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UNIT 6: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY TEST A ADVANCED

Grammar B Use the words shown to make sentences

A Use the verb in brackets to complete using the future perfect. Think about
the sentences using the future perfect. whether you need an active, passive or
Think about whether you need an active, continuous form.
passive or continuous form. 0 In a few months / our money runs out
0 The apartment looks a bit shabby but it In a few months, our money will have run out.
will have been decorated (decorate)
before you move in.

9 next week / exam results are announced

1 Christa (study)
for eight years by the time she finishes her PhD.

2 The way things are going, we 10 this June / I work for the same company / 10 years

(not move in)

before winter.

11 the work not finish / tomorrow

3 I won’t get the Christmas bonus because
I (not work)
here long enough by then.

12 2050 / the world’s population increases significantly

4 I don’t think the rain

(stop) before
we need to set off.

(live) in this house

5 You can’t go to your rooms until two, for fifty years.
because they
(not clean) before then.

6 Do you think Jon

(hear) the
news by now?

7 Dom (come)
to the club for ten years in May.

8 In December, my parents

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13 the end of this term / Mr Jones
teaches me / five years

14 we are married / fifty years / next year

15 the time they get there / they are

walking / over ten hours

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C Correct the sentences which have
mistakes. Tick (✓) the correct
sentences. There is at least one correct
sentence.
0 Sadly, by the time my brother starts this
school, I will have been leaving.
Sadly, by the time my brother starts this school,
I will have left.
16 I’m completely fed up. In ten minutes’ time, I’ll
have been waiting to see the doctor for two
hours!
17 It’s reckoned that the building work
won’t have been completed until spring
2020.
18 We’re so late now that by the time we arrive,
everyone will leave!
19 In March this year, I’ll be working for
this company for six years.
20 We’re examined throughout the course. By the
time I graduate, I’ll have been taking eighteen
exams in all.
21 Can you believe that this November Ruby will
have been dead for six years?
22 It is estimated that by 2025, robots will have taken
over a staggering half of all jobs in the US.
23 It’s been a long day. When I stop for dinner in
half an hour’s time, I’ve been working for
eleven hours solid.
ADVANCED
D Choose the correct options to complete
the texts.
A I worked out the other day that after I’ve taken
my last exam next month, I (0) have been
studying /
will have been studying / have studied medicine
for over eight years and I (24) will have been
taking / will have taken / will take over twenty-five
exams. I’m really ready to start work otherwise,
by the time I start to practise medicine, I (25) will
have been forgetting / will have forgotten / have
forgotten
the theory.
B In fifty years, it’s reckoned that robots (26) will have
been replacing / will have been replaced / will have
replaced approximately 90 per cent of all human
labour. Jobs that are dirty, dull or dangerous (27)
will have been taken over / will have taken over /
will have been taking over by automated machines.
So what will life be like for people then? With so
little work to occupy us, will we (28) have been
turning / have turned / been turning into fat, idle
creatures?
C I was just reflecting on your time here in London
and what a lot of change you’ve had to cope with.
Do you realise by the time you leave for uni, you
(29) will have been / will have been going / have
gone to seven different schools and lived in six
different houses? You’ll only (30) have lived / have
been living / be living in this house for six months
when you leave us. It probably doesn’t even feel
like home to you.
Score / 30
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Vocabulary C Complete the text with options from the

A Choose the correct words to complete box. Remember to use the correct form of the
the sentences. verbs. There are two extra options.

0 To work in computing, you need to be able obsolete focus point manufacture

to point out / go after / pick up new
distract overwhelm pick rely
techniques very quickly.
alarmed dependent
1 I couldn’t concentrate because I was
overwhelmed by / distracted by / suspicious of a Many companies are increasingly (0) dependent
buzzing noise.
on robots to perform functions previously carried out
2 The deal came about / picked up / was going on by humans. In fact, industry now (16)
after we were contacted by a firm in Germany. heavily on automation. Robots are, in many respects,

3 Our business is very aware of / dependent on / a huge asset to industry, having many qualities that are
suspicious of tourism. superior to people. Humans, for example, find it hard to
remain (17) on tasks with a repetitive
4 We rely on / go after / pick up machines to do a
lot of the work in our factory. element, tending to become (18)

by external factors when they are bored. This obviously

5 We were simply alarmed by / overwhelmed by /
does not apply to robots. Furthermore, robots can deal
aware of the amount of work we had to do.
with huge amounts of information without being

B Write in the missing word to complete (19) by it. So should workers be

the texts. Sometimes more than one (20) by the growing presence of
answer is possible. robots in the workplace? Are their jobs under threat?
A My uncle runs a large hotel which is very dependent Dan Walker of Robotica UK says not. He insists that
(0) on workers from the local area. He was there will always be a place for humans in the workplace,
therefore alarmed (6) reports that a new
factory was looking for staff, especially as he was (21) out that, unlike robots, which can
aware (7) the fact that they were likely only use the information they have been programmed
to pay more. He doesn’t want them going with, humans can (22) up new skills
(8) his staff.
and knowledge.
B My sister’s business has been struggling recently.
She often becomes so overwhelmed (9)
minor problems that she can’t stay focused
(10) the important things she needs
to do. Also, in my opinion she relies far too much
(11) her sales manager. I’m very
suspicious (12) him – I think he wants
to take over the business.

C All morning I had been distracted (13)

people talking and singing outside my
window. I decided to go out and see what
was going
(14) . There was a group of young
people having a picnic on the grass. I pointed
(15) that they were disturbing
me, but they didn’t care at all.
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D Choose the correct option to complete the

sentences.
0 Already we rely of / on robots to carry out
complex medical procedures.

23 If I don’t go after / on Peter’s job, someone else

in the company certainly will.

24 It should be pointed up / out that the problem

is certainly not a recent one.

25 I’m not aware on / of any industries that do not

make use of automation in this way.

26 This is complex software requiring special training.

You can’t possibly be expected to pick it out / up
as you go along.

27 None of us had the least idea what was going on / in

so we asked for an explanation.

28 So how did this extraordinary situation come about /

around in the first place?

29 It is a sector that has always been suspicious of /

with new technology.

30 One of the more profound changes we will see in

coming years is to a military increasingly
dependent on / of robots.

Score / 30

Total score / 60