Exercise for test Units 9 & 10

1. Complete the sentences with the words from the box. There are more words than you need.
salary / inexperienced / promote / temporary / tray / charge / armaments
expel / pride / overqualified / sacked / fence / row / wages / permanent / headline /
workmates / degree / resign / bedsit / sunburned / charming / mansion / whispering / parcel /
remote / stare / sigh / drown / chalet / frowning / spacious / cottage / vain / soaking / cemetery
/ yawning / luxurious / glancing / grin

1 She decided to _________________ after working there for three years.

2 Who’s in _______________ of your school?

3 Are you satisfied with your monthly _______________?

4 They wanted to _______________ Monica when she was caught cheating in the Maths exam.

5 Friday is my pay day. I finally get my _______________.

6 Be careful! One waiter was _______________ just because he broke a glass.

7 It´s not a _______________ job. You´ll work there for only two months.

8 All my _______________ leave the office at 5. I am the only one who works long hours.

9 I don’t want to go there. It’s too _______________ - the nearest village is 20 miles away.

10 It happened in that big old _______________ in the suburbs.

11 It’s not very polite to _______________ at people. Stop looking at them!

12 The house looks so _______________. Let’s buy it!

13 We can’t afford to spend a week in that 5-star _________________ hotel.

14 Look at you! You’re _______________ wet!

15 I’m sure the restaurant is big enough for all the guests. It’s really _______________.

16 In this picture they seem confused. Look at their eyebrows. See how they’re _______________?

17 Stop _______________! Is it really that boring?

18 He’s _______________ at his watch again. I think we have to finish.

19 ‘I’m so happy to see you,’ he said with a _______________.

20 The water’s too deep there. You might _______________.

2. Complete the sentences so that they have a similar meaning to the original.
0 ‘I like it here.’

Carol said ______________________________________________________________________

1 ‘The police found a body last week.’

The reporter said that _____________________________________________________________

2 ‘I’m going to leave tomorrow.’

Bill said that ___________________________________________________________________.

3 ‘We didn’t do anything last night.’

Terry said that they _______________________________________________________________

4 ‘I’ll take care of it.’

He promised that ____________________________________________________________________

5 ‘I applied for this job last week.’

My brother explained that _____________________________________________________________

6 ‘Sit in the front row and be quiet!’

The teacher told me ________________________________________________________________

7 ‘What was he studying last year?’

My mum wanted to know _____________________________________________________________

8 ‘Did you talk to him?’

My sister asked me __________________________________________________________________

9 ‘Don’t do that here!’

She told me ________________________________________________________________________

10 ‘She can also speak Spanish.’

Her boss added that __________________________________________________________________