TEST PAPER 1 ENGLISH (3.

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New Headway Pre-Intermediate (3rd edition): unit 10, writing + reading comprehension

Name and surname: _________________________________________ Class: 3. _______

Date: ________________________________ Points: ______/61p Grade: ________

1. Complete the table with the correct form of irregular verbs. (10p)

Infinitive: 2nd form: 3rd form:

abide
bind
forbid
forecast
lay
seek
slide
tell
weep
write

2. Complete the stories using the correct tense and active or passive voice. (16,5p)
A) Yosemite ____________________ (visit) by millions of people every year. We'll cross the
park on Highway 120 but this road ____________________ (close) by snow in winter. We
won't use our bus in Yosemite Valley because tourists ____________________ (take) to all
the sights there by free park buses. In California earthquakes ____________________ (feel)
by millions every year and buildings, roads, and bridges ____________ sometimes
______________ (destroy) In bad earthquakes people ____________________ (kill), too.

B) Santorini is a Greek island in a group which ___________________ (know) as the Cyclades

Islands. Out of a total of 56 islands, only 24 of them ___________________ (inhabit). On Milos,
one of these islands, the famous sculpture, Venus de Milo ___________________ (discover).
Santorini is very popular with tourists. It ___________________ (form) from a volcano and
petrified lava. In Fira, the main tourist centre, many shops ___________________ (open)
where local jewellery, pottery, and leather goods ___________________ (sell). Travelling
north to the little town of Oia, the reds and purples of the volcanic lava ___________________
(can/see). The ancient city of Thira ___________________ (locate) in the southeast of the
island. It ___________________ (found) by the Dorians in the ninth century BCE. The city is in
ruins because of a volcanic eruption. Bus tours ___________________ (organise) by local
companies to all these sites.

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C) In 1768, an expedition of British scientists (sail) ___________________ with Captain Cook
to the southern hemisphere. Nobody (know) ___________________ anything about what (be
to) ___________________ become Australia. This enigmatic continent (explore/not)
___________________ before. Captain Cook (make) ___________________ a landfall at
Botany Bay in 1770. Seventeen years (pass) ___________________ and nothing (happen)
___________________. Then, the British government (decide) ___________________ to turn
the unexplored continent into a jail! Thousands of convicts (ship) ___________________ to
Australia. Most (come) ___________________ from the London working classes and (have)
___________________ a strong cockney accent. A few years later, London (get rid)
___________________ of a certain number of dishonest women, by (send)
___________________ them to Australia too! In 1851, gold (discover) ___________________
thus encouraging a lot of English adventurers to emigrate. Today many Australians of English
descent (speak) with what (sound) ___________________ like a cockney accent, and the big
thing today is to able to boast convict ancestry! But Australia (become)
___________________ very cosmopolitan recently.

3. Rewrite the following passage in the Passive. (5p)

Our school is organizing a contest. The teachers will choose the best project about the
environment. The students must include pictures and drawings in their projects. The students
will also have to do all the writing themselves. The school will give the winner a set of
encyclopaedias.
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4. Answer the questions in full sentences. (7p)
What discipline should a person that loves taking photos take?

In your opinion, which invention affected people the most? Why?

Which search engine do you use the most? Why?

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In your opinion, are peoples personalities unique? Explain your answer.

Do Maths teacher accept inaccurate calculations? Why (not)?

Is it recommended to live economically? Why (not)?

What in your opinion is the best way to succeed? Explain.

5. Write a composition of 80 100 words about pros and cons of modern technology.
Use at least six linking words. (10p)
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 6. Read the text and complete it with the appropriate words. (12,5p)
1. While a barber's pole may seem like an _____ item, it is by no means a mundane object.
Don't be fooled by its unremarkable _____ the barber's pole actually has a fascinating _____
and represents different things all over the _____. Read more to find out where this _____
signpost comes from and what it means.
2. In days gone by (back to _____ times) a barber was so much more than a cutter of hair. As
well as updating someone's hairdo, a barber would also _____ teeth and perform other minor
surgeries, so you could say that an old-fashioned barber really was a Jack of all _____. The
pole originally included two washbasins one at the _____ and one at the bottom which
represented tools of his trade relating to those minor surgeries. It's also said that the pole
itself represented what the patient would _____ onto during the procedure, which was no
doubt painful and unpleasant.
3. In terms of colour, it's easy to understand that the red connotes blood from the unlucky
_____, and the white _____ the bandages used to stifle the bleeding. As to the blue stripes
(which usually appear on barber's poles in American but do not always _____ on the poles of
other countries) they are sometimes said to represent venous blood (from the veins), rather
than the _____ blood (from the arteries) represented by the red. It's also said that the red,
white and blue barber's poles in America are _____ as they mirror the national colours.
4. Of course, these days the duties of a barber are limited to cutting, _____ and shaving their
customers physicians and _____ became separate jobs in the mid 1100's. However, more
recent trivia provides an interesting angle. For example, did you know that the _____barber's
pole in the world measures a whopping 22 meters tall? Then of course there is the 'barber's
_____ worm', which you are unlikely to have heard of unless you are a farmer. This parasite is
_____ to both cows and sheep.
5. Finally, let's take a look at the use of the barber's pole _____ the world. Did you know that
this seductively spinning pole has a _____ connotation in Asia? As well as alerting potential
customers to this hair-trimming _____, the sign is also, confusingly, used to signify a brothel.
Naturally, prostitution is _____ in many parts of Asia, but brothels use this barber's sign to
disguise themselves when they are actually much more underhanded. Not the kind of _____
you'd fancy making when all you wanted was an innocent cut and blow-dry!

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5

1 spinning 1 medieval 1 favoured 1 trimming 1 seedy
2 everyday 2 top 2 patient 2 tallest 2 illegal
3 world 3 grip 3 arterial 3 pole 3 around
4 history 4 trades 4 feature 4 deadly 4 service
5 appearance 5 extract 5 connotes 5 barbers 5 mistake