Language Test B

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Listening

1 [AUDIO 7] You will hear a part of a radio programme about money. Listen and decide if the sentences
are True (T) or False (F).

1 Boris earns £4 an hour. ______

2 Boris wash the dishes at home to get his pocket money. ______
3 Boris spends all the money he has. ______
4 Boris usually buys books and sweets. ______
5 Boris sometimes borrow money from his friends. ______
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Vocabulary

2 Match a word from Column A with one from Column B to make a phrase. There are two extra
words in Column B.

Column A Column B

0 public D A court
1 a jar ___ B of chocolate
2 car ___ C of biscuits
3 piggy ___ D toilets
4 a packet ___ E park
5 a bar ___ F of lemonade
G of jam
H bank
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3 Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences.

0 You can buy sausages at the .

A bakery B butcher’s C bookshop
1 Men often keep their money in a .
A purse B wallet C box
2 You buy flowers and bananas in .
A cans B groups C bunches
3 If you need some aspirin, you should go to the .
A shoe shop B newsagent’s C pharmacy
4 A very big shop where you can buy many different things from clothes to furniture is a .
A escalator B department store C clothes shop
5 A place where people can go to choose and watch many different films is a .
A single-screen cinema B big screen cinema C multi-screen cinema
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Grammar

4 Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives in brackets.

0 Isobel is the tallest (tall) person in our class.

1 Mexico is one of __________________________ (hot) countries – it’s sometimes more than 50oC there!
2 English is __________________________ (easy) to learn than Chinese.
3 The clothes in this shop aren’t __________________________ (cheap) than in the shop near my house.
4 I think History is __________________________ (enjoyable) school subject – I love it!
5 My new headphones are __________________________ (comfortable) than my old ones.
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5 Going to or the Present Continuous? Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

0 going / I’m / now / have / a shower / to

I’m going to have a shower now.

1 is / her friend / for lunch / today / mum / meeting

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2 to / going / a birthday present / Alex / buy / is

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3 a film / evening / watching / they’re / this / on television

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4 to / Vera / going / is / clean the house / this afternoon

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5 to / coming / with us / is / my cousin / the shopping centre

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Speaking

6 Choose the best responses to complete the short dialogues.

Speaker A Speaker B

0 Can I help you? A Have you got a size seven?

B I’m looking for a new shirt.

C This one’s on sale.

1 What colour would you like? A Blue, please.

B £18.99.

C Forty.

2 Where are the changing rooms, please? A You can change them here.

B I’ll get you your change.

C They’re over there.

3 I’ll take them. A Great! You can pay over here.

B Great! How much is it?

C Great! The changing room’s there.

4 Have you got these in large, please? A Sorry, but we only have pink ones.

B Sorry, but we only have these sizes.

C Sorry, but they’re much too small.

5 It’s too expensive! A This one’s on sale.

B This one isn’t as cheap as that one.

C Do you want a smaller one?

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Reading

7 Read the article about Amazon. Then complete the notes below. Use one word in each gap.

0 Amazon became the biggest American shop in 2015.

1 Amazon is a website where you can __________________________ different products.
2 Bezos read a report about the future of __________________________ shopping.
3 He looked for a __________________________ for his company which started with the first letter of the
alphabet.
4 In the first two months Amazon sold books to __________________________ American states and 45
other countries.
5 At first people could only buy __________________________ on Amazon.

From garage to the biggest American shop: Amazon

In 2015, Amazon became the biggest shop in the USA. And you can’t even walk into it.
It makes all of its money through the internet!

It all started in 1994 in Washington State in America. Jeff Bezos read a report about the future of
selling products on the internet. The report said that the number of sales online would quickly grow
by 2,300%! So Bezos created a list of five products that he could sell online: CDs, computers,
computer software, DVDs, and books. He finally decided to sell books because people always
wanted books.
Bezos started the company in his garage! He wanted a name for his company that began with ‘A’ so
that it would appear early in alphabetical order on internet searches. He looked through a dictionary
and decided on ‘Amazon’. He chose this because it was ‘exotic and different’ and it was the biggest
river in the world.
In its first two months of business, Amazon sold to all 50 states in the USA and over 45 countries.
In the beginning, it specialised in only one product, books. Now, you can choose from thousands of
products, from electronic technology and clothes to sports equipment and jewellery.

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Writing

8 You are having a birthday party. Write a note to a friend and invite him or her.
• inform about your party;

• ask your friend if she or he can come;

• inform your friend what time the party is starting.

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