Unit 6 test

Listening 3 I always ______________ my plastic bags.

Then when they are too old, I recycle them.
1  Listen to the conversation. Where are Holly 4 Our team scored an amazing ______________
and Jack? (2 points) two minutes before the end of the game.
_________________________________________ 5 Many city councils are trying to
______________ pollution by encouraging
2  Listen again. Complete the sentences with people to use public transportation, ride
one or two words. (8 points) bicycles, or share cars.
1 Jack ______________ work with Holly on the
project. Practical English
2 They have to write about the ______________
inventions for their project. 6 Complete the dialogue with the correct option.
3 Jack ______________ social media should be (10 points)
number one. Veronica: What’s your favorite type of food?
4 ______________ start at two o’clock. Tom: I like Greek food. I (1) ________ resist
stuffed peppers.
Vocabulary Veronica: What is it (2) ___ with?
Tom: It’s sweet peppers stuffed with a rice
3 Complete the two parts of the compound nouns mixture. The rice has chopped
with ice, sports, or spectator. (5 points) tomatoes, cinnamon, and mint in it.
1 ___________ skates 4 __________ coach Veronica: I don’t like the (3) ___ of mint. It smells
2 ___________ trophies 5 ___________ rink nice, but I can’t stand it in food.
3 ___________ sports Tom: You can make it without mint.
Veronica: How is it (4) ___ ?
4 Complete the sentences. (5 points)
Tom: The rice and tomatoes are cooked
1 Having the Internet on my cell phone is very (5) ___ a pan. Then the mixture is put
c______________ . I can use it everywhere I inside the peppers, and they are cooked
go. in the oven for an hour.
2 Rita’s boyfriend gave her a beautiful silver Veronica: That sounds delicious.
r______________ for her birthday.
1 A can’t B don’t C am not
3 The s______________ cheered as the ice
2 A cooked B served C made
skaters glided across the ice rink.
3 A look B taste C smell
4 The wheel was probably the most
4 A cook B cooked C cooking
u______________ invention. Can you imagine
5 A on B on top of C in
how it changed people’s lives?
5 The sun is an e______________ source of
energy. Grammar

5 Complete the sentences with the correct form 7 Complete the sentences with the simple
of the words. There are two words that you do present active or passive form of the verbs in
not need. (10 points) parentheses. (10 points)

bury goal purse reduce reuse score 1 Spanish ______________ in many Latin
throw away American countries. (speak)
2 People all over the world ______________ the
1 Every week, people ______________ millions
Internet to connect with each other. (use)
of tons of expired food, when people in other
3 What ______________ your dress
countries are hungry.
______________ of? (make)
2 I bought a lovely ______________ which is big
4 Dinner ______________ at 8 p.m. (serve)
enough for my tablet, my wallet, and all my
5 Students at that school ______________ much
extra things.
homework. (not give)

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achieve the goal. They (5) __________
8 Write simple past passive sentences using the worked hard to reduce, recycle, and reuse
prompts. (10 points)
their waste instead of throwing it away.
1 the telephone / invent / Alexander Graham Bell
______________________________________
______________________________________ Reading
2 a hundred years ago / bottles / not make /
plastic 11 Read the text. What are the most common
foods that are thrown away? (3 points)
______________________________________
______________________________________ _________________________________________
3 who / America / discover / by ?
The average American throws away about
______________________________________
429 pounds of food a year. In 2013 alone, the
4 the Eiffel Tower / design / Stephen Sauvestre
U.S. generated 37 million tons of food waste.
______________________________________
A recent study showed that about 30 percent
______________________________________
of the food that is grown, processed, and
5 a helicopter / send / to rescue / the climbers
transported in this country will never be eaten.
______________________________________
Wasting this food costs the average family
______________________________________
$1,600 a year. If people stopped wasting food,
9 Complete the sentences with the simple there would be enough to feed millions of
present or simple past passive of the verbs. (10 hungry people in the world. The top three
points) foods being thrown away in U.S. homes are
not paint not use pollute watch write meats, vegetables, and dairy.
1 The Hunger Games trilogy ______________ by In order to solve this problem, the U.S. government
Suzanne Collins. has started a campaign to reduce food waste.
2 Computers ______________ by many people in Food producers, retailers, restaurants, and
the past. consumers are being encouraged to work
3 The Pacific Ocean ______________ by millions together on the problem. Some supermarkets
of tons of trash every year. and restaurants give any unsold food to
4 More movies ______________ on computers charities. Some local governments are using
and tablets than in movie theaters. food waste from homes and businesses to
5 These walls ______________ very long ago, produce energy. Food waste companies work
but they are already dirty. with businesses to reduce food wastage and
maximize use from any food waste.
Cumulative Review Dumping food waste increases the amount of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and
10 Complete the text with the words. There are two
therefore global warming. By taking action
words that you do not need. (10 points)
now, and reducing food waste and converting
ambitious dump have reduce the most which who it into energy, we will not only help to protect
the planet, but also save billions of dollars.
San Francisco, in California, is often voted as
(1) ___________ environmentally friendly city
in the U.S. The city has a plan to
(2) _____________ the amount of waste, with
a “Zero Waste Plan” (3) _________ aims to
have no waste at all in the city by 2020. It’s a
very (4) _____________ goal, since the city
has over 800,000 people who, naturally, are
going to create a lot of waste. However, many
people in the city are confident that they will

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12 Read the text again and complete the Bicycles
sentences with one or more words. (7 marks) • No direct pollution from cycling.
1 About ______________ percent of the food that
• A good way to exercise.
is produced is thrown away.
2 The aim of the U.S. government’s campaign is
to ______________ food waste. Introduction
3 By ______________ together, food producers, Say what your report is about, and briefly talk
retailers, restaurants, and consumers are about your sources.
helping to solve the problem.
4 Unsold food, like sandwiches, is Paragraph 1
______________ to charities. Talk about the positive effects.
5 Food waste ______________ converted into
Paragraph 2
______________ .
6 If food waste is ______________ , this Talk about the negative effects.
increases greenhouse gases and global
Conclusion
warming.
Say what the situation is, and make
7 By doing this, we can also ______________
money. recommendations.

Writing

13 Write a report about the positive and negative

effects of using different types of
transportation. Think about the cost, the
environment, and health issues. Use the
information below or your own ideas. Write
about 125 words. (10 points)

Cars

• Cause a lot of pollution.

• Contribute to the greenhouse effect. Cars that

run on electricity don’t cause as much
pollution.

• 75 percent of materials from old cars can be

recycled.
Trains

• Trains cause pollution.

• The overall pollution per person per kilometer

is usually lower than cars.

• Electric trains cause less pollution, but it is

expensive to change the whole train system in
a country to electric.

Listening _____ / 10 Vocabulary _____ / 20 Practical English _____ / 10

Grammar _____ / 30 Cumulative Review _____ / 10 Reading _____ / 10
Writing _____ / 10 TOTAL __________ / 100