4–6 New Inspiration 3

Units 4–6 Basic Test

VOCABULARY 2 A: Were you _____________ school

yesterday? What happened? (at / on)
1 Put the words in the correct column. B: Maria and Pip had an argument and fell
_____________. They aren’t speaking to
curtains hot water bottle metal each other! (off / out)
mirror paper plastic rubber
3 A: Did you get a chance to try
vacuum cleaner wood wool _____________ your new camera?
(out / away)
Household items Materials B: Yes, I’ll show my photos _____________
you, if you like. (to / at)

4 A: Do we need to _____________ some

shopping for the party? (make / do)
B: Yes, let’s _____________ a list so we
know what we have to buy. (make / do)

5 A: I’m worried _____________ Kelly. She

isn’t answering her mobile phone.
/10 (by / about)
B: We may be able to find _____________
where she is if we call Sarah. (out / by)
2 Choose the correct word.
/10
1 He hit his head on the cupboard and has a big
bruise / cheer.
2 I don’t want to stay in that hotel. It’s psychic / PRONUNCIATION
haunted and I’m afraid of ghosts!
3 The investigator / equipment wanted to find 4 Circle the correct stress pattern, A or B.
out the truth about the strange noises.  
4 Bees and some other insects concentrate / 1 achievement A B
communicate with each other by dancing.
5 He used a code / video to talk to the ghost. 2 concentrate A B
3 ice hockey A B
/5
4 organise A B
5 remember A B
3 Complete the dialogues with the correct
word in brackets. /5
1 A: Have you ever _____________ camping?
(gone / had)
B: Yeah. It’s good fun, but not if the weather
is bad. Good weather really _____________
a difference. (does / makes)

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3 ________________ you ________________

LANGUAGE WORKOUT (see) that film tomorrow night?
4 My mum ________________ (use to/work) in
(GRAMMAR) that hospital.
5 Choose the correct option, A or B. 5 Plastic ________________ (not invent) in the
1800s.
1 Matt ___ a student for nearly three years now. 6 Louis Braille ________________ (be) blind
He’s really enjoying it. since the age of three.
A is B has been 7 ________________ you ________________
(visit) Rome last year?
2 By the time she was 16, she ___ exams to get 8 ________________ the Harry Potter books
into university. ________________ (write) by J.K. Rowling?
A has already taken B had already taken 9 ________________ you ________________
(use to/play) outside when you were young?
3 If you don’t leave now, ___ late. 10 The first flight ________________ (make) by
A you’ll be B you are the Wright brothers.

4 Katy hasn’t got home from school ___. /10

A just B yet

5 It’s the most frightening film I ___ in my whole 7 Choose the correct words.
life. I think my great grandmother’s childhood
A ever saw B have ever seen (1) was / used to be very different to mine and
much harder. There were eight children in the
6 We ___ London next year sometime. family, and they (2) hadn’t had / didn’t have a lot
A are going to visit B visit of food. They always (3) have been / used to be
hungry. By the time she was 14, my great
7 Last night, I’m sure I heard someone ___ grandmother (4) has left / had left school and
around upstairs. was working in a factory. Her brothers and
A walking B walked sisters also all (5) have left / left school at 14
because they had to work. After my great
8 Rome is a great city. We ___ it last year. grandmother got married, she and my great
A are visiting B visited grandfather (6) had / have had six children of
their own. The youngest was my grandfather.
9 I hope it ___ rain tomorrow. Sadly, my great grandmother died four years ago
A won’t rain B don’t rain – she was nearly 100 years old! – but I know she
was very proud of her family. All her
10 When I got to the station, the train ___. grandchildren and great grandchildren, including
A has left B had left me, (7) used to have / have had opportunities
that she never had, such as being able to stay at
/10 school and go to university. My great
grandmother never (8) has gone / went abroad,
6 Complete the sentences with the correct but my family (9) has been / had been to France
form of the verbs in brackets. and the USA. I (10) haven’t had / didn’t use to
have any of the problems my great grandmother
1 The Marriage of Figaro ________________ had when she was young. I think I’m very lucky!
(compose) by Mozart.
2 We ________________ (live) in this house /10
since 2009.

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READING English king, Henry VIII. By this time, it had

become know as ‘real tennis’. This traditional
8 Read the text. Then read the sentences and form of tennis is very different to modern tennis
choose the correct words. but it is still played by some people in Britain
Have you ever wondered who invented some of today.
Britain’s most popular sports? Well some of
them have their origins in Britain but others have 1 We know / do not know for certain who
more international roots. invented football.
Some people think that the Ancient Chinese
invented a kind of football. However, there is 2 Football used to be a dangerous game in 14th-
evidence that the Ancient Romans and Egyptians century / 17th-century England.
also played an early form of football. Football
didn’t become popular in England until the 14th 3 In 1314, King Edward II passed a law on
century. At that time, the game was played by football / cricket.
large groups of people from neighbouring
villages. The results were often violent and 4 People stopped / didn’t stop playing football in
dangerous. People often broke arms and legs, 1314.
and were sometimes even killed. In 1314, a law
was passed by King Edward II to stop people 5 English farm workers were the first people to
playing football, but people still continued to play an early form of cricket / baseball in the
play it. 14th century.
The traditional English game of cricket
originated in the English countryside, probably in 6 The players hit trees with balls / sticks.
the 14th century. An early form of the game was
played by the children of farm workers. One 7 In the 17th century, cricket was introduced to
child used to throw the ball against a tree while North America / France.
the other child tried to hit the ball away with a
stick. The game was originally played by children 8 Most people think that tennis was invented in
but later it became popular with adults and soon Egypt / France.
became popular all over England. Cricket was
introduced to North America in the 17th century. 9 Monks used to hit the ball with sticks / their
Many people believe that the modern American hands.
game of baseball developed from the English
game of cricket. 10 Eventually gloves were replaced with tennis
Some people believe that tennis originated in racquets / a net.
Ancient Egypt, but there is little to prove this.
The most popular theory is that it was first /10
played in 12th-century French monasteries. It is
thought that the monks hit a ball with their hand
against a wall in an outside courtyard. The ball
bounced off the wall and sometimes the roof,
and back to the player. The game became
increasingly popular and eventually gloves were
worn to protect players’ hands. French
aristocrats learnt the game from monks and
adapted the rules. Later, the gloves were
replaced with a racquet and the ball was hit over
a low rope hung across a courtyard. By 1500, the
game had reached Britain and was played by the

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LISTENING WRITING
9a Listen to a radio programme about 10 Write a description of someone you admire
inventors. Match the names to the inventions. who has had an interesting life. Think of these
things:
1 Blaise Pascal ____
2 Louise Braille ____ • Who is the person?
3 Thomas Edison ____ • What interesting things have they done?
4 Philo Farnsworth ____ • Why do you admire him/her?
5 Taylor Hernandez ____

A soft bricks _______________________________________

B calculator
C television _______________________________________
D reading and writing method for the blind
E electric light bulb _______________________________________

_______________________________________
9b Listen again and choose the correct option,
A or B. _______________________________________

1 Blaise Pascal created his invention in ____. _______________________________________

A 1642 B 1462
_______________________________________
2 Braille is used by ____ in nearly every country
in the world. _______________________________________
A deaf people B blind people
_______________________________________
3 Thomas Edison was working as a ____ when
he created his invention. _______________________________________
A telephone operator B telegraph operator
_______________________________________
4 Philo Farnsworth gave his design to his ____.
_______________________________________
A mother B chemistry teacher
_______________________________________
5 Taylor Hernandez was only ____ years old
when she came up with her invention. _______________________________________
A five B ten
_______________________________________
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