Unit 6 Test B

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Use of English: Grammar 2 I demand that you to show me

how much you have written.
3 Her mother in law advised her
1 Rewrite the sentences,
not to moving home yet.
changing from direct speech to
4 Did you really criticize Tim for to
reported speech. Choose the
speaking too quickly during his
most appropriate reporting verb
presentation?
from the list below.
5 They congratulated Jim and Sue
on get engaged.
forbid
inform
promise
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refuse
want to know 3 Complete the second sentence
so it means the same as the
1 Im not telling you who cheated first, using the word given. Do
not change the word given.
in the test, Sue told Mary.
Sue _______________________
1 Some people say that over 300
languages are spoken in the
2 Well definitely cook dinner on
United Kingdom.
Friday evening, the girls told ESTIMATED
their mum. _____________ over 300 languages
The girls _______________________ are spoken in the United
Kingdom.
3 The police officers took me to
the police station, the defendant 2 Las Vegas has some of the
told the lawyer. biggest hotels in the world.
The defendant KNOWN
_____________________ _____________ some of the biggest
hotels in the world.
4 Is there going to be a train strike
next week? Olive asked. 3 The housing association say that
Olive _______________________ thousands of families live in
overcrowded conditions in the
5 You cant go out this weekend city.
REPORTED
because your grades were awful,
_____________ that thousands of
Jan told James. families live in overcrowded
Jan _______________________ conditions in the city.

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account abroad.
2 Find and correct one mistake in SUGGESTED
each sentence. It _____________ a bank account
abroad.
1 She agreed not doing anything
on Saturday, just in case her 5 Over twenty million people visit
mother needed her help. London every year.
CLAIMED

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_____________ over twenty million

people visit London every year.

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Use of English: Vocabulary 4 Watching the fatal disaster on TV

really brings it home to you/isnt
anything to write home about
4 Fill in the gaps with the correct
how important your family and
word(s) in the correct form.
friends are.
draft a contract
5 Theres only one week left on the
inspect a property
degree programme. I cant
move in
believe were home from
pay a deposit
home/re on the home straight.
take out a mortgage

1 She _____________ herself. I

offered to give her the money but
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she was adamant that she had
enough cash. 6 Read the text and write the
2 Once Andy had found suitable correct form of the word in
people to occupy his property, he CAPITALS to complete the gaps.
_____________ which he then sent
to his lawyer to check. I once ended up in a town which I
3 He _____________ for his first would say was one of the worst
property but in the end his towns Ive ever visited. As soon as I
parents lent him the money. stepped out of the hotel, I was
4 When is the owner coming over amazed at how (1) ____________
_____________? Is it Thursday or (FILTH) everything was. It was later
Friday? that I realized it was an (2)
5 Unfortunately they _____________ ____________ (INDUSTRY) town and
when they learned that their that a lot of the waste from the
neighbours were incredibly noisy. nearby factories was pumped into
the air on a daily basis! By the time I
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hotel, I was utterly exhausted. It
didnt seem that far on the map but
5 Choose the correct alternative.
the town was so (3) ____________
(HILL) that a journey that should
1 The recruitment consultant
have taken half an hour took nearly
immediately homed in on/is at
two. In the town centre, all of the
home with Liz as he knew she
potentially (4) ____________
had excellent work experience
(PICTURE) buildings looked totally
and was currently unemployed.
run-down. Therefore, after just one
day in the town, I decided it was
2 Shes always lived in a relatively
time to leave. Luckily it was (5)
small apartment so the fact shes
____________ (CONNECT) and I
moving to another will be home
caught a train that afternoon to a
and dry/ home from home.
different city.
3 In the past, she worked at an
animal hospital, so shes home
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and dry/at home with animals.

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Reading 4 _________________________

The scene that she encountered was

7 You are going to read an article
awful. All of the possessions that the
about squatters in the UK. Five
squatters were uninterested in had
paragraphs have been removed
been shoved into plastic bags and
from the text. Choose from the
left in a spare room. Her beautiful
paragraphs A-F the one which
cream carpets were filthy with
fits each gap (1-5). There is one
footprints and mud and the majority
extra paragraph which you do
of her walls had been covered with
not need to use.
posters of young pop stars. Mrs
Smith was quite understandably,
The door was left open
upset. The home that she had lived
1 _________________________
in for twenty years was a mess.
Mrs Smith, 51, was a victim of a
5 _________________________
recent case in north London. On
Thursday 3rd May, she left her two
Those who have been targeted are
bedroom property, where she lived
requesting the law be changed to
alone, and started what she had
strongly favour those affected. As
anticipated to be an eight-week trip
Mrs Smith claims, Ten days is too
of a lifetime to Australia. She had
long. The police should have the
been wanting to visit the other side
power to act immediately. A
of the world for over ten years, and
proposed change has been
had only recently saved enough
presented to the government, and
money to fulfil her dream.
hopefully we will see a change in
the near future.
2 _________________________
A Mrs Smiths situation is not
It wasnt until seven days later that
unique. In June, there were an
they were able to inform Mrs Smith
additional four cases in the same
of the suspicious situation. Mrs
town, which suggests there is a
Smith was horrified, and urged her
group of squatters operating in
neighbours to contact the police.
the area.
She would catch the next flight
home, cutting her dream trip short
B When Mrs Smith arrived in north
by five weeks.
London, she stormed up her
driveway with her front door key
3 _________________________
in hand, only to find her key
didnt fit in the lock. Enraged, she
Fuelled with rage, she ran out of the
pounded the door with her fist. A
house and headed to the police
lady wearing Mrs Smiths dress
station. She explained her situation
and pearl jewellery opened the
to the officer, who informed her that
door. Mrs Smith was invited into
she would need to prove that the
her own house and told to calm
house was hers and then they would
down by the intruder. The
investigate the issue. This is not
imposter told Mrs Smith that she
going to be resolved overnight, the
had rented the property from
officer informed her.
Daniel, Mrs Smiths son. She
proved it by showing the home

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owner the contract signed by They approached them and

both parties. However, this was a asked who they were. They
fabrication as Mrs Smith did not replied, stating that Mrs Smiths
have a son. son had rented her property to
them and that they were their
C The number of squatters new neighbours. The neighbours
occupying houses in the UK has were baffled by this response
grown drastically. Squatters, and, doubting them, tried
people that occupy properties desperately to contact their
without paying rent, are neighbour.
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unattended for long, and even
short, periods of time. What is
more, they are claiming that they
entered the property because
the door was left open which
immediately relieves them from
the criminal charge of breaking
and entering.

D It in fact took ten days to get the

judge to agree to an eviction. On
the tenth day, Mrs Smith and her
neighbours stood outside waiting
for the squatters to leave. As the
six squatters walked out, they
carried suitcases, which later, it
emerged, were packed with Mrs
Smiths clothes and possessions.
Once the group had stuffed their
new-found belongings into two
taxis, Mrs Smith ran into her
house.

E Mrs Smith found it hard to

believe that her house had been
the target of squatters. She was
not a rich woman and her house
did not contain any modern
technology or expensive goods.
There were, however, plenty of
other houses in the area which
would have definitely been more
appealing.

F Two weeks after her departure,

neighbours close to Mrs Smith
noticed a family with shopping
bags entering Mrs Smiths home.

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Listening
8 You are going to hear
three people talking about their
unusual homes.
Choose from Speaker 1, 2, or 3
to answer questions A-E.

Which speaker
A suffers when it rains? ___
B is constantly cleaning because of
where they live? ___
C had to make a lot of changes to
their house to ensure it is
sufficiently environmentally
friendly? ___
D doesnt spend any money on
rent? ___
E has friends that dont admire
where they live? ___

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Writing
9 You recently saw this notice in
a student magazine.

We would like you to write an article

about the worst place (city,
museum, restaurant, shop, etc.)
that you have ever visited. Include a
detailed description of the place,
why you were there and why you
think it is the worst place.

Write your article of 200-250

words.

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