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A
ACHIEVE 1
UN
NIT 1 TES
ST

A Ne
ew Life
5  A few
w years ago o, Julia Brad
dford was a high schoo ol student inn New Orlea ans, Louisia
ana.
She was excited d about goinng to colleg
ge to get a degree
d in buusiness. “I h
had a nice life: I
had stylish
s cloth
hes, a brandd new car and my futurre looked grreat. I wante ed to go to
college and get a job runninng a busineess. I wanteed to get rich
h.”
Everrything chan
nged in Auggust, 2005 when
w Hurric
cane Katrina a hit New O
Orleans. Julia’s
housse was soonn under watter. Her car disappeareed in the flood, and she e and her fa amily
10  left New
N Orleans with only the clothes on their ba
acks. They were
w lucky tto get out.
15  Julia spent the next
n year finnishing high h school and d working in
n a fast food d restaurant in
Ashton, Texas. Her family decided
d nott to return to
o New Orleans immediately after the
hurricane, but Ashton
A didn’’t feel like home. She became
b tem
mperamenta al and depre essed.
At the same time, Julia mett other victim ms of the hurricane in Ashton. “Pe eople lost so
much h. They lostt family, frie
ends and ne eighbors. Th hey lost theiir schools, ttheir jobs, and
a
20  their homes. An nd still, they were cheerrful and polite. I really started
s to th
hink about mym
priorities,” she said.
s “And I changed.”
20  Julia began taking courses at a univerrsity in Ashtton and, insstead of earning a busin ness
degree, she deccided to beccome a teaccher. She’s now a stud dent teacher at Ashton
Elemmentary Sch hool. Many of
o the familiies she knew from New w Orleans sstill live nearr her
and their
t childre
en are her students.
s “I decided
d I wanted
w to maake a differrence and help
peopple,” Julie sa
aid. “Being a teacher iss a great waay to do tha
at.”
Julia said, “I use
ed to dream m about a high-paying job and expensive vaca ations. But I
realizzed that oth
her things are much mo ore important.” She doesn’t have a an apartme ent
and, after her faamily moved d back to Neew Orleanss, she rented d a room fro
om a large
familly in her neiighborhood, a family thhat lost everrything in th
he hurricanee. “Living wiith so
30  manyy people ha as changed me too. I can’t worry much
m aboutt what’s minne and whatt’s
theirss. We’re a family.
f It’s all
a ours.”
Receently Julia was
w offered a job with a higher salary at a schhool in a we
ealthy suburrb
outsiide New Orleans. But Julia’s
J not going
g back. “I’m staying
g here. Ashton is my liffe.”

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a Choo ose the Circle
C the co
orrect alterrnatives.
corre
ect answerrs. 6 I ___ dreamm about buyying expens sive
1 Before the hurrricane, Juliia’s dream hings. Now I care abou
th ut helping otther
was to … peeople.
ecome a tea
a) be acher. a)) was
b) ge
et rich. b)) had
c) wo
ork for a carr company. c)) used to
ave a large family.
d) ha d)) have
e) de
esign clothe
es. e)) use to

2 Jullia moved to
o Ashton, Texas
T 7 Julia ___ want
w to be a teacher. She
S
becaause … wanted
w to ge
et a businesss degree.
a) sh
he wanted to o go to a un
niversity a)) doesn’t ussed to
there
e. b)) didn’t use to
b) sh
he hoped to live with a large familyy c)) wasn’t useed to
there
e. d)) used to
c) sh
he started a school for adults theree. e)) didn’t usedd to
d) sh
he needed tot start a neew life there
e.
e) sh
he opened a fast food restaurant.
r 8 Julia enjoyys living with
h a large fam
mily,
buut one day she
s hopes tto live alone e, in
3 The families thhat Julia me
et in Texas a place that is
i only ___.
weree ... a)) mine
a) booring. b)) his
b) shhy. c)) theirs
c) syympathetic. d)) ours
d) coonfident. e)) hers
e) poositive.
9 Julia was often
o unhap
ppy or angry
y.
4 Noow, Julie live
es … She didn’t kn now why she was so __
__.
a) wiith a big fam
mily from Neew Orleans. a)) interesting
g
b) onn campus att her college in Ashton
n. b)) confident
c) in an apartme ent in Ashtoon. c)) moody
d) in a house in New Orleans. d)) shy
e) neext to a fast food restau
urant. e)) rude

5 Jullia decided to become a teacher 100 Julia ___ of New Orle eans with
becaause … noothing but the clothes sshe was
a) sh
he knew she e could makke more wearing.
w
mone ey as a teaccher. a)) put up
b) sh
he knew the ey needed teeachers in b)) got out
New Orleans. c)) played aro
ound
c) sh
he wanted to o work in a place wherre d)) stayed outt
she could
c take expensive
e v
vacations. e)) grew up
d) sh
he wanted to o help peopple.
he was offerred a teaching job in
e) sh
New Orleans.
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A
ACHIEVE 1
UN
NIT 2 TES
ST

Miracle Animall Survivors

s
5  On March
M 11, 2011, a Mag gnitude 8.9 tremor
t off th
he coast of Honshu, Ja
apan resulte
ed in
one of
o the worstt earthquakkes in Japan nese historyy. Over 30,0
000 people are dead or
missing in the earthquake and
a the tsun namis that followed.
f Th
housands mmore lost
everyything they owned in thhis terrible tragedy.
t
When the tsuna ami warnings sounded, many peop ple left theirr homes so quickly thatt they
had to
t leave theeir pets behind. Said suurvivor Ayanno Sato, “I was
w driving home from m
workk when the earthquake
e happened. My dogs were
w at homme. When I ssaw the watter
comiing, I had to
o turn arounnd. After the
e tsunami hiit, my home e collapsed. I still don’t
15  knoww what happ pened to the em.” We do on’t know hoow many an nimals weree killed in the
trage
edy but, desspite the lossses, there were
w a few stories of survival
s “mirracles.”
Atsuko Oikawa, the owner of two dach hshunds, saaid that both
h dogs weree frightenedd
whenn the earthqquake occurrred. She fo ound one do og, Carlos, but Ghosn, her other dog,
d
ran away,
a towarrds the beacch. She hadd to leave him
h and find d safety on h
high ground d.
20  Tsunnami waves destroyed her town. A week laterr, the police e told Oikaw
wa that her dog
d
ometers inla
was fine, 1.6 kilo and, away from
f the beach. “Maybbe he rode oon it, a surfing
dog,”” said Oikawwa’s husban nd, Yuki. “W
We’re so inc ppy to get him back.”
credibly hap
As sooon as he heard
h the tssunami warn nings, a ma
an identified only as Kaamata told his
h
neighhbors aboutt the incoming water. Unfortunate
U dn’t return h
ly, he could home to get his
25  dog, a pedigree Akita. Thatt evening, he h was sure e his dog waas dead. “It was terribly
y
sad,”” said Kama
ata. Later th hat night, the dog appeeared outsidde the shelteer where
Kamata was sta aying. “He had
h swum and a found me,”
m Kamata a said. The dog was injjured,
but survived.
s
Nearr Sendai, re escuers rece eived a phoone call aboout a differen
nt kind of an nimal. The
tsuna
ami had wa ashed a bab by finless po
orpoise into a rice field, far from thhe ocean. A
volun
nteer named Ryo Taira a picked thee porpoise up
u and returrned it to the sea. “I do on’t
30  knoww if it will survive, but it’’s much bettter than dying in a rice
e field, right?
?” said Tairra.

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a Choo
ose the
correect answerrs. Circle
C the coorrect alterrnatives.
1 Whhat was the magnitude of the 6 The first treemors hit Jaapan at 2:466
earth
hquake off the
t coast off Japan? p..m. Many pe not all, ___ far
eople, but n
a) 20
011 fro
om their ho omes at thatt time.
b) 8.9 a)) were workking
0,000
c) 30 b)) working
d) 11
1 c)) worked
e) 1.6 d)) will work
e)) had worke ed
2 Whhy couldn’t Ayano
A get her
h dogs?
a) Be
ecause she was at hom me. 7 One rescue er said, “We
e were look king
b) Be
ecause her home collaapsed or lost dogs and cats w
fo when we ___ _
becaause of the tsunami
t wa
aves. abbout the porpoise in a rice field.”
c) Be
ecause the water came e and she a)) hear
had to
t turn arou
und. b)) were hearring
ecause she was workin
d) Be ng. c)) was hearin
ng
ecause her dogs were already in
e) Be d)) heard
the shelter.
s e)) hearing

3 Whhere did resscuers find the

t Oikawas’ 8 While mostt people __ __ towards high
h
dog Ghosn one e week after the tsunami? grround, a few w people likke Kamata ___
_
hey found him
a) Th h on the beach.
b to
o warn their neighbors.
b) Th
he found him m outside th
he shelter a)) run / weree staying
wherre the Oikaw was were sttaying. b)) were runn ning / stayedd
hey found him inside a car.
c) Th c)) run / staye
ed
d) Th
hey found himh over a kilometer
k annd d)) running / stay
s
a hallf inland from
m the beach. e)) were runn ning / stay
e) Th
hey found himh in a rice field.
9 Many of the e animals fo
ound after the
t
4 Hoow did Kama ata’s dog fin
nd him? eaarthquake were
w ___ annd needed
a) Hee swam to the
t shelter where
w ve
eterinary heelp.
Kamata was sta aying. a)) rebuilt
b) Hee stayed byy the beach,, waiting forr b)) collapsed
Kamata. c)) occurred
c) He
e surfed inla
and and wa as found by d)) destroyed
rescuuers. e)) injured
d) Hee stayed in a shelter unntil the policce
foundd him. 100 Many peo ople are working very hard
h
e) Hee stayed at Kamata’s house.
h to
o rebuild theeir homes and destroyeed
ciities. They refuse
r to __
__ .
5 Wh hat happene orpoise after
ed to the po a)) take over
it was returned to t the Paciffic Ocean? b)) fall down
a) It rode the tsu unami inland. c)) give up
b) It swam
s far frrom the coa ast of Japan
n. d)) get back
c) It died
d near th he shore. e)) be spoiledd
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d) It found
f its mother and survived.
s
e) We
W don’t kno ow.

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A
ACHIEVE 1
UN
NIT 3 TES
ST

Martta Vieira da
a Silva: “Pe
elé in a Skirt”
Martaa Vieira da Silva, know
wn simply ass Marta, is without
w oubt the best female so
a do occer
playe
er in Brazil, but she ma
ay also be th
he greatestt female player of all tim
me, say many
expeerts. Marta has
h won the e FIFA Wom men’s World d Player of the
t Year aw ward for five
e
conssecutive yeaars (2006, 2007,
2 2008, 2009 and 2010)
2 and has
h two silver medals from f
10  the 2004
2 and 20008 Olympicc games.
Bornn on February 19, 1986 6 in Dois Ria goas, Marta didn’t have
achos, Alag e an easy
childhood. Her mother
m workked constan ntly so Martta spent a lo
ot of time att her
grandmother’s house.
h Afterr school, sh
he played sooccer in thee street with her cousins,
15  easily playing ass well as the boys. At age
a 14, she e moved to Rio de Jane eiro to play for a
socccer club and
d then spentt several ye ears playing for the Swe edish team, Umea IK.
Martaa now playss for Western New Yorrk Flash, a team t in the United States.
Marta a is dark-skkinned, well-built and has
h a beautiiful smile. At
A 1.63 meteers, she’s noot as
tall as
a most proffessional wo omen athlettes but, as top-scorer on
o nearly evvery team she’s
s
20  on, her
h short sta ature isn’t a problem. Brazilian
B fan
ns compare her to the ssoccer greaat,
Pelé, calling herr “Pelé in a skirt.” It muust be true – even Pelé
é agrees witth the
comp parison. “I’vve seen her ability for a long time. She’s one of the greattest players
s of
fema ale soccer,” said Pelé.
Marta a hopes mo ore young women
w will be
b able to succeed
s in soccer
s in the future. Right
now, female socccer playerss in Brazil can’t
c rise in the
t sport quuickly or easily. Says Marta
M
of Brrazil, “There
e’s prejudice
e and a lackk of options to work and develop. All of this gets
25  in the
e way.”
Desppite her manny importan nt awards, championsh
c hips and me edals, there’’s one thing
g that
she hasn’t
h won: a gold med dal in the Olympics. “W
What I reallyy dream of iss becoming ga
world
d champion n with the Brrazilian national team and
a exchan nging the silver medals we
30  won at the last two
t Olympiccs for gold. I know we’v
ve got the ability
a to do that,” Marta
a
said in a recent interview.

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a Choo
ose the c)) Because female
f socccer players don’t
corre
ect answerrs. haave many opportunities
o s to progres
ss in
Brazil.
1 Whhat awards has Marta won w that d)) Because there
t aren’t many youn ng
make e experts beelieve she’ss a great women
w who like to play soccer in Brazil.
B
playe
er? e)) Because female
f socccer players get
a) Ollympic gold medals and FIFA in
n the way off one anotheer.
Men’’s World Pla ayer of the Year.
Y
b) FIFA Women n’s World Player of the 5 What is Ma arta’s biggest dream rig ght
Yearr and Olymp pic gold medals. noow?
c) Ollympic silve
er medals an nd five a)) She wantss to win a goold medal inn the
chammpionships for Umea IK K. Olympic
O gam
mes.
d) FIFA Women n’s World Player of the b)) She wantss to be invite
ed to play on
o
Yearr and Olymp pic silver meedals. th
he Brazilian national team.
e) Chhampionshiips for team ms in Rio de c)) She wantss to have the ability to play
p
Janeeiro and the United States. in
n the Olymppics.
d)) She wantss to share hher silver meedals
2 Wh here did Ma arta first playy soccer? with
w other fem male socce er players.
a) Att Western New
N York Flash, in the e)) She wantss to help young soccerr
U.S. pllayers be go
ood enough h to get to th
he
b) In the street with
w her cou usins. Olympics.
O
c) Att a club in Dois
D Riachoss.
d) In the streets of Sweden n. Circle
C the co orrect alterrnatives.
e) Att a club in Rio
R de Janeiiro. 6 It’s difficult to become a top
nternational athlete. No
in ot many peoople
3 Wh hy do Brazillians call Maarta “Pelé in
n ____ do that.
a skirt”? a)) can’t
a) Beecause she has won lo ots of award ds b)) must
and championsh
c hips, like Peelé. c)) might
b) Beecause she has played d both d)) are able too
natio
onally and innternationallly, like Pelé
é. e)) couldn’t
c) Beecause she comes from m the same e
part of Brazil as Pelé. 7 Soccer players train lo ong hours every
e
d) Beecause she plays socccer in the daay. They __ __ be tired a
at night!
U.S.,, like Pelé used
u to do. a)) may
e) Beecause she’s very good at soccer, b)) can’t
like Pelé.
P c)) must
d)) will be able to
4 In Marta’s
M opin
nion, why dod female e)) can’t
socccer players have
h a hardd time in
Brazil? 8 I want to goo to the stadium to seee the
a) Beecause som me female soccer gaame today, but I ___ g go. I have a lot of
playeers are too young
y to play hoomework to o do.
profe
essional spo orts. a)) could
b) Beecause mosst female so occer players b)) might not
aren’t as tall as internationaal female c)) may
athle
etes. d)) can
e)) couldn’t

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a ___ soccer
playeers. They doon’t exercisse enough.
a) ass slim as
b) the most slim
m
c) slimmer
d) the slimmest
e) ass slimmer ass

10 After
A athletess get injured
d, they need
d
to tra
ain ___ so they don’t in njure
themmselves aga ain.
a) mo ore careful than
b) the most care eful
c) caareful
d) ass careful as
e) caarefully

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A
ACHIEVE 1

UN
NIT 4 TES
ST
Cybe
erbullying
“Justt because I’’m different,” said Dannny Harris off Spencer High
H School, “I’ve gotte
en
5  scaryy emails and terrible te
ext message es. Sometimmes I want the
t entire In
nternet to crrash
– all over the wo
orld – so I wouldn’t
w havve to deal with
w this anyymore.”
Dann ny is the vicctim of cybe
erbullying. Cyberbullyin
C ng is defined
d by Wired SSafety as a
situa
ation in whicch “a child, preteen
p or teen
t is torm
mented, threatened, harrassed,
10  humiiliated, emb barrassed or otherwise targeted by hild, preteen or teen us
y another ch sing
nternet, inte
the In eractive andd digital tech
hnologies or
o mobile ph hones.”
Spen ncer High School
S has just initiated d a brand-neew programm targeted a at helping kids
like Danny.
D School principa al Frieda Re einhart explained, “Thiss is a proble
em everywh here,
15  but here
h at Spenncer, we ha ave tried to make sure everyone iss well-inform med about what
w
cybeerbullying is. We don’t accept
a it. An
nd, of cours
se, we’ve coontacted the e police to talk
t
to stu
udents abou ut it. Cyberb
bullying is against
a the law.”
l
Joshh Wilson, a 27-year-old
2 math teachher at Spenncer, stronglly supports the programm. “I
suffe
ered with cyyberbullying too. Spenccer is doing the right thing in emph hasizing tha
at
kids can talk to their
t teache eir parents, about the problem.
ers, and the p I ne
ever told
20  anyoone, but I wiish I had.”
20  ory teacher Anna Price
Histo e, said, “Som
me people say
s kids shoould just ign
nore it. Thatt’s
hard to do whenn it’s happen
ning to you. I know kids who have
e done destructive thing gs or
channged schoolls because of cyberbullying.”
Spenncer has shut down all its compute ers on differrent occasio
ons becausse of
cybeerbullying bu
ut, said principal Reinhhart, “Stoppiing cyberbuullying requires more th
han
25  that. Students need
n to learn
n to be kind
d to one ano other. That’ss the harde
est part.”
And maybe the key is realizzing that, no o matter ho ow bad the cyberbullyin
c ng is, it’s no
ot
forevver. “I reallyy hated high
h school,” sa
aid Wilson. “But high scchool only lasts a few years.
y
30  Then n you can go to college e, meet neww people, ge et a great jo
ob and find n
new friends s.
You can leave the bullies behind
b and go
g on and be b who you are and live the way you y
wantt to live. As a famous poet
p once saaid, ‘Living well
w is the best
b revengge.’ He’s right.”

30 

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a Choo ose the b)) Teaching students that they hav ve to
corre ect answerrs. bee nice to on ne another.
1 Wh hy does Dan nny Harris sometimes
s c)) Making su ure studentss move to a
wantt the Interneet to crash? diifferent city..
a) Beecause he is tired of be eing the d)) Making su ure studentss don’t leave e
victim
m of cyberbullying. sc
chool becau use of cyberbullying.
b) Beecause he is different from
f the e)) Shutting down
d all of tthe school’s
s
otherr kids in his school. co
omputers.
c) Beecause he receives
r too
o many text
messsages. 5 What advicce does Jossh Wilson offfer
d) Beecause his friends
f don’t want to sttudents who o are victims of
deal with cyberb bullying. cyyberbullyingg?
e) Beecause he sends
s scaryy emails to a)) They shou uld go to a d different hig
gh
his frriends. scchool and fiind new frie ends.
b)) They shou uld spend m more than th hree
2 Wh hat is Spenccer High Scchool doing to yeears in high
h school and d delay goinng to
help prevent cyb berbullying?? coollege.
a) It has decided d to perman nently shut c)) They shou uld quit high h school and d get
down n all its com
mputers on campus.
c a great job where
w they ccan find neww
b) It has hired a math teach her who was friends.
a vicctim of bullyiing when he e was in hig
gh d)) They shou uld rememb ber that theyy can
scho ool. buuild a fantasstic life after high school is
c) It has
h begun a new program to teacch fin
nished.
kids about the problem.
p e)) They shou uld get reve enge on the
d) It has tried to pass a laww which peeople who are
a cyberbu ullying themm.
make es cyberbulllying illegall.
e) It has called the
t police each
e time Circle
C the coorrect alterrnatives.
theree is a probleem with cybberbullying. 6 According to recent sttatistics, 42
peercent of all teenagers ___ bullied d
3 Wh hat are som me of the thin ngs that onnline at som
me point in ttheir lives.
victim
ms of cyberbullying are e told to do?? a)) are being
a) Thhey should talkt to their teachers b)) did be
and then
t leave school.
s c)) can be
b) Thhey should send text messages
m d)) have beenn
and emails
e to th
he person who
w is e)) should be
bullyying them.
c) Thhey should start
s a bran
nd-new 7 In some pa arts of the w
world, students
program targete ed at helping g them. beetween the ages of 13 and 18 ___ _
d) Thhey should ignore it and they sp
pecial group ps to educa ate other
shou uld tell their parents and d teachers. te
eenagers, la awmakers a and schoolss
e) Thhey shouldn n’t tell anyonne about it abbout cyberb bullying.
and they
t should d leave scho ool. a)) is forming
b)) is forming
4 Whhat does Principal Rein nhart think is c)) has formed
the most
m difficult part of cyb
berbullying?? d)) don’t form
m
a) He
elping stude ents not to do
d e)) have formmed
destrructive thinggs.

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y ___ alre eady ___ to a teacher
abou ut cyberbullyying and noothing
happ pens, find annother teaccher or a
scho ool administrator to helpp you.
a) haave / talked
b) must / talk
c) will / talk
d) caan / talk
e) haas / talked

9 Some schoolss want to ma ake sure

their teachers and studentss are well-
informmed about cyberbullyinng. They
wantt everyone to t be ___ about the
issuee.
a) usser-friendly
b) skkeptical
c) kn
nowledgeab ble
d) eaasy-to-use
e) mo odern

10 ____ a schooll’s computeer system

won’t help the problem
p mucch because e
stude
ents can en ngage in cybberbullying
on th
heir cell pho
ones or theirr computerss
at ho
ome.
a) Ba
acking up
b) Sh
hutting dow wn
c) Do
ownloading
d) Tu
urning on
e) Se
etting up

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A
ACHIEVE 1

UN
NIT 5 TES
ST

Brazzilian Socce
er Camps: Not Just fo
or Brazilian
ns
Brazil is famouss for lots of things:
t its frriendly peop
ple, deliciou
us food and scenic
5  landsscapes. Butt if you ask a sports fan n what Brazzil is famouss for, only o
one word co
omes
to miind: soccer..
“Andd that’s why I decided too go to a Brrazilian soccer camp,” said David Gomez, an n
American high school
s studeent. “If you want to be the best in the world, yyou should train
with the best in the world.”
Brazilian soccerr camps havve become a popular option
o for international soccer fans s
betw
ween the age es of 8 and 17. These camps offe er students valuable
v co
oaching help p
15  from professional Brazilian soccer coa aches, some e of the besst in the worrld. “I was at
a the
campp for eight days,”
d said Nicole
N Wilder, a studennt from London. “I’ve n never worke ed so
hard in my life, but
b if those coaches sa aid to do something, I did
d it. They knew their
gamee, and they taught us well.”
w
Students can co ome to a Brazilian socccer camp individually or o with their entire teamm.
Theyy usually staay in dormittory-type roooms with eight people.. Included in n the fee the
ey
20  pay are
a three meals
m a day, two intense e daily train ns, one day of shopping
ning session
and sightseeing
s g, and transllator service
es, because e most interrnational stu
udents spea ak
little to no Portuguese.
“It sta
arted the se
econd I checked in to the hotel,” said
s Gomez. “I picked u
up my key and
a
the next
n thing I knew,
k e field practicing hard against
I wass out on the a a gro
oup of Braz
zilians.
It waas exhilarating. And exhhausting.”
Therre are often soccer age ents watchin ng the partic
cipants, a mix
m of Brazillians and
25  intern
national visitors. Nicole
e said, “I tho
ought mayb be an agentt would noticce me. It did
dn’t
happpen, not withh those incrredible Brazzilian girls all
a over the place.
p Theyy really playy well.”
Mostt internationnal players leave
l the so
occer camp ps better pla
ayers. Said David, “I doon’t
30  have
e any regretts. I went baack to my hiigh school team
t much better than when I left. My
passsing skills ha
ave improve ed. I’m also more agile e and flexible. The cam
mp in Brazil
wasnn’t exactly re
elaxing, butt it was fun. I even learrned some Portuguese
P e. I definitely
y
wantt to go backk next year, and make sures my teaammates go o too!”
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Readd the text again.
a Choo
ose the b)) She hopedd that there
e would be really
r
corre
ect answerrs. goood male players at the camp.
c)) She hopedd that Brazilian girls woould
1 Whhy did Davidd decide to travel to nootice how well
w she playyed.
Brazil? d)) She hopedd that a mixx of Brazilian
a) Beecause he wanted
w to meet
m friendlyy pllayers and internationa
i al visitors would
peopple. bee there.
b) Beecause he wanted
w to become
b a e)) She hopedd that socceer agents would
w
socccer coach in the U.S. nootice how well
w she playyed.
c) Be
ecause he wanted
w to trrain with the
e
best soccer coaaches. 5 What is one thing thatt didn’t happ pen
d) Beecause he wanted
w to practice
p with
h o David at th
to he camp?
the best
b playerss. a)) He learned
d to pass thhe ball betteer.
e) Beecause he wanted
w to see scenic b)) He had a lot of time to relax.
landsscapes. c)) He learned
d to speak a little bit off
Portuguese.
2 Wh hy did Nicole do what the
t coachess d)) He had a lot of fun.
told her
h to do? e)) He becamme more flexxible.
a) Beecause the coaches we ere very
goodd at their job
bs. Circle
C the co
orrect alterrnatives.
b) Beecause the other playe ers pressure
ed 6 One of the biggest Bra azilian socc
cer
her to obey. ca
amps ___ in n 1998, in S
São Paulo.
c) Beecause she didn’t spea ak a)) will open
Portuuguese and d couldn’t ob
bject. b)) has opene ed
d) Beecause the other playe ers wanted to
t c)) opens
workk hard, so shhe did too. d)) opened
e) Beecause the coaches we ere popularr e)) have open ned
with the participants.
7 Although many
m of the coaches att
3 Wh hy are transslator servicces included
d sooccer camp ps ___ socccer for a long
g
in the
e fee that th
he internatioonal me, they stiill love the ssport and want
tim
particcipants payy? to
o help train the
t next generation of
a) Beecause tran nslators are necessary pllayers.
when n you stay inside your own countryy. a)) aren’t playying
b) Beecause mosst of the Bra azilian b)) haven’t pla ayed
coacches don’t speak Portuguese. c)) didn’t playy
c) Beecause trannslator services are eassy d)) hasn’t playyed
to arrange, and inexpensive too. e)) don’t play
d) Beecause mosst of the inte ernational
particcipants donn’t speak Po ortuguese. 8 During the last camp, several
e) Beecause mosst of the inte ernational paarticipants ___
_ their skkills immens
sely.
particcipants donn’t speak En nglish. a)) improved
b)) improve
4 Wh hat did Nico
ole hope wo ould happen
n c)) have impro oved
at thee camp? d)) has improved
a) Shhe hoped thhat soccer agents
a woulld e)) will improvve
noticce how well the girls pla
ayed.

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9 Braazilian socccer camps innvolve a lot
of haard work. Thhe training schedule
s is
usuaally quite __
__ .
a) mild
b) sccenic
c) relaxing
aried
d) va
e) inttense

10 Some Braziliian coachess don’t spea

ak
___ English.
E
a) no
o
b) so
omething
c) an
ny
d) an
n
e) so
ome

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A
ACHIEVE 1
UN
NIT 6 TES
ST
Cop
ping with
h Stress
“I tho
ought high school
s woulld be nonsto op fun,” said
d 16-year-o
old Nick Pea
arson. “But I’m
so buusy all the time,
t it’s rea
ally getting me
m down.”
10  Nick isn’t alone. Many teen nagers expe erience stress. They’re worried ab bout schoolw
work
and tests,
t and about
a ge and their future profe
colleg essions. No ot only that, teenagers feel
a lot of pressuree to look good and to fit in sociallyy. It’s a difficcult time for many kids..
Sayss pediatriciaan Kristin Riichards, “I’vve seen kidss with so mu uch stress tthat they ge
et
stommachaches, even migra aines. They have trouble concentrating and don´t feel like
15  eatin
ng. Teenage ers should find
f time to relax. They y ought to ea at better an
nd get more
sleepp, but this doesn’t
d alwaays happen.”
Teennagers shouuld know tha at not all strress is bad.. Good stresss can be trruly useful,
15  giving students the focus and energy they t need too study for a big test or to act in a
dramma performaance. But so ometimes th here’s just too much ha appening in too little tim
me
and teenagers
t f
feel d and angry. That’s bad
irritated d stress.
How can studen nts do all the
e things the
ey need to do
d while avo mful stress? Here
oiding harm
are a few tips:
• Ask yourrself: what are
a the things I really must
m do? Coonsider cuttting out a fe
ew
non-esseential activitties to leave
e more time
e for those that
t are imp
portant.
20  • Break large tasks in
nto smaller ones. This creates lesss anxiety an
nd makes th
he
asier.
tasks ea
25  • Treat your body well. It’s imporrtant to get a little exercise every d
day. Pay
n to how mu
attention uch sleep yoou get eachh night – sle eep is imporrtant. And.
though juunk food is fine once in
n a while, yoou should trry to eat he
ealthy food, and
eat regular meals innstead of too many sna acks. Avoid a lot of caff
ffeine, as it can
c
increasee feelings off anxiety.
• Build strong relation
nships with your friends
s and familyy. You don’t have to do
o
high schhool alone. Communica
C elings and ask other pe
ate your fee eople for hellp.
• Think po ositively! Thinking optim
mistic thoug
ghts can help you make e the best of
o
30  difficult situations.
s A don´t exxpect yours
And self or everyything you d
do to be perrfect.
nagers shou
Teen uld rememb ber that, like
e Nick, they’’re not alone in feeling stressed
someetimes. And d, ultimatelyy, there are various acttions they caan take that can help
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correct answers. people who are positive.
1 What is one thing the text doesn’t say
teenagers get stressed about? Circle the correct alternatives.
a) their future occupations 6 To relieve stress, students ___ to
b) looking good exercise a little bit every day.
c) tests a) ought
d) eating better b) should
e) pressure to fit in c) ought not
d) must
2 Dr. Kristin Richards sees that her e) shouldn’t
teenage patients get sick because …
a) they sleep too much at night. 7 High school students ___ let negative
b) they have trouble concentrating. stress build up so much that they feel
c) they’re not taking care of themselves. angry or unhappy all the time.
d) they don´t fit in socially. a) must
e) they don´t know that some stress is b) ought to
good. c) ought not
d) should
3 An example of good stress is … e) mustn’t
a) providing the focus to study for a test.
b) getting irritated because of a big test. 8 Last week, a student in my class got
c) doing too many things in too little a migraine. He ___ go to the hospital to
time. get treated.
d) feeling angry about a drama a) mustn’t
performance. b) had to
e) feeling pressure to eat healthy food. c) shouldn’t
d) ought to
4 To treat their bodies well, students e) must
can …
a) do a lot of non-essential activities 9 Several students at Regis High
every day. School ___ sore throats last week.
b) stop exercising so much and sleep They’re still not back at school.
less. a) came up with
c) get irritated and angry. b) got down with
d) eat junk food more and do exercise. c) got over
e) exercise, get enough sleep and eat d) came down with
healthy food. e) wore off

5 Students should try to be optimistic 10 ___ hours of sleep should the

because … average high school student get each
a) people who are optimistic eat less night?
junk food. a) How little
b) thinking positive thoughts helps b) How lot
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c) other people are always optimistic. d) How a lot of
d) family and friends want to have e) How much
relationships with optimistic people.

     
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_______________ Level:___________ 

A
ACHIEVE 1
UN
NIT 7 TES
ST
Voc
cational School:
S A Alterrnative to
An o Univers
sity
“I lovve flowers, and
a would like to work with flowers in future,”” says high school grad
duate
5  Chrisstine Baker. “I want to have my ow wn flower sh
hop some day,
d but wha
at college will
w
teach h me to be a successfuul florist?”

Lots of studentss are askingg similar queestions. Many high sch hool gradua ates decide to
take the tradition onal path – a four-yearr college de
nal educatio egree. But m many studen nts
wantt to work in careers thaat traditionall universities don’t alwaays give theem the
qualiifications for. These ca
areers, whicch are often interesting, and in som me cases hiigh-
15  payin
ng, include working witth flowers and other sp pecialized skkill areas suuch as fores
stry,
carpeentry, auto mechanics, television production,, cooking, plumbing,
p haairdressing, or
compputer graph hics.

For students
s interested in specialized
s jobs, perha aps the bestt option is a vocational
schoool. Youth liffe coach Maax Johnson n says, “The bs out there.
ere are lots of great job
Students are so ometimes so o focused on the big co ollege scene e, and the ccorporate jo
obs
that will
w result frrom that, thaat they overrlook vocational training. But there e are many jobs
20  that require
r high
hly specializzed abilitiess, abilities th
hat don’t comme from a ccollege degree.

20  Just ask chef Michael Davis, who workks at one off Chicago’s top restaurrants. “Yes, I
can train
t people
e myself to be
b professioonal cooks, and after several
s yearrs they movve up
and start
s makingg pretty goo
od money. But
B when I get
g cooks whow have be een trained at a
voca
ational school, I’m going
g to end up hiring them
m, and payin
ng more, rig
ght away.”

Hairddresser Rosse Davis we ent to a voccational scho

ool in her ciity. “I liked sschool but what
w
I alw
ways dreame ed of was th he challenge of opening my own business.
b So I asked myself
m
whatt was betterr, a longer education
e I might
m not use or a shoorter, more sspecific one eI
30  couldd use the seecond I grad duated?” To oday Rose owns two successful
s hair salons. “The
h
mostt important thing
t is to be
b good at what
w you doo. And to be
e good, you need to be e
traineed. It doesn
n’t matter if you’re the CEO
C of a co
ompany or an a auto me echanic. Gett the
trainiing you neeed and be th he best in your town.”

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a Choo ose the 5 Rose’s advvice to high school stud dents
correect answerrs. is
s that they need
n to …
1 Some studentts decide no ot to have a a)) choose the e shortest e
education
tradittional colleg
ge education because poossible.
they … b)) be well-tra
ained, no matter what
a) waant to work for large coorporations. caareer they choose.
c
b) leaarned everyything they needed to c)) own their own
o busineess to be goood at
learnn in high schhool. what
w they do o.
c) waant jobs in areas
a that trraditional d)) work for th
he person in n their town
n who
colleges don’t prepare them m for. is
s the best inn their caree
er.
d) waant to work without doing training aditional university to get a
e)) go to a tra
for th
heir jobs. goood job.
e) doon’t want to continue thheir
educcation. Circle
C the coorrect alterrnatives.
6 Experts pre edict that te
eenagers whho
2 Three examples of jobs that doon’t finish high
h school _ ___ a harde
er
voca ational schools help stu
udents tim
me finding a job than th hose who do.
d
beco ome are … a)) will have
a) coomputer pro ogrammers, CEOs, and d b)) had
bioloogists. c)) didn’t havee
b) auuto mechanics, plumbe ers, and d)) can have
hairddressers. e)) are havingg
c) coooks, professsors, and te
eachers.
d) life
e coaches, psychologissts, and 7 Next week I ___ two vvocational
plummbers. chools to se
sc ee what they offer.
e) dooctors, lawyyers, and ch
hefs. a)) visiting
b)) visit
3 Vocational sch hools help students
s c)) visited
n how to …
learn d)) am visiting
g
a) run large corp porations. e)) would visitt
b) prrepare for university life
e.
c) su
ucceed at tra aditional co
olleges. 8 What are you
y ___ afte
er you gradu
uate
d) woork in highlyy specialize
ed areas. om high sch
fro hool?
e) paass universiity entrancee exams. a)) going
b)) will do
4 Wh hat does chef Michael Davis see as a c)) do
an addvantage off hiring cooks who wen nt d)) will
ocational school?
to vo e)) going to do
a) Thhey know ho ow to do moore than
cookk. They can manage money too. 9 In any fieldd you choosse to work, it’s
b) Thhey don’t neeed to be paaid a good mportant to have the __
im __ that
salarry. co
ompanies re equire.
c) Thhey insist onn being paid
d a high a)) qualificatio
ons
salarry. b)) salary
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d) Thhey can be trained by the

t head ch hef c)) challengess
of the
e restauran nt. d)) vocationall school
e) Thhey are read dy to work immediately
i y e)) goals
becaause they’ve e already beeen trained.

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ey
wantt to do in the
e future, before decidin
ng
on a traditional college
c eduucation or
vocaational school.
a) yo
ourselves
b) heerself
c) the
emselves
d) myyself
e) him
mself

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A
ACHIEVE 1
UN
NIT 8 TES
ST

Money isn’t Ev
verything
For seven
s yearss, Jim Lawsson was an investment banker livin ng in New YYork City. “I had
5  everyything: a luxxury apartm
ment with a view
v of Cen
ntral Park, a high-payin
ng job and an
a
expe
ensive car.”
And now, Lawso on, age 34, lives in a one-room
o ca
abin in the Rocky
R Mounntains, half an
10  hour away from the nearesst town. He drives an old Jeep, wa ashes his clo
othes by ha and,
cookks over a woood stove, and
a has worn the same e pair of jea ans since he
e moved the ere
five years
y ago. He
H laughed d, “If I go into
o town nextt week, I’ll lo
ook at somee new jeans s. But
I can
n wear thesee another year.”
Lawsson is one ofo many peo ople who ha ave given up the mode ern lifestyle in search of a
15  simppler life. He explained, “One
“ day I woke
w up an
nd looked arround. Everryone was busyb
ay, running from one meeting
all da m to th
he next, working at night and on w weekends, and,
a
of coourse, earning and spending mone ey like crazy
y. And I tho
ought, ‘Is this the perso
on I
wantt to be?’”
The answer wass no. Within n six monthss, Lawson hadh quit his job, sold hiis apartmen nt
and moved
m to Wyoming.
W “I would havee gone craz zy if I had sttayed there much longeer,”
20  ays. “It was just too mu
he sa uch work, sttress, and pressure.
p An nd what wa
as the press
sure
goodd for? Makinng more mo oney? I coulldn’t do it an
nymore.”
He bought
b a tinyy cabin and
d set himselff up in the mountains.
m “Now I volu
unteer for thhe
25  local bird preserrvation society, keeping track of th he migration
n patterns oof the birds in
this region.
r I nevver even no
oticed the birds in New w York, but here,
h they’re
e everywhe ere.”
Lawsson also wo orks from his cabin, raissing money y for an orga
anization that helps
endaangered animals. He drrives into to own once a week, buyin ng suppliess he needs anda
volunnteering for three hourss at the loca
al library.
Are there
t any ne
egative asppects to Law
wson’s new life? “My liffe can be a little bit lone
ely,
just me ght woman, she would have
m and my dog. I wantt to get marrried, but if I met the rig
30  to en
njoy life out here in the woods. Tha
at’s not so easy,
e but th
he right persson is out thhere
some ewhere. And I’m just so o happy. Money isn’t everything.”
e

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a Choo ose the e)) go somew
where new e
every day.
corre ect answerrs.
1 Law wson’s life now
n is different from his Circle
C the co
orrect alterrnatives.
life five years aggo because he … h stayed in New Yorrk, he
6 If Lawson had
a) livves in New York
Y City. ____ as happyy as he is nnow.
b) ha as a great view
v of Centtral Park. a)) wouldn’t have
h been
c) livves in the mountains, fa ar from b)) will be
socie ety. c)) would havve been
d) wo orks as a baanker in the
e mountainss. d)) won’t be
e) raises moneyy for animals from his e)) would be
aparttment in Ne ew York.
7 If Lawson goes
g to tow
wn next week, he
2 Law wson has livved in the Rocky
R ____ suppliess and voluntteer at the
Moun ntains for … lib
brary.
a) on ne year. a)) would havve bought
b) fivve years. b)) buys
c) seeven years. c)) would buyy
d) fiftteen years. d)) could buy
e) thirty-four yeaars. e)) will buy

3 He e decided to o leave Neww York 8 Lawson fee els he ___ m

married if he
beca ause he … ound the right woman.
fo
a) wa anted a more modern lifestyle.
l a)) will get
b) did dn’t enjoy th
he pressure
e of studyingg b)) gets
birdss. c)) would get
c) we ent crazy be ecause of his
h lifestyle. d)) won’t get
d) wa h high-pressure
as tired of his e)) would havve gotten
lifesttyle.
e) wa anted to ma ake more money
m in the
e 9 Lawson did dn’t need to
o ___ any money
m
Rockky Mountain ns. beefore he mooved to the mountains.. He
allready had a lot from h
his job in Ne
ew
4 Onne thing thatt Lawson do oesn’t do in
n York.
Y
his new
n life is to
o… a)) give up
a) vo
olunteer at the
t local librrary b)) look forwa
ard to
b) waatch birds inn New Yorkk City c)) lend
c) stu
udy migratio on patterns of birds d)) sell out
d) raise money to t help endangered e)) save up
animmals
e) woork from hiss cabin 100 Lawson stills has a __ __ in New York,
Y
allthough he transferred
t most of his
s
5 If Lawson
L got married, his wife would money
m to a loocal bank.
have e to … a)) exchange rate
a) stuudy endang gered species. b)) bank acco ount
b) plaay with Lawwson’s dog. c)) lottery tickket
c) ennjoy living in
n the mounttains. d)) good job
d) wo ork at the lo
ocal library. e)) piggy bank
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Achieve 1 Tests Answer Key

Unit 1 Test Unit 5 Test

1 b) 1 c)
2 d) 2 a)
3 e) 3 d)
4 a) 4 e)
5 d) 5 b)
6 c) 6 d)
7 b) 7 b)
8 e) 8 a)
9 c) 9 e)
10 b) 10 c)

Unit 2 Test Unit 6 Test

1 b) 1 d)
2 c) 2 c)
3 d) 3 a)
4 a) 4 e)
5 e) 5 b)
6 a) 6 a)
7 d) 7 e)
8 b) 8 b)
9 e) 9 d)
10 c) 10 c)

Unit 3 Test Unit 7 Test

1 d) 1 c)
2 b) 2 b)
3 e) 3 d)
4 c) 4 e)
5 a) 5 b)
6 d) 6 a)
7 c) 7 d)
8 b) 8 e)
9 a) 9 a)
10 e) 10 c)

Unit 4 Test Unit 8 Test

1 a) 1 c)
2 c) 2 b)
3 d) 3 d)
4 b) 4 b)
5 d) 5 c)
6 d) 6 a)
7 e) 7 e)
8 a) 8 c)
9 c) 9 e)
10 b) 10 b)

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