Progress tests Straight to

First

7 Survival

1 Complete the text using words from the 4 Undergraduates use the
box. Use each word only once. postgraduate library. (can ✗)

by ends on of through to 5 We label all the luggage as

at under some of it was already labelled. (need ✗)

In some western countries, the tradition of

6 If you don’t want to give your credit card
details, you . (have ✗)
families eating meals together is in danger (1)
dying out. The 7 I don’t think you eat all those
cakes! (should ✓)
biggest threat (2) communal
meals seems to be that families are struggling to 8 After behaving so badly at school, Thomas
make (3) meet, which apologise to his
teacher. (make ✓)
results in both parents having to go out to work in
order to get (4) . 9 Everyone sign the book when
they arrive. (have ✓)
In my experience, although these working
parents manage to earn enough money for their 10 Our teacher us leave the
classroom. (let ✗)
families to live (5) , they regret having to give up
time with their children. One friend, who works an / 10

hour from home, says it is only the thought of his

3 For sentences 1–12, choose the
children which gets him (6) the day correct preposition.
but when he eventually arrives home, it’s always 1 Tonia swore she’d got ink on my book by / in
too late to eat with them. / from accident but I saw her drawing on it.

Family mealtimes are (7) threat from 2 Don’t eat that yoghurt! It’s about / out of / in
date.
another danger too; technology. Last week I was
3 We strongly object for / of / to the new taxes
in a restaurant where every member of the family
that the government is proposing.
on the table next to me was using a screen of
4 It was impossible to concentrate in / on / to
some kind and therefore paying no attention to her homework with all that noise coming
each other or the food! I think eating together as from next door.
a family is important and it’s stupid to put it 5 Yes, in /on / by theory he’s ready to take
(8) risk like this. the exam but I think he should practise a
bit more first.
/8
6 As supervisor, I’m in / out of / about
charge of both the staff and the machines.
2 Complete sentences 1–10 using the correct
form of the word given in brackets. There 7 Excuse me. Would you mind not staring to / for
/ at me like that?
is a tick (✓) or a cross (✗) which tells you
whether to use the positive or negative 8 We go to the cinema by / on / in average
form. Add any extra words you need to three times a month.
make the sentence grammatically correct, 9 The cat jumped down off the roof
e.g. auxiliary verbs or to. and disappeared out of / in / by
sight round the corner.
1 The red line means you
park here. (allow ✗) 10 He told me that they’re saving up to / for /
on a holiday next year.
2 When we arrived, we
show our passports. (have ✓)

3 You worry about him so

much. (ought ✗)

© Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016. This page may be photocopied and used within the
class.
Progress tests Straight to
First

11 You were all involved and I don’t think

Melissa is particularly at / on / in fault. Reading and Use of English Part 4
12 My sister says I shouldn’t worry for / about / on Transformations
having a low score in last week’s test as I
usually do well. 5 For questions 1–6, complete the second
sentence so that it has a similar meaning
/ 12
to the first sentence, using the word
given. Do not change the word given. You
Reading and Use of English Part 2 must use between two and five words,
Open cloze including the word given. Here is an
example (0).
4 For questions 1–8, read the text below
Example:
and think of the word which best fits
0 They think that the fugitive is hiding
each gap. Use only one word in each
in the mountains.
gap. There is an
BELIEVED
example at the beginning The fugitive IS BELIEVED TO BE HIDING
(0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS. in the mountains.
Example: Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
(0) WHAT
1 The boss said that I was late every day.
Blue-fin tuna
ACCUSED
When someone says the word ‘tuna’, (0) WHAT
The boss late
do you think of? You may well find that a can or a
every day.
sandwich springs to mind because, of course,
these huge, beautiful fish have (1) hunted by 2 The match went ahead as planned despite the
humans for centuries. fact that it was snowing.
Unfortunately, blue-fin tuna has become (2) EVEN
a delicacy that they are in danger of becoming The match went ahead
extinct. Due (3) demand, fishermen have started .
catching the fish before they have reached maturity, 3 Mumbai is home to a lot of people.
which (4) bad news because they are being
LARGE
caught before they’ve had a chance to reproduce.
This means that fish stocks are not being Mumbai is home to
naturally replenished. people.
Sadly, it looks (5) if the blue-fin tuna may 4 She would like him to continue
not survive much longer and, just (6) having piano lessons
the dodo, we will have eaten it into extinction. If WANT
this happens, not (7) will we lose one She stop having
source of seafood but there may be far more piano lessons.
serious repercussions. The sea itself may be at 5 Could you carry this bag for me, please?
risk because
MIND
blue-fin tuna are predators, (8) are essential
in maintaining a balanced ecological environment. this bag
for me, please?
/8
6 My sister talked me into joining the gym.
PERSUADE
My sister
the gym.

/ 12

/ 50

© Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016. This page may be photocopied and used within the
class.
Progress tests Straight to
First

© Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016. This page may be photocopied and used within the
class.