Skills Test Unit 10 Test A

Name: ___________________________________________

Everyday English
1 Complete the dialogue with phrases from the box.
Have you heard come on You won’t be disappointed I don’t think so I’m not sure about
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Sophie ____________ about the new second-hand shop? It’s just opened.
Claire No, I haven’t. What’s it like?
Sophie Well, it’s in the centre of town and it’s amazing. You can buy lots of great designer
clothes there. Why don’t we go and have a look?
Claire Sorry, Sophie, 2____________ . I’m not into designer clothes, and I don’t like second-
hand clothes either!
Sophie Oh, 3____________ , Claire! It will be fun! And you might find a bargain!
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Claire ____________ that. Aren’t the clothes all old-fashioned?
Sophie No, not in this shop. You see, many people buy clothes, only wear them a couple of
times, and then decide that they don’t like them. Then they get rid of them. Come with
me. 5____________ .
Claire OK, OK! Let’s go and see!
Mark: ___ / 5

Listening
2  Listen to the discussion between Andy, Charlie and Emma. Are the statements true (T) or
false (F)?
1 The discussion is about where to buy the best clothes. ___
2 Charlie regularly goes to second-hand clothes shops, but hardly ever finds anything he likes. ___
3 The girl doesn’t like the idea of wearing second-hand clothes. ___
4 Charlie says that if you buy second-hand clothes, you support bad working conditions. ___
5 The girl likes to wear all of her clothes many times. ___
6 Andy thinks it is better to buy clothes made of organic cotton. ___
7 According to The girl, being a vegetarian is one way of helping the environment. ___
8 One speaker often buys a new mobile phone. ___
9 Metals in mobile phones have been linked to illnesses like cancer. ___
10 The first mobile phones, used in cars, were made in the 1940s. ___

Mark: ___ / 10

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Reading
The last rhinos
In April 2013, a headline in newspapers all over the world had very sad news. It said that the last rhinoceroses
(or rhinos) in Mozambique had been killed. Mozambique is a large country in south-east Africa which once
had thousands of rhinos. During the twentieth century, the increase in the human population led to people
destroying the rhinos’ natural habitats. This reduced the numbers of these large, powerful animals to just a few
hundred, which all lived in nature parks. Over the years there were even fewer and fewer of them. However,
because the horn that grows on the end of a rhino’s nose is so valuable, even these animals weren’t safe.
Mozambique is a poor country, and it was no surprise when a gang of men with guns entered the Great
Limpopo Park in the south of Mozambique and shot the last fifteen rhinos that were living there. They cut off
the rhinos’ horns and escaped. Rhino horn is used in Chinese traditional medicine, so, in Asia, people will pay
a lot of money to buy the horns as they believe rhino horn can cure cancer. And by now, all the horns of
Mozambique’s last rhinos will have been sold.
To the south of Mozambique lies South Africa, which has a huge national park called the Kruger Park. Now,
experts are afraid that more and more gangs will start crossing over into South Africa to kill the rhinos there.
Between 2008 and 2013, over 300 people from Mozambique were put in prison for killing animals in South
African parks, and almost 300 were shot dead by soldiers and park rangers who will do anything to protect
their wild animals. It is a war, and a war that the people who are working to protect wild animals are losing.
Hundreds of rhinos and elephants are killed in South Africa by gangs every year.
Experts are worried that the situation is going to get worse in the next few years. There are a number of
reasons for this. Firstly, countries like Mozambique don’t punish people enough for killing rhinos. In South
Africa, if you kill a rhino, you’ll go to prison for life, but in Mozambique, you’ll only have to pay a small fine.
Secondly, as the number of rhinos in the wild gets smaller, the cost of buying rhino horn increases, and that
means that more people will risk their lives to kill rhinos. And thirdly, it’s very difficult to protect rhinos in
national parks because the parks are so big and the gangs want to kill rhinos so much that they will shoot
soldiers or park rangers who try to stop them. In the end, there will probably only be one solution – we will
have to keep rhinos in zoos or in carefully protected parks. There will be no wild rhinos left in the world.

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3 Read the text. Circle the correct answers (a–d).
1 How many rhinos were there in Mozambique before April 2013?
a only a few thousand rhinos
b only fifteen rhinos in the whole country
c no more than four or five hundred rhinos
d no rhinos at all
2 What do we find out about the men who killed the last rhinos in Mozambique?
a They used guns to kill the rhinos.
b They were arrested as they escaped from the park.
c They took all the rhinos out of the country.
d They probably didn’t come from Mozambique.
3 What do we find out about the Kruger Park?
a It’s probably in the north of South Africa in the part of the country which is near
Mozambique.
b Animals have good protection in the park and only a few are killed by people.
c It’s in the south-eastern part of Mozambique.
d It’s a very large park, but there aren’t any rhinos there anymore.
4 How many people from Mozambique were killed in South Africa between 2008 and 2013 for
trying to kill wild animals?
a more than 300
b fewer than 300
c exactly three hundred
d experts cannot estimate the number
5 Which of the following facts are not stated in the text?
a There is a bigger punishment for killing wild animals in South Africa than Mozambique.
b Countries like Mozambique and South Africa don’t have enough money to pay for proper
protection of the wild animals that live there.
c In the future, there won’t be any wild rhinos in the south of Africa.
d Because there are fewer rhinos in the world now, the price of their horn has gone up.

Mark: ___ / 10

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Writing
4 Choose a product that you do not think is useful and describe it. Use the plan to help you.
Paragraph 1: Introduce the product. Describe it and say what people use it for.

Paragraph 2: Say when and where it was invented or when people started to use it and why.
Include some interesting facts.

Paragraph 3: Say why you don’t think it’s useful and what people should use instead.

Mark: ___ / 15
TOTAL MARKS: ___ / 40

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Challenge!
5 Complete the text with the correct words (a–d).
Rare minerals
Do you know 1____ precious minerals that are harder to find 2____ diamonds? Well, there are a lot of different
minerals in the world 3____ are so rare that they are only found in one place and in very small numbers.
Tanzanite, for example, is a precious stone which, so far, 4____ near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in Africa.
There might be other tanzanite stones in other parts of Africa, but nobody knows for sure.
And the only examples of painite are in Myanmar, a country in 5____ south-east Asia. Explorers 6____ painite
in the 1950s, and until the 1990s there were only two examples in the world. 7____ then, a few more examples
of this beautiful mineral have been found, but it’s still very rare.
Grandidierite is a bluish-green mineral which can’t be found in Europe. The only examples in the world are in
Asia and Africa. In fact, most grandidierite stones are on the island of Madagascar. You’ll never buy one! It’s
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____ expensive to buy!
1 a some b any c much d a little
2 a as b that c than d at
3 a who b which c where d when
4 a has only found b has only been finding c has only been found d was only finding
5 a the b a c an d -
6 a discover b are discovered c discovered d were discovered
7 a For b From c Since d During
8 a too b enough c many d most