MODULE 2 Test Level 1 Name: Mark: .

Vocabulary and Grammar (50 points)

1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below. There are more verbs than you need. (4 points)
melt • contain • spill • stick to • turn into • figure out • spread out • remove • put up • check out
1. Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan, is over 8,500 kilometres with a population of 40 million.
2. I’m sorry that I coffee on your shirt.
3. Our company always people on social media before we hire them.
4. It’s important to the blue paint before painting the wall white.
5. This box our old family photos.
6. I haven’t this maths problem yet.
7. Let’s help Dad. He is new shelves in his office today.
8. The school is planning to this room a robotics lab.

2 Complete the sentences to show that you understand the meaning of the words in bold. (4 points)
1. She lives in a high-rise .
2. My favourite landmark in the city is .
3. She’s very sensitive. It’s easy to .
4. I’m not good at multitasking. I prefer doing .
5. There are excellent facilities in .
6. She’s a natural leader because she’s .
7. It’s made out of steel, so it’s .
8. I’m trying to learn how to operate this .

3 Complete the words according to the clues. (7 points)

1. hard block used for building b
2. achieving your goals s
3. excellent o
4. try a
5. very talented g
6. not visible h
7. land p

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4 Complete the text with the words below. There are more words than you need. (5 points)
surrounded • ended up • pull down • find out • skyscrapers • storey • blocks of flats • weaknesses
inhabitants • warn • lifts • took for granted
Some parts of our major cities aren’t nice areas to live in. 1. by
traffic-filled streets, many old 2. are covered with graffiti and have
broken 3. . The locals 4. visitors not to walk
in the streets at night, and people are often kept awake by police sirens.
Then, suddenly, builders 5. the old homes and put up modern
6.
instead. New people move in, businesses open and crime rates
fall. This is gentrification, and what can possibly be wrong with that?
While the original 7. may at first welcome the changes, they soon
8.
that they can’t afford to rent a home in the area any more.
Even if they own their own home, they no longer feel part of the community. Things they
9.
, such as local cafés and shops, have closed down and their old
neighbours have moved away.
This has happened in parts of London and New York, and many other cities around the world.
These once poor neighbourhoods have become affluent, safer and more modern, but for those
who used to live there and who 10. moving away, gentrification was
not a good thing.

5 Complete the sentences with who, which, that, whose, when or where. There may be more than one correct answer.
(5 points)
1. What’s the name of the place we ate last week?
2. The story he told was untrue.
3. I don’t know anything about the owner property this is.
4. This music camp is for teens are 14 to 18 years old.
5. He goes for long walks at times he wants to be alone.
6. What was the invention won the award?
7. Do you know any students have participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad?
8. I take the bus on days I don’t want to walk to school.
9. This is the park we used to hang out.
10. Frank Gehry is an architect buildings include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

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6 Combine the sentences with a relative pronoun to write non-defining relative clauses. Make any necessary changes.
(4 points)
1. One of my friends lives in my block of flats. Her name is Julie.

2. Our fitness centre is new. It has a pool.

3. Michael is very popular. He’s a natural leader.

4. I get home late on Tuesday afternoons. I have a piano lesson then.

5. This café has got good music. We often meet there.

6. We always wait at this bus stop. It’s a five-minute walk from our house.

7. GameTech is opening a factory in our town. Its headquarters are in the US.

8. Florence gets more than 13 million tourists every year. Around 400,000 people live there

7 Write sentences using the words in the chart. There are more some / any / no compounds than you need. (6 points)

I’m sorry, but there’s anyone more I can do to help you.

Hello? Is anything for Amy’s birthday yet.
I’ve never travelled nothing breaking into a car.
I rang that number, but no one to do for my project.
I haven’t bought somewhere outside this country.
I called the police when I saw something at home?
anywhere answered.
someone
nowhere

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

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8 Complete the sentences with a suitable word. (5 points)

1. Stephen Wiltshire is an artist draws detailed landscapes of cities from memory.
2. We ordered fish at the restaurant we like to eat.
3. There’s worth seeing at the cinema tonight.
4. The Empire State Building, opened in 1931, was once the world’s tallest skyscraper.
5. We found the market after we asked for directions.
6. People seats were in the last rows of the theatre couldn’t hear the actors.
7. Our friends took us special to show us an amazing view of the city.
8. Why hasn’t moved into the flat next door yet?
9. In the summer, most tourists come, the hotels are fully booked.
10. It’s too crowded in here. There’s to sit.

9 Complete the text with the correct relative pronoun or a some / no / any compound. (10 points)
In Britain, we call them lifts. In the US, they’re elevators. Both names come from words
1.
meaning is to make 2. higher. Since 1852,
3.
Elisha Otis invented the modern lift, it has moved only vertically.
But now there’s a lift 4. also moves horizontally. It was developed by
a German company and is called the MULTI Elevator System. By 2099, about 70% of the
world’s population will be city inhabitants 5. will all need 6.
to live. This will mean more skyscrapers. However, today’s lifts are inefficient. 7. can
argue with the fact that they stop on many floors until they reach the top. The MULTI,
8.
sophisticated technology allows it to turn corners, is different.
Check out the MULTI system online, 9. there are videos to watch – or visit Berlin in
10.
2021, the first skyscraper with a MULTI elevator system is opening.

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