NAME CLASS

American
Progress Test Files 7–12
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 1

GRAMMAR 3 Complete the sentences with one word.

1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of Example: How many eggs are there in the fridge?
the verbs in parentheses. 1 The bus is cheaper _______ the train.
Example: I went (go) a restaurant last night. 2 It’s _______ longest day of the year today.
1 The teacher ________ (not be) very happy with my 3 There are _______ sandwiches on the table. Help
elp
homework last week. yourself.
2 What _______ you _______ (see) at the movies 4 How _______ did that magazine cost?

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tomorrow? 5 When we arrived home there wasn’t _______
_ food
3 She _______ (not finish) all her work yesterday. in the fridge.
4 Ben’s gone home. He _______ (leave) five minutes 6 _______ you like to go on
n a safari vacation?
vacation

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ago. 7 That restaurant makes
kes the _______ delicio food in
delicious foo
5 _______ you ever _______ (sing) karaoke? town.
6 She_______ (walk) to work yesterday. 8 Did you watch
ch the show about Brazil _______ night?
Braz ____
7 _______ Lydia _______ (call) recently? 9 _______ were forty people at the party.
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8 A What are your plans for the holiday weekend? 10 I need
d _______ computer.
__ buy a new comput
B I _______ (fly) to Boston with my boyfriend. 11 He’s oing to visit his family
e’s going f in Rome _______ week.
9 _______ the children _______ (sleep) well last night? 12
2 _______
_ many peopl live in your house?
m y people
10 Kate _______ (wear) her new dress to Dave’s party
last Friday.
11 They _______ (not have) a vacation next Christmas.
s.
12 Where _______ your brother _______ (work) att the
ec 13 Di
Did

15 T
1
d you see the aacciden
14 Have
They’ve
hey’ve bough
Spain.
pain
accident _______ morning?
Have you ________ been to Asia?
bought _______ little house in the south of
b
ag
moment? 15
13 _______ you _______ (be) to a music concert
ncert
before? Grammar total 40
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14 She _______ (not buy) a new car next month.

VOCABULARY
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15 I _______ (speak) a lot of English
lish in
n the US last
summer. 4 Underline the odd word out.
15
1
Example: mushrooms onions apples potatoes
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1 carefully serious slowly fast

2 Underline the correct
rrect word or phrase.
2 stove armchair bed kitchen
Example: I didn’t
dn’t study
tu / studied
tudied English
E at school.
3 pineapples bananas carrots grapes
1 He drives
ves veryy dangerously / dang
dangerous. 4 carton jar jam package
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2 Would
ould / Do you like swim
swimming?
swimming 5 cake eggs chocolate cookies
3 Their new album is most / more
m interesting than 6 fireplace square road bridge
thee last one.
7 supermarket vegetable bank shopping mall
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4 Is / Are there aany app

apples?
8 fridge cupboard mirror ceiling
5 W
Wee love goi
going to concerts
c / the concerts.
9 lamp wall floor stairs
6 I think it’s eas / more easy to learn English than
it’s easier
10 near there under behind
Russian.
Ru
10
7 Do you eat many / much fruit?
8 Have you ever wrote / written a love letter?
5 Complete the expressions with go, get, or have.
9 She is the shortest / shorter in her family.
Example: go shopping at the weekend
10 Laptops are smaller that / than desktop computers.
1 _______ up late on the weekend
10
2 _______ a shower before breakfast
3 _______ on vacation to Greece
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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 7–12
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation A ENGLISH FILE 1

4 _______ a train to Paris 7 I booked the tickets _______ night.

5 _______ for a walk in the evening ago last yesterday
6 _______ a swim in the sea 8 Does your apartment have _______ conditioning?
7 _______ dressed in the morning cold cool air
8 _______ to the beach when it’s sunny 9 My grandfather was a _______.
painting paintor painter
9 _______ a good time on vacation
10 I often _______ emails from my friends in Australia.
Austr
10 _______ blond hair
take get bring

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10 10
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6 Complete the sentences with one word. Vocabulary total 40

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Example: I met him at the railway station this morning.
PRONUNCIATION
1 I was so tired last night. I _______ for ten hours!
8 Underline the
he stressed
sed syllable.
2 We saw Jamie the day _______ yesterday.

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Example: sand|wiches
3 The new department _______ in town sells
everything. 1 po|li|ti|cian 6 re|m
mem|ber
4 Alice _______ me a very interesting secret yesterday! 2 for|get d |ge|rous
7 dan
n|gi|neer 8 mu|se|um
5 It’s much colder downstairs than it is _______.
6 Listen! Can you _______ that noise?
7 There’s a post office next _______ the pharmacy.
8 Do they have any _______ heating in their new
ec 3 en
ra|vel
4 tra
5 Oc|to|ber
9 vege|ta|bles
10 de|ssert
10
ag
apartment?
9 Lots of people _______ photos at Kate and
nd Bill’s 9 Match
Match the
t words with the same sound.
wedding.
10 Did you put the milk in the _______?
__? It isn’t very away juice peas cook cereal bus
aw
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cold. machine tea park yesterday chips

10 Example: lettuce chips
1 key _______
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7 Complete the sentences

nces
ces with the correct word.
2 fridge _______
Example: I had breakfast
eakfast
st before I got dressed.
dres .
dressed
3 between _______
es dressed
clothes ed shower
showe
4 painter _______
1 I’ve met her before,
efore, but I’ve __ her name.
_______ h 5 car _______
w.

remembered
mbered
e forgotten lost
6 zebra _______
2 Would _______ in your coffee?
W d you like some __
7 you _______
jam sugar butter
utte
8 street _______
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3 T _______ all the time. I hate it.
he dogs next door ___
cry
cr
ry shout bark 9 up _______
Let’s
4 L et’s _______
_ for
fo coffee next week. 10 shower _______
meet
m et see speak
eet 10
5 I’ve
I’v looked
looke _______ my scissors, but I can’t find
them.
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Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation total 100
6 I usually leave work at 6:00, and I _______ home at
7:00.
go get come

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American
Progress Test Files 7–12
Reading and Writing A ENGLISH FILE 1

READING 7 Guests at the Berkshire think the food is really good.

A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
1 Read the text and check (✓) A, B, or C.
8 You can’t eat at the restaurant if you aren’t staying at
the hotel.
Review of the Berkshire A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
hotel 9 The writer booked his room online.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
Last month my wife and I stayed at the new Berkshire hotel
10 The beds in the hotel aren’t very wide.

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in western Massachusetts. It’s an informal, relaxed hotel in
a nineteenth-century building. We went there a month after
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
it opened, and it was full of young fashionably dressed
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people from Boston. They go there to escape from their

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busy city life because it’s only ninety minutes from the city
by car.
2 Read the text again
n and answer the questions.
que
questions
The hotel has become very popular because its restaurant 1 Where is the Berkshire?
hire?
serves incredibly good food. People say it’s the best hotel ______________________
________
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food in the state. All of the food comes from the hotel’s 2 Wheree do thee chefs get their vvegeta
vegetables from?
gardens. They keep animals and grow vegetables and fruit. ___________________________________________
______________________
____________
On some days a chef shows you around the garden. You 3 What kind of clothes d
did the hotel guests wear?
choose your food, and he cooks it for your dinner. My wife
___________________________________________
___________________
_____________
and I had chicken cooked in a delicious sauce and a warm
apple cake for dessert.
The meals aren’t expensive. They’re cheaper than in many
restaurants, but only hotel guests can eat there and the
ec What
4 W hat did the writer’s
writer’ wife have for dessert?
w
___________________________________________
________
_____________
5 How
How m did the writer pay for a room at the hotel?
much di
ag
00 a
rooms aren’t cheap. They cost between $350 and $400 ___________________________________________
_____
_______
ere. Every
night, but you don’t need to be very rich to stay there. ery
5
rs each.
month the hotel offers five rooms for five dollars h. Look
ed to book
for the offers on their website. Then you need ook them
the Reading total 15
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ody is waiting for

by phone, but do it fast because everybody
e got one of the cheap
these offers. We were very lucky – we chea
WRITING
ying there.
rooms, and we really enjoyed staying ere. The rooms are
lly big. The
beautifully decorated and really e beds are a bit Answer the questions. Write 25–35 words for each
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narrow, but for five dollars, I’m not complainin

complaining! question.
1 Where did you go for your last vacation? What did you
Example: A lot of the hotel
el guests com
come from Boston. do there?
A True
T ■
✓ B Falselse ■ C Doesn’t
D say ■ 2 Describe your favorite city. What can you do there?
3 What are you planning to do next weekend?
w.

1 The hotel
otel is in
n eastern Mass
Massachusetts.
Massachuse
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■ Writing total 10
2 The hotel opened th
three mo
months ago.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■ Reading and Writing total 25
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3 Itt is an old
old buil
building.
A True
Tr ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
4 T
The
he Be
Berkshir
Berkshire is popular with people with young
chi
children.
Tru ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
A True
5 The writer lives in Boston.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
6 You can drive there from the city in an hour and a
half.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■

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 NAME CLASS
American
Progress Test Files 7–12
Listening and Speaking A ENGLISH FILE 1

LISTENING SPEAKING
1 Listen to two people talking about Montreal in 1 Ask your partner these questions.
Canada. Check (✓) A, B, or C. 1 What did you do last weekend?
1 When did Sarah go to Montreal? 2 What’s your favorite restaurant?
A last year ■ B in March ■ C in May ■ 3 When did you last go to a museum?
2 Where did Sarah stay in Montreal? 4 Have you ever won a prize?
A in an apartment ■ B in a hotel ■ 5 Which famous person would you like ike to meet?
meet
C in a house ■ 6 What are you going to do after this class?

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3 What did Jeremy like best in Montreal? 7 Have you ever slept outside?
A an old church ■ B a market ■ 8 ing thing
What’s the most interesting hing to see in your
you
C an art gallery ■ town / city?
4 What was the weather like when Sarah was in 9 How many emails have you written today?
Montreal? oing at the moment?
10 What are you doing
A cold ■ B cloudy ■ C warm ■ Now answerr your partner’s
artner’s quest
questions.
5 Does Jeremy want to go to Montreal again?
A yes ■ B no ■ C he’s not sure ■ he information
2 Read the mation and answer your partner’s
questions.
tions..

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5
Lola’s Ca
Café
2 Listen to five conversations. Write A–E in the Open 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
boxes to show what the speakers are talking about.
Conversation 1 ■ MENU
ag
Conversation 2 ■ Sandw
Sandwiches
Sandwiches: egg, cheese, ham $4.25

Conversation 3 ■ Te
Tea $1.35

Conversation 4 ■ Coff
Coffee $2.65

Conversation 5 ■ Fruit juices: apple, orange, tomato $1.75

Ice cream: vanilla, chocolate, coffee $2.95
A a ticket
B a bill Sorry, no credit cards
C a movie
D a passport
E some stamps 3 Now make questions and ask your partner about a
house for sale.
a

5
r
8IFSF

IPVTF
Listening total 10 r
)PX
NBOZ

CFESPPNT
r
IBWF

HPPE
WJFX
r
)PX
PME

IPVTF
r
)PX
NVDI

DPTU

Speaking total 15

Listening and Speaking total 25

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