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Grammar Vocabulary

1 Put the words in the correct order to make 4 Choose the correct alternatives to complete
questions. the text.
1 you/do/What/yesterday evening/did? There is a lot of various crime in New York.
(1) Vandals/Vandalism is probably the smallest issue,

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2 go/did/on holiday/Where/you/last winter?
3 get/yesterday/to the basketball match/How/did/you?
4 the DVD/did/Why/bring/you?
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5 to the party/did/Who/you/last weekend/invite?
and it is mainly graffiti. I suppose (2) thieves/theft is
a huge problem – there’s a lot of (3) robbery/robber and
(4) mug/mugging in the streets – not only at night. Very
often you can hear about (5) burglars/burgle in the most
expensive districts where rich people live. But there are
also other types of crime like fraud where the police even
have special departments to find the criminals.
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5 Choose the best answer (A, B or C) to complete
5 the text.
When the police (1) a case, they
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Exercise 1 with the correct past simple form of normally look for evidence. If there’s no evidence, they

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the verbs given. can’t (2) anyone of the crime. They
1 I (spend) it with my friends. analyse the evidence carefully and when they are ready,
they question the (3) . They only
2 We (not go) anywhere.
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3 I (catch) a bus.
(4) that person when they think they
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can (5) the case.

4 We (want) to watch it with you.
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1 A suspect B investigate C accuse

5 I (not invite) anyone from our school.
2 A accuse B charge C collect
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3 A detective B suspect C boss
4 A analyse B collect C charge
3 Complete the sentences with the correct past
simple or past continuous form of the verbs given. 5 A prove B investigate C question
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1 When I last (see) them, they
(walk) along the river.
6 Complete the sentences with these prepositions.
2 After we (leave) the airport, There are two extra options.
I realised that I (have)
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someone else’s suitcase. across • down • for • in • into • out • up

3 As I (go) to school, there
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(be) an accident on the road.
starts?
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4 I (walk) the dog when

2 I came an old photograph when
I (notice) someone in your
I was cleaning my room yesterday.
house.
3 The stolen picture by Rembrandt turned
5 I (run) upstairs when
in Paris a few years later.
I (drop) my phone.
5 4 The police are looking the theft
of drugs from the local hospital.
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5 Detectives are looking the diamonds
stolen from the jewellery exhibition.
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Use of English

7 Complete the second sentence so that it means

the same as the first. Use no more than three
words.
1 Andrew didn’t appear at the party yesterday.

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Andrew didn’t
at the party yesterday.
2 They couldn’t discover where the lost keys were.
They couldn’t where
the lost keys were.
3 Kate finally came back home when we were in
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the middle of a TV programme.
We watching TV when
Kate finally came back home.

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8 and 9 pm and in this time she saw a burglar in her
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neighbour’s house.

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She saw a burglar in her neighbour’s house when she
the plants in her garden
between 8 and 9 p.m.
5 I have no idea how my cat got out of the house.
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6 I realised it was my girlfriend’s birthday on the bus back

from school.
I realised it was my girlfriend’s birthday when
I back from school by
bus.
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7 Banks use complicated systems to prevent people from
stealing money.
Banks use complicated systems to prevent
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8 Police in London had a difficult case to investigate last

week.
Police in London had a difficult case to
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Reading 9 Read the article again and choose the best answers,
A, B or C.

8 Read the article about art fraud. Six sentences are 1 What did Shaun and his parents sell?
missing from the article. Choose from the sentences A original pieces of art
A–F the one which fits each gap. B famous paintings and statues
C copies of paintings and statues
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parents, George and Olive, sold copies of real famous 2 Why was the art world shocked?
paintings and statues to museums and art dealers all over A Because Shaun didn’t want to talk about it.
the world. (1) Why did no one think B B
 ecause it was one of the biggest art crimes
that these pieces of art were not real? Where did Shaun in history.
learn to copy art so cleverly? No one knows the answers to
C Because the crime happened in Bolton.
these questions! The man himself is definitely not talking
about it!
(2)
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the whole art world. They are calling this one of the
3 Where did Shaun make his copies?
A in a garden shed
B in his house

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biggest art crimes in history. Everyone is amazed that no C in a big art studio
one suspected the family for such a long time. When the 4 What did George do with the art?
police finally found them, the family was living in a small
A He made it look old.
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house in Bolton. (3) Shaun did his
B He sold it to museums and galleries.

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work in a shed in the garden. This was where he made his
amazing copies – everything from paintings and drawings C He bought copies of it.
to statues and plates. 5 How much money do people think Shaun’s family made
Shaun worked with tools from a local shop and used tea from selling the art?
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to make the objects look old. The work didn’t take him A a thousand pounds
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long either. (4) Shaun did the copies B ten million pounds
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and then his father, 84-year-old George, took them to

C a million pounds
museums and galleries to sell them. George invented
stories about Shaun’s art to persuade the museums to buy 6 What did the family do with the money?
it. (5) The British Museum, The Tate A No one knows.
Modern and other famous places all bought copies from B They went on nice holidays.
the family. C They bought an old house.
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than ten million pounds and the family probably made
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over a million pounds from their crimes. So why were they
still living in an old house? (6)
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No one knows. Many people believe that Shaun copied

the artwork because he couldn’t sell his own paintings
and statues, not to make money. He just wanted to be
a real artist.
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A He copied one famous Egyptian statue of a Pharaoh’s

daughter in less than a month!
B How did they do this for so long?
C Why didn’t they buy expensive things or go on nice
holidays?
D There wasn’t a big art studio.
E Shaun was a good artist and George was a good salesman.
F In 2006 the police arrested Shaun and his parents,
and Shaun went to prison.
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Listening 11 02 Listen again and answer these questions.
1 What time did the train leave?
10 02 Listen to a conversation about a robbery.
Are these statements True (T) or False (F)?
2 How long did the train stop near Winchester?
1 The train took almost six hours to get to London. T/F
2 The train stopped because the police were 3 What time of day did the robbery happen?

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on the tracks. T/F
3 The robbers stole jewellery from a museum. T/F
4 Where were the robbers when the police caught them?
4 The police didn’t catch the robbers. T/F
5 When the train stopped, the speaker was
5 What were the people on the train doing when
watching a film. T/F
the police caught the robbers?
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Writing Speaking

12 You helped stop a robbery last week. Write a blog
post about what happened.
In your blog post you should say:
• where you were and what you were doing
13 Role-play the situation with your partner.
You borrowed your friend’s bicycle and left it outside
a shop. Someone stole the bicycle when you were in
the shop. Tell your friend what happened and apologise.

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• what the robbers tried to take Use the ideas in the box to help you.
• how you stopped them
• say where you were
• what happened in the end
• say what happened
Write 100–125 words.
• make an apology

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