Key to Mid-Year Test Units 1 – 6

Reading
B Listening
1b 2b 3c 4c 5a 6d 7a 8b 9a 10b
A
1c 2a 3b 4c 5a 6b
Vocabulary and Use your English
B
A 1 who
1D 2C 3A 4C 5A 6B 7D 8A 9A 10C 11D 12B 2 (internet) crowdfunding
3 invest in
B
4 loans
1 only
5 paid back
2 couldn’t
3 by / at 6 entrepreneur / businesswoman
4 asked 7 can’t afford
5 so 8 to choose
6 only C
7 had 1c 2b 3d 4b 5a 6b
8 last
9 much D
10 needn’t 1C 2G 3E 4A 5B 6D 7G 8B 9F 10C
11 Its
12 unlikely
Writing
C
1 stick Students’ own answers.
2 posted
3 buried
4 hold
D
1 This is the fourth time that I’ve asked you to tidy your
room and you still haven’t done it.
2 Sam and Harry are always fighting. It’s very annoying.
3 She’d always go for long walks at the weekend, as I do
now.
4 I shan’t text him until he starts texting back.
5 It is thought that exercising in the morning is better for
you, but I don’t agree.
6 Hard though it may be, you really need to practise
more if you want to get better.
7 Had Annie realised that he was untrusworthy / realised
that he wasn’t trusworthy, she would never have hired
him.

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