NAME CLASS

American
Progress Test Files 6–10
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 3

GRAMMAR 6 I asked Jon whether did he speak / he spoke Chinese.

7 Excuse me, could I have a little / few more milk in my
1 Complete the sentences. Use the correct form of
the verb in brackets. coffee, please?
8 My house is easy to find / finding – it’s opposite the
Example: The house was built (build) in 1906.
train station.
1 James ________ (like) pasta, doesn’t he? 9 If I needed to buy a car, I had borrowed / would
uld
2 If I ________ (be) taller, I’d be a great basketball borrow money from the bank.

r
player. 10 There are any / no good sports facilities
acilities
es in this town
town.

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3 As soon as Tina gets here we _______ (start) the ng / to go
11 I don’t think I can afford going o abroad on
meeting. vacation this year.
4 If we don’t burn less oil and coal, global warming 12 She can’t / must be at home.
e. Her car isn’t there.
there
_______ (get) worse.
13 You forgot turningg / to turn
ur n off the television
tel when
whe

ntr
5 You would have passed the exam if you _______ you went to bed
d last night.
(answer) all the questions.
14 Steve said he would did / did
uld call you later, did didn’t he?
6 I _______ (get) home much earlier if the train had
d asked me, I ’d be / ’d hav
15 If you’d have been glad to help
been on time.
you.

ce
7 Whales _______ often _______ (see) off the coast of
15
Norway in winter.
8 Elena called and said that she _______ (call) back
later.
ge 3 Complete
mplete the sentences
sent with one word.
9 The doctor told me _______ (sit) down and take my Example: T
The
he letter was mailed last week.
h
shirt off. 1 Pizza, ________ originally came from Italy, is eaten
izza _______
10 My car _______ (repair) at the moment so Dave
ave gavee world.
all over the w
me a ride to work today. 2 Your
Your brother
br
b ________ still get the job he applied
ua
11 When we _______ (check in), I’ll ask for
or a window
ndow for, we
w just don’t know yet.
seat for you. 3 Stavros
S asked me ________ I’d ever been to Greece.
12 That photo _______ (take) so long
ong ago,
o, it doesn’t 4 Belinda eats meat, _______ she?
even look like me now!
5 Stratford-upon-Avon is the town _______
ng

13 Fran is celebrating. She _______

__ just ______ (offer)
(offer a Shakespeare was born.
new job.
6 You haven’t really enjoyed this party, _______ you?
14 ________ (go) to live
ive in New Zealand if you had the
7 We’ll wait _______ he arrives and then we’ll all leave
opportunity?
together.
.la

15 Empty cupss and trash (collect) in a few

h ________ (co
8 That’s the boy _______ mom works at the school.
minutess before the plane lands.
9 I wouldn’t have known it was Vicky _______ you’d
15
told me.
w

10 “Is there any milk in the fridge?” “No, there’s

2 Underline
rline the correct word or phrase. ________ at all.”
Example:
xample: I don’t mind to wait / waiting.
don’t m 10
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1 Gillian must / can’t be paid well. She’s always going

Grammar total 40
on foreig vacations.
foreign vaca
2 I’m rreally bad at to cook / cooking, but I’m very good
eally ba
at buying
b take-out.
didn’t have time enough / enough time on the exam
3 I didn
to check my answers.
4 It’s too much / too cold in here – can you put the heat
on?
5 People who / what ask questions usually learn the
most.

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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 6–10
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 3

VOCABULARY 4 Ian lives ________ the outskirts of London.

in at on
4 Underline the odd word out.
5 My physics teacher isn’t very _______; she only
Example: soundtrack plot special effects comedy explains things once.
1 roof ceiling outskirts chimney patient impatient patiently
2 clap stare point throw 6 Sara has a lot of _______, but she still can’t find a job
job.
3 selfish immature patient stubborn qualifications salaries training courses

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4 schedule professor student pupil 7 We met at _______. We were colleagues
lleagues at a
computer company.
5 department store bakery shopping center
work college school
supermarket

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8 I loved the _______ when
hen he jumped off the b
balcony
6 full-time retire permanent part-time
into the sea!
7 luckily fortunately carelessly comfortable
script plot scene
cene
8 painter music inventor bicyclist
9 My husband o ________ from work
d wants to wor when
9 comfort fortunate lucky careful

en
he’s 60.
10 detective evidence suspect witness retire fired promote
10 10 The
he movie
vie was _______ novel by Anne Tyler.
________ on a n
set directed
ec based
5 Match the words that go together.

slope fiction belt friend station stand

store effects injured jam course
ec 7 Complete
Complete the
th words
Exampl The a
Example:
word in the sentences.
audience loved the movie.
10
ag
Example: department store 1 The
T he TV isn’t
is working because you didn’t
1 special _______ pl________
pl____
pl____ it in!
2 golf _______ c give you $20, but only if you pay me b________
2 I can
tomorrow.
gu

3 get _______
3 They failed their exams because they made too many
4 close _______
c________ mistakes!
5 traffic _______
4 The police are still trying to s________ the crime
6 science _______ after ten years.
lan

7 ski _______
__ 5 Who is in ch_______ of this department?
8 police _______
_____ 6 It’s 3:30. I have to p_______ up my children from
9 taxi _______
__ school.
10 seat _______
______ 7 The meal was so bad that we c_______ to the
10
w.

manager.
8 Students shouldn’t ch_______ on exams. It’s
6 Complete
mplete the sentenc
sentences wi
with the correct word(s). dishonest.
Example: T
They
hey made the story into a movie.
he 9 My exams start next week so I have to r_______ over
ww

on
n into off the weekend.
Hee was _
1 H ________ very badly by his parents.
______ 10 I can’t t_______ the salt in this pasta. I think it needs
some more.
ttaught
au
aught br
brought up educated
10
2 I’ve ________
___ chocolate recently, so I don’t have it
very often. Vocabulary total 40
cut away cut out cut down on
3 If you understand what I’m saying, just ________
your head.
smile nod point

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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 6–10
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 3

PRONUNCIATION
8 Underline the stressed syllable.
Example: lo|ca|tion
1 de|mon|strate
2 un|comfor|ta|ble
3 e|le|men|tary

.ir
4 tem|pora|ry
5 qua|li|fi|ca|tions
6 sub|ti|tle

tre
7 e|vi|dence
8 am|bi|tious
9 dis|co|nnect

en
10 in|he|rit
10

9 Match the words with the same sounds.

receipt term true comfort sports

could fine house discuss care coin

Example: owl house

ec
ag
1 up ________
2 snake ________
3 horse ________
gu

4 tree ________
5 chair ________
6 bull ________
7 bike ________
___
lan

8 boot ________
______
___
9 bird ________
___
10 key ________
__
10
w.

Pronunciation total 20

Grammar, Vo
Vocabulary, and Pronunciation total 100
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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 6–10
Reading and Writing A ENGLISH FILE 3

READING 2 He used his camera to show details that _______ by

the human eye.
1 Read the text and check (✓) A, B, or C. A had never been seen before ■
B could sometimes be seen ■
The first filmmaker? C couldn’t usually be seen ■
3 His photos showed that a running horse _______.
______.
When we think of animated movies, it’s often Walt Disney’s
name that first comes to mind. However, there is another
A always has two hooves on the ground ■
nd ■

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less-known person whose work is very important to
B briefly doesn’t touch the ground
animators. Eadweard Muybridge was a photographer who C always has one of four hooves ground ■
ves on the gro
taught us more about animal and human motion than any 4 Muybridge started to learn n photography
ography _______.
_______
other, and who, with his camera, recorded details that A before he moved to thehee U.S. ■

tre
couldn’t be seen with the human eye. It could be argued ent ■
B before he had an accident
ccident
that he is also one of the very earliest cinematographers, ident ■
C after he’d had an accident
coming up with a device which let him show moving images
5 _______ Muybridge
ybridgee became famous for
f his
just like a movie projector. He is particularly famous for
photographs
phs of California.
Californ

en
discovering that, for a moment, a moving horse lifts all four
hooves off the ground at the same time.
860 ■ B After
A In 1860 After 1860 ■
C Before 0 ■
efore 1860
Muybridge was an Englishman who moved to the United
States in the 1850s, taking up photography after he was 6 He was asked to photograph
photog ah
horse running
seriously injured in a road accident. If he hadn’t suffered _______.
____

ec
serious head injuries when he was thrown out of a vehicle,
he might never have chosen the creative profession that he
did.
By the 1860s, Muybridge was already well known for his
A al

7 B
ong a road ■ B around a racetrack ■
along

Before
field ■
C in a field
efore Muybridg
horses
Mu
Muybridge’s movie, artists painted moving
orse that wewere _______.
ag
landscape photos of California, but in 1872 he was hireded by A very
very different
diff from his photographs ■
equence
a race horse owner to try and work out the exact sequence ce B just like his photographs ■
just li
of movements of a horse. By placing cameras alonglong the C almost
al
alm the same as his photographs ■
seri
edge of the track, Muybridge managed to capture a series
8 M
Muybridge gave lectures _______.
sc. Using
of images which he then copied on to a disc. ing his
A around the U.S. ■ B in the U.K. ■
gu

invention, the zoopraxiscope, he was able to create

reate a little
oved very differently
movie which proved that horses moved
C all over the world ■
from how artists used to paint them. 9 He _______ after he’d committed a serious crime.
He then took thousands of images s not only of animals, but A avoided going to prison ■
B was sent to prison ■ C went abroad ■
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letic activities and perform

also of people doing athletic performing
th
everyday tasks such as walking up steps, or throwing water 10 In Chicago, people could see his movies _______.
from a bucket. As s travel became
ecame easier, he was ab able to give A in the world’s first movie theater ■
lectures around
nd the world. With his careful, patient art,
caref pati B at home ■ C in an animation exhibition ■
Muybridge contributed
buted a great deal
dea to scien
science. He didn’t
10
have a quiet personal
sonal life, however.
howev In 1874,
187 he killed a man,
w.

ter acquitted of murder.

but was later
n 1893,
In 3, Muybridge charge p
charged the public to see his moving 2 Match five of the highlighted words / phrases with
ges in a hall in Chicago
images Chica that was built specially for the the definitions.
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purpose.. This building

bui shou really be called the first ever
should Example: people who make animated movies like
ovie theater. His
movie H extraordinary
extra photos are still an cartoons animators
invalu
invaluable ref
reference for movie animators.
1 movement _______

Ex
Example: Walt Disney is _______ in movie animation. 2 an area of countryside _______
A the most famous name ■ ✓ 3 take or catch _______
B the only name ■ C not important ■ 4 a lot or a significant amount _______
1 Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs showed 5 reason or aim _______
_______. 5
A people and animals ■ B the human eye ■
C movie cameras ■ Reading total 15

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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 6–10
Reading and Writing A ENGLISH FILE 3

WRITING
Answer one of the questions and write 75–100
words.
1 What do you like or dislike about shopping?
2 What is your favorite movie and why?
3 Write about the advantages and disadvantages of
computers.

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Writing total 10

Reading and Writing total 25

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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 6–10
Listening and Speaking A ENGLISH FILE 3

LISTENING SPEAKING
1 Listen. Check (✓) the five tips which the expert 1 Make questions and ask your partner.
mentions. 1 Where / like to live? Why?
1 Try to get up earlier. ■ 2 What university degree / most useful?
2 Put your study plan where everyone can see it. ■ 3 you / believe in / pay / for education?
3 Make sure you get plenty of sleep when you’re 4 What / best / job / ever / have?
studying. ■ 5 like / be / self-employed? Why?

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4 The best time to study is after lunch. ■ 6 still see / any school friends?
7 ever lost / information on / computer? uter?
5 You should have at least an hour’s break for
lunch. ■ 8 veryday?
How much TV / watch everyday? eryday?
9 tore? Why (not)?
ever / complain / in store? (no
6 Writing questions and answers will help you
10 Which movie locationation / like to visit?
remember words. ■
7 Your computer can help you review. ■ Now answer your
our partner’s
rtner’s questions.
question
8 Remember to turn your cell phone off while you’re 2 Talk about
ut one of the statements
statement below
below, saying if
studying. ■ you agree
ree or disagree. reasons.
agree. Give reasons
r
9 It’s a good idea to study with a friend. ■ 1 “School
School is the happiest time
t of yyour life.”
10 Remember why the exam is important to you. ■ 2 “The
he Internet is killing the m
music industry.”
3 “It’s
It’s more important
import to b be happy at work than to
5
earn
arn a high sala
salary.”

2 Listen to five conversations. Check (✓) A, B, or C. 3 Listen

sten to you
your par
partner. Do you agree with him /
1 Fay doesn’t usually like _____ in science-fiction
n her?
h
movies. Speaking total 15
A the plots ■ B the special effects ■
C soundtrack ■ Listening and Speaking total 25

2 John would prefer to live _____.

A in the country ■ B on the he coastt ■
C in the city ■
g

3 Sally’s sister regularly sells _____

___ on the Internet.
A the latest fashionss ■ B old ld clothes ■
lan

C antique furnitureure ■
ture
4 Nowadays, itt takes Kate _____ to get
ge to work.
wor
an it used to ■
ime than
A more time
B less time thann it used to ■
C the use to ■
he samee amount of time it used
5 Rob’s friends think h
his profile picture is _____.
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A strange ■ B hilarious
h
hilario ■ C boring ■
5

Listening total 10

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