Unit 1 Higher Test Answer Key

Listening 5
1 were deciding decided
1
2 was seeing had seen
Suggested answers:
3 was leaving left
1 She describes herself as a huge fan.
4 were eating had eaten
2 She has got five albums.
5 slept was sleeping
3 She first heard their music on a TV show / on the
X Factor. 6
4 She buys a lot of memorabilia online / on sites 1 recognized
like eBay. 2 hadn’t come
5 She has got over 900 / almost a thousand items 3 rang
of memorabilia. 4 had left
5 was looking
Vocabulary
2 Reading
1 rare 7
2 tough
Suggested answers:
3 valuable
1 tidy / tidy up
4 undamaged
2 belonged / used to belong
5 fashionable
3 to write essays
6 rid
4 were rare / weren’t common
7 remember
5 have improved
8 back
9 fresh
10 remind Communication
8
3
Suggested answers:
1 brand new
1 told
2 useful
3 rotten 2 was
3 feeling
4 old-fashioned
4 Meanwhile
5 fragile
5 Luckily / Thankfully

Language focus
Writing
4
9
1 he had eaten too much ice cream.
Students’ own answers.
2 I had left my money at home.
3 she had never been to another country.
4 What had you bought?
5 I had already seen the film twice.