Language Test C

Name: ___________________________________________ Class: ______________

LISTENING

1 [Track 2] You will hear three short dialogues. Listen and decide if the statements
are true (T) or false (F).

Dialogue 1

1 Miranda wants Josh to organise a special event. T / F

2 Josh is busy on Mondays and can’t come to the meetings. T / F

Dialogue 2

3 Josh wants Miranda to be a student councillor. T/F

4 Miranda must enter her name by 4 pm on Friday next week. T / F

Dialogue 3

5 Josh’s grandmother didn’t use to have many clothes when she was younger. T / F

6 Josh’s grandmother doesn’t like wasting things. T / F

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VOCABULARY

2 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

litter join encourage rubbish factories community

Everywhere I look, there is pollution of some kind. Last night there was a festival in town
and this morning there’s so much 0 litter everywhere. I don’t know why people can’t put
their 1 ____________ in the bins. I’m organising a big event to make the local
2
____________ aware of the problem and I want as many people as possible to
3
____________ my campaign to 4 ____________ people to clean up the town. One good
thing is that the big 5 ____________ that produced plastic has now closed so there’s no
more smoke going into the air above the town. We just need to make the streets cleaner.

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3 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

0 Plastic dropped from ships can seriously clean up / pollute the ocean.

1 We need to protect / organise the planet from all the pollution so we must recycle
more.

2 We’re going to sign up / hold an election to choose a student councillor.

3 Don’t waste / recycle water. Turn the tap off while you’re brushing your teeth.

4 Who are you going to vote / sign up for in the school election?

5 Climate damage / change is a serious environmental problem.

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GRAMMAR

4 Complete the paragraph. Put the verb in brackets in the correct form.

Julia 0 had wanted (want) to speak to the town councillors about pollution in her city for

six months and finally she was going to meet some of them yesterday.

She 1 ________________________ (read) through all her information carefully before

she 2 ________________________ (leave) the house.

However, when she 3 ________________________ (get) to the bus stop, her bus
4
________________________ (already/go).

She had to take the next one. By the time she got to the town hall, all the councillors
5
________________________ (left).

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5 Complete the dialogue. Use used to and the words in brackets to help you.

A: Where did you use to live when you were a child?

You 1 _____________ not ______________ live in London, did you?

B: No, I 2 ___________________________ live on a farm in Africa.

A: Wow! How exciting!

B: Yes, it was. I 3___________________________ have a new adventure every day.

A: Weren’t there dangerous animals there?

B: Yes, there were. My parents warned me to be careful of the lions, buffalo, leopards

and elephants that 4 ___________________________ wander through the farm.

There were also some very dangerous snakes, which was a big problem sometimes.

A: Oh, I hate snakes. Weren’t you scared?

B: A little. I 5 ___________________________ check under my bed every day and look

in my shoes to make sure there weren’t any snakes there.

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SPEAKING

6 Complete the dialogue. Match the phrases from the box with the gaps.

A: What are you doing?

B: I’m looking for things we can use for the recycling

project. I think this project’s really good.

A: I 0 don’t agree. I think it’s a waste of time. It’s much

easier to go out and buy something new.

B: I 1 ____________________! Every time we burn don’t agree

rubbish or build a rubbish mountain we’re polluting
the planet. Do you want your children to live in a
polluted world?
great idea
A: No, of course not. OK, maybe
2
____________________. But will it really help the
planet?

B: It will if everyone does it. You could help as well. not sure about that
Look at this wooden box. You could make it into a
container for flowers with a little bit of paint.

A: That’s a 3 ____________________! My mum will

totally disagree
love it. Have you got any paint I could use?

B: There’s lots of paint over there. And I think I can

do something cool with this bicycle wheel.

A: I’m 4 ____________________. What could you make

with it? It looks complicated and we haven’t got
much time.
5
B: ____________________ I think I could use it to
hang cooking pots and pans on it. It would look cool
in the kitchen.

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READING

7 Read the text about ways to protect the environment. Decide if the sentences are
true (T) or false (F).

There have been many ideas for ways to protect the environment, but not all of them have
been successful. Some of them have even damaged the environment in ways that the
creators had not considered.

One idea is to create floating cities to solve the problem of overcrowding. This has been tried
in Dubai, but it seems that the man-made islands have damaged the ecosystem. A project in
China has been a little more successful by producing pollution-free islands, but they are far
too expensive to copy around the world.

1 Floating cities have solved the problem of overcrowding. T / F

2 The Chinese floating city has produced a lot of pollution. T / F

Another idea to save the planet was to use biofuels instead of traditional fuels. They’re made
from natural oils and are therefore a renewable form of energy. However they have severely
damaged the environment by causing deforestation and creating a global food crisis as
farmers use the land for producing biofuel and not food. In addition biofuel production
requires a lot of water, which may mean that local people lose their water supply.

3 In some parts of the world, biofuel production has replaced food production. T / F

However, for every disaster story there is also a success story. We used to get plastic bags
for free whenever we bought something in a shop, and then we used to throw them away.
Eight million tonnes of plastic, much of which is plastic bags, goes into the world’s oceans
every year and is eaten by many sea animals. However, since supermarkets in the UK
started charging 5p for every plastic bag, the use of bags has been reduced by 85%. If every
country does this, then our land and oceans could be much cleaner.

4 Plastic bags are not often found in the sea. T / F

5 In the UK people are using fewer plastic bags. T / F

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ENGLISH IN USE

8 Complete the dialogue with question tags.

Serena: You thought we were going watch a film this afternoon, 0 didn’t you? Well,

we’re going to go to a small shop in town that sells only recycled objects.

Aiden: You don’t mean Crazy Jack’s, 1 ________________?

Serena: Yes. You haven’t been there before, 2 ________________?

Aiden: No. It’s quite new, 3 ________________?

Serena: Yes, you’re right. The man who owns it used to be a musician,
4
________________?

Aiden: I think so. His name’s Jimi Vendell. My father has all his CDs.

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