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Cumulative test Units 1–5

Grammar

1 Complete the dialogues with the correct form of the verbs in the box.

apologise be bring do eat feel feel forget like

look mention put off

1 A: (a)__________________ any sandwiches today? You can share mine if you

(b)_________ !

": #hanks$ %t&s my brother! 'e (c)__________________ always _________ to pack his

lunch and he usually ends up (d)_________ mine$

A: You (a)_________ cheerful$ hat&s happened?

": % am$ #he science test (b)__________________ until ne*t week$

+ A: #his is the third time you (a)_________ late this week!

": % know! % (b)_________ ! %&d appreciate your

(c)__________________ it to the boss!

, A: (a)__________________ confident about the inter-iew?

": % (b)_________ better about it if % (c)_________ more research on the company!

Mark: ___ /12

2 Decide which of the sentences are incorrect. Circle I incorrect! or C correct!. "hencorrect the incorrect ones.

1 %t was raining for half an hour before we realised and rushed out to shut the car windows!

% . / ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

#hat is far and away the healthiest option on the menu! % . /

_______________________________________________________________________ + 'e felt ill a lot recently and %&m starting to worry about him! % . /

_______________________________________________________________________

, % would tell you about the proposed changes but it completely slipped my mind! % . /

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

0 As my best friend % far prefer feelgood mo-ies to ones that feature a lot of -iolence! % . /

_______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

#hotocopiable 2 3*ford 4ni-ersity 5ress 6olutions Ad-anced #ests 1




7 %&-e been watching three George /looney mo-ies this afternoon and still prefer the first

Ocean’s Eleven$ % . /

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

8 #he minister is contemplating introducing a new law concerning data protection! % . /

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

9 6ome of the first books published had errors on the back co-er! % . /

_______________________________________________________________________

Mark: ___ /8

ocabulary

$ Complete the sentences with the correct words.

1 e forgot to take an umbrella and got _________ wet in the downpour!

At last the baby is _________ asleep so don&t you dare wake her up again$

+ 6ome good news$ #he boss has had a change of _________ and is going to let us take

;onday off after all!

, Amanda is fighting a _________ with her daughter about not spending so much time withher boyfriend! 6he won&t listen to her!

0 You know %&-e had this cold for nearly two months now and % <ust can&t seem to

_________ it off!

Mark: ___ /5

% Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brac&ets.

1 %t&s more _________ to buy food in bulk! (economy)

=e-er _________ the opposition in a match > that&s the uickest way to a defeat!

(estimate)

+ ;y grandfather was a generous man and inclined to make grand _________ gestures!

(altruism)

, ;ick is a -ery _________ child and has produced some wonderful stories in class!

(imagine)

0 After we&-e made a few _________ to the design we&ll send it back to you! (modify)

Mark: ___ /5





@istening

5 '5.11( )isten to an actor tal&ing about preparing for a role. *re the sentences trueor false+

1 #he speaker belie-es his approach is the best! # .

Brama school is only helpful for a few actors! # .

+ ;ost actors bring a lot of their own personality to a role! # .

, 'e doesn&t think staying in character all the time is practical! # .

0 'e researches his roles carefully! # .

Mark: ___ /10

Ceading, -ead the text. Complete the text with sentences *–. "here is one sentence /ou do

not need.

EPIGENETICS

Most of us are familiar with the phrase ‘You are what you eat’ and understand that ourhealth and well-being are dependent on a nutritious and balanced diet. [1 _________]

e !now that our lifestyle affects us, but scientists ha"e disco"ered that what we

e#perience during our lifetime may well ha"e a significant effect on our grandchildren’sli"es too. $t may be a case of ‘$ am what $ eat but $ am also what my grandmother ate%’

ith the disco"ery of epigenetics & the word literally means ‘abo"e genetics’ & hascome a potentially de"astating change in our understanding of inheritance.

[' _________] (his is not to say that there is some sort of memory gene that can carryactual memories of e#periences through to future generations. [) _________]

*pigenetics concerns +, and the genetic code but it goes beyond the con"entional"iew which is that +, carries all our heritable information and that nothing we do

during our li"es will be biologically passed on. (o many scientists the idea that we canaffect our genes and this can be handed down to future generations is pure heresy%

*pigenetics maintains that what happens to us in our lifetime has an effect on ourgenes in some way. [/ _________] (his may be a significant gene such as one which

suppresses cancer or another disease. $f it’s switched off then the body loses its

resistance. hat is important is that this ‘on or off’ switch can be passed on to futuregenerations. [0 _________] (his means that the li"es of our grandparents including

the air that they breathed the food they ate the stresses they e#perienced can alldirectly affect us decades later. tudies in northern weden ha"e shown that a famine

at critical times in the li"es of the grandparents affected the life e#pectancy of thegrandchildren. uch results ha"e confounded traditional scientific thin!ing.

(here is a long way to go before scientists understand e#actly what lifestyle factorsaffect genes and how to re"erse the process but epigenetics will definitely change the

way researchers see disease. $t should also ma!e people re"iew their lifestyles andrelationships. $t’s a sobering thought to !now that what we do no longer affects 2ust us

but the health of our children and grandchildren too.





A %t is based on the belief that genes ha-e Dmemory&!

" or e*ample a stressful e*perience may result in a particular gene being switched on or

off or in other words suppressed!

/ %mportant research is continuing in this field and more detailed results will shortly be

a-ailable!

B 'ence the idea of Dmemory&!

E e are also too well aware of the conseuences on our health of stress and certain

en-ironmental factors!

#hat is another uestion for another time$

Mark: ___/10

riting

0 rite a discursive essa/ with the title 3hat do /ou thin& are the advantages anddisadvantages of being the /oungest child in a famil/+4 Use the writing guide to help/ou. rite 2–25 words.

#aragraph 1 %ntroduction!

#aragraph 2 #alk about the ad-antages!

#aragraph $ #alk about the disad-antages!

#aragraph % /onclusion!

Mark: ___ /10

Total: ___/60


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