Name: _________________________________________

Score: ____________ / 30 points

unit 4

language TeST 4a

1

Completethetextwiththecorrectformsofthe

wordsinbrackets.

(15points)

3

Completethesentenceswithwordsformedfromthe

wordsincapitalletters.

(6points)

I have a very good

relationship

with my

brother.

rElaTIoN

1 I’m terribly forgetful but luckily my boss

is very _________ of it.

TolEraTE

2 as a writer, he’s not very _________, you

never know what he’ll produce.

CoNSIST

3 I love that film. There are so many

wonderful _________ in it.

PErForM

4 Well, does anybody have any _________

as to how to deal with the problem? SUGGEST

5 This instruction manual is in Chinese!

It’s completely _________.

USE

6 recent medical _________ have given hope

of better medicines to deal with a number
of diseases.

dEvEloP

4

Completethesentenceswiththeadverbsfromthe

box.Thereisoneextraadverbthatyoudonotneed.

(5points)

gradually  rudely  continuously  slightly 

nervously  eerily  strongly

outside, it was cold but she opened the
window

slightly

to let in some air.

1 a light rain fell _________ from morning to

night.

2 The old house was _________ quiet and she

felt afraid.

3 at first things were very tense but then

_________ we started to relax.

4 afraid that it might be bad news, she

_________ picked up the phone.

5 ‘What do you think you’re doing?’ he asked

_________.

2

Completethesentenceswiththemissingwords.

(4points)

I can see a sign but I can’t

m

a

k

e

o

u

t

what

it says.

1 after the accident he _ i _ _ e _ badly when

he walked.

2 He looked so strange I couldn’t help but

_ _ _ r _ at him.

3 He just sat there and _ _ n _ _ r _ _ what to

do next.

4 We _ a _ _ e _ _ u _ to her but she didn’t

hear us.

The inspiration for the poem

came

(come) to me

as I 

1

___________ (walk) down by the river.

It

2

___________ (not/be) my first trip there,

3

___________ (walk) along the path there three

times already that week without any ideas coming
to me, but this time

4

___________ (be) different.

It

5

___________ (not/come) to me immediately:

I 

6

___________ (already/walk) there for some time

when I 

7

___________ (see) a small black plastic

bag down by the water, then another and another
and another. Somebody – or perhaps many
people –

8

___________ (throw) these bin bags

down there, full of old clothes, bits of food, paper,
tins, bottles and all sorts of unpleasant things.
Looking at the bags, suddenly I 

9

___________

(feel) inspired and

10

___________ (begin) to write.

I 

11

___________ (describe) the scene in detail, and

hurried home to email my poem to a publisher as
soon as I 

12

___________ (can). When the reply

13

___________ (come) I 

14

___________ (already/

think) about how rich and famous I would be and
I 

15

___________ (read) the reply excitedly: ‘Dear

Mr Pinter, Let me be honest. Your poem is not only
about rubbish, it is rubbish. Best Regards,
Jonathan Cutter.’

The end of anoTher dream

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