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Test Paper

I. Read the article about the soaps.

A. Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false
sentences:
1. The original soaps were TV programmes.

2. The people in soaps usually come from a lot of different families.

3. The stories happen one after the other.

4. Soaps include stories about love, money, and other problems.

5. The characters in reality TV are actors.

B. Put the missing headings (A-E) in the correct spaces. There

is one extra heading!
A). Why are soaps so popular?
B). What is the most successful soap?
C). Where does the name soap come from?
D). What are the most recent developments?
E). What makes a successful soap?

The truth about soaps

The original soaps were radio programmes. They first appeared

on the radio, in the USA, in the 1930s. People called them soaps because
in the middle of each programme, there were advertisements for soap
powder.
There are three things in every successful TV soap. Firstly, there is a
place. This is for example a street, a hotel, a pub, or a family home.
Secondly, there are the main characters, usually from two or three families.
They are like people in real life a jealous boyfriend or girlfriend, the difficult
teenager and the wise grandmother. Thirdly, there are two or three stories
all at the same time. They are often very emotional and dramatic. Finally,
much modern soaps are about similar things. These include family
relationships, money, love, friendship, illness, unemployment and difficulties
at school or work.
The latest type of soap to appear on our screens is reality TV. There
are no actors in reality TV. Instead, the characters are real people in real
situations.

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 Soaps are easy to watch. We identify with the characters and share
their problems. And soaps give us something to talk about with our friends
and neighbours.

II. Complete the sentences with too, enough or not.enough, and the correct
form of the words in brackets:

1. Greg trained as a musician but he was ..

(good/join) the National Orchestra.
2. You are (short) and your arms are
(strong/ride) an enormous motorbike like that.
3. Odysseus was . (clever/stay) a
prisoner of the Cyclops.
4. Am I .. (tall) for the basketball team this
year?

III. Join the two sentences with in order to, so as not to, so that or in order
not to and make any other necessary changes to make one correct sentence.

1. I called Information. I wanted to get the telephone number of the U2

fan club.

2. Clencys teacher wanted him to join the Childrens Express. Clency

needed to improve his English.

3. We are going to buy an air-conditioning system. The computers get

too hot in the summer.

4. In Brugge the rich built houses for the poor. The poor needed to
have warm accommodation in the cold winters.

5. Hes taken out the bullets. He doesnt want to shoot himself when he
cleans the gun.

IV. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense:

1. Take your umbrella, it .(rain) outside.

2. Tom (study) for an hour when his
parents came home.
3. I think Mary . (forget) about our dinner. We
. (wait) for more than half an hour and she still
.. (come).
4. This car . (belong) to Jennifer for years before
Tina bought it.

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 5. I . (have) English class twice a week.
6. George (fall) off the ladder while he
(paint) the ceiling.
7. Usually, I .. (work) as a secretary in an advertisement
agency, but this summer I (teach) French at a
language school in Paris.
8. The Titanic (cross) the Atlantic when it
.. (strike) an iceberg.
9. I feel so tired! I . (work) all day.
10. We . (drive) for over ten hours when we
finally arrived to Vienna.
11. I .. (prepare) so much for this exam and I
was sure everything would be alright.
12. Im sorry Im late. I (try) to find a DJ for
the party but so far I (not find) one, though.
13. Tim and I (make sandwiches) since
we arrived. So far, we . (make) about 50.

V. Complete the sentences with a phrasal verb from the box with a similar
meaning to the verb. There are four extra phrasal verbs. Be careful with
tenses!

bring about switch on find out look

after
set up look on look for
work out do up

1. The sound engineer usually . (take care of) the

mixer.
2. Julia thought it would be easy to make a video when she started
singing but shes changed her mind since shes (discover)
more about it.
3. Well . (turn on) the lights as soon as the band
goes on stage.
4. Weve lost the directors chair! Can you all . (search) it,
please?
5. Advances in technology have (cause) a huge
change in the way pop videos are made.

VI. Write a composition beginning with the following line:

There was a ticking noise, then a click, followed by a loud bang

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