Name: _________________________________________

Score: ____________ / 30 points

UNIT 3

LANGUAGE TEST 3A

1

Choose the correct answers.

(6 points)

Sandra

used to / would live in the city but

now she lives in the country.

1 Will is forever complaining / forever

complains that he has too much homework.

2 As a child, Paul was sitting / would sit on his

swing in the garden for hours.

3 I think she’s happy. She works in the week and

at the weekend she

is relaxing / will relax at

home.

4 Did you used / use to work in the library?
5 My sister was always sounding / would

always sound tired when we spoke in the
evenings.

6 I will go / am going to work around seven

in the morning most days.

2

Complete each sentence with the correct article

(a/an, the) or leave the gap blank when no article

is needed.

(6 points)

I don’t think you know my sister. She’s

a

 doctor.

1 My results weren’t very good and the doctor

says I might have to go to _______ hospital.

2 Would you like _______ cup of coffee? It’s no

trouble.

3 Helping people gives me _______ pleasure and

that’s why I do it.

4 She was born on _______ twenty-second of

August, 1955.

5 I read _______ article you showed me. It was

really interesting.

6 I need _______ holiday this year. I’ve been so

busy.

3

Complete the missing words.

(6 points)

Can you change the

c

h

a

n

n

e

l

,

please?

1 He changes his _ o _ _ so quickly, one

moment he’s happy, the next he’s angry.

2 We’ve done a lot of work on the house,

including _ o _ _ _ r _ _ _ _ the attic into an
extra bedroom.

3 The new job means getting up very early and

it’s taken me a while to _ d _ _ s _ .

4 She changed her hair style, her hair colour,

her make-up and her style of clothes and it
was as if she’d been _ r _ n _ _ _ r _ _ _
by magic into a different person!

5 I hated cheese sandwiches and she hated

salad so we agreed to _ w _ _ lunches.

6 We used to be friends but since he got a good

job he’s _ _ r _ e _ i _ _ _ a real big-head.

4

Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

There is one extra word that you do not need.

(6 points)

ages fiddle with deprived compulsive

achieve leave severely lose

He was

severely

injured in the accident.

1 My family never had any money to buy things.

I had a very _______ childhood.

2 Why do you always _______ the top off the

glue? It will dry up!

3 My sister is always talking to her friends. She

spends _______ on the phone every day!

4 They won’t like this news. What if they

_______ their tempers? What should I do?

5 She was a brilliant student and her teachers

were certain that she would _______ great
things.

6 He suffers from _______ behaviour, such

as washing his hands twenty times a day
or checking the doors are locked all the time.

5

Rewrite the sentences using the word given to add

emphasis.

(3 points)

Phil was clever. (such)
Phil

was such a clever

man.

1 The beautiful weather made the holiday so

memorable. (that)
It ____________________________________ so
memorable.

2 She tries hard. (does)

She ________________________________ hard.

3 I really liked the accommodation. (was)

What ________________________________ the
accommodation.

6

Match the idioms in bold to the correct explanations.

(3 points)

I told you, a leopard never changes its
spots.

d

1 Don’t change the subject, it’s really

annoying.

2 Paul has really turned over a new leaf.
3 Talk to her, perhaps she’ll have a change

of heart.

a change the way you live or do things for the

better.

b avoid talking about something difficult or

embarrassing.

c change your opinion or attitude, usually

because of something you’ve seen or heard.

d always the same person underneath.

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