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MIDDLE-OF-THE-BOOK TEST UNITS 1-7 TEST B
1 Circle the correct words.
0 I m sorry, but I m not agreeing / I don t agree with you.
1 My English is much better now. Are you / Is it?
2 Are you camping / going camping next week?
3 Last Saturday, I didn t go / used to go to the cinema. I was too busy.
4 I always used to get / got high marks at school.
5 What were you doing when the lights went out? I was reading / read.
6 I was having / had a bath when my friend phoned.
7 My friend is taller than me but I m as strong like / as he is.
8 Here are my holiday photos. This one is the house where / which we stayed.
9 There are a lot of potatoes but there is only a few / little bread.
10 What will you do if your plane is / will be late?
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2 Five of these sentences have mistakes. Find and correct them. Tick (V) those sentences that are
correct.
0 What are you wanting to do now? do you want .
1 Could you tell me how much does a ticket cost? ___________
2 I used to be good at Maths but I can t remember anything now. ___________
3 When John came to see me, I was doing my homework. ___________
4 We ve only got a little eggs left. ___________
5 I m not enough clever to be a doctor. ___________
6 What will you do if you don t go on holiday? ___________
7 There aren t much things to do here. ___________
8 It s too late to go out. Let s watch TV. ___________
9 Is that the boy whose friend is in our class? ___________
10 We re not as worse as they are. ___________
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3 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
0 When my Spanish friend speaks very quickly I (not understand) don t understand her.
1 Where (you go) __________________ last night?
2 My father (not want) ________________ to be a teacher when he was young. He wanted to be a
rock singer.
3 I (not used like) ___________________ walking in the mountains but now I love it.
4 They (play) ________________ tennis when it started snowing.
5 He s (intelligent) ________________ than he looks.
6 If you (not drive) ________________ more carefully, you ll have an accident.
7 Hello? Sorry, I can t talk now. I (have) ________________ dinner.
8 Oh no! I (not give) ________________ Anna a present for her birthday yesterday.
9 She (not pass) ________________ her exams if she doesn t work harder.
10 Do you think cars (fly) ________________ in the future?
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4 Complete the text. Use the correct forms of the words in capital letters.
Last week my friends and I decided
to go to an Indian restaurant for
dinner. We live in a multi-(0) cultural CULTURE
city and the Indian part of town
is very colourful and (1) _________________. MYSTERY
We (2) _________________ a guide book BUY
and the restaurant we chose was the
(3) _________________ away from our FAR
house. We chose it because they are
very good for (4) _________________ ABLE
people and one of our friends can t
walk. We (5) _________________ by bus TRAVEL
and were very excited thinking about
what to eat. When we got inside, it
was a bit of a shock. The restaurant
was very (6) _________________ with room SPACE
for about 100 people but there was
nobody there. We sat down and
ordered but we were very
(7) _________________. The waiters DISAPPOINT
were rude and the food was
(8) _________________ and greasy. We came TASTE
out feeling very (9) _________________ HEALTH
and sick. On the way home, we saw a
much nicer place. It was very
(10) _________________ , full of people and LIVE
with a beautiful smell of food coming
from the door. Next time, we will go there.
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5 Rewrite the sentences. Use the words in capital letters. Do not change the meaning of the original
sentences.
0 My brother is very confident and talkative at parties.
ISN T
My brother isn t shy at parties.
1 I have a different opinion to you.
AGREE
I _____________________________________________________ you.
2 What time is the bus to Berlin?
BUS
Could you tell me what time _____________________________________________________?
3  Could you tell me what this word means?
DOES
What _____________________________________________________?
4 I only started liking opera when I was 20.
USE
When I was young I _____________________________________________________ opera.
5 I thought the film was very frightening.
WAS
I ___________________________________________________ when I was watching the film.
6 Is it OK if I sit here?
MIND
_____________________________________________________ I sit here?
7 I thought of an idea for a story when I was on the bus.
CAME
I _____________________________________________________ an idea for a story when I
was on the bus.
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8 My pay is too low.
HIGH
My pay ________________________________________________________.
9 My brother and I are both 1m 75cm tall.
AS
I am _____________________________________________________ my brother.
10 I ll go for a swim if it is sunny tomorrow.
GO
If it isn t sunny tomorrow, I ________________________________________________ a swim.
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6 Complete the text with one word in each gap.
I (0) was watching TV last night and there was an old programme on about  Life in the
future . I read that there (1) ___________ to be a lot of programmes like that in the 1960 s. The
things they talked about were the house of the future. Some of the ideas were really funny but I
don t think (2) ___________ of them are now real. The TV came up from the floor but it wasn t
colour and it wasn t as big (3) ___________ the TVs we have now. In the kitchen
(4) ___________ were robots and people (5) ___________ eating strange food from silver,
plastic boxes but I (6) ___________ not see a microwave cooker. There were computers
(7) ___________ controlled the lights and heating but nobody had a computer to play games on
or send e-mails and of course, telephones were still big and black and not mobile. So, when
people ask me what I think (8) ___________ happen in the future, I have to say, I
(9) ___________ not know. (10) ___________ we don t all die because of the greenhouse effect,
there will be inventions and ideas that we can t begin to imagine.
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7 Circle the correct answers: a, b or c.
Last year, I went on holiday to Greece (0) ______________ plane. The flight was
(1) ______________ by 24 hours and the travel company gave us a room in a bed and
(2) ______________ near the airport. The hotel had a TV in the room which was showing old films.
I didn t have (3) ______________ else to do so I started watching. They were showing old Ealing
comedies. These were films made in England in the 1940 s and 1950 s. My parents
(4) ______________ to love them. They show a wonderful world where everyone is
(5) ______________ and friendly to each other except for the (6) ______________ officials who
want to change their way of life. The film I saw was called Passport to Pimlico. It is about a group
of people (7) ______________ discover that the place they live in isn t part of Britain but is an
independent country. The (8) ______________ tries to stop them but ordinary people help them. It
was a great film. It made me forget that I wasn t (9) ______________ on a beach in Greece but was
stuck in a tiny, (10) ______________ room in a hotel in England.
0 a) on b) by c) to d) in
1 a) strike b) later c) delayed d) cancelled
2 a) breakfast b) dinner c) tea d) lunch
3 a) nothing b) something c) everything d) anything
4 a) did b) use c) were d) used
5 a) polite b) modest c) easy-going d) tolerant
6 a) cosy b) arrogant c) delicious d) greasy
7 a) which b) where c) who d) whose
8 a) party b) government c) politics d) election
9 a) sightseeing b) travelling c) sunbathing d) camping
10 a) spacious b) tasty c) spicy d) uncomfortable
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