UNIT TEST 6 • GROUP B

Dictation, Vocabulary and Grammar

Name:  Class: 

Dictation
4 Match the sentence beginnings and endings.
1 As the plane took off, I watched the island recede
1 [Track 7] Listen and write the sentences that you hear. 2 If you’ve only got a short holiday, it is important
 to use 
 3 Climbing Scafell Pike in the heat was hard
 4 I asked my travelling companion to keep
 5 The landscape has such a dreamlike quality
 that you may feel like pinching

 A your time wisely.
 B the beaten track to look for adventures.
 C yourself to check if it’s real.
 D into the distance and I couldn’t help crying.
E going, but the views were worth it.
/10 F an eye on my luggage for a few minutes.
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Vocabulary
Grammar
2 Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions.
1 If something unexpected happens, we may have to 5 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
forget our plans and just play it ear. There are more words than you need.
2 My parents have very fond memories of the time when
as heavier less more rather such
they travelled a shoestring as young people.
3 Be careful with the candle! Do you want to burn this 1 I’d describe the scenery as picturesque than
cabin ? spectacular.

4 You don’t have to plan everything; sometimes it’s OK to 2 The path became less and visible.
just go the flow. 3 It was a hot day that walking outside felt like
5 They were ripped by taxi drivers, hotel owners, stepping into a pizza oven.
street vendors and pretty much everyone. 4 The further up you go in the mountains, the
difficult it is to breathe.
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5 It was not exciting an experience as we’d hoped.
3 Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box.
There are more verbs than you need. /5

clang shimmer slacken 6 Choose the correct option.

trot trundle twinkle 1 As / The earlier we set off, the further we’ll be able to
1 The motorcyclist didn’t speed, skidded on walk today.
the asphalt and nearly crashed into a tree. 2 It was not as / such comfortable a room as the website
2 As the plane came down to land, we saw the lights of had suggested, but it was OK.
the city in the night. 3 We were rather / more discouraged than actually tired.
3 The little steam train continued to through 4 After we’d heard about the sharks, the idea of going
the countryside at its top speed of thirty kilometres per diving on the coral reef seemed less and less / the less
hour. attractive with every minute.
4 It was fun to watch the wild horses 5 The village had so / such a delightful little restaurant
gracefully on the green hills. that we kept returning there year after year.
5 I walked out on the terrace to see the sea /5
in the setting sun.

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 UNIT TEST 6 • GROUP B
Language in Focus and Use of English

Language in Focus
9 Complete the second sentence so that it means the
same as the first. Use no more than six words in each
gap including the word in CAPITALS.
7 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
There are more words than you need. 1 You may not be able to find accommodation in that
village in high season. BANK
as ever ever so than ever Don’t
whatever whenever whoever
accommodation in that village in high season.
1 posted this comment, can’t have stayed 2 I wouldn’t say the tour guide was incompetent; rather,
at the hotel in question. he was a bit dull. MUCH
2 I am, , impressed by the efficiency with The tour guide was
which you organised our holiday. a bit dull.
3 you visit London, there’s always 3 I couldn’t learn to scuba dive even though I tried very
something interesting to do and see. hard. HOWEVER
4 The receptionist at the hotel was helpful. ,
She made about a dozen phone calls to help us find our I couldn’t learn to scuba dive.
lost luggage. 4 We decided not to stay at the hostel because it was so
5 you do, don’t buy souvenirs in the main dirty. SUCH
square – they’re tacky and incredibly overpriced. It was we decided
not to stay there.
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10 Complete the text with one word in each gap.

Use of English
8 Complete the text with words formed from the words in
brackets.
THE ABANDONED VILLAGE
It happened one summer when my friends and I were
trekking and camping in the mountains. On that day, the
heat was only just 1                                     (BEAR). We were
all tired and 2                                     (SWEAT). And we had
to think about our 3                                     (DWINDLE)
provisions as well. We decided that two of us would
go down to a 4                                     (NEIGHBOUR)
village to buy some food. My cousin Gregory and
I set off and after a while we found ourselves on a
5
                                     (GRASS) slope, which led us to
a sheltered valley. And there we found an abandoned
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                                     (SETTLE) – a village of some dozen
stone houses, now empty, but with flowers and fruit trees
still growing around them.
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HAVE YOU GOT THE GUTS?
I’m on holiday. I’m there because I wanted to relax, to get
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                   from it all. My whole plan for the afternoon
is to 2                   another dip in the water and have
something nice to eat. And then my brother appears and
says: ‘Let’s hire motorbikes and go to that waterfall in the
middle of the jungle. They say 3                   are crocodiles
there.’ Or: ‘There’s a scuba diving lesson that starts in
ten minutes. Come on, it’s not 4                   hard as you
think.’
Does this scenario sound familiar to you? And
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                   it does, how do you respond? Do you reject
the crazy idea, or do you go along with it? My advice,
after many holidays with my brother, is: unless it’s
something that really scares or repels you, 6                   it
a go. Because you’ll regret it if you don’t.
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