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4 Complete the text with the correct form of the words below. There are more words than you need. (5 points)
lead role • set out • refuse • cross the ocean • difficult • duck • incredible
overcome • snake • spend the nights • performance • succeed
Wild is a film about Cheryl Strayed’s experiences hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in the USA. Strayed decided to
1.
on this journey after a 2. period in her life. Although she had no
experience of hiking, her goal was to hike 1,600 km. It wasn’t easy, but Strayed 3. to quit.
She 4.
in reaching the end of the trail but by that time, she had 5.
many
obstacles. She’d 6.
in a tiny tent, suffered extreme temperatures and encountered dangerous
animals such as bears and 7.
.
Years later, she wrote a popular book about her 8. journey. Actress Reese Witherspoon read
Strayed’s book and decided to make a film based on it. She played the 9. and received an
Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Actress for her 10.
.
5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. (5 points)
1. By the time I got there, Louise already (finish) most of the pizza.
2. Tom (take) to hospital in an ambulance yesterday.
3. Hailey is (pretty) girl at my school.
4. Those lazy boys never (walk) to school.
5. People always (tell) to turn off their phones here.
6. While Eric (hold) the baby, it didn’t stop crying.
7. I (study) since 3.00.
8. What you (buy) yesterday?
9. Josh (leave) the campsite right now?
10. My new goggles are (good) my old ones. They’re great!
2. The show began an hour ago, but the make-up artist haven’t arrived yet.
5. Phil didn’t used to like Joe, but now they’re best friends.
7. When we get to the campsite, Mandy had already built the campfire.
8 Rewrite the sentences with the words in brackets. Do not change the meaning of the first sentence. (5 points)
1. We started our hike two hours ago and we’re still hiking. (for)
3. She saved the baby and then she saved his mother. (had)
9 Complete the text with one or two words in each blank. (12 points)
Have you 1. thought about searching for treasure? It isn’t such a crazy idea. Many
treasures 2.
waiting for someone to find them. Some are old treasures from ancient
times. Others are 3.
modern than that.
In the 1980s, a man named Forrest Fenn 4. diagnosed with cancer. He thought he
was dying. By that time, Fenn 5.
collected many beautiful and valuable things. After
he had heard the news about his illness, he 6.
to hide a box of coins and other
valuable items somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, USA, for people to find after his death. Nearly 30 years
later, Forrest Fenn was still alive. He 7. beaten the cancer! Clues to the location of the
treasure appear in a poem in Fenn’s autobiography, but even with those clues, nobody
8.
the treasure yet.
Another real treasure is the Golden Owl, a golden statue of a bird. In 1993, the Golden Owl was hidden in the
French countryside 9. a man named Max Valentin. People
using Valentin’s clues to look for it, but they 11. discovered it yet. Valentin died in
2009 and the Golden Owl 12. still hidden today.