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4 How are you feeling this morning? Are you any better?
A) are you feeling
B) you feel
C) do you feeling
1.13 Read the text and write the headings in the correct spaces.
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4
1.20 Listen and write ‘T’ for true or ‘F’ for false.
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4
A: I (1) phoned / used to phone you last night. Where were you?
B: I (2) wasn’t hearing / didn’t hear the phone. I (3) would watch / was watching
my favourite programme on TV. What (4) did you want / were you wanting?
A: I (5) was / was being bored and I wanted to talk to you.
A: (6) Did you / Did you use to watch the news last night?
B: No, why? Was there anything interesting?
A: Yes, there was a story about a man who (7) used to / would live in a tree! Every
morning, he (8) was climbing / would climb down the tree and go to work.
B: What an odd story! What (9) happened / was happening to him?
A: I don't know. I (10) didn’t use to / didn’t watch the end of the programme.
1 Why were they staring at the cow as you took the picture?
A) were they staring
B) did they use to stare
C) did they stare
3 As I was coming back home, I saw a huge snake in the middle of the street.
A) was coming
B) would come
C) was came
4 My grandfather would read me a bedtime story every night when I was little.
A) was reading
B) would read
C) used read
5 They were taking a short cut home when they came face to face with a criminal!
A) took
B) were taking
C) used to take
7 The boy was screaming at the top of his voice, when his father told him to be
quiet!
A) told
B) was telling
C) would tell
2.13 Read the text and write the headings in the correct spaces.
4 Lost!
Cathleen was getting scared, their mobile phones didn’t work, the temperature was
dropping and it was getting quite cold in the dark forest. Soon, they couldn’t see
well enough to walk and the rain started coming down, too! It was then that Roger
noticed a small cave between two trees. 'Let's get in there to wait for the rain to
pass,' he said. And that's what they did. They waited and waited but it kept raining
hard. Eventually Cathleen fell asleep and a little later Roger did, too.
5 Someone is here!
So now Cathleen was wide awake in the cold, dark cave, trying to hear and see
what had woken her up. Roger was lying next to her fast asleep. She was really
scared and didn’t know what to do. 'Wake up!' she whispered to Roger, 'I think
someone is in the cave with us!' As if in slow motion, she saw something move at
the back of the cave. Was it a bear?
Tracks 5, 6, 7 and 8
Kevin was working at the office when someone (1) called / visited him and asked
him to look out of the window. He saw an object which was (2) falling / flying very
fast.
Darleen and her friend were going to the (3) theatre / cinema. They were both at
the main entrance / hall but they couldn’t see each other.
The man was going to (4) fly / drive on a business trip.
The woman could (5) hear / see a cat.
1 We had so much luggage with us that we had to take two taxis to the airport!
A) many
B) lots
C) much
3 Recently there has been too much crime, and people are complaining that the
police aren't doing their jobs!
A) much
B) many
C) few
4 She tried to smuggle some jewellery into the country but she got arrested.
A) many
B) some
C) little
5 Where have you been? I've been waiting here for an hour!
A) a
B) an
C) the
6 Poor girl! Her brother is a criminal, so she goes to the prison every week to visit
him.
A) –
B) a
C) the
We all know that the law is there to protect citizens from injustice and illegal
behaviour. We know we must obey the law because this is the basis for a civilised
society, and most of us know without being told what is or should be legal or illegal.
But what happens when the laws are so weird that we break them without even
knowing it?
For example, in New York, you must buy a licence in order to hang out clothes to
dry or else you can get arrested! And in Carmel, New York again, a man can be
arrested if his jacket and trousers are not of matching colours! Now, these laws are
obviously relics of past times and nobody pays any attention to them, I guess, but
what happens if you decide to take a lion to the cinema? Is that legal or not? (Not!)
Here's another crazy law. It is illegal to take off your clothes in the street in
Montpellier, the capital city of Vermont, but it's ok if you walk in the streets naked –
as long as you've removed your clothes before you go out in the streets! And in
West Virginia, people are not allowed to own a red or black flag!
Now, for some of these crazy, bizarre laws, there can be an obvious, logical
explanation. For instance, in Staten Island you can only water the grass in your
garden if you're holding the hose (it helps you not to waste water), but most of
them don’t make sense nowadays any more. So why haven't they been changed?
The answer is probably that most governments are too busy making new laws to
spend time changing old, forgotten laws such as 'having a sleeping donkey in your
bathtub after seven o'clock in the evening'!
Track 9
3.21 Listen and write ‘T’ for true or ‘F’ for false.