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Vocabulary
1 Fill in: design, research, treat, discover, advise, force, arrest, invent, cover, celebrate.
Marks: ____
10×0.5 5
Grammar
1 Neil Armstrong .................................. (walk) 4 Beethoven played the piano and the violin,
on the Moon in 1969. but he .................................. (not/play) the
2 Amelia Earhart .................................. (try) to cello.
fly around the world in 1937. 5 Maria Callas.................................. (travel) to
3 .................................. (Steve Jobs/live) in many different countries during her singing
the USA? career.
Marks: ____
5×1 5
Everyday English
5 Read the dialogues (1-3). Complete the dialogues (1-3) with appropriate
responses by circling the appropriate letter (A, B or C).
2 X: ................................................................
Y: Yes, I really loved it.
A How was the museum?
B What did you think of the museum?
C Did you enjoy the museum?
Reading
6 Read the announcements below. For every announcement (1-4) choose the right
sentence (A-E) and write the appropriate letter (A, B, C, D or E) in the table. One
sentence is extra and does not match any of the announcements.
3 4 Attention!
50% off Odeon Cinema
tickets for the historical The Great Pyramid has low
drama Lincoln with this ceilings and uneven floors.
magazine! Visitors enter at their own risk.
1 2 3 4
Marks: ____
4×5 20
Listening
7 You are going to hear five short texts twice. For questions 1-5, choose the
answer which matches what you have heard by circling the appropriate letter
(A, B or C).
A B C
A B C
A B C
A B C
Marks: ____
5×4 20
Writing
8 Your English teacher has asked you to write a biography of the writer Rudyard
Kipling. Write the biography and explain why you admire him (50-100 words). Use
the information below to help you. In your biography:
• mention where and when Kipling was born.
• give details about his life and achievements.
• explain why you admire him.
• Born 1865 in Bombay, India. Moved to England aged 5 but didn’t enjoy it. Moved back to India
aged 16.
• Published the poems “If-” and “Gunga Din” and the children’s books The Jungle Book and Just
So Stories.
• Died 1936 in London, England.
• Reasons to admire him: great writer, inspired many other writers, works still popular today.
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