Progress test 1 Units 1–6

General review (25) Lately / Late, the company (26) is researching / has been
Read the text and choose the correct option. researching the possibility of a manned flight to Mars. Musk
hopes that people (27) will have landed / will be landing on Mars
before he dies. Given Musk’s ambition, he will probably try
(28) achieving / to achieve this goal in the next 20 years. Who
Elon Musk: space entrepreneur knows, by the time you’re 70, it (29) can / might be possible to
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur who co-founded both the Internet retire to the Red Planet. The average temperature is -67°
payment system PayPal and the space exploration company Fahrenheit so you (30) will / must need to take a coat!
SpaceX. After (1) become / becoming a multi-millionaire when he
was just 28 years old, Musk is now a billionaire. He (2) has had / 1 point for each correct answer 30
had an incredible career and (3) has awarded / has been
awarded numerous honorary degrees and awards for his
achievements. Three main areas have been on his (4) radar / Avoiding repetition
loop throughout his career: the Internet, clean energy, and space Complete each sentence with an auxiliary, modal
travel. Musk’s capacity to work (5) hard / hardly (he generally puts verb, or to. Make the verb negative if necessary.
in 100 hours a week) and think outside the (6) base / box have
enabled him (7) to make / making major innovations in all three 1 A I think I just saw Teo in the street.
fields. B You couldn’t have . He’s in Canada right now.
2 A Do we really need to leave so early?
Musk’s genius was evident at an early age. Born in 1971 in South
B Yes, I’m afraid we ____________. The flight is at
Africa, his passion for electronics (8) encouraged / was 6 a.m.
encouraged by his father who was an electrical engineer (9) itself
/ himself. Elon (10) must / can have been a hardworking and 3 A I’m going to the conference in Boston.
(11) highly-motivated / sorely-motivated child. By the time he was B Elsa ____________ too, but I can’t unfortunately.
12, not only (12) he had taught / had he taught himself how to 4 A I bought you some flowers.
program a computer, but he had also sold his first computer game
B Oh, you ____________! That’s so kind.
for $500. His family moved to North America when he was a
teenager and Musk then went to the University of Pennsylvania, 5 A Ow! That hurt. You just stepped on my foot!
where he went the extra (13) mile / kilometer and completed two B Sorry, I didn’t mean ____________.
degrees at the same time, in business and physics.
6 A You should have asked your boss for a pay raise.
His financial success began when he helped (14) to set up / B Well, I ____________. He would have refused.
setting up a number of Internet companies including the online 7 A Have you been to see the doctor yet?
payment company PayPal. In 2002, when PayPal B No, but don’t worry I’m going ____________.
(15) was acquired / has been acquired by eBay, Musk received
$165 million. What Musk then did with this money (16) create / 8 A Ken may have committed the robbery.
was create Tesla Motors, a company which produces electric B He ____________. He was with me that evening.
cars. Musk believes that green energy is the way forward and is 9 A Bob always insists on giving a speech.
determined (17) reducing / to reduce the cost of electric vehicles. B I know, I wish he ____________. It’s so boring.
His company also wants to keep on (18) improving / to improve
the performance of this technology. It is predicted that there will 10 A She can’t be out of the hospital already.
be a significant (19) rise / rising in demand for electric vehicles in B She ____________. I just saw her in the
the next few years and that it (20) will be doubling / will have supermarket.
doubled by the end of the decade.
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Musk’s latest venture is Space X, which (21) had created /
was created in 2002. Rarely (22) will you find / you will find a
more ambitious endeavor. SpaceX was the first private company Verb patterns
to successfully launch a spacecraft into orbit and bring it back to Write correct for the correct sentences and correct
Earth. Like all companies at the cutting-edge of technology, it has
the wrong ones.
had some failures and (23) updates / setbacks, but it is an
exciting company and its future research is (24) sorely / eagerly 1 I can’t stand to wait in lines. 
awaited in the scientific community. I can’t stand waiting in lines.

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2 Marion encouraged me to apply for the job. 1 hysterically / passionately
____________________________________ a Janet cares ____________ about animal rights.
3 Carlos admitted to lose the documents. b He screamed ____________ when he saw a
____________________________________ mouse in the kitchen.

4 The new contract will mean working longer 2 wide / widely

hours for less pay. a It is ____________ believed that his plane crashed
in the desert.
____________________________________
b Open your mouth ____________ , please.
5 The car needs clean.
3 conscientiously / deliberately
____________________________________
a Christian worked ____________ to finish the
6 I’m looking forward to see you again. report on time.
____________________________________ b I’m sure she didn’t break your phone
7 The children were excited to be going to ____________ .
the zoo. 4 wrong / wrongly
____________________________________ a The computer won’t start. What am I doing
8 I was hungry so I stopped buying a sandwich ____________ ?
at the store. b He felt guilty because he knew he had acted
____________ .
____________________________________
5 longingly / profusely
1 point for each correct answer 7 a He apologized ____________ for having broken
his promise.
b The bored child gazed ____________ out the
Modal verbs window.
Select the correct option.
6 fine / finely
1 I could / must have gone to the party if I hadn’t had a Add the ____________ chopped herbs to the
to work. butter and fry.
2 It can’t / mustn’t have been easy to do all the work b Things were going ____________ until the car
on your own. broke down.
3 When she was a child, she would / will spend hours 7 blindingly / distinctly
in the garden watching the birds. a It was ____________ obvious that he was in love
with her.
4 I needn’t have worked / didn’t need to work that day,
so I went to the beach. b Have you seen my briefcase? I ____________
remember leaving it in the hall.
5 Tom could not / might not come to the party
8 hard/hardly
tomorrow. He said he’d call and let me know.
a It was raining ____________ outside so I wore a
6 The taxi should / can be arriving any minute now. raincoat.
7 This essay is terrible. You wouldn’t / couldn’t have b The fog was so thick, we could ____________ see
spent more than ten minutes writing it. in front of us.
8 What a mess! I guess I must / should have read the
instruction manual. 1 point for each correct pair 8
9 We may / can go to the movies tonight. It depends
what time I finish work. Describing trends
Complete the words in the sentences. The first letter
1 point for each correct answer 9 is given. There may be more than one possible
answer.
Adverbs 1 The company’s shares continue to s_______ , rising
Complete each sentence with one of the adverbs. by 15% in one day.

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2 The dollar p_______ to an all-time low against the _______ once he realized that they were only joking.
euro yesterday. 5 A lot of local shops have shut _______ since the new
3 The rate of inflation has been f_______ around 4% supermarket opened in town.
for some time now. 6 I’m saving _______ to buy a new computer.
4 Housing prices remain relatively s_______ for the 7 It’s hot outside. I need a cold drink to cool _______ .
first time in months.
8 Stop being so pathetic, Matt! You need to wake
5 There has been a dramatic f_______ in the price of _______ and smell the coffee.
oil. It is down by 20%.
6 Retail sales p_______ up in spring, signaling a return 1 point for each correct answer 8
of consumer confidence.
Nouns from phrasal verbs
1 point for each correct answer 6
Choose the correct word in the box.

Ways of adding emphasis shake-up outbreak break-up cutbacks offshoot

Rewrite the sentences using the ways of adding drawbacks knockout downpour
emphasis.
1 I’m looking forward to the dessert. 1 There has been a major ____________ of the
company and my manager is being replaced.
It’s the dessert that I’m looking forward to.
2 Your plan has several ____________ , the main one
2 You rarely find an honest politician.
being that it is too expensive.
Rarely ________________________________ .
3 As we were walking home, there was a sudden
3 I admire the use of sound in this movie.
____________ , so we sheltered under a tree.
What ________________________________ .
4 The design company is an ____________ of the
4 I hate the endless ads.
main company which manufactures cars.
It’s ________________________________ .
5 The boxing match ended with a ____________ in the
5 If it hadn’t been for his wife, he would have had a 5th round.
breakdown.
6 Due to the recession, the government has made
Had ________________________________ .
____________ in public spending.
6 They’d never seen so many people.
7 Valentina and Gino still remained friends after their
Never ________________________________ .
____________ .
7 Education enables people to develop.
8 Many families left the city after the ____________ of
The thing ________________________________ . war.
8 The rise in sea levels destroyed the coast.
What ________________________________ . 1 point for each correct answer 8

1 point for each correct answer 7 Idioms and expressions

Complete sentences 1–8 with idioms a–h below.
Phrasal verbs with up/down
1 I can’t believe we lost the game. I’m
Complete each sentence with either up or down. ______ !
1 The professor denied that the university courses had 2 Ken was talking so quickly that I couldn’t get a
been dumbed _______ . ______ .
2 If you persist long enough, you’ll eventually wear 3 We have such different views about politics. In the
him _______ and he’ll give in to your demands. end, we had to ______ .
3 It’s a very casual event so feel free to dress _______. 4 The tax increases mainly affect middle-class voters
4 Jacques began to lighten

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who feel they are getting a ______ .
5 I got your email warning me that the meeting had
been called off. Thanks for the ______ .
6 The economy seems to be improving, but maybe
that’s just ______ on my part.
7 I’ll tell you all the gossip about Sam and Ed if you
promise not to ______ .
8 His new position was better paid, but more stressful
so it was a ______ .

a agree to disagree
b absolutely heartbroken
c mixed blessing
d word in edgewise
e breathe a word
f heads-up
g raw deal
h wishful thinking

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