GRAMMAR
1 Choose the correct answer.
1 To make the comparative of adverbs ending in -ly, eg slowly, carefully, we put more before the adverb / change y to i in the adverb and add -er.
2 Some adverbs have the same form as adjectives, eg fast, hard, high, late, long. To make them comparative we put more before the adverb / add -er to the adverb.
3 Worse is the comparative form of well / badly.
4 Adverbs of manner, eg slowly, carefully, are usually placed before / after adverbs of time, eg today, recently, in a sentence.
5 Adverbs of place, eg here, there, are usually placed before / after adverbs of time, eg then, yesterday, in a sentence.
_____ / 5 points
VOCABULARY
2 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
accurately astonishing equator expanded organisms
rotate spacecraft spacewalk trillion universe
1 After the Big Bang the universe _____ very quickly and is still growing.
2 Different parts of the Earth _____ around the sun at different speeds.
3 The _____ was created by the Big Bang.
4 The _____ is at an equal distance from the North and South Poles.
5 The first _____ took place in 1965 - it lasted a very short time.
6 The Earth weighs very much more than a _____ tonnes.
7 In 1969 two astronauts left their _____ to walk on the moon.
8 Human life developed from _____ that lived in the sea.
9 The speed at which the universe grew is really quite _____ .
10 With today's technology we can measure the speed of light extremely _____ .
_____ / 10 points
FUNCTION
3 Read the text. Complete 1-10 with A, B or C.
Some of nature's surprises
Did you know that …?
• A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour - that's (1) _____! The fastest human beings run only about 30 kilometres per hour.
• There's a kind of crocodile that hears its babies hatching from eggs buried under the sand. When it hears them, it digs them up, then (2) _____ loads them into its mouth and carries them to the river where it lets them go.
• Rats' teeth grow (3) _____ - they need to chew things to stop them getting enormous.
• There once was an ostrich that ate a camera film, a handkerchief, a pencil, three gloves, an alarm clock key, a gold necklace, 90 cm of rope, part of a bicycle and a comb. After which, it was (4) _____ !
• Crocodiles bite 26 times (5) _____ than humans.
• Maybe the sloth moves (6) _____ than any other animal on earth - just 241 metres per hour.
• A scorpion can (7) _____ .
• Dogs can hear much (8) _____ than humans. The frequencies that dogs can perceive and hear are almost twice ours and they can pick up and distinguish sounds that are roughly four times (9) _____ away than humans can.
• There's a kind of frog that carries her baby tadpoles (10) _____ .
1 A incredibly faster B really fast C quite fast
2 A very B gently very C very gently
3 A continuously B more continuously C continuous
4 A full extremely B extremely full C fully extreme
5 A more hard B hardly C harder
6 A more slow B most slowly C more slowly
7 A for a year live without B without food live C live for a year
food for a year without food
8 A well B worse C better
9 A far B father C further
10 A patiently on her back B on her back for two C on her back patiently for two months patiently months for two months
_____ / 10 points
Total : _____ / 25 points
Lesson test Inspiration 4 unit 3, lesson 1
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