END-OF-YEAR TEST ● ANSWER KEY

Listening, Use of English and Reading

Group A 4 if
Listening 5 out
6 used
Exercise 1
1 C: The speaker suggests they ‘meet up at half 7 than
past one’, and asks him if he wants to ‘come
round here’ (speaker’s home) and adds ‘or shall I Exercise 5
come to yours?’ (friend’s home). 1 went
2 B: The announcer says ‘there was a surprise win 2 since
this afternoon’. 3 enough to buy
3 C: The boy’s teacher asks him if he ‘has any 4 have to / need to
experience of working in a hospital?’, and he 5 would do
replies, ‘Yes, I’ve done some voluntary work.’ 6 made me (feel)
4 A : The girl says she thought the exam was 7 puts herself
‘tough’, and that she ‘couldn’t even understand 8 hadn’t finished
the last question’. The boy agrees by saying ‘I
know. I thought it was hard too.’
5 A: The speaker is showing people, probably Reading
tourists, the place ‘where the young William Exercise 6
Shakespeare had his lessons’ with ‘about forty
other boys’. The speaker goes on to say that the 1 C: It says that da Vinci’s drawings were ‘the first
boys ‘would study Latin, Greek and known robot designs’.
Mathematics’. 2 A: The writer says, ‘Now, of course, robots are
everywhere’.
3 B: The text says, ‘Science-fiction writers... are
Exercise 2
now predicting that intelligent robots... will exist
1 F: Ella is surprised to find Tom still studying and quite soon’.
suggests he has a rest from it. She says, ‘Why 4 A: The robot with a heart ‘recognizes sound,
don’t you take a break, at least?’ Then she says, movement and touch’.
‘you should relax, or you’ll make yourself ill.’ 5 C: Mark thinks robots ‘will be capable of doing
2 F: Tom is not confident about doing well in the anything that we can’.
exam. He says, ‘I don’t have time (to take a
break). I’ve got to revise my Physics.’
Exercise 7
3 T: Ella tells Tom ‘I think you’re doing too much.’
4 T: Ella suggests they ‘go and play basketball 1 C: The sentence that follows the gap explains
tomorrow, like we did last week. I enjoyed that.’ why it’s a good idea to first see the thing we
and Tom agrees by saying ‘So did I.’ want to buy.
5 F: Tom wants to watch a quiz show during his 2 F: Sentence F says that he became the owner of
break and says, ‘It’s my favourite programme’ a very expensive car. The part after the gap
but Ella doesn’t agree. She says, ‘I hate it’ and ‘I explains how he did it.
can’t stand anything like that.’ 3 D: This paragraph explains the steps Steven had
to take to end up with a Porsche.
4 A: The text says that Steven ‘isn’t the first
Use of English person to do something like this’. Sentence A
Exercise 3 gives example of another lucky guy.
1 A with 5 E: Here the author talks about how becoming a
2 B offer celebrity influenced Steven and Kyle. Sentence E
3 D as says Steven wants to sell his Porsche. The
4 C get following sentence explains why he wants to do
5 D up it.

Exercise 4
1 who/that
2 at
3 of

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 END-OF-YEAR TEST ● ANSWER KEY
Listening, Use of English and Reading

Group B Exercise 5
Listening 1 helping
2 hasn’t tidied
Exercise 1 3 was given
1 B: The speaker says ‘I thought we could meet up 4 few
at half past one’. 5 had worked
2 A: The announcer says Andy Norris ‘scored all 6 enough money
three goals’. 7 cut
3 B: The boy’s mother, who is a doctor herself, 8 unless
says ‘it’s a hard life’.
4 C: They both think today’s exam was hard. The
girl says ‘the Maths was tough today. I couldn’t Reading
even understand the last question.’ and the boy Exercise 6
replies ‘I know! I thought it was hard too.’ 1 B: He ‘drew mechanical figures that looked like
5 B: The speaker says that Shakespeare men’.
‘performed plays in the original Greek and Latin’ 2 A: The text says that robots carry out ‘all sorts of
with the other boys in his school. tasks, from cutting the grass to performing
surgery’. That means they can do ‘a wide range
Exercise 2 of tasks’.
1 T: Ella is surprised to find Tom still studying and 3 A: Mark says that ‘intelligent robots like these
suggests he has a rest from it. She asks, ‘Are you will exist quite soon’. He is referring back to an
still working?’ and then she says, ‘Why don’t you earlier sentence where he wrote that ‘robots...
take a break, at least?’ have feelings themselves’.
2 F: This is not true because Tom says, ‘I’ve got to 4 C: He says that the new robot ‘recognises sound,
revise my Physics. The exam’s next week.’ He movement and touch’.
also tells Ella, ‘You don’t have to do any work. 5 C: He says robots ‘will be capable of doing
You know it all already.’ So he thinks that Ella is anything that we can’.
better prepared that he is.
3 T: Tom says to Ella ‘You got top marks in the last Exercise 7
test we had’. 1 C: Sentence C is a follow-up to the rhetorical
4 F: Ella suggests that they play basketball, but question asked before the gap.
Tom says, ‘I’m not in the mood, not till after the 2 B: Sentence B gives more detail on how Steven
exams’. got something without paying for it. The
5 F: Tom says ‘I think I’ll go and watch Win a sentence after the gap asks about the
Million. You know, the quiz show.’ but Ella says information from sentence B.
she ‘can’t stand anything like that’ and leaves, 3 F : It from sentence F refers to ‘an old mobile
saying ‘Bye Tom. See you.’ phone’.
4 A: Sentence A explains how Kyle ended up with
Use of English an entire house.
5 E: Sentence E talks about how Kyle became a
Exercise 3 celebrity.
1 B about
2 D staying
3 B such a
4 A as
5 C rewarding

Exercise 4
1 where
2 never
3 many
4 as
5 are
6 need/have
7 were

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