END OF YEAR TEST ● ANSWER KEY
Listening, Use of English and Reading
Group A
Listening
Can extract essential details from short, everyday texts
delivered slowly and clearly. Can understand the main
points of standard speech on familiar topics (e.g. work,
leisure).
Exercise 1
1 C: The speaker suggests they ‘meet up at half past
one’, and asks him if he wants to ‘come round here’
(speaker’s home) and adds ‘or shall I come to yours?’
(friend’s home).
2 B: The announcer says ‘there was a surprise win this
afternoon’.
3 C: The boy’s teacher asks him if he ‘has any
experience of working in a hospital?’, and he replies,
‘Yes, I’ve done some voluntary work.
4 A : The girl says she thought the exam was ‘tough’, and
that she ‘couldn’t even understand the last question’.
The boy agrees by saying ‘I know. I thought it was
hard, too.’
5 A: The speaker is showing people, probably tourists,
the place ‘where the young William Shakespeare had
his lessons’ with ‘about forty other boys’. The speaker
goes on to say that the boys ‘would study Latin, Greek
and Mathematics’.
Exercise 2
1 B: Ella is surprised to find Tom still studying and
suggests he has a rest from it. She says, ‘Why don’t
you take a break, at least?’ Then she says, ‘you
should relax, or you’ll make yourself ill.’
2 B: Tom is not confident about doing well in the exam.
He says, ‘I don’t have time (to take a break). I’ve got to
revise my Physics.’
3 A: Ella tells Tom ‘I think you’re doing too much.’
4 A: Ella suggests they ‘go and play basketball tomorrow,
like we did last week. I enjoyed that.’ and Tom agrees
by saying ‘So did I.’
5 B: Tom wants to watch a quiz show during his break
and says, ‘It’s my favourite programme’ but Ella
doesn’t agree. She says, ‘I hate it’ and ‘I can’t stand
anything like that.’
Use of English
Exercise 3
1 D being: After the verb enjoy, we need to use the -ing
form.
2 D switch: The preposition on after the gap helps you
get the answer. You switch on a computer.
3 A river: Look at the words after the gap for this answer.
It’s something that goes through the town.
4 C decided: Decided is followed by a to-infinitive.
5 D long: We say X is quite a long way from Y.
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6 A suburbs: The suburbs are areas near the outside of a
city, where people live.
7 A terraced: We know it’s a terraced house, because it’s
in the middle of a row of houses.
8 D in: The preposition that follows interested is in. This is
followed by the -ing form.
9 B jealous: The writer’s friends would be jealous – wish
they had done the things that he/she had done.
10 A had done: We use the past perfect to talk about
something which happened before another event in
the past.
Exercise 4
1 who / that: This is a relative clause, and because we’re
talking about a person (students) we must use who or
that.
2 at: You can say you’re good at (doing) something if you
do it well.
3 of: We can use the phrase a lot of with countable nouns
like subjects.
4 if: You need to read the whole conditional sentence.
5 out: To find out information means to learn or discover
something new.
Exercise 5
1 went: In the first question we are asking about the
object, but in the second question we’re asking about
the subject, so we don’t need the verb do in the
question.
2 since: My last birthday is a definite point in the past, so
we must use since, not for with the present perfect
here.
3 enough: We put enough after adjectives – wealthy
enough, warm enough, but before nouns – enough
money, enough food.
4 have to / need to: There’s plenty of time before the train
leaves, so it isn’t necessary to hurry.
5 would do: This is a second conditional sentence, so we
need would + a verb.
Reading
Can recognise significant points in straightforward
newspaper articles on familiar topics.
Exercise 6
1 C: It says that da Vinci’s drawings were ‘the first known
robot designs’.
2 A: The writer says, ‘Now, of course, robots are
everywhere’.
3 B: The text says, ‘Science-fiction writers ... are now
predicting that intelligent robots ... will exist quite
soon’.
4 A: The robot with a heart ‘recognizes sound, movement
and touch’.
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5 C: Mark thinks robots ‘will be capable of doing anything
that we can’.
Exercise 7
1 B: The article says you can ‘certainly pick up some
bargains’, but if you’re buying expensive things, you
can ‘make a mistake that will cost you money’.
2 B: The article tells us that finally getting a car by
exchanging things took him two years of ‘patient and
clever use of a website he discovered’ so he must
spend many hours online.
3 B: By the time Steven got the Porsche, he ‘was old
enough to drive it’.
4 A: The text says that Steven ‘isn’t the first person to do
something like this’. Someone called Kyle MacDonald
managed to get a house by slowly exchanging things
online.
5 A: Kyle blogged ‘about his adventures’, and he had
‘followers’.
Group B
Listening
Can extract essential details from short, everyday texts
delivered slowly and clearly. Can understand the main
points of standard speech on familiar topics (e.g. work,
leisure).
Exercise 1
1 B: The speaker says ‘I thought we could meet up at half
past one’.
2 A: The announcer says Andy Norris ‘scored all three
goals’.
3 B: The boy’s mother, who is a doctor herself, says ‘it’s a
hard life’.
4 C: They both think today’s exam was hard. The girl
says ‘the Maths was tough today. I couldn’t even
understand the last question.’ and the boy replies ‘I
know! I thought it was hard too.’
5 B: The speaker says that Shakespeare ‘performed
plays in the original Greek and Latin’ with the other
boys in his school.
3 A: Tom says to Ella ‘You got top marks in the last test
we had’.
4 B: Ella suggests that they play basketball, but Tom
says, ‘I’m not in the mood, not till after the exams’.
5 B: Tom says ‘I think I’ll go and watch Win a Million. You
know, the quiz show.’ but Ella says she ‘can’t stand
anything like that’ and leaves, saying ‘Bye Tom. See
you.’
Use of English
Exercise 3
1 B staying: After can’t stand we need to use the -ing
form of the verb.
2 A have: We can say have a party or hold a party.
3 C flat: The writer lives at the top of a tall block so the
answer must be flat.
4 C much: Space is uncountable, so we need to use
much before it.
5 B research: Research collocates with the verb do (did
some online research). You do research to find out
information about something.
6 B theme park: A theme park is a place with a lot of
‘rides and attractions’.
7 A: When we’re comparing things we say X is better
than Y, or X is more expensive than Y, for example.
8 D: The speaker uses the past perfect to compare this
birthday celebration with others before that.
9 D far: We say not too far from to mean that something
is not a long distance away.
10 D keen: Keen is followed by the preposition on.
Exercise 4
1 where: The sentence is talking about a place, West
College, so we need to use where.
2 never: This needs to be negative, to fit with completely
new things.
3 many: Subjects is countable so we use many.
4 as: Such as is used if you want to give an example of
something – here painting and advanced IT.
5 were: We use If I were you, I would ... in second
conditional sentences to give advice to someone.

Exercise 5
Exercise 2
1 helping: After don’t mind, we use the ing form of the
1 A: Ella is surprised to find Tom still studying and
verb.
suggests he has a rest from it. She asks, ‘Are you still
2 hasn’t tidied: We use yet in present perfect negative
working?’ and then she says, ‘Why don’t you take a
sentences, or questions.
break, at least?’
3 was given: In the passive, we need the verb be + the
2 B: This is not true because Tom says, ‘I’ve got to revise
past participle. We also need to keep the same tense
my Physics. The exam’s next week.’ He also tells Ella,
as the original sentence. Here it’s past simple.
‘You don’t have to do any work. You know it all
4 few: There weren’t many people means the same as
already.’ So he thinks that Ella is better prepared that
There were very few people. People is countable, so
he is.
we need to use few.

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5 had worked: In reported speech, the present becomes

past perfect. We also have to change the pronoun I to
he.

Reading
Can recognise significant points in straightforward
newspaper articles on familiar topics.
Exercise 6
1 B: He ‘drew mechanical figures that looked like men’.
2 A: The text says that robots carry out ‘all sorts of tasks,
from cutting the grass to performing surgery’. That
means they can do ‘a wide range of tasks’.
3 A: Mark says that ‘intelligent robots like these will exist
quite soon’. He is referring back to an earlier sentence
where he wrote that robots ‘robots ... have feelings
themselves’.
4 C: He says that the new robot ‘recognises sound,
movement and touch’.
5 C: He says robots ‘will be capable of doing anything
that we can’.

Exercise 7
1 A: The article says you can ‘make a big mistake that will
cost you money’ when you’re buying ‘something
expensive, like a car or a computer’.
2 A: He ‘became the owner of a car ... he got it without
any money’. He used a website which ‘advertises
items that people want to exchange for something
else’.
3 B : He used a website, but he didn’t set up his own
website.
4 B: The text says ‘... he was old enough to drive it’ but it
doesn’t tell us that he took driving lessons.
5 A: Kyle became ‘a celebrity in Canada, his home
country’.

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