UNIT TEST 6 ● ANSWER KEY

Dictation, Listening and Reading

Group A
Dictation
Exercise 1
Group B
Can write from dictation using correct spelling.
Dictation
Polio is a contagious disease / that is caused by a
Exercise 1
virus. / In the past it killed many children. /
Fortunately, / doctors have developed treatments Can write from dictation using correct spelling.
/ and the disease is now rare. / Without these Polio is a contagious disease / that is caused by a
treatments, / many more children would have virus. / In the past it killed many children. /
suffered. Fortunately, / doctors have developed treatments
/ and the disease is now rare. / Without these
Listening treatments, / many more children would have
suffered.
Exercise 2
Can follow main points of recorded material on
Listening
familiar topics if relatively slow and clear.
1 dentist: The speaker says that in the end it was his Exercise 2
dentist who had an idea. Can follow main points of recorded material on
2 bus: The boy asks if she feels sick now, and she replies familiar topics if relatively slow and clear.
that she doesn’t because she is fine on buses.
1 pencil: The speaker says that his dad’s dentist suggested
3 lemons: The girl says that she read about a cure on the
holding a pencil between his teeth.
Internet, and that is why she has some lemons with her.
2 tablets: The girls says that she has tried taking tablets,
4 Thursday: The girl says that her cold started on Sunday,
but they never work.
then on Thursday the sneezing stopped and the
3 olives: The girl says that she hates olives, and they make
coughing started.
her feel worse than travelling on a boat.
5 dark chocolate: The boy gives the girl something to try
4 Sunday: The girl says that her cold started on Sunday,
and explains that dark chocolate is good for a cough.
then on Thursday the sneezing stopped and the
coughing started.
Reading 5 half an hour: The boy gives the girl some dark chocolate
and tells her to eat a small piece very half an hour.
Exercise 3
Can identify the main topic and related ideas in a
Reading
structured text.
1 D: The text says that Beth was sicker than anyone apart Exercise 3
from Hannah and the doctor suspected. Can identify the main topic and related ideas in a
2 D: The text says that that Meg made no mention of structured text.
Beth’s illness in her letters to Mrs March.
1 D: The text says that Mr Laurence was not allowed to
3 A: The text says that she did not know the familiar faces
see Beth.
around her but called them the wrong names.
2 B: The text says that that Meg wrote letters to Mrs March
4 B: According to the text, people wrote about it because it
but she made no mention of Beth’s illness.
was one of the major causes of death.
3 D: The text says that she did not know the familiar faces
5 B: According to the text, the disease remained deadly
around her but called them the wrong names.
until penicillin was invented. Nowadays, it does not
4 C: According to the text, the most distinctive symptom of
cause any serious problems, as long as people get
the illness is the bright red tongue.
medical treatment.
5 A: The writer talks about scarlet fever in the past and in
the present.

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