LANGUAGE TEST 3A
UNIT 3
Name: _________________________________________ Score: ____________ / 30 points
1 Choose the correct answers. (6 points) 4 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
There is one extra word that you do not need.
Sandra used to / would live in the city but
(6 points)
now she lives in the country.
ages fiddle with deprived compulsive
1 Will is forever complaining / forever
achieve leave severely lose
complains that he has too much homework.
2 As a child, Paul was sitting / would sit on his
He was severely injured in the accident.
swing in the garden for hours.
1 My family never had any money to buy things.
3 I think she s happy. She works in the week and
I had a very _______ childhood.
at the weekend she is relaxing / will relax at
2 Why do you always _______ the top off the
home.
glue? It will dry up!
4 Did you used / use to work in the library?
3 My sister is always talking to her friends. She
5 My sister was always sounding / would
spends _______ on the phone every day!
always sound tired when we spoke in the
4 They won t like this news. What if they
evenings.
_______ their tempers? What should I do?
6 I will go / am going to work around seven
5 She was a brilliant student and her teachers
in the morning most days.
were certain that she would _______ great
things.
2 Complete each sentence with the correct article
(a/an, the) or leave the gap blank when no article 6 He suffers from _______ behaviour, such
is needed. (6 points)
as washing his hands twenty times a day
or checking the doors are locked all the time.
I don t think you know my sister. She s a doctor.
5 Rewrite the sentences using the word given to add
1 My results weren t very good and the doctor
emphasis. (3 points)
says I might have to go to _______ hospital.
2 Would you like _______ cup of coffee? It s no
Phil was clever. (such)
trouble.
Phil was such a clever man.
3 Helping people gives me _______ pleasure and
1 The beautiful weather made the holiday so
that s why I do it.
memorable. (that)
4 She was born on _______ twenty-second of
It ____________________________________ so
August, 1955.
memorable.
5 I read _______ article you showed me. It was
2 She tries hard. (does)
really interesting.
She ________________________________ hard.
6 I need _______ holiday this year. I ve been so
3 I really liked the accommodation. (was)
busy.
What ________________________________ the
3 Complete the missing words. (6 points) accommodation.
Can you change the c h a n n e l , please?
6 Match the idioms in bold to the correct explanations.
(3 points)
1 He changes his _ o _ _ so quickly, one
I told you, a leopard never changes its
moment he s happy, the next he s angry.
d
spots.
2 We ve done a lot of work on the house,
1 Don t change the subject, it s really
including _ o _ _ _ r _ _ _ _ the attic into an
annoying.
extra bedroom.
2 Paul has really turned over a new leaf.
3 The new job means getting up very early and
3 Talk to her, perhaps she ll have a change
it s taken me a while to _ d _ _ s _ .
of heart.
4 She changed her hair style, her hair colour,
her make-up and her style of clothes and it
a change the way you live or do things for the
was as if she d been _ r _ n _ _ _ r _ _ _
better.
by magic into a different person!
b avoid talking about something difficult or
5 I hated cheese sandwiches and she hated
embarrassing.
salad so we agreed to _ w _ _ lunches. c change your opinion or attitude, usually
because of something you ve seen or heard.
6 We used to be friends but since he got a good
d always the same person underneath.
job he s _ _ r _ e _ i _ _ _ a real big-head.
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