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LANGUAGE AND SKILLS TEST 7 B UNITS 13-14

LISTENING SKILLS

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1    Listen to six people talking

about where they łive. Match the speakers (1-6) to the headings (A-G). There is one

F They know they have to work together 5 i^r.97 smnptef arays whish wsn fora* are now becoming dcscrts.

H Morę people need morę land.

extra heading.    (6 points)

A A lot. to do.

B The busy rOftris spoił it.

C I've gol lous of friends here.

D A horrible place lo iive.    L_J

E Most people work in London.    !_

F Peaceful and <]uiet a U year.

G Unspoill; - most of the time.    □

READING SKILLS

1 Complete the text with sentences A-H. (7 points)

A Sonie people don’l like tłiem buL they do give us clean energy.

B Wliat is the futurę for our world?

C There aro morę and morę cars and factorics opening every day.

D So. is it too lale?

E Tliis means the world has goL hoLter and will continue to get hotter in the futurę.

I Complete the text with one word in

each gap.    (7 points)

A In my' opinion. tłu? worst tliing about Ińing here is thal. it is very boring.

B 1¹_______________agrcc. There‘s nothing to

do. We rieed morę clubs and discos.

A I’m afraid I^J_. Clubs and discos arcn’t

good places to go.__I think we

should open morę t.he&tres and cincmas and have morę conceiTs.

U I know whalyou *___but I don’L tliink

many people will go to tłiem. We’ve got a cinema but people stay at. honie and watch DVDs.

A Ves, youTe⁵_right but thafs

because Lhe fllitiS at the cinema are boring.

I^u__we should have a cinema showing

different fiJms - from Europę, not America.

B Sony, but I ⁷_agree. Ask people what

they waru, a good disco or European films -they won’t want the films!

The futurę of the planet

j/B^hat is the futurę for our world?! We asked Profcssor Mikę Summcrbce of the Uniyersity of Manchester for his views. Ile was not óptimistic: “I am very worried about the futurę” he said. In the last ten years, climate ęhange has become morę and morę of a problem.¹ ~    Bccause

of climate ęhange, animals and plants arc dying out. The change in climate changes the

places they live in. -____

Another problem for animals is man. Tlić population of the world is growing ver>'

quickly. ______ We need

to build houścs and grow fbbd. The animals have a smaller and smallcr area to Iive in.

Another problem is pollution.^:_____

_'    ____;____This pollution makes the

air and water dirtier and people will dic yóungcr. Tliis is alrcady happening iń sonie cities such as Tehran, Mexico or Los Angeles, where you can sec the pollution in the sky.

⁵ __No, not yet. We ;

can still save the planet if we try. We etui find clean energy for elcctricity and cars. It’s good ro see morę wind farms for example.

⁶ ___We can also plant

trees and stop destroying the rain forests.

The good thing is that governments can now see what the problems are. They are talking

about them.⁷_■ '    ••__

The cjuestion is, will they do morę tlian talk?

Will they do somethirig soon? Or wili it be too iate?

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