Progress test Unit 3 Test B

Progress Test 3B
Name: ___________________________________________

Grammar
1 Complete the indirect questions so that they have the same meaning as the direct ones.
1 When did your son complete his university studies?
Would you mind telling me ______________________________________ ?
2 What A-level subjects has your sister chosen?
Could you tell me ______________________________________ ?
3 Has Molly written her essay?
Do you mind if I ask if ______________________________________ ?
4 Who was it who told you I was worried about my exams?
Can I ask you ______________________________________ ?
5 Was it Melanie I saw your son with last night?
Do you know if ______________________________________ ?
6 Where is your brother's car parked?
Can you tell me ______________________________________ ?
7 Was it Chelsea who won the FA Cup last year?
Do you remember if ______________________________________ ?
8 Who was it who first climbed Everest?
Do you remember ______________________________________ ?
9 When did he give up teaching?
Can I ask ______________________________________ ?
10 Was it Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin?
Am I right in thinking that ______________________________________ ?

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2 Circle the best options to complete the comparative sentences.

1 A night's sleep in a hotel is even / nothing like / no as good as one at home.
2 After swimming hard for an hour Michael was just as / no / less closer to the shore than before.
3 We were just as / much / nothing like satisfied with the cheap detergent as we had been with
the pricey one. We’ll save money in future.
4 Molly was soon almost as / a little / the more happy in her new job as she had been in her old
one, though she missed her friends.
5 My mother has only got little / a little / nearly better at creative writing since she started going to
classes.
6 My grandma used to say how much / much more / even better things seem in the morning than
they do at night.
7 Our motto used to be that never to have tried is a little / no / far worse thing than to fail.
8 Claire was always almost / much / as more willing to help than either of her sisters.
9 I'm afraid our new government is little / just as / even better than the last one.
10 The food in the canteen is nowhere near / even / a little as good as the café across the street.

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Vocabulary
3 Complete each sentence with a word or phrase in the correct form with the same meaning
as the phrase in brackets.
1 You have to ______________ my judgement when I tell you that dress really suits you. (have
faith in)
2 I really ______________ for Melanie. It must be awful having such horrible neighbours. (have
sympathy)
3 I think Gill and Brad would make a fantastic couple. They have a lot ______________ . (share
interests)
4 Henry is very ______________ to his grandmother. After all, it was she who brought him up.
(emotionally attached)
5 I think many teenagers don't ______________ their parents these days. (have a high opinion)
6 There's something I can't keep secret any longer. Can I ______________ in you? (share a
secret)
7 I can't work with him on this project. We don't seem to ______________ with each other about
anything. (agree completely)
8 My boss ______________ me yesterday for all the hard work I've been doing lately. (express
approval)
9 Jack ______________ Susan. If she left him, it would hurt him terribly. (love very much)
10 James keeps ______________ about how much he earns, but with his spending habits he'll
soon be broke. (show off / express pride)

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4 Complete the sentences with appropriate compound nouns.

1 The average _______________ of men in the Middle Ages in Britain was about 30.
2 Most people want to live in a country with a reliable _______________ system that they can
depend on when they get ill.
3 The _______________ used to be around 60, but people now have to work until they are 65.
4 In some cultures _______________ are looked after by younger family members.
5 I don't think it's right that people put their parents in _______________ , particularly if they have
a house large enough to accommodate them.

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5 Complete the sentences with an appropriate form of the words in brackets.

1 This map is far too _____________ . Could you explain it to me? (confuse)
2 His parents became more and more _____________ over the years. (compatible)
3 I never know what Karen's reaction will be. She's too _____________ . (predict)
4 This article says that teenagers are generally not very _____________ to advice given by their
parents. (respond)
5 I can't talk to him any more. He's way too _____________ . (argue)

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Use of English
6 Complete the gaps with one word.
1 ____ if rain is forecast, let’s go to the beach today, ____ we?
2 Would you ____ helping me? I’m handing out leaflets that warn children ____ how dangerous it is
to play near the main road?
3 Last night, I ended ____ staying in and watching TV, ____ did my brother.
4 Susie’s ____ better ____ Karen at sport. They are both about as good as each other.
5 These days, health ____ in this country is nothing ____ what it once was.

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Listening
7  Listen to three people discussing old age and decide whether the statements are true (T)
or false (F).
1 When he was injured, Bill immediately sold his house. ___
2 Bill's daughter's husband looks down on Bill because he is single. ___
3 Carol believes that the majority of today's young people would prefer to send their parents to old
people's homes rather than let them stay in their houses. ___
4 Carol would rather not be taken care of by others when she gets older. ___
5 Carol is wary of her possible future daughter-in-law. ___

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Reading
8 Read the text. Match sentences A–F with the gaps 1–5 in the text. There is one sentence that
you do not need to use.
Difficult times
Gabriel switched on his iPod, selected his favourite band on the touch pad and, as the music started to blast
through the headphones, turned up the volume to maximum. His mind started wandering back to what had
happened that morning. He pictured himself standing in the kitchen with his mother and was once again
listening to her angry voice before she stormed out. 1 ___ After all, he was the teenager, wasn't he?
Until quite recently, he had been close to his mother, even tolerating her nagging about unfinished homework,
her complaints about messy rooms and her lectures about spending too much time playing computer games.
2
 ___ She would make such a big deal about his new girlfriend, that he couldn't do anything but answer back in
defence. She had turned into an unpredictable and unreasonable parent, and he had become a confused young
man in his turbulent teens.
He remembered when his little brother Elliot was born and he, himself a toddler, would help his mother with
all the looking-after-the-baby tasks, such as changing his nappies and passing him toys. 3 ___ His brother
never touched any stinging nettles or got stung by the bees buzzing around the flowers.
4
 ___ By the time they were in secondary school, their mother had become busy pursuing her career. Gabriel
remembered how he used to drive her crazy bickering with his brother when she was getting ready for work
and was pushed for time.
Only now, in her late forties, with the first grey hairs starting to show in their mother's thick wavy hair and
wrinkles starting to appear on her face, did he begin to realise that difficult times were ahead for their family.
5
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A He would make sure that his brother didn't come to any harm in the garden.
B But he knew that although they all had to take steps down their own paths, sooner or later the
feeling of closeness, love and admiration for each other would come back again.
C They were equally close to their mother, looking up to her throughout their childhood years, even
when she had little time to entertain them.
D Was it not him who was supposed to be the argumentative and moody one?
E But since she started telling him off for almost everything he did, he realised that the days when
he could confide in her about anything might be over.
F His mother was becoming angrier every day.

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Writing
9 Some teenagers do occasional paid work or voluntary work. Write an essay (200-250 words)
which presents the advantages and disadvantages of getting some work experience as a
teenager. Include the following points in your essay:
 Describe the kind of paid or voluntary work teenagers do.
 Write why teenagers choose to do part-time work.
 Describe the advantages of working whilst at school.
 Describe the disadvantages of working whilst at school.

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