UNIT 10 TEST

VOCABULARY AND
GRAMMAR PAPER

Vocabulary 1: Complete the text with the phrasal verbs in the box.

died out picked up got by tried out got across

The achievement I’m most proud of is that I know five languages besides my first language. I speak English, French,
Turkish and Dutch and I also read and write Latin. I didn’t learn all of those languages at school, though. My parents
work for an international company, so we’ve lived in a few different countries. I (1) _______________ Turkish while we
were living in Istanbul and Dutch while we were in Rotterdam. I actually (2) _______________ in those two languages
pretty well considering I had no formal education in either of them. On the other hand, I learned French at school and,
for a long time, I only (3) _______________ my message _______________ with some difficulty. I can speak it pretty
well now, though. As for English, I’ve been learning for years, so I like to think I’m pretty good at it now. I love Latin but,
of course, it (4) _______________ hundreds of years ago, so it’s not very useful in everyday conversations! I
(5) _______________ Chinese in a night course last year, but I quickly decided five languages is enough for now!
Vocabulary 2: Choose the correct options to complete the text.
Hi Luca, I just wanted to say (6) no worries / cheers for your help with the geography project. I don’t know how I’d
have done it without you. The information you gave me was totally (7) shattered / awesome ! I think the teacher is
going to be really impressed. I made some pictures to go with the information you gave me and my project looks great.
Anyway, (8) ta / how’s it going ? Have you been studying or have you just been (9) out of here / chilling out ? I’ve
not left the house all day! I’ve been working on this project since I got up, which means I’m (10) dough / shattered , so
I’m going to crash. See you later. 
Grammar 1: Choose the correct options to complete the text.
I’m (11) too happy / so happy ! Today our school announced that anyone with (12) enough high / high enough
marks in English and French is allowed to study a third language next year. Fortunately, I’ve had (13) so good / such
good marks this year that I’m one of the lucky students who can study either Chinese or Russian. I don’t know which
one I’ll choose. Both Chinese and Russian are (14) remarkably / utterly interesting languages, but I'm worried that
Chinese might be (15) slightly too / too much difficult for me. We have to decide tomorrow which language we want to
study.
Grammar 2: Complete the text using the correct form of the words in brackets. Use inversion.
Today at school we were introduced to the Chinese and Russian language teachers, so that we could talk to them and
decide what we want to do. At first I thought I wanted to study Russian, but then I met the Chinese teacher. Never
(16) _______________ (I, meet) such an interesting person! It was fantastic. Not only (17) _______________ (he, tell)
us what the exams would be like, but he also taught us some colloquial expressions in Chinese! No sooner
(18) _______________ (the lesson, finish) than I signed up for the course next year. I can’t wait to start the classes. So
fascinating (19) _______________ (be, Chinese) to listen to that I didn’t lose interest for one moment.
(20) _______________ (I, take) a notebook with me, I’d have made pages of notes!

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