Unit 1 Progress Test B

Grammar
1 Complete the dialogue. Use the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
1
Dale (you / watch) the football on TV last night?
2
Ruby No, I (go) to the cinema instead.
3
Dale Oh, I (see) the new Ninja Turtles movie last week.

Ruby They 4 (not have) any tickets left for that one, and I don’t like
that sort of movie anyway.
5
Dale Well, it’s for younger kids really, and the last Turtle movie (be) a
bit disappointing.
6
Ruby Yeah, you still (enjoy) it though!

2 Match the answers (a–f) with the questions (1–6). Then complete the questions using the past
simple form of the verbs below. There is one extra verb.

be eat give invite spend talk watch

1 ‘Where you at 5 o’clock yesterday?’ □ a ‘Louise.’

2 ‘When to your teacher about the school trip?’ □ b ‘£30.’

3 ‘Who the birthday card to?’ □ c ‘On Friday.’

4 ‘How many people to the party?’ □ d ‘I had a salad.’

5 ‘What for dinner last night?’ □ e ‘At home.’

6 ‘How much money at the shops last Saturday?’ □ f ‘Just ten.’

Vocabulary
3 Look at situations 1–10. How did the person feel in each situation? Match the adjectives below
with the situations.

ashamed bored confused cross embarrassed envious excited frightened relieved upset

1 I copied my friend’s homework without telling her and she got in trouble with the teacher.

2 The teacher didn’t choose me for the school play. I cried when I heard.

3 I met my friend for coffee and she had the trainers that I really want to buy.

4 I’m at the station waiting to go on holiday. My train is a little late and there’s nothing to do.

5 One friend told me the party starts in an hour, but another friend said it starts in two hours.

6 I’m waiting for my favourite cousin to arrive from Australia.

7 My mum showed my new best friend a picture of me as a baby in the bath.

8 I passed an important exam that was very difficult!

9 When I woke up this morning I saw an enormous spider next to my hand.

10 I want to ride my bike, but my brother left it in the park yesterday.

4 Complete the sentences with the modifying adverbs below in the correct order from the most
exciting (question 1) to the least exciting (question 5).

a bit a little bit extremely rather very

1 My grandparents won twenty-five million pounds on the lottery so I’m excited!

2 My uncle is taking me on holiday for my birthday and I’m excited!

3 I am excited because I’m meeting my aunt for the first time. She lives in the USA.

4 We’re excited because we’re playing in a band tonight.

5 My favourite film is on now so I’m excited.

5 Complete the sentences with the correct words. The first letter of each word has been given.
1 Be careful with those scissors – you don’t want to c_ _ yourself.

2 I b_______my ankle last year and I still can’t walk properly.

3 I have a few b_______s and my arm hurts, but nothing serious.

4 I’ve got a p____in my back and I need to lie down.

5 Ben s__________over on the ice yesterday and injured his leg.

Use of English
6 Complete the dialogue with the words below.

boring disaster exciting how joking so sounds that thing what

Simon I’m going on a road trip around America next

1 2
summer! Beth Really? How ! I’m

envious! Simon And I’m going with my

grandmother!
3 4
Beth You’re ! Your grandmother? Oh no. That like a nightmare!

Simon Not at all! She’s a famous photographer. She took photos of The Beatles when she was in her
twenties.
We’re going to write a blog about our trip and maybe even a book.

Beth What a cool 5 to do. 6 sounds great. Did you hear that I lost my
phone last week with all of the photos from the school trip?
7
Simon Not the photos that we were going to upload to the school website? What a !

Beth Don’t worry, I found it eventually …

8
Simon Really? a relief! Where was it?

Beth It was on the train. But I had to stay in all night waiting for the train company to call me about it.
9
Simon You stayed in just waiting? How .
10
Beth Yeah, well it’s all ok now. Anyway good luck with your road trip. amazing!

Listening
7  1 Listen to four people talking about events in the past. Match the speakers (1–4) with the
statements (A–E). There is one extra statement.
A Speaker didn’t tell the truth about an accident.

B Speaker was embarrassed about losing marks.

C Speaker carried on doing something with an injury.

D Speaker was worried about how his / her friend got something.

E Speaker didn’t understand what he / she had to do.

Reading
8 Read the text. Match paragraphs A–E of the text with questions 1–7. There are two extra questions.

The most dangerous journey

A How do you feel about car journeys? Do you get a bit bored, ask the driver
how long it’s going to take, and then fall asleep? Or do you get extremely
anxious? This is exactly how I felt last month, when I took a trip down the
most dangerous road in the world.
B The North Yungas road in Bolivia goes from La Paz, which is a very large
city to the town of Coroico in the mountain region of the Amazon
rainforest. The road is about
69 km long, but in that short distance it goes down from about 4,650 m high
to 1,200 m. Although it is only about three metres wide and there are no
guard rails, cars travel in both directions. The views are amazing, but
between two and three hundred travellers are killed every year when they
drive off the side of this road. In Spanish it is called El Camino de los Muertos –
the Road of the Dead.
C When I went to visit my friend Jacqueline in La Paz, I had no idea how
dangerous the North Yungas road was. I was very excited about the trip to
the Amazon rainforest that she wanted to take me on. When we got on the
bus, Jacqueline let me sit by the window to get the best view. I didn’t feel
suspicious at all.
D It was only when the journey started that I began to feel frightened. The bus
drove right to the edge of the road many times, and when I looked over, I
could see the forest about 600 m below us. We drove on quickly through
thick cloud – how do you know where you’re going when you can’t see? I held
on to Jacqueline’s hand. Then we drove under a waterfall that was slowly
washing the road away. I was shocked!
E When we met another car coming the other way, we drove so close to the

In which paragraph does the writer tell us …

1 one good thing about the road?

2 about difficult weather conditions?

3 about traffic coming towards the bus?

4 that she didn’t realise the road wasn’t safe?

5 how long the journey took?

6 that she was disappointed about the trip?

7 about how some people feel when they travel?

Unit 2 Progress Test B

Grammar
1 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
1 The boy (sit) on a bench in the park (read) a book.

2 The man (take) my handbag while I (sit) in the restaurant.

3 The policeman (notice) the blood on the floor when he first
(enter) the room.
 4 I (try) to sleep when the doorbell (ring).
5 The accident happened because the man (drive) and
(talk) on his mobile phone at the same time.

6 When I (reach) the other side of the lake, I (feel) safe.

7 While I (do) my English exam, I (decide) to ask for a drink.

8 I (see) the money on the ground as I (walk) to school.

9 They (start) climbing very early in the morning because they
(want) to reach the top by midday.

10 I (sprain) my ankle while I (play) basketball.

Vocabulary
2 Complete the sentences with the correct words. The first letter of each word has been given.
1 Nauru is a small rock island in the Pacific O__, almost 4,000 km from Australia.

2 Primrose H_____in Regent’s Park is only 78 m high, but you can get a great view of London from the top!

3 When Mount Vesuvius – the v_________erupted in 79 AD, it destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

4 Tower Bridge across the R_____Thames in London is a famous tourist attraction.

5 Some of the trees in the Black F_____are very old.

6 Parliament Street in the city of Exeter, England, is so n__that two people can’t walk together at the same
time.

7 Loch Ness in Scotland is a very d__lake – it’s over 226 m from the surface to the bottom!

8 The Nile is 6,853 km long, but only 2.8 km w , from shore to shore.

3 Complete the sentences with the words below. There are two extra words.

boots dinghy life jacket paddles paintballing poles rope orienteering

1 I always take a long with me when l go climbing.

2 When I went kayaking, I broke my and had to use my hands to get to the edge of the river.

3 People who go kayaking usually wear a for safety.

4 Good are really important if you’re walking a long way and you want to protect your
feet.

5 When I went out to sea with my friends, I dropped my hat over the side of the .

6 is a good sport to do if you like looking at maps.

4 Replace the simple adjectives in brackets with extreme adjectives. The first letter of each
extreme adjective has been given.
1 Watching the BASE jumpers land safely in the valley was f (very good).

2 After we had walked 50 km across the desert, I was s (very hungry).

3 The place where we stayed when we were hiking was f (very dirty).

4 That meal we had at the Chinese restaurant last night was d (very tasty).

5 The brown bear that was walking towards us looked e (very big).

6 What we could see from the top of the mountain was a (very surprising).

Use of English
5 Read the text and complete gaps 1–10. Circle the correct answer A, B or C.
1
the centre of the photo there is a row of eight red kayaks on a river, with a teenager in each one
wearing a yellow helmet. It 2 like an adventure holiday and they’re 3 feeling excited
about doing something on the water. There is a boy 4 the left of the photo who is standing
 up with one foot in one kayak, and another foot in the next kayak. It 5 as if he’s trying
to walk across the line of boats. I 6 he’s feeling quite nervous about falling in the water. 7
the foreground there’s a woman who is standing on the bank of the river. She 8 to be the
instructor. 9 by her expression, she’s feeling quite calm. This is probably because they are all wearing
life jackets. 10 the bottom of the photo, I can see the end of a paddle. It
must belong to another team.

1 A At B On C In
2 A shows B expects C looks

3 A probably B quite C a bit

4 A in B on C at
5 A looks B shows C expects
6 A say B expect C judge
7 A At B On C In
8 A looks B shows C seems

9 A Judging B Looking C Showing

10 A At B In C On

Listening
6  2 Listen to five people talking about extreme sports. Match the speakers (1–5) with the
statements (A–E). There is one extra statement.
A Speaker says it wasn’t easy learning to do their sport.

B Speaker doesn’t do the extreme sport as much as they want to.

C Speaker thinks the activity they did was too risky.

D Speaker thinks they are too old to do the activity now.

E Speaker doesn’t travel far to do their sport.

F Speaker learned how to do their sport a long time ago.

Reading
7 Read the text. Choose the correct answers.

Climb every mountain

Stephen Venables’ love of mountains began at nine years old on a skiing trip to
the Alps. ‘I was thrilled,’ he remembers. ‘It was actually far more impressive and
exciting than seeing the Himalayas for the first time, because when you’re nine
it’s all new and you don’t know what to expect.’

From that moment, Stephen knew that he wanted to climb mountains, but he
didn’t realise then that one day he would be the first British man to climb
Everest without oxygen. 1
He was coming down from the top of the mountain when he was caught in a
snowstorm. After years of climbing, he was prepared for this and he knew that
the best thing he could do was wait for the weather to change.

‘At first I tried sitting on a rock because rock is warmer than snow, but it wasn’t
completely flat. 2 I did sleep a bit,’ he says. ‘They always say you should
stay awake, but I was totally exhausted.’ Fortunately, the storm passed, and
Stephen managed to climb back down to his camp and enter the record books.

The Everest expedition wasn’t Stephen’s only difficult climb. In 1992, while
climbing another Himalayan mountain, he fell 100 m, breaking both his legs. ‘It
was very unlucky that it happened, but I was lucky that there were five of us.’ The
group included Chris Bonnington and Stephen’s good friend Harish Kapadia. It
took them twelve hours to make camp in a safe place. Then two of the team went
for help.

‘I think that was one of the most wonderful moments of my life – finally being in
the tent and realising that I could just lie back in my sleeping bag.’ But Stephen
didn’t know that the rescue would take four days. 3 ‘On the last day we had a
boiled sweet and we used the last tea bag so many times that it wasn’t actually
1 What did Stephen Venables do when he was caught in a snowstorm?

a He decided to sleep all day until the weather changed.

b He didn’t follow important advice.

c He climbed down the mountain.

2 What is the writer’s purpose in this article?

a To warn about the dangers of mountain climbing.

b To compare two different mountain ranges.

c To tell the story of a mountain climber.

8 Read the text again. Match sentences A–E with gaps 1–3. There are two extra sentences.
A It wasn’t the first time that he needed medical attention because of his injuries.

B By that time, there was almost no food left.

C While he was climbing the mountain, he met the climber Chris Bonnington for the first time.

D However, his record-breaking expedition in 1988 was not an easy one.

E I really wanted to lie down so I decided to cut a ledge in the snow.