Language Test A

Name: ___________________________________________ Class: ______________

LISTENING

1 [Track 2] You will hear three short dialogues. Listen and decide if the statements are true (T) or
false (F).

Dialogue 1

1 Miranda wants Josh to organise a special event. T / F

2 Josh is busy on Mondays and can’t come to the meetings. T / F

Dialogue 2

3 Josh wants Miranda to be a student councillor. T/F

4 Miranda must enter her name by 4 pm on Friday next week. T/F

Dialogue 3

5 Josh’s grandmother didn’t use to have many clothes when she was younger. T / F

6 Josh’s grandmother doesn’t like wasting things. T / F

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VOCABULARY

2 Complete the text with a suitable word in each gap. The first letters are given.

Everywhere I look, there is pollution of some kind. Last night there was a festival in town and this morning
there’s so much 0 litter everywhere. I don’t know why people can’t put their 1 r____________ in the bins. I’m
organising a big event to make the local 2 c____________ aware of the problem and I want as many
people as possible to 3 j____________ my campaign to 4 e____________ people to clean up the town.
One good thing is that the big 5 f____________ that produced plastic has now closed so there’s no more
smoke going into the air above the town. We just need to make the streets cleaner.

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3 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

pollute hold protect climate vote waste

0 Plastic dropped from ships can seriously pollute the ocean.

1 We need to _____________ the planet from all the pollution so we must recycle more.

2 We’re going to _____________ an election to choose a student councillor.

3 Don’t _____________ water. Turn the tap off while you’re brushing your teeth.

4 Who are you going to _____________ for in the school election?

5 Climate _____________ is a serious environmental problem.

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GRAMMAR

4 Complete the paragraph. Put the verb in brackets in the correct form.

Julia 0 had wanted (want) to speak to the town councillors about pollution in her city for six months and

finally she was going to meet some of them yesterday. She 1 ________________________ (read) through

all her information carefully before she 2 ________________________ (leave) the house. However, when

she 3 ________________________ (get) to the bus stop, her bus 4 ________________________

(already/go). She had to take the next one. By the time she got to the town hall, all the councillors

5 ________________________ (left).

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5 Complete the dialogue. Use used to and the verbs in brackets to help you.

A: Where did you use to live (you/live) when you were a child? You 1 ___________________________

(not/live) in London, did you?

B: No, I 2 ___________________________ (live) on a farm in Africa.

A: Wow! How exciting!

B: Yes, it was. I 3___________________________ (have) a new adventure every day.

A: Weren’t there dangerous animals there?

B: Yes, there were. My parents warned me to be careful of the lions, buffalo, leopards and elephants that

4 ___________________________ (wander) through the farm. There were also some very dangerous

snakes, which was a big problem sometimes.

A: Oh, I hate snakes. Weren’t you scared?

B: A little. I 5 ___________________________ (check) under my bed every day and look in my shoes to

make sure there weren’t any snakes there.

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SPEAKING

6 Complete the dialogue with phrases from the box. Use capital letters where necessary.

don’t agree great idea not sure about that totally disagree true, but you’re right

A: What are you doing?

B: I’m looking for things we can use for the recycling project. I think this project’s really good.

A: I 0 don’t agree. I think it’s a waste of time. It’s much easier to go out and buy something new.

B: I 1 _____________________________! Every time we burn rubbish or build a rubbish mountain we’re

polluting the planet. Do you want your children to live in a polluted world?

A: No, of course not. OK, maybe 2 _____________________________. But will it really help the planet?

B: It will if everyone does it. You could help as well. Look at this wooden box. You could make it into a
container for flowers with a little bit of paint.

A: That’s a 3 _____________________________! My mum will love it. Have you got any paint I could use?

B: There’s lots of paint over there. And I think I can do something cool with this bicycle wheel.

A: I’m 4 _____________________________. What could you make with it? It looks complicated and we
haven’t got much time.

B: 5 _____________________________ I think I could use it to hang cooking pots and pans on it. It would
look cool in the kitchen.

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READING

7 Read the text about ways to protect the environment. Decide if the sentences are true (T) or
false (F).

1 Floating cities have solved the problem of overcrowding. T / F

2 The Chinese floating city has produced a lot of pollution. T / F

3 In some parts of the world, biofuel production has replaced food production. T / F

4 Plastic bags are not often found in the sea. T / F

5 In the UK people are using fewer plastic bags. T / F

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There have been many ideas for ways to protect the environment, but not all of them have been successful.
Some of them have even damaged the environment in ways that the creators had not considered.

One idea is to create floating cities to solve the problem of overcrowding. This has been tried in Dubai, but it
seems that the man-made islands have damaged the ecosystem. A project in China has been a little more
successful by producing pollution-free islands, but they are far too expensive to copy around the world.

Another idea to save the planet was to use biofuels instead of traditional fuels. They’re made from natural oils
and are therefore a renewable form of energy. However they have severely damaged the environment by
causing deforestation and creating a global food crisis as farmers use the land for producing biofuel and not
food. In addition biofuel production requires a lot of water, which may mean that local people lose their water
supply.

However, for every disaster story there is also a success story. We used to get plastic bags for free whenever
we bought something in a shop, and then we used to throw them away. Eight million tonnes of plastic, much of
which is plastic bags, goes into the world’s oceans every year and is eaten by many sea animals. However,
since supermarkets in the UK started charging 5p for every plastic bag, the use of bags has been reduced by
85%. If every country does this, then our land and oceans could be much cleaner.

ENGLISH IN USE

8 Complete the dialogue with question tags.

Serena: You thought we were going watch a film this afternoon, 0 didn’t you? Well, we’re going to go to a
small shop in town that sells only recycled objects.

Aiden: You don’t mean Crazy Jack’s, 1 ________________?

Serena: Yes. You haven’t been there before, 2 ________________?

Aiden: No. It’s quite new, 3 ________________?

Serena: Yes, you’re right. The man who owns it used to be a musician, 4 ________________?

Aiden: I think so. His name’s Jimi Vendell. My father has all his CDs.

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