Vocabulary and Grammar Test Unit 4 Test B

Name: ___________________________________________

Vocabulary
1 Complete the missing adjectives and adverbs.
Adjectives Adverbs

1 necessary ________________
2 ________________ unfortunately
3 quick ________________
4 helpful ________________
5 ________________ easily
6 lucky ________________

Mark: ___ / 6
2 Complete the sentences with the words in exercise 1.
1 I have two brothers and ________________ I have to share my room with them. I don’t like it.
2 Life in the 1940s wasn’t ________________ , but Lyn and her family never complained.
3 In the 1940s, life was much slower than today. Now, everything is done so _______________ .
4 It’s not ________________ to have a dishwasher, dryer, microwave and similar devices,
because many people live perfectly well without them.
5 ________________ , my children are very ________________ and they don’t mind doing the
household chores.

Mark: ___ / 6
3 Complete the compound adjectives.
1 open-________________ home
2 old-________________ home
3 full-________________ job
4 modern-________________ family
5 two-________________ house
6 ________________-saving devices

Mark: ___ / 6

1
4 Match the words in exercise 3 to the comments below. There is one word that you do not
need.
1 ‘My mum works from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ________________
2 ‘I really like houses that have furniture from the 1940s and 1950s.’ ________________
3 ‘There are no walls separating our kitchen, dining room and living room.’ ________________
4 ‘My mum says that having a dishwasher and dryer saves her so much time.’ ________________
5 ‘There’s a living room, toilet and kitchen downstairs. Then the stairs take you upstairs where we
have a big bedroom and a bathroom.’ ________________

Mark: ___ / 5
5 Complete the text.
I hate doing household 1________________ , but because both my parents work full-time, my sister
and I have lots of jobs that we do around the house. In the morning, we 2________________ the beds
and 3________________ the rubbish. When we come back from school, we have to
4
________________ the table and then 5________________ the dishes after dinner. We sometimes
help to 6________________ the ironing. Once a week, we 7________________ the floor and
8
________________ the bath.
Mark: ___ / 8
6 Replace the phrases in brackets with phrasal verbs in the correct form.
1 My parents really ________________ (care for) their house. They like to ________________
(impress other people) in front of the neighbours.
2 Moving to another country usually ________________ (causes) many problems.
3 I sometimes wonder what it was like for people to ________________ (become adults) during
the war.
4 It’s important to ________________ (learn) everything about an area before you move
somewhere new.

Mark: ___ / 5

Grammar
7 Complete the text with the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives in brackets.
My favourite room in my house is my bedroom. It’s not 1_____________________ (big) room in the
house, and probably a bit 2_____________________ (small) than my brother’s, but it’s
3
_____________________ (bright) and 4_____________________ (warm) because I get the sun all
day. It’s also much 5_____________________ (clean) than my brother’s room.
I also like our living room. The sofa is 6_____________________ (comfortable) piece of furniture in
the house and I love sitting there reading books. It can get 7_____________________ (noisy) than in
my own room, especially when my dad watches TV and brother plays video games, but I still like it
because it’s got 8_____________________ (good) atmosphere than any other room.
Mark: ___ / 8

2
8 Rewrite sentence b so that it has a similar meaning to sentence a.
1 a There aren’t any houses more expensive than our house in our street.
b Our house is _______________________________________________ in our street.
2 a Our house is the same size as my grandma’s house.
b Our house _______________________________________________ my grandma’s
house.
3 a This house is too small for us.
b This house is not _______________________________________________ for us.
4 a There is no other bed more comfortable than mine in our house.
b My bed is _______________________________________________ in our house.
5 a The streets around here are quieter than the streets where we live.
b The streets around here aren’t ________________________________________ where
we live.
6 a The living room is darker than other rooms in the house.
b The living room is not _______________________________________________ in the
house.
7 a The windows aren’t clean enough, so I need to wash them.
b The windows are ______________________________________ , so I need to wash
them.
8 a Our school is further to our new house than it was to our old house.
b Our new school isn’t ______________________________________________ to our
old house.

Mark: ___ / 8
9 Circle the correct answers.
The thinnest house in the world?
Imagine 1to get / getting through a tiny hole to enter your house every day. Well, that’s a reality for
Etgar Keret, a fmous writer and filmmaker because Etgar lives in a house that is only 122cm wide
and he doesn’t mind 2to live / living in such a small space. Etgar decided 3to try / trying living there
as part of a project. Jerzy Szczesny, a Polish architect managed 4to build / building it and he now
claims that it’s the narrowest house in the world. The house is in Warsaw and it’s already very
popular among tourists who want 5to visit / visiting it.
When you decide 6to come / coming to the house, you will first see a toilet, a kitchen with a table
and chairs, and a sofa on the ground floor. Upstairs, there’s a small bed and another table. And if
you’d like 7to take / taking a shower, you can also do that. So I hope 8to see / seeing you there next
time you’re in Warsaw.
Mark: ___ / 6
TOTAL MARKS: ___ / 60