MODULE 1 Test Level 1 Name: Mark: .

Vocabulary and Grammar (50 points)

1 The words in bold are in the wrong sentences. Write them next to the correct sentences. (4 points)
1. Cheese is a knowledge of protein.
2. The drama club meetings cause after school.
3. Using more decline will help the environment.
4. This new law will take place fuel lorries from driving on certain roads.
5. In the US, there has been a standard of living in the number of teens who want to get driving licences.

6. The source has improved in many developing countries.

7. Marine biologists have a lot of renewable energy of life in the oceans.
8. The insects ban a lot of damage to the trees in our garden.

2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words below. There are more words than you need. (5 points)
last • raise money • reach • major • run on • play a role • landscape • network • ship
restore steam • oil spill • government
1. Last year, we for a charity that provides and school supplies
to developing nations.
2. Old trains didn’t oil but on .
3. These robots are in cleaning up in the water.
4. The flight seemed to forever! I thought we’d never New York!
5. Rising temperatures are having a effect on the in
Arctic regions.

3 Complete the sentences to show that you understand the words in bold. (7 points)
1. Africa is famous for wildlife like .
2. Passports give people the freedom to .
3. Where I live, it’s easy to get around .
4. The destruction was a result of .
5. It was once widely believed .
6. At the last minute, I decided to hop on .
7. There is a real threat to .

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4 Complete the text with the words below. There are more words than you need. (4 points)
risky • long-distance • development • long before • capable of • global warming • load
time-consuming • come up with • accomplishment
On Sunday, 25th March, 2018, a 1. flight arrived in London from Perth, Australia.
It was the first time a passenger plane had flown between the two countries without the need for a 2.
stop to refuel in Singapore or Dubai. However, it wasn’t the longest non-stop
flight in the history of aviation, and it wasn’t the first time a plane had flown between the two countries
without stopping.
That happened 3. , in 1989 between London and Sydney, Australia. However,
there were no passengers, just the crew and a few other people, so the plane was much lighter than
normal. It was still a 4. journey because nobody really knew if the plane was
5.
flying such a long distance. In the end, it arrived with just enough fuel to land
safely. It was an amazing 6. , even by today’s standards.
What of the future? Engineers are sure to 7. ways of travelling faster and further
than ever before, but not everyone is happy. Planes are a major cause of 8. ,
and many people wonder whether there will be much of a planet worth visiting soon if we don’t
protect it.

5 Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the Past Simple or the Present Perfect Simple. (4 points)
help • not change • see • ban • not bring • go • live • spend
1. I these things to the recycling centre yet.
2. The government swimming here for a year after the oil spill.
3. I don’t remember when I on my first bus ride.
4. The landscape here much in the past decade.
5. Recent studies scientists understand more about global warming.
6. I’m exhausted. I the entire day picking up rubbish at the beach.
7. We already that film twice.
8. To protest deforestation, he in a tree for a month last summer.

6 Complete the sentences with the correct verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple or the Past Perfect Simple. (4 points)
1. We any whales until the boat the bay. (leave / not see)
2. This area trendy until after developers the old buildings.
(not become / restore)
3. By the time the beach clean-up , the volunteers more than
500 kg of rubbish. (collect / end)
4. We never on a cable car before we San
Francisco. (visit / be)

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7 Write a continuation of the sentences below. Use the words in brackets and the correct form of the Past Simple,
the Present Perfect Simple or the Past Perfect Simple. (4 points)
1. We got off the motorway at the wrong exit. (realise / our mistake, / we / already drive / 20 kilometres)
By the time we .
2. Becky’s nervous about the flight. (never fly / before)
She .
3. I need a holiday. (not be / anywhere / since / I / visit / Paris / a year ago)
I .
4. There are now some driverless cars on the roads in California. (the cars / be / carefully tested)
These appeared after .

8 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below. (4 points)
eat • live • drive • use • read • fly • call • lock
1. He’s used to long distances every day.
2. I think I forgot the door.
3. solar energy helps the environment.
4. I enjoy books about ancient history.
5. I don’t think I could get used to in such a cold climate.
6. I’m a vegetarian, but I used to meat when I was a child.
7. Don’t forget Mum on her birthday.
8. We decided instead of driving there.

9 Complete the sentences with one or two words. (4 points)

1. John passed the driving test yet.
2. you saved enough money to go on holiday next month?
3. Michael was shocked by his exam score. He expected such a low mark.
4. you enjoy your visit to the London Transport Museum yesterday?
5. It’s hard getting to waking up so early.
6. I’m afraid of , so I take the train.
7. We took a walk after we eaten dinner.
8. We’re on our way home. The demonstration just ended.

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10 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. (10 points)
In June 2013, when Australia decided 1. (protect) an additional 170,000
hectares of forest in a Tasmanian wilderness reserve, Miranda Gibson had a special reason
to celebrate.
Eighteen months earlier, on 14th December 2011, she 2. (move) into
a 400-year-old tree in a forest under threat of being destroyed. Although tree-sitting, which
3.
(be) a form of protest since the 1970s, is risky and uncomfortable,
Gibson decided to do it after she 4. (spend) years trying other ways to
prevent the forest’s destruction.
For 449 days, Gibson lived on a platform 60 metres above the ground. She was helped by
people who 5. (deliver) food and water to her. 6.
(use) a solar-powered computer, she posted videos of herself and of logging activity, and the
public, media and government began 7. (pay attention). A fire in March 2013
8.
(force) Gibson to leave the tree – but in June, the forest she
9.
(fight) to preserve became protected land. Since then, Gibson’s story
10.
(inspire) activists to keep trying.

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