NAME CLASS

American
Progress Test Files 1–5
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 5

GRAMMAR 3 It’s seem / It seems that we no longer need to worry

about Adam. He got a job and he’s going to marry
1 Complete the sentences. Use the correct form of Louisa.
the verb in parentheses.
4 He was late for the interview and owing /
Example: How many CDs do you have (have) in you consequently, he didn’t get the job.
collection?
5 We had to work quietly so that / so as not to wake
ake
1 Betty isn’t very good at DIY, so last year she the children.

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________ her house ________ (decorate) by a 6 We worked hard to prepare the yardard for the party.
ty.
painter. As a result / Nevertheless, itt looked
ed beautiful and
2 I’m upset because Agatha isn’t here yet and I everyone enjoyed being outdoors.
utdoors. s.
________ (wait) for two hours.

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7 Brian’s sure / bound to o come back home when
wh he
3 Karl ________ (be) given a new job in marketing. realizes he’s left his cell phone
hone here.
4 ________ he ________ (have to) start work at 7:00? 8 Brad can’t / should
uld bee in Florida now
now. It’s a
5 I was watching TV when I ________ (hear) a strange four-hour flight,
ght, and
d he left about four
fo hours
hour ago.
noise outside in the yard. 9 Marsela unlikely
ely / won’t be here
her until after lunch.

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6 You ________ (not have) time to go to the movies 10 We used
sed / would
ul go skiing in the Alps
A every winter.
tonight – you need to study. 11 Apparently
Apparen tly / According
ently Accordin Frederick
Fred is going to buy
7 James ________ (work) for the company for 20 years a house in Chicago.
when he finally received a pay raise.

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8 It ________ (say) that getting enough sleep is a very
important part of staying healthy.
9 I wish I ________ (know) how to help you, but I’m
m
12 We’ll probably
probably / probably
probab be go on vacation to
California next August.
Augus

12
ag
afraid I don’t know how to fix computers.
10 There are thought ________ (be) tribes living
ving in the
th
3 Complete
Complet the
th sentences with the correct word(s).
Amazon that no one has ever contacted.. Example: They say you should get eight hours of sleep
Example
11 While my brother ________ (ride) his bike
ke to school, every night, but I usually get about six.
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he had a minor accident. They They’re Their

12 Would you rather we ________
___ (have) Chinese food 1 My brother and I give ________ a box of chocolates
tonight? every year on our birthdays.
13 If only Ian ________ (be)
be) a littlee happier.
happier. It makes m
me another each other by one another
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sad to know that hee doesn’t like his new school. 2 I need to spend some time ________ every day. I
14 If only you __________ (not
_____ (not forget) to clo
close the need time to think and to relax on my own.
windows, thehe rain wouldn’t
ouldn’t have com
come in. ourselves yourself by myself
15 The weather
ther ________
_______ (expect) to
t be mild
m and rainy 3 Could you get Mario ________ and see me this
this summer.
ummer.
er. afternoon, please?
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16 We’d rather
ather you ________
rathe _______ (not borrow) money for coming come to come
e. We’re happy to pay ffor you to go.
college.
4 It’s ________ late and I need to go home.
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5 Rarely ________ so happy. The interview went

2 Underline the correct
cor word(s). perfectly and they offered me the job!
Examp I los
Example: lost my wallet, so / because I had to call the have been I have been have I been
bank
b and cancel my credit card. 6 ________ can use your computer for video
conferencing, and it’s free.
1 He’s stopped working due to / since he turned 70
last year. One Each other You
2 Warren is understood to / understood have 7 ________ all have problems remembering things
driven to Mexico on a motorcycle with a suitcase full sometimes.
of money. One We Ourselves

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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 1–5
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 5

8 A Did you ever ________ to living away from the 4 My kids don’t go to school yet, so we have to pay for
seaside? ________ while we are at work.
B Not really. Actually, I really miss walking on the 5 A ________-fisted person is not generous with
beach every day. money.
get use get used to get use 6 A ________ is a frequent combination of words.
o
9 ________ we gotten to the shopping center than all Often they are the only possible combination
ion to
the stores closed. express a concept, like light snow.

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As soon Sooner as No sooner had 7 It’s a big ________-off when someone
eone is late forr a

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date.
10 I’m afraid my little sister ________ taking some
candy from the store. 8 Allen loves living in Philadelphia.
delphia.
a. He’s having the
time of his ________.
got someone caught got caught was got caught
9 If you keep trying, it’s onlyy a matter of ____
________
11 Never ________ such a terrible, shocking story.

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before you find a job.
I have heard have I heard I heard
10 When you ______ your bank
_____ money, you put it into yo
12 Not until someone tells me ________ who wrote the account.
letter.
will I know do I know I know 10

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12
6 Underline
erlin the correct
corr word.
word

VOCABULARY
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Grammar total 40 Example: The book ma
made
d me laugh. The writing was
ea witty / moving.
really
1 Iff you get some
some qualifications / benefits, then
ag
4 Underline the odd word out. you’ll probably
probab get a better job.
p
2 What’s gotten
g on / into Pat? She seems very upset.
Example: mumble slam scream giggle
le
3 I’m ggoing to get a new car next month, but for the
1 idiom collocation metaphor transcribe
anscribe
be time being / now I’m taking the bus.
ti
gu

2 wages bonus salary skills 4 You have to teach kids that they can’t always get their
3 rejected praised dumped broke up with own way / together. Sometimes you have to do
4 monotonous tedious colloquial
colloquial repetitive
quial repetitive what someone else wants you to do.
5 employer career profession
f n job
j 5 I have a new schedule / hours at school. I now start
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at 7:00 in the morning and finish at 2:00 in the

6 thought-provoking
g competitive
ng compe
mp titive gripp
gripping
afternoon.
intriguing
6 I’m lucky to have the prospects / opportunity to
7 yell splash
h slurp drip
travel for my work. I’ve visited China six times.
8 affluentt well-o
well-off penniless
off pennil
niless
e loaded
load
7 I missed a few days of work and was behind schedule,
9 creak
ak sigh
h groan stammer
sta
stammer
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but now I’ve filled / caught up.

10 bang crash crunch
crunc whistle
whis 8 Lucy and Robert are getting on / along really well.
10
They’re really happy together.
9 I need to get around / back home by midnight. I
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have an early start tomorrow.

5 Complete the sent
sentences with one word.
10 It took George a long time to get over / anywhere
Exam
Example: Don
Don’t put off going to college. If you wait, it losing his job, but now that he’s working again, he’s
may be too late.
m happy.
1 I ________
____ my teeth every time my boss says, “Will
10
you come into my office, sweetheart?”
yo
2 It’s best to meet your problems ________ on and
solve them before they get worse.
3 If you spend too much money, you’re living beyond
your ________.

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American
Progress Test Files 1–5
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 5

7 Complete the words in the sentences. PRONUNCIATION

Example: A story that makes you feel sad is depressing. 8 Match the words with the same sound.
1 The children were s________ for making so much
noise. They were quiet after that. mumble profession profoundly synonym
enormous turnover value experience
2 My sister and I don’t have the same o________ about screech mortgage joke
a lot of things, but we do have the same taste in music
and clothes. Example: yell mumble

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3 He told a really d________ story about losing his job, 1 tedious _________________
_______
__

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his girlfriend leaving, and then getting really sick.
2 question _________________
__________
_____
4 His translation was very f________ to the original
3 gadget _________________
_____________
_______
version. I read it in Spanish and in English, and they
both had the same feeling. 4 environment _________________
________________
_______

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5 When Larry saw Brian’s new car, he was s________ 5 planner _________________
_____________
with envy. He’s always wanted to own a Porsche. 6 usually _________________
________
6 Musical ability r________ in my family. My 7 round _________________
_______________
_______
grandmother and my brother both played the piano, 8 giggle
gle _________________
______
____________

ce
and I play the guitar.
9 sheep _________________
_________
___
7 I’ve entered a c________ to win a vacation in Greece.
10 makes
maake
kess _________________
_
______
If I win, I’ll take my whole family with me.
8 When I was 12, I failed an exam. I felt very 10
e
a________ and so I never failed an exam again.
9 My gut f________ is that everything’s going to be all 9 Underline
Underli the sstressed syllable.
ag
right.
Example: m
manager
10 My work day is a b________ of emails, phone
hone calls
lls
and meetings. Sometimes I don’t even
n have time for compete
1 comp
om
lunch. 2 ggadget
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3 nicknamed
10
1 0
4 dominant
Vocabulary total 40 5 adhere
6 transcribe
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7 register
8 misery
9 haunting
10 awkward
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Pronunciation total 20
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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 1–5
Reading and Writing A ENGLISH FILE 5

READING got it, life is very difficult. You need to get it for food,
clothes, and shelter, for yourself and maybe others. It’s the
1 Read the text and check (✓) A, B, or C.
main reason why most people work – not for pleasure but
to provide the necessities of life. What they are effectively
WHO WANTS TO BE RICH? doing is exchanging their time for money.

A It’s very common for people to say, “Money doesn’t bring F And this brings us to the key point about wealth. Itt buys
you happiness.” They point to the very public problems of freedom, it buys time. If you’re rich, you don’t have to

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wealthy people and the evident misery some of them have. exchange your time for money, you don’t have to give so
Money, the theory goes, makes them superficial and e all that
much time to an employer or dedicate at time to the
selfish, their lives often fall apart, and they miss out on the an use your time in any
business of earning a living. You can
ring
ng you some fulfillmen
way you please, in ways that bring fulfillment. If

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simple pleasures of life. Money is their top priority and
because of this, they’ve got it all wrong. ave to
you’re wealthy, you don’t have o be materialistic, nor do
al and selfish. These are not iron
you have to be superficial
B Attitudes to the rich are also characterized by hatred.
ch because
rules. Disliking the rich ause of what you re
read or le
learn
Typical images of wealthy people are that they are greedy,
em in the
about some of them e media results fro
from only a partial
cruel people who’ve got what they’ve got by exploiting or

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view of what having wealth means. Getting
Get ann
annoyed with
abusing other people. The rich are often seen as bad
tic people
materialistic e is based on a n
narrow vie
view of what
characters whose pursuit of wealth has led them to treat
money brings.
s. Some people squander
sq w
wealth, some people
good people with brutal force and whose behavior has been
n’t deserve
don’t e it, some people want it for reasons you might
either morally questionable or completely corrupt. They
take a dim view of. But tthe fact is
is, wealth provides

inexcusable.
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can’t have gotten that rich by honorable methods, the
thinking goes, so they must have done something truly

C Connected with this is a common belief that some of the

opportunities
rtunities for the ki

to attain it. Focu

position w
where you
kind of lif
G So don’t knock it. Instea
life you would like to have.
Instead, think of ways you might be able
Focus on th
the goal of getting yourself into a
you’re no longer trading your time for
ag
alth.
rich, especially the young ones, don’t deserve their wealth.
money. Tak
Take co
control of your own time by becoming
e
Some of them are spoiled brats, benefitting from the
independen wealthy. You might say that’s easier said
independent
independently
wealth of their parents and living empty lives of laziness
than don
done. Well, you might be right, but have you tried yet?
es
and luxury, with nothing between their ears. Their lives
en there
have been all reward and no effort. And then e are the
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mmense earnings are

people in sports and the arts whose immense 1 What is the writer’s point in section A?
e can be worth
well-publicized. Surely, people say, no one A People take too much interest in the lives of the
such sums. It’s outrageous thatt these people get such high wealthy. ■
y do.
incomes for doing what they B There is evidence to support a common belief
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n’t actually rich by most

D Even when people aren’t m about money. ■
ons of the word, their lifes
conventional definitions a
lifestyles attract C Being wealthy changes people. ■
hers. There
criticism from others. e is among many people a dislike
2 The writer says in section B that a common view of
of what they regard as a materialistic attitude
at to life. When
the wealthy is that they ________.
A have acquired wealth dishonestly ■
eople with big houses, luxury
they see people lu car and a mass of
cars,
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B have been exceptionally lucky ■

p-of-the-range
e-range gadgets, th
the top-of-the-range they dism
dismiss them as empty,
lish people
foolish ple with the wrong
wro prioriti
priorities in life. How can they
C enjoy feeling superior to others ■
afford these things? Have they go
gotten heavily in debt to
fund
d this lifestyle? If so
so, how s
silly they are. Of course, some 3 A criticism of rich people mentioned in section C is
that ________.
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off this feeling can be attrib

attributed to envy. Most people have
no direct contac
contact with tthe truly rich, seeing them only via A they should keep quiet about the amount of
the media, bu
but mate
materialistic people are all around. The truly money they have ■
rich are consider
considered to belong almost to another species, B the financial rewards in their fields are too
but the mate
materialistic ones might well be in your great ■
neighborh
neighborhood. C they don’t appreciate the money that they
E So tthere’s a fairly common belief that money is “a bad receive ■
thing,” or at any rate, having lots of it. But I think that in this
envy and dislike of the rich, people are missing the point.
Money’s a big factor in just about everyone’s life. It’s often
the only reason they get up and go to work. If you haven’t

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American
Progress Test Files 1–5
Reading and Writing A ENGLISH FILE 5

4 In section D, the writer says that many people think
that materialistic people ________.
A don’t care what other people think of them ■
B don’t really enjoy their lifestyles ■
C aren’t as rich as they might appear to be ■
5 In section D, the writer suggests that most people
________.
A are materialistic to some extent ■
2 Answer each question by putting in the correct
section of the article (A–G). Which section of the
article (A–G) contains the following?
1 agreement that an aim may be hard to achieve _____
2 a reference to something that wealthy people
p are
unable to experience _____
3 a belief that some wealthy people lack intelligence
ence

.ir
_____
B have the wrong impression of the truly rich ■ 4 the opinion that not all wealthy ple have certain
hy people
C don’t envy the truly rich ■ attitudes _____

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6 The writer’s main point in section E is that 5 assumptions about what
hat wealthy people did to
t get
________. their wealth _____
A money is important to everyone, not just the
rich ■ 5
B the rich give people the wrong ideas about

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15
money ■
Reading total

C most people would like to have a lot of money ■ WRITING

NG
7 In section F, the writer suggests that wealthy people
________. Choose
hoose one of the titl
titles below and write

do ■ ec
A sometimes dislike other wealthy people ■
B are able to avoid something that most people

C often sympathize with people who have little

approximately
ximately 250 words:
1 Write an article
education
educati
50
ar
on h
0 years.
ye
w
for an
a English website about how
changed in your country over the last
has cha
ag
money ■ your
2 Write yyour letter of application for the
8 The writer says in section F that common attitudes
des advertisement below:
adverti
advertis
to rich people ________.
A fail to take into account a key advantage
vantagee of Barista required to work every morning in coffee shop in
Barist
wealth ■
gu

ce
center of town.

B are based on a false picture

re of what wealthy Job description: To serve customers, bake fresh pastries,
people are like ■ keep coffee shop clean…
C place too much emphasis
phasis on
n one particular group
grou Requirements: You must be aged 16 or over, friendly, polite,
of people ■
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and able to work in a demanding atmosphere. You should

9 The writer’s intention
ention
tion in section G is to
t _____
________. have a high level of English, and some experience of dealing
A emphasize ze that everybody
erybody can become
be with the public.
hy ■
wealthy How to apply: Email résumé to Charles Combibos
B encourage
courage ge readers to change their lives ■
chan thei
wealth ■
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C regrett the importance o of weal Writing total 10

10 What is the writer’s purpose
p in the article as a
whole?
hole Reading and Writing total 25
A To argue against common belief about
against a co
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money ■
B To
o defend
def wealthy
we people against criticism ■
C To analyze the advantages and disadvantages of
wealth
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American
Progress Test Files 1–5
Listening and Speaking A ENGLISH FILE 5

LISTENING 4 The conclusion that can be drawn is that the same

parts of the brain ________.
1 Listen to five people talking about various gadgets. A help with both learning languages and learning
Match the speakers (1–5) to what they say about
sports ■
the gadgets (A–H).
B are used by players and people watching sports
Speaker 1 ■ differently ■
Speaker 2 ■ C are used both for watching sports and
Speaker 3 ■ understanding language ■

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Speaker 4 ■ 5 It is suggested that people who o are learning
earning language
Speaker 5 ■ connected with a topic shoulduld ________.
_______.
A learn the language and nd then do activities
activiti

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A I intend to get a better one.
connected with it ■
B Sometimes I wish I didn’t have it.
B do activities connected
onnected
ted with that topic
to at the same
s
C It has had unexpected benefits for me. time ■
D It often doesn’t work properly. C do activities
ities connected
ected with that topic before
ng thee language ■

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E I can’t imagine being without it. learning
F I don’t use it as much as I used to. 5
G It’s more useful to others than to me.
Listening total 10
H I sometimes can’t use it when I want to.

2 Listen to a talk about a connection between sports

orts
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5 SPEAKING
EAKING
Student
udent A
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and language. Check (✓) A, B, or C. 1 Ask your partner
par these questions.
1 What did the research involve? 1 What’s the most successful thing you’ve ever done?
hey answered
A Examining people’s brains while they swered 2 Which
Whi three personality characteristics do you
questions ■ aadmire the most?
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B People listening to sentences in two

o different 3 What are you good at remembering and not so good
categories ■ at remembering?
C One set of sentences for h group of people ■
or each 4 How much do you discuss your relationships with
2 The results of the testss were not
ot ________.
________ other people?
■
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A as important as the results of the brain scans 5 What’s your favorite character in a novel you’ve read
B what some of thee subjects expected ■ or movie you’ve seen?
C consistent he subjects ■
nt for all the
2 Now answer your partner’s questions.
3 The research
earch indicated
ndicated a connection
connec between
b
________.
____. 3 Now talk about one of these statements, saying if
you agree or disagree. Give reasons.
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A beingg interested
interested in spo
sports and understanding
language genera ■
guage in general 1 “Your family members are the most important
B planning actions
actio and understanding
u language ■ people in your life.”
C the
he language
langu of sports
spo and other kinds of 2 “In modern life, people spend too much time on
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language ■
language their own.”
3 “It is possible to be poor but happy.”
4 Now listen to your partner. Do you agree with
him/ her?
Speaking total 15

Listening and Speaking total 25

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American
Progress Test Files 1–5
Listening and Speaking A ENGLISH FILE 5

Student B
1 Answer your partner’s questions.
2 Now ask your partner these questions.
1 What’s your definition of success in life?
2 How important do you think it is to be busy all the
time?

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3 What’s the first sound you hear when you wake up in
the morning?
4 How easy or difficult do you find it to meet new

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people?
5 Which book or movie has had the greatest influence
on you?
3 Listen to your partner. Do you agree with him/
her?

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4 Now talk about one of these statements, saying if
you agree or disagree. Give reasons.
1 “There are many things in life that are more
important than work.”
2 “It is hard to keep the friends you make as a child.”
3 “Materialism leads to unhappiness.” ec
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Listening and Speaking total 25

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