English Test - Module 5

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Read the following article.

Australia’s largest outdoor gallery: the Silo Art Trail

Australia is a road-trip dream, with its big, bleached skies and wide, open stretches of asphalt. Until
now, however, one route through rural Victoria’s wheatbelt has been a road less travelled – not so much
off the beaten track as off the tourist radar entirely. Now, though, they’re slowing down in Yarriambiack
Shire and following signs for the Silo Art Trail, a jaw-dropping tourist attraction.
5 Where others see rural decay and rusty railway tracks lined with disused grain silos, street artists see
huge concrete canvases. These agricultural giants date to the 1930s.Fast-forward to railway closures and
abandoned silos, no longer “fit for purpose”. Australian company GrainCorp now stores mountains of
wheat and barley under tarpaulins instead, while the silos littering the landscape were sentinels of an
economic decline.
10 Until Guido van Helten arrived. The first of the pioneer painters, van Helten is an artist who has created
large-scale photorealist murals, from the US to the Ukraine. It had been his dream to paint one of these
silos. Travelling from Brisbane (population 2.4 million) to Brim (population 171) at the end of 2015, he
spent a month completing his epic art work: four figures, across six silos, rising 30m out of the sun-baked
earth.
Word got out. Other artists followed, and international street artist agency Juddy Roller got involved –
15 along with the local council and national government. GrainCorp gave the go-ahead for more silos to be
used and by the end of 2017 a sixth silo had been finished and a Silo Art Trail created. The series of giant
portraits celebrates the spirit of the people here and each artist spent time in a local township, searching
for their muse. It’s now touted as Australia’s largest outdoor gallery.
The trail stretches around 200km. It’s roughly a straight line – topped and tailed by Fintan Magee’s
20 artwork at Patchewollock and Russian artist Julia Volchkova’s at Rupanyup. You could tick off all the silos in
a crazy two-to three-hour trip but it’s better to do a loop. Slow down, take your time, spend the night en
route.
Since the Silo Art Trail was completed, international visitor numbers have increased by 30%. The future
is starting to look bright. This might be the end of the trail, for now, but it’s just the start of the story.

In www.theguardian.com/travel(shortened and adapted)

READING COMPREHENSION
A. Find in the text what the underlined words refer to.
1. its (l. 1)_______________
2.they (l. 3) _____________
3.his (l. 11) _______________
4.their (l. 17) ______________
B. Find synonyms of the following words in the text.
1. decelarating (paragraph 1) _________________________
2. keeps (paragraph 2)_____________________________
3. appeared (paragraph 3) _________________________
4. expanded (paragraph 6) _________________________

C. Match the words from the text with their meanings.

1. road-trip (l. 1) a. decline
2. jaw-dropping (l. 4) b. very impressive or surprising
3. decay (l. 5) c. paintings or drawings
4. portraits (l. 16) d. long trip that you take in a car, usually with friends

D. Explain in your own words the following expressions from the text.
1. “…rural Victoria’s wheatbelt has been a road less travelled…”
2. “Now they’re slowing down in Yarriambiack Shire…”
3. “Word got out.”
4. “… searching for their muse.”

GRAMMAR
A. Fill in the gaps with the most suitable verb: used to/ be able to/ have to.
1. She _____________________ draw graffiti really well.
2. When I was younger I ___________________ play volleyball in a team.
3. It’s getting late. We really __________________ go now.
4. ___________ you ____________ to draw with both hands?
5. I ________________ practice lots of sports but after the accident I can only ride my bike.
6. The twins ________________ read a thick book in a few hours, which is amazing.

B. Fill in the gaps with the Future (will) of the verbs in brackets.
e.g. When I grow up, I will spend (spend) my holidays in Bali, Indonesia.

1. Are you ok, Mrs Key? Here, I __________________ (help) you with your bags.
2. They __________________ (go) to the party next year.
3. ___________ they _______________(attend) the meeting next Friday?
4. She ________________ (not be) at home. I think she has gone to the gym.
5. Scientists ________________ (find) the cure for cancer in 2030.
6. People________________ (continue) to read books by the year 2070.

WRITING
Would you like to visit the Silo Art Trail in Australia? Why/ why not? Do you enjoy graffiti and street art?
In about 100 words, give YOUR own opinion on the topic. Don’t forget to present your arguments in a
coherent way.
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TEST SPECIFICATION

Reading Comprehension Grammar Writing

A. 4 x 5= 20 A. 4 x 5 = 20 40
B. 4 x 5= 20 B. 4 x 5 = 20
C. 4 x 5= 20 C. 4 x 5 = 20 Total
D. 4 x 5 = 20 D. 4 x 5 = 20 200