End-of-year Exam IceWarp Upper-Intermediate Group

A) Grammar

1) Correct the mistakes in the text.

My name's Beata and I'm from Poznan in Poland. I was born there and 1 I have lived there until I was
14. Then my family 2 decided move to Warsaw, and that's where I live now.
I'm divorced and I have a son called Filip, who 3 is five years. He spends weekdays with me and
weekends with his father. I have two brothers, 4 which are both studying at university. I am 5 the
older child in the family. My mother works in a bank and my father is retired. 6 He use to be a
business consultant.
I work for a big clothing company. I am 7 on charge of foreign suppliers, which means that I have to
use English when I talk to them on the phone, and sometimes I travel to other countries such as
Morocco and Turkey 8 for to meet suppliers.
9 1 am learning English for about nine years. I studied it at school, and then after I left school I spent
eight weeks in Ireland. During the day I 10 was going to English classes, and in the evening I worked
11 like a waitress in a restaurant. It was 12 a very hard work. When I came home my English 13 has
improved a lot, but that was a few years ago and I've forgotten a lot since then. My main aim this year
is 14 to be able speak more fluently and to improve my writing. I think I am quite 15 good at read in
English. As soon as my level of English 16 will be good enough, I'll take the IELTS exam.
I 17 have very few free time, but when I can, I go horse riding. If I had more time, 18 1'll learn
another language, maybe French or German.

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2) Read part 1. Complete part 2 with the right forms/tenses of the verbs

Part 1
When I was about nine years old I used to go to the cinema every Saturday morning - in those days it
was very popular. After the film had finished, I would go to a toy shop and look at model planes and
trains, and sometimes I bought them with the pocket money that I had been carefully saving. One day
after the film, I went to a big department store to have a look at the model planes they had. I didn't buy
anything, but as I was leaving a very large man grabbed my arm quite violently and accused me of
shoplifting.
The man said that he was a store detective. As I had been concentrating on the toys, I hadn't noticed
that he had been watching me. He made me empty my pockets and he went through my coat, searching
for stolen goods, even though I told him very clearly that I had only been looking. Of course he didn't
find anything, but by this time several people had stopped to see what was happening. I felt very
embarrassed and humiliated that so many people were looking at me, and I was very glad to leave the
shop when it was all over.

Part 2
An hour or so later, when I 1 was having (have) lunch with my family at home, my father 2 ________
(ask) me about the film. I then 3 __________ (mention) that I 4 ____________________ (look) at
toys in a department store when a store detective 5 ________________(accuse) me of shoplifting and 6
____________ (search) me in the middle of the shop. My father 7 _______ (make) me repeat what I
8 ______________ (say), and then immediately 9 ___________ (jump up) from the table. Without
either of us having finished our lunch, he 10 ________ (make) me get into the car. I 11 ____________
(never see) my father so angry! He 12 __________ (drive) quickly to the store, 13 _______________
(park) outside, and took me to where the incident 14 _________________ (take place). He then
demanded to see the manager and the store detective. When the manager 15 _____ (come), my father
16 __________ (start) shouting at him and he told him that I 17 ____________ (never steal) anything
in my life. He 18 _____ (make) the manager and store detective apologize to me for having accused
me of shoplifting and for embarrassing me. But the thing is, I 19 ________ (find) this scene even more
embarrassing than the first one, especially as I could see that a lot of customers 10 ________________
(stop) and 11 _________________ (watch) us!
B) Vocabulary

1) Complete the sentences with the correct adverb or adverbial phrase.

1 I love all chocolate, especially dark chocolate.

2 Have you e_____ failed an exam?
3 Paul h_______ eats anything and that's probably why he's so thin.
4 This pen has been s___________ designed to write on a tablet. It doesn't work on normal paper.
5 The weather was so bad that i ____ ____ ____ we decided not to go away for the weekend.
6 Jake's son is so rude. He didn't e_______ say thank you for the birthday present.
7 They're building a motorway n_____ my house. The noise is terrible.
8 Penny's never on time. She's always _______.
9 I can't believe that I've been a teacher for n________ 25 years now!
10 Sally hasn't been feeling very well l_________, so she's going to make an appointment to see her
doctor.
11 I 'll pay you back a ____ ____ ____ of the month.
12 Sara works really h ____ , but her boss won't give her a promotion.
13 Oh, don't go y____ ! Stay for a bit longer.
14 I 'm afraid Mr Green can't take calls a__ ____ __________ . He's in a meeting.
15 We s_______ haven't decided where to go on holiday this summer. We've been talking about it for
weeks!
16 Her dress looks really expensive, but a _________ it was quite cheap.