The Big Story TEST

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SETTING in ___ hotel room. c  an art collector 24 ‘Get up old man!’
Choose the best answer. a  Julia Yardley’s d  an art thief a  Salvatore b 
b  Rosie Doyle’s Hans
1 Rosie Doyle lives 18 Bernardo helps
c  Giovanni c  Lezardo d 
and works in ___. ___.
Piano’s d  his Bernardo
a  London b  a  Julia Yardley b
Venice 9 Rosie and Bernardo  Rosie
25 ‘Go after him!’
c  Switzerland d go to the Café Antonella c  Lezardo d 
the police a  Rosie b  Julia
 New York ___.
a  in a car b  in Yardley
2 She sees Julia 19 After he and c  Valmy d  the
a gondola
Yardley and Roger Bernardo find Julia hotel manager
c  in a plane d 
Lezardo for the in Bernardo’s boat Yardley and Rosie,
first time ___. the hotel manager 26 ‘Aaagh! My arm!
a  in the street b  10 Lezardo crashes into phones ___. You’re hurting me!’
on a river bus a ___. a  Valmy b  a  Valmy b  Julia
c  in The Record a  gondola b  Giovanni Piano Yardley
newspaper office police boat c  Rosie d 
c  Lezardo d 
d  on the Rialto c  bridge d  river Lezardo
the police
Bridge
20 marks
20 After the police get
3 Pierre Valmy lives
CHARACTERS Lezardo, Rosie 27 ‘I don’t want to
in ___.
stays in Venice for hurt you, but I
a  a chateau in Choose the best answer.
some time with have a gun in my
France b  a 11 Rosie Doyle is ___. ___. pocket.’
house in London a  an art dealer b a  her editor b  a  Lezardo b 
c  a house in New  a journalist Bernardo Julia Yardley
York c  an art collector
c  Salvatore d  c  Valmy d  the
d  a chateau in d  an art thief
Giovanni Piano hotel manager
Switzerland 12 Roger Lezardo is
4 The Picasso ___. 20 marks 28 ‘She is in her
drawing is in ___ in a  an art dealer b room, and now
Valmy’s bedroom.  a journalist DIALOGUE she’s making a
a  a safe b  a c  an art collector Who said this? phone call.’
box d  an art thief a  the man in the
c  a desk d  a 21 ‘Bring me a BIG
13 Julia Yardley is ___. hotel b  Rosie
case story.’
a  an art dealer b c  Salvatore d 
a  Rosie’s editor
5 Hans goes after  a journalist Giovanni Piano
b  Rosie
Lezardo ___. c  an art collector
c  the TV news 29 ‘It’s beautiful. I
a  in a car b  on d  an art thief
reader d  Julia must have it.’
a snow-mobile 14 Pierre Valmy is ___
c  in a plane d  Yardley a  Valmy b  Julia
a  an art dealer b Yardley
in a boat  a journalist 22 ‘I want fifty
c  Lezardo d 
6 Rosie waits at ___ c  an art collector thousand Euros to
Giovanni Piano
near the Rialto d  an art thief get it.’
Bridge. 15 Hans works ___. a  Salvatore b  30 ‘Can you stay in
a  a hotel b  an a  for Lezardo b Julia Yardley Venice for a day or
office  for Valmy c  Lezardo d  two more?’
c  a shop d  a c  in a hotel d  Giovanni Piano a  the police b 
café for Rosie Bernardo
23 ‘Bring it to Venice
7 Lezardo questions c  Salvatore d 
16 Salvatore on Thursday
Rosie___. works___. Rosie’s editor
a  in an alley b  afternoon. Two
a  for Julia Yardley o’clock at the 20 marks
in a gondola b  for Valmy
c  on the Rialto Rialto Bridge.’
c  in a hotel d 
bridge d  in a a  Salvatore b 
for Rosie
hotel Julia Yardley VOCABULARY
17 Giovanni Piano is c  Lezardo d  Choose the best answer.
8 Lezardo ties Rosie ___.
and Julia Yardley to Giovanni Piano
a  an art dealer b 31 to go down in the
a chair and a bed  a journalist water
 a  turn b  sink Choose the best answer. Pierre Valmy’s
c  swim d  fall c  Julia Yardley’s
41 Because Rosie is
d  Giovanni P
32 a person who tired, she ___.
works for someone a  goes to see her 47 Rosie goes to
rich mother b  goes Venice because
a  manager b  to see a film ___.
servant c  goes to bed d a  she likes Italian
c  collector d   has a hot drink buildings b  she
editor likes Italian art
42 On the river bus in
c  she wants to
33 to take suddenly London Julia
find a big story
a  grab b  Yardley and
d  she wants to
break Lezardo ___.
speak to the
c  pick up d  a  look at the
Italian police
knock city’s buildings b
 look at the 48 Julia Yardley
34 not thinking well
Thames remembers Rosie
a  asleep b 
c  look at Rosie from ___.
frightened
d  talk about a a  outside her
c  crazy d 
job and about lots London house on
dangerous
of money Monday
35 to get away b  the river bus
43 Rosie learns Julia
a  follow b  on the Thames
Yardley’s name
untie c  The Record
___.
c  try d  escape newspaper d 
a  from the front
36 this makes a door the TV news
of her house b 
stay closed from her case 49 Lezardo learns
a  lock b  c  from Lezardo d about Giovanni
package  from the TV Piano and the Café
c  idea d  case news Antonella from ___.
a  Julia Yadley b
37 something that 44 When Hans gets
 Salvatore
you think out of bed in the
c  Bernardo d
a  film b  art night, ___ is talking
 the hotel
c  idea d  news to Monsieur Valmy.
manager
38 to take something
a  Lezardo b  a 50 Bernardo comes to
without asking
TV journalist help after ___.
a  grab b  steal
c  Julia Yardley d a  he phones the
c  buy d  tie
 Giovanni Piano police
39 a place at the front b  Julia Yardley
45 Hans loses
of a building cries ‘Help!’
Lezardo because
upstairs where you c  he sees Piano
his snowmobile ___
can stand with Lezardo
.
a  mountain b 
a  crashes into a
canal d  Rosie knocks a
bridge b 
c  balcony d  newspaper from a
crashes into a
snow balcony to the
house
40 to make one thing street
c  doesn’t work d
into two things when  crashes into
you hit it a some trees
knock b  try c  20 marks
46 When she hears it TOTAL MARKS
untie d  break
on the TV news,
20 marks Rosie remembers
___ name from the
PLOT river bus.
a  Lezardo’s b 