Lower – Secondary C

Units 5-6 Test

Name: _________________________
Points: ____/100p

Listening
(Tests CD, Track 9)

A You are going to hear two people talking about success in sport. Listen and choose the correct answers.
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1. What is going to happen this evening?
A The girl is going to do some tennis training.
B The girl is going to watch an important tennis match.
C The girl is going to play in a competition.
2. The boy thinks that to succeed in sport
A talent is the most important element.
B you need a lot of confidence.
C you need other people to believe in you.
3. The boy admits that successful players
A are superstitious and believe in luck.
B earn too much money.
C need to spend money.
4. How does the girl feel about her next match?
A optimistic
B pessimistic
C excited

Grammar

A Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.

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1. Be careful! That chair is going to/will fall over!
2. Good to see you! I am going to/will give your best wishes to June.
3. I’m not going to/won’t do any work today. I decided when I woke up this morning!
4. That meal tasted strange. I think I am going to/will be sick!
5. Who do you think is going to/will be better for the job? Pete or Sally?
6. I’ve thought about this. First I am going to/will go shopping, and then you are going to cook the meal!

B Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs given.
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1. Don’t forget to give Dan the message when he __________ (get) home.
2. Can you check my diary? What __________ I __________ (do) at three o’clock?
3. I’m afraid I haven’t looked at your assignment, As soon as I see Rita, I __________ (invite) her to dinner
tonight.
4. The train __________ (get) in at 3.30, so we should be home by 4.00.
5. It’s all arranged. We __________ (pick) Mary up outside the museum at five o’clock.
C Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.
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1. I’m afraid ___ travelling alone. I know I’ll get lost.
A of
B at
C on
2. Are you good ___ computer programming?
A in
B at
C on
3. Don’t be too worried ___ the exam. It’ll be fine.
A about
B for
C of
4. I’m tired ___ studying. Let’s go out.
A to
B at
C of

D Complete the sentences with the correct question tag.

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1. It isn’t raining, _______________?
2. You aren’t going to miss my party, ________________?
3. He’s been working too hard, _________________?
4. Don’t be late, ________________?
5. They’re sisters, _________________?
6. This is the right place, ________________?
7. You forgot my birthday, _________________?
8. Our teacher didn’t give us any homework, __________________?

Reading

A Read the article from which some sentences have been taken out. Choose the correct sentences A–G to fill the
gaps. There is one sentence you do not need.
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So where in the UK are you from?
The UK has so many regional accents and dialects that it is often very difficult for visitors to identify them. (1) ___
They usually know from a person’s accent if he or she is from the south, the midlands, the north or London. But you
need to know an area quite well to be more accurate. In fact, language experts can sometimes guess the area a
person was born and brought up in to within five kilometres! The English language is very rich in its variations, and
most people are naturally proud of their local identity.
Many people who live outside the UK think that there are basically two accents in English: posh and working class!
(2) ___ If you watch a night’s TV in the UK, you can hear many of our regional accents in the popular soap operas!
There is the famous east end of London accent in EastEnders, the Yorkshire accent in Emmerdale and the Lancashire
accent in Coronation Street. There’s a Scottish detective series called Taggart where you can hear the accent from
Glasgow (which is very different from the accent spoken by the people from the capital, Edinburgh!). Many of the
more famous accents have special names too – Cockney for the east end of London, Geordie for Newcastle and
Scouse for Liverpool.
Regional accents have developed over the centuries for a lot of different reasons. (3) ___ Changes in language
happen because people communicate with each other. If a community doesn’t have much contact with another
community, then those changes don’t happen.
(4) ___ For example, the accents and dialects of north and south Wales are different because of the mountains that
divide them.
(5) ___ People are fighting to keep these alive. The Welsh language is still very strong. It is spoken throughout Wales
and is taught in schools. There are TV programmes completely in Welsh and the road signs are in both languages.
Gaelic is still alive and well in Scotland, and there is even a campaign to protect Cornish, a language that people in
the West of England spoke until about 150 years ago.
So, what will happen to the languages and dialects of the UK over the next 100 years? (6) ___ Or will everyone sound
the same? It will be interesting to see.

A However, it is much more complicated than that.

B Will we still keep a local identity?
C Experts have studied dialects for a long time and their research has shown some important results.
D We must also not forget that, as well as English, there are other completely different languages that still exist in
the UK.
E The English of today is the result of different languages that invaders and settlers brought to England in the past.
F This is how different dialects and accents develop.
G Even British people themselves have problems!

Writing

A Choose a city that you know well and write a description of it for a travel magazine.
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