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Impact Level 4 End-Of-Term Test 2 0
Impact Level 4 End-Of-Term Test 2 0
Name: _________________________
Vocabulary
1 Match the sentence halves.
1 The election of the new president signals the start of a new ___________________.
2 Winning a Nobel Prize is a great ___________________.
3 He asked for ___________________ advice following the surprising diagnosis.
4 An archaeologists’ job is to discover the secrets of ___________________
civilizations.
5 Some people hate them, but others think that roller coasters are great
___________________.
6 People with natural talent have an ___________________ over others.
(6 points)
3 Circle the correct option.
On a clear October morning in 2012, Felix Baumgartner (1) jumped / had been jumping to
Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere. He (2) knew / had known that millions of
people around the world (3) were watching / had been watching as he (4) started / has
started his incredible descent that Sunday morning. Felix (5) jumped / was jumping and (6)
spent / had spent the next four minutes and 22 seconds in freefall before opening his
parachute and landing safely back on Earth five minutes later. Felix and his team (7) had
trained / were training for five years prior to the jump which was designed to improve our
understanding of how the human body copes under extreme conditions.
(7 points)
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7 Complete the sentences by writing the if it is necessary.
3 _______ Gobi desert covers a vast area of land in _______ China and _______
Mongolia.
4 The expedition went up through _______ Norway and into _______ Arctic Circle.
5 _______ Haiti and _______ Montserrat are both islands in _______ Caribbean.
(10 points)
8 Match the extra information with each of the sentences. Write the letter.
1 I read the book which was written by the famous climber, Conrad Anker.
_____________________________________________________________________
2 I visited the site which was discovered last year.
_____________________________________________________________________
3 The skull was missing from the skeleton which was discovered by the scientists.
_____________________________________________________________________
4 They are the biggest animals that live in the desert.
_____________________________________________________________________
5 The documentary that we are making is about survival in extreme conditions.
_____________________________________________________________________
(5 points)
The forests of Northern California have been home to nature’s skyscrapers for thousands of
years. Giant sequoias and California redwoods are the biggest trees on the planet. Originally,
these trees are believed to have lived all over the northern hemisphere, but today they are
found in fewer than a hundred forests scattered across Northern California. The title for the
world’s tallest tree belongs to a Californian redwood called Hyperion, but the world’s largest
tree, a giant sequoia known as General Sherman, has a base diameter of more than 11 metres
(36 ft.). It stands a massive 84 metres (275 ft.) tall, weighs 1.2 million kilogrammes and is
thought to be about 2,500 years old. Scientists have estimated that the world’s oldest giant
sequoia lived for more than 3,500 years. Sequoias need a huge amount of water to sustain
their enormous size, and they are supplied with this from the melted snow from the Sierra
Nevada Mountains. Whilst each tree would provide an astonishing amount of timber,
sequoias aren’t cut down and used for building materials because the wood is too brittle.
1 There have been skyscrapers in Northern California for thousands of years. ____
2 Giant sequoias were once found all over the globe. ____
3 Nowadays, there are fewer than a hundred giant sequoias trees. ____
4 There are fewer than 2,500 sequoia trees left. ____
5 General Sherman is the world’s tallest tree. ____
6 General Sherman is six feet shorter than Hyperion. ____
7 Scientists think that General Sherman is about 3,500 years old. ____
8 Giant sequoias need more than a thousand litres of water every day. ____
9 Giant sequoias provide the logging industry with a great deal of wood. ____
(9 points)
Writing
11 Choose one of the following topics. Write between 100-130 words.
1 Write a problem and solution essay entitled ‘Tourism harms the environment’.
Remember to describe the problem and offer several solutions.
3 Imagine one of the world’s biggest trees has been blown over by a powerful storm.
Write a news report saying what happened. Remember to answer the five ‘Ws’ in the
report.
(10 points)