Unit 3 Progress Test B

Grammar
1 Read the text and choose the correct words.

Local girl plans walk across Sahara Desert

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By July this year, Sarah White, from here in Gerrards Cross, will have finished / will be
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finishing her A-level exams, but she won’t have relaxed / won’t be relaxing on a beach
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somewhere to celebrate. Sarah and two friends will be walking / walk across the Sahara
Desert!
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People leave / will have left water and food at different places along the girls’ route, but
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they will still be carrying / will still have carried 25 kilograms of food, water and equipment
on their backs every day. It will be too hot for Sarah and her friends to walk in the middle of
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the day, so they get / will be getting up early in the morning to walk before it gets too hot.
Then they’ll rest in their tents until the evening.
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‘Our bodies will have got used / get used to the high temperatures by then,’ Sarah says,
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‘because we’ll stay near the Sahara for a few weeks before we start the trip. But I doubt / ’m
fairly sure it will be very comfortable to sit inside a tent in temperatures of 45°C! And lots of
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things could / may not go wrong too. Strong winds will have / may come in from the
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Atlantic and blow sand around. This is called a “sand storm”, and if one happen / happens
on our trip, we aren’t / won’t be able to see anything − or go outside our tents for days!’
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Mark: ___ / 6

2 Complete the mini-dialogues with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the future continuous,
future perfect, or the first conditional.
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Paulo _______________________ (you / go) to the concert with me tomorrow if I _______________________
(buy) the tickets?
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Samantha Thanks for asking me, but the weather forecast for tomorrow is terrible. I _______________________
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(not be) surprised if they _______________________ (cancel) the concert.

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Ellen You _______________________ (move) to Manchester by the end of September.
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Josh Yes, and I’m going to miss you a lot. But I’m sure we _______________________ (chat) on the internet
all the time!

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Mandy _______________________ (scientists / cure) cancer by 2050?
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Rick Maybe. Fifty years from now, perhaps everyone _______________________ (live) a lot longer than we
do now.

Mark: ___ / 8

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3 Write the second sentence. Use the future continuous, future perfect, could, or the first conditional.
1 You can borrow this magazine tomorrow. I / read / it / by then.

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2 The concert is at eight o’clock tonight. A few hours from now, / I / dance / to Rihanna.
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3 That man is driving quite fast. He / have / an accident.

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4 Have you sprained your ankle? It / not recover / if / you / not rest / it.
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5 The homework is really easy. You / do / it all / by dinner.
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6 We haven’t booked a hotel in Rome. We / stay / with an aunt.

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Mark: ___ / 6

Vocabulary
4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. Use prefixes and suffixes.
1 There’s a lot of __________________ (sad) in the film, but there are some happy scenes, too.
2 Drink some water, or you’ll become __________________ (hydrated).
3 ‘You lied to me!’ Jake said __________________ (angry). Then he walked out of the room.

4 I can’t ride a bike at all! I’m __________________ (hope).

5 It’s a bad cut, but the doctor will put a __________________ (dress) on it.
6 I’m not interested in world events or __________________ (politic) news − I only look at the sports pages in the
newspaper.

Mark: ___ / 6

5 Complete the sentences with the words below. Use one word to complete two sentences.

bank disgusting frostbite heat intestines oxygen

1 A chicken and banana sandwich − that sounds __________________ !

2 Your heart and lungs work harder at high altitude because there’s less __________________ .
3 I haven’t got any money in my wallet so I have to go to the __________________ .
4 Put some gloves on. It’s freezing, and you don’t want to get __________________ .
5 We walked along the river __________________ , then went over the bridge.
6 That’s a really big fire. I can feel the __________________ of it from here.
7 It takes food about twenty hours to go all the way through your __________________ .

Mark: ___ / 7

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6 Complete the text with the words below.

annoyed antibiotics bandage bones cut proud surprised

Hi Stacey,

I’m sorry I didn’t come to your school play. I really wanted to come, but I had an accident last
night − I fell off my bike. Luckily, I didn’t break any ___________ , but I ___________ my left
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hand badly on some glass in the road. The doctor put a ___________ on my hand, and he
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gave me some ___________ to take as well.
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I’m really ___________ about missing your play. Everyone says it was great. I’m
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not ___________ that it went well because I know you’ve all been preparing for it for ages.
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I’m happy that your parents were there, too. I’m sure they feel very ___________ of you!

Gareth

Mark: ___ / 7

Use of English
7 Read the text and complete gaps 1–10. Circle the correct answer A, B or C.
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The photo shows a group of people ___ leggings and T-shirts in a park. I think it’s a yoga class ___ some kind because
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they are all standing in the same position with their hands on their hips. I’d ___ that the man ___ a beard is the teacher
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because everyone is looking in his direction and trying to copy him. It’s a class for advanced students I ___ say because
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they all look very confident. One of the women is holding a belt, or something ___ that to help her stretch her arms. There
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is also a man in the background who is sitting on ___ ball to help him balance. In front of him, a woman ___ a blue top
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has her foot on something purple that looks ___ some kind of brick. The photo is ___ likely an advert for a holiday camp
because everyone looks like a model and they are all wearing designer sports clothes.
1 A are wearing B wearing C wear

2 A by B for C of
3 A tell B say C think
4 A with B in C wearing
5 A can B will C would
6 A like B as C for
7 A a sort of B sorts of C sort of
8 A who is with B with C with in
9 A as B for C like
10 A more B much C most

Mark: ___ / 10

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 Listening
8  3 Listen to an interview with an author. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Put a cross () under
T or F.

T F

1 Marianne Dawson was with some friends when she fell into a frozen river.
2 After her experience, Marianne decided to write a book.
3 Beck Weathers lay in the snow on Mount Everest for forty hours.
4 A girl fell from the sky in Peru after a storm destroyed her plane.
5 The girl was alive in the forest when someone found her.

Mark: ___ / 5

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 Reading
9 Read the text. Match headings A−G with paragraphs 1−5. There are two extra headings.

Colour and you

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Did you know that different people see colours differently? Some people, called tetrachromats,
can see more colours than most people. Others, called bichromats, see fewer colours. This is
important because colours can make you feel − and behave – differently, too.
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If a boy in your class comes to school tomorrow in pink jeans, you’ll be surprised. And you
probably won’t be having your next lesson in a red classroom. But how we feel about colour
depends on who we are and where we are born. In many cultures, people traditionally dress
little girls in pink, and little boys in blue. So when we grow up, men and women like or hate
these colours. And red walls aren’t popular in Europe because red means ‘danger’. But in
China, red means ‘good luck’.
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Artists know that paintings with warm reds and yellows sell better than pictures with cold
greens and blues because warm colours make us feel excited. They may also wake us up, so
if you put a big red picture in your bedroom, you probably won’t sleep well! Blue might be a
cool colour, but it helps us to relax. And yellow often makes people feel happier. It could also
help people to get better more quickly, so hospital walls often have warm, yellow pictures.

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What football shirt will you be wearing to the next match? In a recent documentary, scientists
showed that players in red football shirts felt more confident, and played better than players in
blue shirts. Professional sports people also gave more points to players in red!
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Not all animals can see colour, but people, monkeys and birds can see it well. This may be
because people − and these animals − eat fruit. Fruit like oranges and bananas are green
when they are small. When they change colour, our eyes tell us they are ready to eat. So next
time you eat a tasty orange, think how lucky you are to see the colour orange!

A Dress for success

B We may be lucky to see in colour
C What colours make food attractive?

D How do you see colour?

E Making different colours
F The colours in your house
G Colour and who you are

Mark: ___ / 5

Writing
10 Climbers and other extreme sports fans often take big risks. Write an essay in which you examine the
reasons for and against doing dangerous sports, and give your opinion about whether people should
do them.

Mark: ___ / 10

Total: ___ / 70

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