Module 2 Test Student B

Vocabulary

1 Complete the sentences with these words. There is one extra word.

advice / documentary / forecast / game / gossip / horoscope / interview / letter / local / puzzles / reports / reviews

A newspaper for your town or area is a local newspaper.

1 I'm keen on football and rugby. I always read the sports _______________ in the paper.

2 Sam wrote a _______________ to his local paper about recycling. It appeared in the paper last week.

3 Tell me when your birthday is and I'll read out your _______________ for next week.

4 Do you prefer doing word or number _______________ ? I'm better with numbers.

5 My neighbour won £50,000 in a TV _______________ show last year.

6 Are you interested in _______________ about the private lives of celebrities?

7 There's a _______________ about Egypt on TV tonight. It sounds really interesting.

8 The band's new CD had good _______________ in most of the music magazines.

9 Did you see the _______________ with the Prime Minister on the TV news last night?

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10 There's some good _______________ about health in this magazine.

2 Complete the compound adjectives with the correct forms of the words in brackets.

She wears brightly-__coloured__ clothes. (colour)

1 They're hard-_______________ students who always do their homework. (work)

2 It was a well-_______________ holiday. (organise)

3 Professor Mitchell is a world-_______________ scientist. (fame)

4 His parents are quite easy-_______________ (go)

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5 The journey took five days. It seemed never-_______________ (end)

3 Complete the sentences with compound adjectives and nouns.

The winner is a girl who is six years old.

The winner is a __six-year-old girl__.

1 Jamie is a baby who is seven months old.

Jamie is a ______________________________.

2 Simon's course at university takes three years.

Simon is doing a ______________________________ at university.

3 The oldest resident in the village is a woman who is ninety-one.

The oldest resident in the village is a ______________________________.

4 We've booked a holiday for ten days.

We've booked a .______________________________.

5 The singers are touring Europe for one year.

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The singers are on a ______________________________ of Europe.

4 Find three more `negative' words and two `positive' words in the word square.

`negative' words `positive' words

bad

1 _______________ 4 _______________

2 _______________ 5 _______________

3 _______________

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Grammar

5 Complete the news story with the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect.

PARROT CATCHES BURGLAR

At 10 p.m. last night, Mrs King, a seventy-year-old widow, __went__ (go) to bed as usual. She 1_______________ (not know) that he 2_______________ (leave) the kitchen window slightly open. Or that a burglar 3_______________(watch) the house.

At midnight, the burglar 4_______________(climb) through the window into the kitchen. But, suddenly, he 5_______________ (hear) a very loud voice saying: `Put your hands up or I'll shoot'.

Mrs King was awake and immediately 6 _______________ (phone) the police. When the police 7_______________ (arrive), the burglar 8_______________ (stand) in the middle of the kitchen with both hands above his head.

Mrs King's husband 9 _______________ (be) a police sergeant and he 10_______________ (teach) Percy their parrot to say `Put your hands up or I'll shoot!'

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6 Rewrite the sentences. Use the structure in the example.

After Joanna finished university, she worked abroad for several years.

After finishing university, Joanna worked abroad for several years.

1 Before she got her first interview, my sister had filled in about forty application forms.

__________________________________________________

2 Before she became a reporter, Anita worked in a library.

__________________________________________________

3 After we went to the zoo, we had a pizza.

__________________________________________________

4 Before he left home, Mr Cooper turned off all the lights.

__________________________________________________

5 After he wrote the letter, Rob decided not to post it.

__________________________________________________

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7 Complete the texts with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

John enjoys 1 __playing_ (play) tennis. His father taught him 1 _______________ (play) when he was about seven years old. He always tries very hard 2 _______________ (win). He wants 3 _______________ (be) a professional tennis player one day. Now his sister is learning 4 _______________(play) tennis, too.

At the end-of-term, some of my friends suggested 5 _______________(have) a big party and so I decided 6 _______________(organise) it. At first, my parents didn't want 7 _______________(have) it at our house. But then they agreed. They even offered 8_______________ (buy) all the food and drink. My friends and I promised 9_______________ (not / play) loud music after midnight. I hope my parents will let me 10 _______________(have) another party soon.

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Communication

8 Read the conversation between two friends. Choose the best word or phrase (A, B or C) for each gap.

A: Hi. How C you?

B: 1_____bad, thanks. 2_____with you?

A: Well, I had an audition for a play 3_____week, but I didn't do 4_____well.

B: Oh, I'm 5_____about that. You're good 6_____drama. What happened?

A: Well, 7_____my speech a lot, but then in the middle 8_____the audition, I completely forgot the words.

B: I'm sure you weren't that 9_____!

A: I was. 10_____!

A do B go C are

1 A Very B Not C Quite

2 A How's it going B How does it go C How was it going

3 A next B last C on

4 A quite B pretty C very

5 A sorry B a pity Cworried

6 A with B for C at

7 A I'd practised B I've practised C I practise

8 A to B for C of

9 A bad B badly C worse

10 A I'm honest B Honestly C It's honest

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TOTAL

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