Pre-intermediate Unit test 12

Grammar 3 The film Jurassic Park was a great

success at the cinema and became a b        
1 Complete the reported speech.
r.
1 ‘I don’t want to go.’ 4 Dad’s favourite c                 y is Dr
She said     she didn’t want to go.   Strangelove. That film makes him laugh
2 ‘I’m coming home early, Hilary.’ every time he watches it!
He told 5 Tony said there is a d                                
. y on the director Quentin Tarantino
3 ‘I don’t understand what she’s doing.’ tonight.
He said 6 Have you seen the film Iris? It’s a b        
. c about the author Iris Murdoch.
4 ‘We are very tired.’ 7 The old Hammer h                 r films about
They said Dracula are still his favourites.
. 8 The Pink Panther is the best c                    
5 ‘His new film won’t be very popular.’ n ever!
The article said 9 Simon loves watching a                 n films
. like The Bourne Ultimatum. He finds
6 ‘I can’t help you, Maggie.’ them exciting.
She told
. 8

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2 Match 1–6 with a)–f).

1 Would they go on holiday  b  
2 If I were you,     
3 He wouldn’t be so hungry     
4 If the plane was delayed,     
5 If she earned more money,     
6 People would have more time for sports
    

a) if he had breakfast every morning.

b) if they had more time?
c) would she get to the wedding in time?
d) I wouldn’t do business with them.
e) if they didn’t have computers.
f) she wouldn’t need to work so hard.

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Vocabulary
3 Complete the sentences with film
words.
1 My favourite s c i e n c e fiction film is
Alien.
2 I love h                                 l dramas but
the facts are sometimes wrong.
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4 Complete the adjectives with the                                         a private tour of the
correct suffix. city?
B: Yes, no problem.
1 Celebrity TV programmes have become
A: And I’d 8                                         invite them
very boring these days.
to dinner on Friday night.
2 She wanted to be a photograph           but 9
B:                                         book a table at the
instead she became a very success          
usual place?
writer.
A: No, I think I should 10                                        
3 I know they’re very adventur           but I
to a more expensive restaurant. Can you
think a trip up the Amazon is too danger 11
                                        one?
.
B: Yes, I’m sure I can. Anything else?
4 We’ve just been to the most wonder          
A: No, I think that’s all. Thank you, Susan.
party!
5 He’s an excellent politic           but he’s 10
losing his popular           with the people.
Total: 50
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5 Underline the correct verb. Reading

1 Could you recommend/rent a good hotel? 10 Complete the article with sentences
2 I was invited/booked to Amanda’s party. a)–f).
3 Kyle’s recommended/got us seats for the 1
    d    One example is Ashley Kerekes
play. from Massachusetts, America. She became
4 I’d like to rent/book a table for four, famous after her boyfriend gave her the
please. Twitter name of @theashes. 2
5 Did you book/rent a car for the week? . They certainly didn’t understand why
6 We’ve organised/invited a meeting for Ashley was receiving so many messages
tomorrow. about cricket. She also had a lot of
followers on Twitter, which she found
5
strange.
3
                                        . She had no idea what
Function this was, so she looked it up. She then
6 Complete the conversation with the found out that The Ashes is a cricket
words and phrases in the box. competition between England and
Australia, which takes place every year.
certainly for a musical important 4
                                        . In the end, she
like to me to recommend shall I decided to send a simple tweet, which said
take them that she wasn’t a cricket match. Her
message became an internet hit and made
A: Susan, some 1     important   American
her famous. 5                                         . She had a
clients are arriving tomorrow.
B: How long are they staying, Mr White? great time there and loved watching the
A: Five days. 2                                         be able to match.
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get tickets                                         . She has now become a
3
                                        or something? cricket fan herself and thinks many more
B: 4                                         . And would you like Americans will play cricket in the future.
5
                                        rent a car for them?
a) In fact, she became so famous that the
A: Yes, why not? 6                                         be
Australian airline, Qantas, gave her a free
possible

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flight to Sydney, Australia to see The b) now supports the Australian cricket
Ashes. team.
b) As they were not cricket fans, Ashley c) is now learning to play cricket.
and her boyfriend had no idea what her
Twitter name meant. 5

c) Gradually Ashley’s online following

grew and she received hundreds of tweets 12 Replace words 1–11 with pronouns.
from cricket fans.
d) These days, it is possible to become My friend Izzy lives in Vancouver. 1 Izzy
famous for something as simple as your She moved there in 2014 after she married
online name. Rich. I went to see
2
e) She enjoyed it so much that after the Izzy and Rich last summer. 3 Izzy and Rich
competition she decided to learn more think that 4 Vancouver is the best city to live
about the game. in. 5 Izzy and Rich love 6 the city. 7 The city
f) Something she noticed was that many of is in the south-west of Canada: between
the messages were about an event called Vancouver Island and the mountains. Izzy
‘The Ashes’. says people here look after the environment
and so 8 the environment is not polluted.
10 There’s a great public transport system, too.
9
The public transport system is very cheap
11 Read the article and underline the and reliable. The nightlife is wonderful,
correct answer, a), b) or c). with a lot of cinemas, theatres and clubs. I
really enjoyed 10 the nightlife when I was 11
1 Ashley’s     b    brought her a lot of in Vancouver.
attention.
a) boyfriend 5
b) Twitter name
c) surname
2 She had no idea why people were
a) asking her about her online name.
b) following her on the street.
c) messaging her about cricket.
3 ‘The Ashes’ is
a) not an old cricket competition.
b) only played between England and
Australia.
c) always played in Australia.
4 Ashley sent a message on Twitter to
a) stop people messaging her.
b) ask people about cricket.
c) meet up with some of her followers.
5 As a result of her online fame, she was
a) invited to play in a cricket match.
b) flown to England to meet their cricket
team.
c) given the chance to watch The Ashes.
6 Ashley
a) believes cricket will become popular in
the USA.

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