Straightforward Upper Intermediate Progress

Test 4 Answer key

Vocabulary

A
1 hard up
2 remind yourself
3 a lot of thought
4 money to burn
5 my own back
6 the benefit of the doubt
7 Cape
8 pride yourself

B
9 check
10 give a damn
11 fries
12 short and sweet
13 make up
14 underpass
15 sick and tired

Grammar

C
16 is rumoured
17 have been found / were
18 are supposed
19 has been discovered
20 is (now) believed
21 were created

D
22 He said he was flying to Hawaii on the following day.
23 He said that could be the perfect location.
24 She asked where I was going.
25 I’m going to get it repaired.
26 I’ll get my friends to help me.
27 have my hair cut.

E
28 a
29 the
30 the
31 the
32 –
33 –

1
Functional language

F
34 On the whole
35 you know
36 kind of
37 set priorities
38 the schedule
39 generally
40 I’m usually good at

Listening

Part 1
1F
2F
3T
4T
5T

Part 2
6b
7a
8c
9c
10 a

Reading

Part 1
1 pieces of stone
2 The ancient Greeks
3 drawings of people and animals to show people what lived there / to warn of the dangers
4 details of the inland areas
5 Australia is in the centre / the South Pole is at the top of the map (it looks upside down)

Part 2
6F (it’s someone else’s money)
7F
8T
9NG
10T