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Unit test Elementary

7A
1 Complete the sentences with the Past Simple form 3 Write the questions.
of the verbs in brackets.
1 Who did you go with?
1 Where did you go (go) to
I went with my friends.
university?
2 what time does the movie start?
2 Einstein published (publish) his theory of
relativity about 100 years ago. The film started at 9.30 p.m.
3 Yuri Gagarin was (be) the first man in 3 when did they go to the airport?
space. We went to the airport by bus.
4 ABBA not had (not have) many number 1 4 how many shirts did you buy?
hits in the USA. I bought two shirts.
5 did people know (know) about 5 how much did you pay?
radioactivity in the 1800s? He paid £35.
6 I (not bring) an umbrella. 6 did she like that?
7 How much pocket money you No, she didn’t like it.
(get) when you were a child?
7 why you did not come?
8 We (not have) much money when we
I didn’t come because I didn’t feel well.
were young.
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9 did you (enjoy) your
holiday last month?
10 Our parents never (understand) our 4 Read the article. Write new sentences to give
true information.
love of physics.
11 Mark (drive) into town yesterday.
1 point for each correct answer 10 Swim Girl, Swim!
On 23 August 1926, Gertrude Ederle, a famous American
2 Choose the correct words to complete swimmer, became the first woman to swim the English
the conversations. Channel.
A (1) Did you invite / invited Maria and Jens to the
In 1924, Ederle won a gold medal in the Olympic Games
party?
when she was only 17 years old. She swam across the
B No, but I (2) asked / did asked Tomas and Maria. English Channel two years later.
A I (3) waked / woke up at 7 a.m.
B But you didn’t (4) eat / ate breakfast until 9 o’clock! She started in France on 6 August at 7.05 in the morning.
A Did you (5) meet / met Professor Ramirez at the The swim took 14 hours and 30 minutes. The weather was
airport? bad, with wind and rain. The first person to meet her on
the English coast was an officer who asked for her
B No, Walter (6) does / did. passport!
A How long did the flight (7) take / took?
B It (8) did take / took about 90 minutes. When she got home, she became the star in a movie
A Did you (9) waved / wave when you saw them called Swim Girl, Swim and she also met the President of
leave on the plane? the United States.
B Yes, I waved, but they (10) didn’t see / saw me.
Unfortunately, in 1933, she fell down the steps of her
A (11) Did / Do they sell many fireworks last apartment building, and because of the
year? B Yes, they (12) selled / sold a lot. accident, she couldn’t swim in competitions again. She
1 point for each correct answer 11 never married and died on 30 November 2003 at the age
of 98.

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1 Gertrude Ederle was a famous swimmer
6 Complete the text with the words in the box. There
from England.
Gertrude Ederle wasn’t from England. She was from
the USA.
2 Ederle was 20 years old when she swam across
the English Channel.
Ederle did not cross the Mancha at 20 years old, she was 19
3 She started the swim in England.
4 She left on 6 August 1926, in the evening.
No, she started swimming in the morning
5 The weather was good during the swim.
The weather was bad, with wind and rain.
are three words that you don’t need.
during after on finally at
between few later then
first
Aurelia Knight, my great-great-aunt, was the first woman
in my family to study at university.
(1) Between 1962 and 1965, she studied engineering in
London. (2) that time, female engineers were not
common. At (3) , some of the other students did not take
her seriously, but Aurelia worked hard.
She left university (4) three years and got her first job
with a company based in London.
Aurelia loved public buildings, and (5) her time with the
company, she worked on some famous bridges and
stations in London.

6 The officer in England gave Ederle a flag.
No, he found a policeman who asked for his passport
7 She married a movie star.
became a movie star
A few years (6) , she moved to Bristol which is where my
family lives too. And now, (7) , there is another female
engineer in our family. Me! Thanks, great-great-aunt
Aurelia!

8 Ederle moved to a new apartment in 1 point for each correct answer

6
1933.
7 Write the correct preposition to complete the
sentences.
2 points for each correct answer 14 1 I got up at eight o’clock this morning –
two hours ago.
5 Write the names of the special occasions. 2 She finished school July.
1 In Italy, M o t h e r ’s D a y is in May. 3 What did they do the weekend?
2 V ’s D is on the 14th 4 We usually have coffee and toast the
February. morning for breakfast.
3 It’s my w d today! I have a 5 What did you do New Year’s Eve last year?
beautiful white dress! 6 21st June 1945 was a very important date
4 E D is a holiday in spring the 20th Century in Europe.
when people often eat chocolate eggs. 7 I don’t like driving night.
5 H is at the end of October. 8 Bye, Parker! See you Friday!
6 N Y ’ E is on the 31st 9 He preferred the weather the summer
December. 5 months.
1 point for each correct answer 10 I think it was invented 2010.
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8 Put the words in the correct order to make 10 Correct the mistake in each item.
sentences.
1 This café opened 20 years old. ago
1 rain. / started / It / to / suddenly 2 I lost my ticket and, sad, I never found it.
It suddenly started to rain.
2 took off / plane / immediately. / The 3 How many people did die in the accident?

4 The performance went really bad.

3 flight / The / well. / went / really
4 well / went / Everything / into / until / fog. /
they / flew
5 Felix got bored from drama school.
6 Did you got all the costumes ready?
7 The class started on 11 o’clock.
8 For my birthday last year, we have a party.

9 Julie is a worker hard.

10 Where you did go?
5 news / world. / quickly / round / The / went /
the 11 You can easy walk from the bus stop to
the shop.
1 point for each correct answer 10

6 the / got up / We / this morning / and / late /

TOTAL 100
bus. / unfortunately / we missed

1 point for each correct answer 5

9 Write the adjective or the adverb form of the word in

brackets in the correct place in the sentences.
fast
1 She walks^. (fast)

2 I write important letters. (careful)

3 Rafael often gets up. (late)

4 We worked before the test. (hard)

5 I dropped the cup, but it didn’t break. (fortunate)

6 Learning a foreign language is work. (hard)

7 Please talk; the baby’s sleeping. (quiet)

8 Matthew’s a driver. (bad)

9 Luigi speaks English. (good)

10 We phoned the police. (immediate)

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