beginning (0).
about us adverts basic contact content home link search
up-to-date user-friendly website withstand
Going online
When designing the perfect (0) __website___ for a business, it is important to make sure it is attractive
and (1) ____________ . You don’t want people to find it difficult to find their way around your website.
When they click on a (2) ____________ they should go to the page they expect. So, if they click on (3)
____________ , it should go to a page that provides information about your company. If they click on (4)
____________ , it should go to a page with your number and email address. The most important page is
the (5) ____________ page because it is the first page anybody sees when they go to your website. Keep
it (6) ____________ – nobody wants to see lots of complicated graphics and images – and make sure it
is free of (7) ____________ – customers want to find out about you – they don’t want to be sold things.
In simple terms, make sure the (8) ____________ you provide on the page is simple and necessary. It’s a
good idea to use the latest, (9) ____________ software when designing your website as it needs to be
reliable – hopefully, it will have to (10) ____________ a lot of online traffic. You don’t want it to crash all
the time.
(10 points)
2 Complete the text with the correct form of the word in CAPITAL LETTERS. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
0 This furniture is __old-fashioned___. It looks like it was made in the 1980s. FASHIONED
1 The toy company has launched a new ____________ on the market. PRODUCE
2 Karen always wears very ____________ clothes. They are new and stylish. FASHION
3 There are a lot of ____________ in the magazine. Some take up the whole page. ADVERTISE
4 The company isn’t very ____________ . They only make thirty suitcases a week. PRODUCE
5 Oil ____________ are getting worried about the fall in the price of oil. PRODUCE
6 The screwdriver is a very ____________ invention. You can use it in many situations. USE
7 Gemma has a job in the ____________ industry. ADVERTISE
8 Electricity is produced by the ____________ grid. NATION
9 The ____________ of plastic toys at the factory has stopped because of safety concerns. PRODUCE
10 Last year, we ____________ off the loan for the car. PAY
(10 points)

Grammar
3 Complete the text with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Use past simple active or passive or
used to + infinitive. Use used to + infinitive whenever possible. There is an example at the beginning
(0).
When I (0) __was_______ (be) young in the 1970s, people (1) ____________ (do) amazing things with
colour and design in their homes. My parents (2) ____________ (have) a very large dining room. It was
so big that they often (3) ____________ (invite) friends for dinner. Once, on their wedding anniversary,
over twenty people (4) ____________ (serve) dinner there and my parents (5) ____________ (not have)
any problems fitting them all round the table. The dining room walls were all different colours. I
remember that one of them (6) ____________ (be) blue and another orange, and a colourful painting
(7) ____________ (hang) on the wall. My parents (8) ____________ (not worry) about having too much
colour in the room! The dining room table was enormous and had a fabulous design on it. My sister (9)
____________ (hide) under it. I don’t know what (10) ____________ (happen) to that table. I wish I had
it now!
(10 points)

Life, Pre-Intermediate, Unit 11 Test

1 Report the sentences. Use two to four words including the word provided in CAPITALS. There is an
example at the beginning (0).
0 ‘We haven’t been there.’
THEY
They said __they hadn’t been__ there.
1 ‘I’m working late.’
SAID
Sarah ____________ late.
2 ‘Isaac won the match.’
THAT
She said ____________ the match.
3 ‘I sometimes go to bed after midnight.’
SHE
She said ____________ to bed after midnight.
4 ‘I’ll pay for dinner.’
HE
Harry said ____________ for dinner.
5 ‘I play tennis every week.’
US
Thomas ____________ tennis every week.
6 ‘We love going to the cinema.’
THEY
____________ going to the cinema.
7 ‘I’m feeling ill.’
US
Stephanie ____________ feeling ill.
8 ‘My parents are going to visit.’
EVERYBODY
I ____________ my parents were going to visit.
9 ‘I like you.’
HER
Jack ____________ her.
10 ‘I’ll call your sister.’
MY
Eric said he ____________ .
(10 points)

2. Reading
Bringing Pompeii back to life
The ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy was buried under volcanic rock in AD 79. (0) ____D______ In
recent years, however, many parts of the city have fallen down, and many parts have been closed to the
public. The city was in danger and many experts were getting angry that the city wasn’t being protected.
(1) ____________ The World Heritage site is now the scene of an ambitious restoration project. It is
hoped that work being carried out now will mean that future generations will be able to visit and
explore this
amazing historical place.
Today, more than 200 experts and technicians are at work in Pompeii’s ruins. As well as architects and
archaeologists, there are painters and photographers, dentists and biologists, computer scientists and
experts in art restoration. (2) ____________ Not only that, but they are looking again at the bodies of
people who died in the disaster. Although the data analysis is in the early stages, it is already opening a
window on life in the Roman Empire. (3) ____________ Indeed, one expert has said that a typical New
Yorker of today would feel at home in the streets of the ancient city. Pompeii was a city of fast food
restaurants, lively theatres and busy markets.
One of the most interesting of the volcano’s casualties is an unusually tall man, dressed in very strange
clothing. The shape of his clothes, and the shape and size of his body, were preserved in the volcanic
rock that covered him. (4) ____________ It is now believed that this man was a typical resident of first-
century Pompeii, which, like today’s London or New York, had a lot of ethnic diversity.
Pompeii was a rich city of Roman citizens, naturalized foreigners and freedmen (former slaves) who
were working in business. Many of the people in the city had a very good diet. (5) ____________ A
surprising number of products used in the city were not from Italy. The city had a very commercial
culture, with food arriving every day from many different parts of the empire. Life was good in Pompeii –
but, sadly, the good life wasn’t to last. When the volcano of nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted, almost
everybody in the city was killed.

Read the article about Pompeii. Complete the gaps with the missing sentences (A–G). There is one
extra sentence you do not need. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A They ate whole grains, fruits and nuts, and used expensive spices to make their food taste good.
B Pompeii was much larger than the experts said it would be.
C Amazingly, life in Pompeii was similar to life now in the 21st century.
D The disaster happened almost 2,000 years ago, but we still remember it today.
E Over the years, people have wondered if he was a slave from the northern provinces of the empire.
F They are all very carefully restoring and analysing all the objects and buildings in Pompeii.
G As a result, the Italian authorities realized that they had to do something.
(10 points)

Life, Pre-Intermediate, Unit 12 Test

Vocabulary
1 Complete the text with the words in the box. There is an example at the beginning (0).
desert field forest garden mountain ocean park poacher river sponsor start
0 Behind the farm, there was a large, green ___field____ full of cows.
1 They walked through an ancient ____________ in which the trees were large and old. Few people had
been there before.
2 We climbed up to the top of the ____________ where the air was thin but the views were amazing.
3 There is an attractive ____________ in our city where children play – there is a lake, footpaths and a
lot of trees.
4 We walked along the ____________ to Henley, passing people who were fishing, and saying hello to
people on boats who went past.
5 It used to take weeks to sail across the ____________ from Europe to North America.
6 We like sitting in our ____________ – it’s small but it’s full of beautiful flowers.
7 It was hot in the ____________ . There were no plants, no water, and no sign of life.
8 A ____________ has killed a chimpanzee mother and taken her baby.
9 Don’t ____________ trying to run a wildlife rescue centre until you know what problems you face.
10 The computer company wants to ____________ the zoo to help protect animals and to get some
positive publicity.
(10 points)

2 Choose the correct option to complete the weather forecast. There is an example at the beginning
(0).
(0) Extreme / Dark weather will be moving in from the mountains early Saturday morning. A powerful
(1) cloud / storm will bring strong winds and a lot of heavy (2) rain / lightning. It’ll be so wet that there
may be a chance of a (3) shine / flood in the lower part of the town. Move your valuable belongings
upstairs. Watch out for loud claps of (4) hail / thunder in the sky, and dangerous, electrical (5) lightning /
bright, which may cause fires. If temperatures fall, there is a chance of (6) flood / hail – if these hard
balls of ice fall in your area, stay indoors. By Sunday morning, this weather front will have passed. On
Sunday, the sun will (7) storm / shine, and skies will be very (8) extreme / bright and blue. There may be
one white (9) cloud / rain in the sky, but no more than that. After the really (10) dark / thunder skies of
Saturday, the light, sunny skies of Sunday will feel very different.
(10 points)

Reading
Today’s Science Blog: tell us about the Moon
A
It’s hard to imagine how life on our planet would be different if something like the Moon had never
existed. If we didn’t have a Moon, there would be no lunar tides, and a world where the seas didn’t
move would have a big effect on nature. There would also be no total solar eclipses – when the Moon
moves in front of the sun – and we would notice that. More importantly, big rocks in space called
asteroids which, for millions of years, have crashed into the Moon, would hit Earth instead. Everybody
knows that asteroids have hit Earth and destroyed life – an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, for example. If
there were more asteroids, perhaps the chance of life on Earth developing would be smaller. Perhaps
there would be no us.
B
The Moon has played an important part in a lot of cultures. If it wasn’t there, we would, I suppose, tell
stories about different things, but it is true that many of our traditional stories are about the Moon. We
talk about dreaming of the Moon, and aiming for the Moon, and we look at the Moon and think of love
or mystery, of happiness or sadness. It is important to us. We have always wanted to go there. That’s
why there was a race to the Moon between the USA and the USSR in the 1960s, and why we have a
space industry today.
C
The Moon’s gravity pulls most strongly on the side of the Earth closest to the Moon and least strongly on
the side of the Earth farthest from the Moon. The Earth’s gravity pulls, too and, as a result, material
comes away from the surface of the Moon. If you lived on the Moon, you would see how strongly the
pull of the Earth has an effect on the Moon’s surface. Forces pull water from the Earth towards the
Moon, particularly when there is a new Moon or a full Moon.
D
There are a number of theories. One is that the Earth and the Moon began life at the same time, and
developed next to each other. Pieces of rock came together to make our planet, but some pieces of rock
moved in the other direction and came together to make the Moon. Another idea is that the Moon was
a piece of rock in space that was passing the Earth, but got caught in its gravity. There are, however,
problems with both these theories. Most scientists think that a big rock hit Earth when the solar system
was young and parts of our planet flew into space. These rocks then came together to make the Moon.

3 Read the science blog. Match the questions to the paragraphs (A–D) that answer each question.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
0 Why are there high tides when there is a full Moon? _____C______
1 What happened to the dinosaurs? ____________
2 How was the Moon formed? ____________
3 What would Earth be like with no Moon? ____________
4 Is it possible the moon used to be part of the Earth? ____________
5 How has the Moon helped our imagination? ____________
6 When did people first try to go to the Moon? ____________
7 How does gravity affect what happens on the Earth and on the Moon? ____________
8 Do scientists agree on how the Moon started? ____________
9 In what ways does the Moon protect Earth from disaster? ____________
10 How does the Moon make us feel? ____________
(10 points)