Skills Test 3A** (Units 7–9)

Listening 3 Track 6 Listen to an interview.

Complete the sentences.
1 Track 5 Listen to the talk. Are the
1 Some stunts in action films are
sentences true (T), false (F) or is there
created .
no information (NI)?
2 More than and women
1 Shopping connects us with the
can take part in some action films.
people who make the things we
buy. 3 It’s expensive to do a stunt. The cost
of one stunt can be over a .
2 Farmers in developing countries
don’t earn any money. 4 Naomi likes being a stuntwoman
because she meets , she
3 Fairtrade products are very
makes a lot of money and she
expensive.
travels to many countries.
4 Cocoa farmers have to spend fifty
5 She likes extreme sports, but she
cents every day on food.
says stunts are .
5 Fairtrade companies have schools
6 were needed to film the
where farmers can learn better
stunt in the desert.
farming skills.
7 Working in the desert was not easy,
6 Fairtrade companies don’t only make
and Naomi felt at the
chocolate.
end of the day.

/6 8 Naomi doesn’t often have accidents

because she is careful and she
.

2 Track 5 Listen again and complete the 9 She hurt her leg a year ago when
sentences. Use one, two or three words she jumped from a high .
in each gap. 10 She thinks have
1 Cocoa trees grow in countries with a dangerous jobs.
climate. / 10
2 Cocoa farmers often don’t have
enough money to buy .
3 Fairtrade helps farmers to become
.
4 There are more than
Fairtrade products.

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Reading
Text 1 – Food Issues
1 Read the article. Choose the correct
answers.
1 Who is the text for?
a people who are interested in
unusual food
b people who care how their food is
produced
c people who grow their own food
2 Which is the best heading for the
text?
a Supermarket food is bad
b Choose local food!
c Eat cheaply! Eat tasty food!
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2 Read the article again. Complete the
summary. Use one word in each gap.
The writer thinks it is important to ask
questions about the food we eat: What
kind of food do we eat? 1 does
it come from? How 2 has it
travelled? How much fuel has been used
to transport it? Many products are sold
3
because some food
companies and supermarkets hope we
won’t ask questions about our food. It is
also important to find out about the
4 • Go shopping at your local market. It might
which give us our food and the
farmers who 5 it. If we care
about these things, we can do something
to help. We can buy food which is
produced locally, and a good place to
shop is our 6 market. It is also a
good idea to grow our own fruit,
7
and herbs. This is not difficult
to do if we have a garden, 8 or
even a kitchen window.
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What have you eaten today? How much of it
was produced locally? How far did the milk
in your coffee travel? Where did those
breakfast eggs come from? How much
diesel did the lorry use to bring those
vegetables to your dinner table? More and
more people are thinking about these
questions.
Large food companies and supermarkets
have controlled our food for a long time.
They sell the food which we love cheaply,
and they hope we will forget other important
things. But customers are slowly beginning
to ask important questions about the food
which they buy. When they buy eggs or
meat, for example, they think about where
the animals live and the food they eat. Do
they live comfortably? Do they have clean
water to drink, and do they eat good food?
How far do the eggs, milk or meat travel
from the farm to the supermarket? How
much are the farmers paid?
If you worry about things like this, you can
help. The best way is to support local
farmers and food growers in your area. Here
are some ways to do this:
• Make sure that 30 per cent of your food
comes from your local area – in other words,
not more than 50 kilometres from your
home.
• When you go into shops, supermarkets
and cafés, ask for food which is produced
locally.
sell wonderful, fresh, local products –
cheese, meat, bread, cakes, jam, fruit and
vegetables.
Another way to help the environment is to
grow your own food. Try growing fruit trees
and vegetables like potatoes in your garden.
If you haven’t got a garden, you can grow
tomatoes and herbs on your balcony. And if
you haven’t got a balcony, you can grow
herbs like basil near your kitchen window.
If you haven’t got a garden, why don’t you
join a food group? Is there a piece of land
near your home which you and your
neighbours can use? If there is, you can
plan a garden together, work in it together in
your free time, and share the fruit and
vegetables which you grow.
Text 2 – Mount St Helens
3 Read the text. Are the sentences true
(T), false (F), or is there no information
(NI)?
1 Mount St Helens is not near
Washington DC.
2 Washington has five volcanoes over
4,000 metres high.
3 Scientists thought that Mount
St Helens might erupt in 1980.
4 Jeff and Rachel often went canoeing
on the Yakima River.
5 They carried their canoe from
Ellensburg to the river.
6 Jeff and Rachel were frightened
when it got dark.
7 They had their old car with them that
day.
8 They felt safer when they heard the
news about the volcano.
9 Some cars didn’t get out of the valley
because it was too dark.
10 Some people from Ellensburg died
when the volcano erupted.
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Mount St Helens
Mount St Helens is in Washington State. It
isn’t anywhere near Washington DC, the
capital city of the USA. Washington DC is
in the east of the country, but Washington
State is in the north-west, near Canada.
Washington has six big volcanoes, and
some of them are thousands of metres
high. In 1980 scientists noticed that one
volcano, Mount St Helens, was growing
bigger on one side. They were worried
because this was a sign that it was
becoming more active. They watched the
volcano for many days and told people in
the area to be careful. However, it was
hundreds of miles from Jeff and Rachel’s
home, so they weren’t worried.
On 18th May, 1980 Jeff and Rachel went
canoeing on the Yakima River, near the
town of Ellensburg. They parked their car,
and then they hiked to the river, carrying
their canoe. It was a sunny morning, and
they were enjoying their day.
After a while they noticed that the sky was
getting darker, and that a kind of sand was
falling from the sky. Finally, it became
dark, and they felt very scared. They got
out of the river and went back to their car,
an old Volkswagen. Other cars were
coming down the valley road with their
headlights on because it was so dark. Jeff
and Rachel stopped one of the cars and
the driver told them that Mount St Helens
was erupting. They were less scared when
they heard this. They were a long way
from the mountain and they felt safe.
While Jeff and Rachel were driving home,
grey ash from the volcano was falling.
Some cars didn’t get out of the valley
because the ash got into the engines of
their cars, but Jeff and Rachel’s old car
continued to go. Their clothes and hair
were full of ash, but they arrived home
safely. Jeff kept some of the ash in a glass
jar, as a souvenir of a dramatic day. They
heard later that, sadly, sixty people died
because of the volcanic eruption.
Exam Writing
1 Complete the letter. Use one word in 2 Last week there was an article in
each gap. your local newspaper about teenagers
1 in your town. The article said that
Eco News, teenagers are lazy, they sit in the park
2
I am to comment 3 all day in the holidays and they don’t
the article about shopping in last month’s do anything useful in their free time.
magazine. Write a formal letter to the newspaper
4 and give your opinion.
his article, John Harrison
5
that people can’t make a
difference to the environment. However, in Paragraph 1
my 6 , we can make a difference.
Here are some things we can do. Give your reason for writing and say what
7 the real problem is.
, we can stop using so many
plastic bags to carry our shopping. We can Paragraph 2
take our own bags with us from home. It is Say what actions we can take.
very easy to make this simple change.
8
Paragraph 3
, we can think about where
our food comes from and how it is Write your conclusion.
produced. 9 example, 10
it grown using large amounts of energy? / 15
Did it travel thousands of miles to reach
us? Is there some 11 food we Total: / 70
could buy instead? points
12
, we can think about how we
get to the supermarket. Why do we have
to go by car? Can’t we walk or go by bike?
This would help us buy less and save
money too!
In 13 , we can protect the
environment in many ways. We just need
to spend some time thinking about small
changes to our daily behaviour.
14
enough people do this, it will
make a big difference to our world.
Kind 15 ,
Annie Stewart
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