Final Written Test

Level: Intermediate 3 RESULT: ______ /92 p

Student’s Name: __________________ Teacher: _______________

7. Sheila can cope _____ children easily.

Listening (6p)
8. I’ve always told you that not sticking ____ your
1 Track 7 Listen to six conversations and principles can result ____ losing your authority.
underline the correct answers: a), b) or c).
1. The neighbours invited Lynne for . 2 Fill in the gaps with the adjectives from the
tea coffee lunch box in the correct form. (5p)

bored / boring insulted / insulting

2. Jack would like to be a / an .
tiring / tired disappointed / disappointing
millionaire mechanic engineer
amazed / amazing shocking / shocked
worried / worrying surprised / surprising
3. Jo’s sister is getting married in .
excited / exciting interesting / interested
Hong Kong Dubai Sydney
1. I worked hard all day. Now I feel
4. If Elizabeth wants a second helping, she should ________________.
leave food on her plate. 2. She's ________________of her job. She's looking
plenty of a little no for another.
3. We were ________________to hear he's 50. He
5. Vicky couldn’t remember phone number. looks much younger.
Matt’s Tom’s her 4. The book I'm reading is________________.
5. You look ________________. What's wrong?
6. The problem is happening . 6. We had a ________________time at the
on the Internet in class at lunchtime restaurant. The place is awful.
7. Some of his comments were
Vocabulary ________________
8. He's always showing off. It's really
1. Complete the sentences with the correct ________________ .
prepositions. (7p) 9. My exam results were a
little________________.
1. You’ll get better __ it if you practise a lot.
10. There's nothing more ________________than
2 . We get on well because we have a lot
riding on a rollercoaster.
common them.
3 . He’ll succeed getting promoted if he
puts ____ the hours.
4. You can rely Angela to make friends
all the neighbours.
5. Richard has a talent music, but he’s
hopeless maths.
6. The documentary focuses education and
picks up the role of technology.

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3 Complete the sentences with the words in the 3 John tried to chat Kim but she wasn’t
box. (3p) interested in him.
a) on b) down c) up d) off
apprenticeship certificate degree
4 If you click the icon there, you’ll be able
distance licence online
to download the document you want.
a) down b) up c) off d) on
1 Alice has got a _____ in economics from
5 You don’t need to dress for the barbecue.
the University of Toronto and an MA in finance
It’s going to be a relaxed event.
from UCL.
a) up b) off c) on d) down
2 I wasn’t given my during the
6 Do you feel ready to settle and start a
graduation ceremony. It was sent in the post a
family? I’m not sure I do.
few weeks later.
a) off b) up c) down d) on
3 After we moved house I nearly forgot to update
Grammar
my address on my driving .
4 Tim has just started a(n) course in 5 Underline the correct alternatives. (5p)
accounting and says it’s a really good to way to
fit in his studies with work. 1. If you ’ll pay / paid in cash, we ’ll / ’d be able
5 Many universities now offer to give you a 10% discount.
learning courses so that people can continue
2. If they win / ’ll win this game, they ’d / ’ll be
working and study from home in their free time.
6 If you got a(n) with our company, top of the league table.
you’d work four days a week with us and go to 3. I won’t come if / unless I feel better.
college every Friday. 4. If she had/would have enough qualifications,
we could/be able to take her for this job.
6. If you don’t take / won’t take antibiotics, your
4. Make sentences with the following be a high cough will get/ gets much worse.
achiever, dress down, distance learning, mind
my own business, be runner up, hopeless at. 6. Underline the correct alternatives to
(6p) complete the conversations. (7,5p)
A: How long have you 1 known/been knowing
Carla? B: Oh, 2 for/since we were children!
A: Really? 3Were you always/Have you always
been friends?
B: Mostly, yes. We didn’t speak for a while once
when we were fifteen, but 4 for/since then we’ve
always 5 been having/had a good relationship.
How long have you been 6 gone/going out with
Geo?
A: 7 For/Since about three years. But it feels
longer! A: You look exhausted Natalie, what have
8 you been doing/you done ?
B: Oh, I’ve 9 worked/been working really long
4 Underline the correct answer, a), b), c) or hours at the office recently.
d). (3p) A: Really? How long 10 do you work/have you
worked there now?
1 Please take _ your shoes and leave them by
the door. B: 11 For/Since 2010. But it’s 12 been/been
a) on b) up c) off d) down being really busy recently. For example, today
2 Tania and Kate get really well and have I’ve 13had/ been having four really long
been best friends since school. meetings.
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 A: Oh dear. I have to say I don’t miss meetings. I 4. They gave him new bike for his birthday, that
haven’t 14had/been having any since I started he loved.
working from home. .
B: Oh, how long have you been working from 5. There are a few of biscuits, but there isn’t no
home? A: 15 For/Since three months. I love it! cheese.
.
7 Underline the correct alternatives. (5p)
9 Circle the correct answers to complete the
1. ‘An / A investment in the / –– knowledge text: a), b), c) or d). (5,5p)
always pays the best interest.’ (Benjamin
Franklin) In 1 months, David Jones, 44, from Sussex,
hopes to break 2 world record. He’s
2 . ‘Many of life's failures are people which / that planning to spend 121 days in a room with 3
did not realize how close they were to success of the world's most poisonous snakes, 4 will
when / how they gave up.’ (Thomas A. Edison) include deadly black mambas.
The four-month challenge will begin on April
3 . ‘If I have seen / been seeing farther than others, 24th. The current record is held by South African
it is because I was standing on — / the shoulders Martin Smit, 5 is also known as Mad Martin.
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of giants.’ (Isaac Newton) In Oct 2008, he 113 days in a room with
snakes without being bitten.
4 . ‘Be civil to all; sociable to many / much; Mr Jones, 7 wife is terrified of snakes,
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familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to no / been interested in them. He decided this
none.’ (Benjamin Franklin) was the challenge that he wanted to do. He 9
doing it to raise money for charity. 10 last
5 . ‘I’m looking for a lot of men whose / who have person who tried to break the record in 2009 was
an infinite capacity to not know what can’t / bitten by one of the snakes, 11 almost caused
able to be done.’ (Henry Ford) him to lose a leg.

6 . ‘An / The important thing is not to stop 1 . a) a few b) a little c) some d) much
questioning. The / — curiosity has its own 2 . a) –– b) a c) the d) some
reason for existing.’ (Albert Einstein) 3 . a) enough b) many c) all d) much
4 . a) who b) that c) where d) which
8 Correct two mistakes in each sentence. (5p) 5 . a) that b) which c) who d) whose
6 . a) ’s spent b) ’s been spending c) spent
0 He’s the man that his son has won the lottery d) ’ll spend
last week. 7. a) whose b) which c) who d) that
Ex: He’s the man whose son won the lottery last 8 . a) always was b) has always c) is always
week. d) was always
9 . a) have been b) has c) was d) is
1. 1I don’t able to come tonight because I didn’t 10 . a) The b) A c) One d) ––
manage find a babysitter. 11. a) who b) that c) which d) and
.
2. She’s be living abroad since the past five years.
.
3. I’ve met him when we have been working in
the same company.
.

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10. Circle the correct one; Present Perfect
Simple or Present Perfect Continuous. (5p) Reading (10p)

1. Oh God! Shevchenko has scored / has been 12 Read the article.

scoring again.
Maths genius turns down $1m
2. They have played / have been playing for an In March 2010, unconventional Russian maths
hour; yet, they aren’t tired. genius Grigory Perelman was in the newspapers
3. The new student has been studying / has for refusing to accept a prize of $1m. The US Clay
studied hard recently. Mathematics Institute had awarded the
Millennium Prize for his solution to the Poincaré
4. How many times have you visited / have you conjecture, posed by French mathematician Henri
been visiting Spain? Poincaré in 1904. It was considered one of the
most important and difficult problems in
5. You have promised / have been promising me
mathematics. Perelman posted his solution on the
many times not to be late again.
internet in 2002, but it took the world’s leading
6. He has visited / has been visiting ten museums mathematicians several years to check it.
this week. This wasn’t the first time Dr Perelman had refused
a prestigious prize. In 2006, he turned down the
7. We are really tired. Because we have Fields Medal, regarded as the equivalent of the
travelled / have been travelling around Paris all Nobel Prize, saying, ‘I’m not interested in money
day. or fame.’
8. Sally is so happy nowadays; because she has Perelman was born in St Petersburg in 1966. At
found / has been finding a decent job. the age of 16, he won a gold medal, with a perfect
score, at the International Mathematical
9. I’m out of breath; because I have been running Olympiad. He was also a talented violinist and
/ have run for an hour. loved opera. He went on to complete a PhD,
followed by a distinguished career, which
10. I have done / have been doing my
included posts at several US universities. In 1995,
homework, I can hand it in tomorrow.
he refused to send a CV when Stanford University
11. Complete the sentences with a relative offered him a job, arguing that if they were
pronoun. (4p) familiar with his work, it should not be necessary.
1 He doesn’t get enough exercise, ___ Since 2006, Perelman has given up mathematics
explains why he’s always so tired. and lives a reclusive life in St Petersburg.
2 Is he the man son is working in Described as the world’s cleverest man, he lives
Seattle? with his mother in a small flat, where neighbours
3 That’s the restaurant we went for my
say he plays table tennis against the wall.
dad’s birthday.
4 My cousin, lives in Scotland, has
invited us to her new house next month. 1. Perelman is gifted at maths. T
5 Many people use the internet for more than three 2. The newspapers didn’t think he should
hours a day, can cause stress. accept a million dollar prize.
6 In this photo, you can see the exact moment 3. Perelman won the prize for solving a
they won the match. very difficult maths problem.
7 Our hotel in Las Vegas, had 24-hour
4 It took him several years to solve the
room service, had over 1000 bedrooms!
8 When I was in London, I met an artist problem on the internet.
painting of the Queen was displayed in the 5 He refused the Nobel Prize in 2006.
National Portrait Gallery.

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6 Perelman scored 100% at the
International Mathematical Olympiad.
7 He wasn’t interested in anything except
mathematics.
8 He did a PhD before he went to
the USA.
9 At Stanford University, they knew
nothing about Perelman’s work.
10 He doesn’t work in mathematics now.
11 He lives alone in St Petersburg.

Writing (15p)
Choose a topic and write an essay in 120-150
words
1. Describe your neighborhood using compound nouns.
2. The most important achievement in your life
3. To be successful in life you need a bit of luck and a lot of hard work.
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