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SHORT TEST 5 A UNIT 5

1 Complete the sentences with the words from the box. There are more words than you need.
petrol / engines / humanity / drought / banks / molten / mud / pandemic
suicide
0 Using a car is expensive these days because the price of __petrol__ is really high.

1 After the eruption _______________ lava destroyed the town buildings.

2 It was horrible. The viral _______________ killed more than a half of the people living there.

3 Last summer the river next to our house broke its _______________ but the fire fighters helped
us block the water.

4 This is the biggest problem that _______________ is facing now.

5 It hasn’t rained for ten months. We hope this _______________ will stop soon.

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2 Complete the sentences with the missing words. The first letter in each word is given.
0 Scientists think that the global temperature will rise by 2°C during this century.

1 We’re sorry to say that another ten species have become e_______________ over the past 5
years.

2 Have you made your New Year’s r_______________ yet?

3 There are severe food s_______________ in Africa. We must do something.

4 Our Biology teacher says that g_______________ gases greatly affect our natural environment.

5 I think that s_______________ power is safer for the environment than nuclear power.

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3 Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions.
0 I hope we’ll evolve ___into___ a friendlier and wiser race in the future.

1 The tsunami wave is heading __________ the Indonesian coast! Thousands of people might get
killed!

2 Has she given __________ drinking 6 cups of coffee a day?

3 Who’s going to sort __________ the leaflets before our environmental campaign?

4 It’s clear that a nuclear bomb could wipe __________ the whole human race.

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4 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets: the Present Continu-
ous, the Present Simple, will or going to.
0 I don’t think people ___will land____ (land) on Mars in my lifetime.

1 Sorry, I’ve got to go. My bus ____________________ (leave) at 10.25.

2 Robots ____________________ (definitely/not/replace) humans in my lifetime.

3 They ____________________ (meet) us in 5 minutes. Hurry up!

4 The Earth’s temperature ____________________ (probably/increase) in the next 10 years.

5 Isn’t that a cockroach? Oh my God, it ____________________ (fall) in the soup! Do something,

Jack!

6 We ____________________ (have) some mineral water, please.

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