Cumulative Test (Units 1–6) | Group B

VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, USE OF ENGLISH

Name: _____________________ Class: ____

VOCABULARY 3 Complete the sentences with the missing

1 Choose the correct option a–c to complete words. The first letters are given.
the sentences.
0 Can you slice these vegetables quite thin,
0 Excessive tourism can give ___ to local please? There’s a knife next to the sink.
environmental problems. 1 Lions need excellent v______________ to see
a rise b consequence c result the animals that they hunt.
1 When food looks strange, it puts many people 2 Please take a d______________ and sweep
___ and they don’t feel like eating it. the broken model pieces into it.
a off b out c down 3 It’s a good idea to remove the
2 Mrs Collins doesn’t put any chemical ___ on s______________ from the skin of a large fish
the vegetables she grows on her farm. before you cook it.
a waste b emissions c pesticides 4 Some people don’t like apple skin and they
3 Humans have a surprisingly ___ sense of prefer to p______________ the fruit before
smell. eating.
a dedicated b immediate c keen 5 I don’t need an office just for myself, so I share
4 Wildlife photographers have to wait for just the a co-working s______________ with two other
right moment to take a good ___ of a moving guys.
animal. ___ / 5
a image b shot c pose
5 Susan is going to study medicine because she GRAMMAR
wants to ___ her ambition of being a doctor. 4 Choose the correct option a–c to complete
a settle b pursue c claim the sentences.
___ / 5
0 Under no circumstances ___ touch the exhibits
in this display.
2 Complete the sentences with the correct
a people should
words from the box. There are three extra
b should people
ones.
c shouldn’t people
airy bizarre composed confined 1 Great books deserve ___ slowly and carefully
decent inspirational livid to really understand and benefit from them.
nocturnal vast a having read
b to be read
0 I could never live in such a bizarre house as
c reading
that one made from an old bus. It’s too strange.
2 My parents ___ all the food for the party by the
1 I have a rather ______________ space to
time people start arriving.
study in. I have to keep it tidy and organised or
a will be preparing
there isn’t enough space.
b are going to prepare
2 Politicians should above all be
c will have prepared
______________ people. That is, they should
3 Do you fancy ___ a break soon? We’ve been
behave morally and support moral values.
working hard.
3 Joy was ______________ with Nick for taking
a taking
the car without asking. She still hasn’t forgiven
b to take
him.
c we take
4 The living room is ______________ in such
4 You really ___ practise more if you want to
a way that you can move around it freely.
improve your tennis.
5 My study is nice and ______________ because
a need
I keep the windows open most of the time.
b should
___ / 5
c ought
5 I was planning to walk to work, but it’s raining
now. On second thoughts, I ___ a taxi.
a ’ll take
b ’m going to take
c ’m taking
___ / 5

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 Cumulative Test (Units 1–6) | Group B
VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, USE OF ENGLISH
Name: _____________________ Class: ____

5 Complete the sentences with the correct USE OF ENGLISH

form of the words in brackets. 7 Choose the correct option a–d to complete
the text.
0 Politicians usually persuade people to vote
(persuade / people / vote) for them by using Visiting a great friend who chose to spend her
various strategies. life abroad
1 My sister is rather shy and she ____________ I’m sitting here in the tropical sunshine in 0 ___
________________ (avoid / meet) people. restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand, with my best
2 Our rule is that visitors to this exhibition friend Mel. I’m experiencing the 1 ___ of exotic
____________________________ (require / spices coming from the delicious curry I’m about
switch off) their mobile phones. to eat. I’m enjoying the authentic thrill of foreign
3 Richard ____________________________ (try travel now, but I didn’t always. Mel and I were
/ use) a better quality pen to improve his childhood friends. Soon after university, she got
handwriting and it helped. I can read his writing a job in Italy and she 2 ___ abroad ever since. At
more easily now. the time she went to Italy, I 3 ___ my home town
4 When you were a child, what _____________ and I didn’t want to either. But she 4 ___ me
_______________ (you / use / do) when you letters saying things like: ‘Come and taste the
were bored? fabulous pizzas in Italy! 5 ___ the architecture of
5 Yesterday, the government _______________ Florence and Rome!’ Finally, she 6 ___ to
_____________ (promise / give) more support persuade me and I came to visit her in 7 ___
to overseas development projects. populated Singapore. I was 8 ___ by the variety
___ / 5 of pretty much everything: people, food, sights.
But although the effect was powerful, I actually
6 Complete the sentences with one word in started to enjoy it after a while. I had got a taste
each gap. for travel, 9 ___ brings us back to the present
moment. Thailand is now 10___ tenth country I’ve
0 My friends had eaten before they arrived at my
visited.
place, so they didn’t want the snacks I offered
them. 0 a the b–
1 Hardly had I arrived the university lecture hall c any da
______________ there was a fire drill and we 1 a stench b aroma
all had to leave. c taste d roar
2 You’re ______________ to find a shop open at 2 a ’s travelled b ’s travelling
this time. It’s too late. c ’s been travelling d ’d been travelling
3 I have an uncle ______________ opinions are 3 a ‘d never left b never left
unusual but interesting, and often original. c ’ve never left d ’d never been leaving
4 Dad is ______________ older of my parents by 4 a forever sent b was forever sending
two years. c had forever sent d used to forever send
5 How are you ______________ of celebrating 5 a Make out b Point out
New Year’s Eve this year? c Take in d Take to
___ / 5 6 a obliged b supposed
c requested d managed
7 a vastly b strongly
c densely d hugely
8 a bigoted b bewildered
c devastated d endangered
9 a what b that
c when d which
10 a – b every
c the da
___ / 10

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 Cumulative Test (Units 1–6) | Group B
VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, USE OF ENGLISH
Name: _____________________ Class: ____

8 Complete the second sentence using the 9 Tina has made a few recent visits to a private
word in bold so that it means the same as music teacher to improve her piano skills.
the first one. Do not change the word in SEEING
bold. Use no more than five words including Tina ____________________________
the word in bold. a private music teacher recently to improve her
piano skills.
0 Harry’s regular violin lessons stopped until his
10 When we compare their average temperatures,
teacher left the country.
Mars is much colder than Earth.
TAKING
NEAR
Harry had been taking violin lessons regularly
When we compare their average temperatures,
when his teacher left the country.
Earth is ____________________________
1 Has anyone solved our waste disposal
Mars.
problem?
___ / 10
COME
Has anyone ____________________________
TOTAL ___ / 50
a solution to our waste disposal problem?
2 We thought that the hiking up Kilimanjaro would
be easier.
IMAGINE
Little ____________________________ hiking
up Kilimanjaro would be so hard.
3 The teacher spoke angrily to us about the mess
we’d left in the classroom.
OFF
The teacher ____________________________
about the mess we’d left in the classroom.
4 I found the information I needed online after
a short search.
BEEN
I ____________________________ for very
long before I found the information I needed
online.
5 This is the patient who had the headache
symptoms.
IN
This is the patient _______________________
__________we found the headache symptoms.
6 The scarcity of facilities at the field station was
hard for us to accept.
TERMS
We found it hard ________________________
____ the scarcity of facilities at the field station.
7 Entering the lab is not allowed for students after
5 p.m.
PERMITTED
Students ____________________________
the lab after 5 p.m.
8 A company’s advertising department looks for
ways to change customers’ attitudes.
ABOUT
A company’s advertising department looks for
ways to ____________________________ in
customers’ attitudes.

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