Section 1 (Grammar & Vocabulary) Choose the best word or phrase (a, b, c or d) to fill each blank.
1. I work as an account and my sister_________, too.
2. Where _____________ come from?
3. Her father______________in Spain.
4. ‘_____ to Australia, Ginny?’ ‘Yes, two years ago.”
5. She is _____ person I’ve ever met.
6. A vegetarian is someone _____ doesn’t eat meat.
7. I _____ watch TV tonight.
8. _____ be famous one day?
9. I started seeing her ____________.
10. I wish I _____ taller.
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Section 2 (Grammar & Vocabulary) Choose the best word or phrase (a, b, c or d) to fill each blank.
11. ‘What time is it? ’I have no _____.’
12. The meal was very expensive. Look at the _____!
13. Joel came back from his holiday in Brazil looking really _____.
14. I’m really keen__________ football.
15. Hannah ________ her master degree when she met her husband.
16. I was wondering _____show me how this device works.
17. If I _____ him, I would have spoken to him, wouldn’t I?
18. I like your hair. Where _____?
19. John tells me Jack’s going out with Helen, _____ I find hard to believe.
20. The weather has been awful. We’ve had very _____ sunshine this summer.
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Section 3 (Grammar & Vocabulary) Choose the best word or phrase (a, b, c or d) to fill each blank.
21. A: Do you think I should take this job? B: You shouldn’t do anything ___________ you think it’s the right thing to do.
22. He _____ that he hadn’t stolen the computer, but no one believed him.
23. Could you _____ me that book for a couple of days, please?
24. If you _____ me, what would you do?
25. I don’t know where _____ last night.
26. I’m so hungry! If only Bill _____ all the food in the fridge!
27. I regret _____ harder in school.
28. Our neighbours aren’t very polite, and _____ particularly quiet!
29. Can you give me a _____ with my bag?
30. Before you enter the triathlon, please bear in _____ that you’re not as young as you used to be!
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Section 4 (Reading) Read the text and choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
Tuffley Primary School in Scotland has recently won the Green School of the Year award and £5,000. It is the first school in Scotland to win this important prize. The school won the prize because last year students decided to ‘go green’ and formed a group to do something to help the environment. All the students in the school joined in. With their teachers’ help, younger students built a special garden to protect birds and other wild animals. All the students in the school decided to walk or cycle to school. ‘The kids didn’t have to do this, but they really wanted to,’ said Moira Douglas, a mother of two students at the school.
31. The Green School of the Year award _________ .
32. All the students in the school _________ .
33. The children _________ to school.
34. The children grew vegetables _________ .
35. Mr MacDougal _________ .
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Section 5 (Reading) Read the text and choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
They say that your schooldays are the best years of your life. But that certainly wasn’t always the case with me. When I was 11, I won a scholarship to a private school near my home. It was a very traditional, all-girls school and it got excellent exam results. My parents were very proud of me, but it didn’t suit me at all. It was a boarding school, but I was a day-girl because we lived in the same city and I went home every day, and so I didn’t really make friends. Most of the girls came from quite wealthy privileged backgrounds, and I think they looked down on me as I was just an ordinary, albeit clever, local girl. Also, the teachers were really strict, and I was scared stiff of most of them! Although I was doing well academically, I was deeply unhappy for the whole of my time there.
36. The writer’s parents _____ .
37. The other girls at the private school _____ .
38. The writer wanted to go to her local school because _____ at the boarding school.
39. The writer’s parents weren’t sure about the comprehensive school because _____ .
40. Now she is training to be a teacher, the writer _____ .
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Section 6 (Listening) Listen to Anna and Charlie talking about TV. Choose the correct information to complete the sentences.
41. The new soap opera is about _______________ .
42. People on the game show want to win _______________ .
43. _______________ is at nine o’clock.
44. The documentary is about _______________ .
45. Anna is going to watch _______________ .
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Section 7 (Listening) Listen to James and Louise talking about their style icons. Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
46. James thinks that James Dean _____ .
47. James Dean is an icon because _____ .
48. Louise likes Audrey Hepburn because of _____ .
49. _____ was recently sold at auction.
50. Louise _____ Audrey Hepburn.
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Section 8 (Writing) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile phones.
51. Writing
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