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Unit 7 Test B
Grammar
1 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.
One sentence does not have a mistake.
1 At the zoo, you must not to feed the animals.
2 A footballer doesn’t have to work in an office.
3 Graham has get up at five o’clock every
morning to feed his cows.
4 You should buying your books from the
cheaper shop.
5 You don’t have to know how to use a computer
to work in a bank.
6 Have I to use a dictionary?
2 Complete the sentences with the correct form
of have to, must, should or would.
1 You __________ park in front of the fire
station. It’s illegal.
2 If I were you, I __________ get a new bike.
That one’s too small for you.
3 You __________ stay up late at night if you
want to get up early.
4 My dad’s a policeman, so he __________ meet
criminals.
5 I think my friend __________ go to school
because he doesn’t look well.
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3 Complete the sentences with the correct form
of these phrases.
miss the bus home not be hungry at 10 o’clock
not have a computer be very unhappy
be cold not chat to friends all the time
1 If you ate more for breakfast, you ___________
_____________________________________.
2 I would be bored if I _____________________
_____________________________________.
3 Dad would pick us up if we _______________
_____________________________________.
4 If we had dinner outside in January, we ______
_____________________________________.
5 You would understand the lesson if you ______
_____________________________________.
6 If Jane moved to another town, I ___________
_____________________________________.
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Vocabulary
4 Complete the sentences with the correct jobs.
1 I’m a _______________. I write about what’s
happening in the world today.
2 I’m a _______________. I help people who
come to where I work to buy something.
3 I’m a _______________. I have great new
ideas for making clothes.
4 I’m a _______________. I can mend cars,
motorbikes, vans or lorries.
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their room keys and their bills.
6 I’m a _______________. I repair people’s
houses.
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5 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the

sentences.
Reading
1 You have to be fit/caring to be a footballer. 7 Read the article about a writer’s life. Decide if
2 When I have a big problem, my dad stays the statements are true (T), false (F) or not
calm/clever and makes me feel better. mentioned (NM).
3 Nurses are usually very caring/creative people.
4 Top scientists have to be very reliable/clever to A writer’s life
discover new things about the world.
When I was young, I dreamed about being a
5 Dave is my most ambitious/sociable friend – he famous writer and now I am! I know I’m a very
wants to be a top doctor. lucky person. I love my life and I love my work.
6 I’m a very creative/strong person, so mum says Like most other writers, I work from home. I have
I should be an artist. a small office in the garden and every day I spend
at least five hours there, writing. My dog sits
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When I want to break for lunch, I stop, but if I’m
6 Complete the sentences with these words. particularly interested in what I’m writing, I
continue until it’s a good time. My time is my
part going well badly tempered own. I don’t have to do what someone else tells
me. That’s probably the biggest advantage.
1 I won’t apply for that job. It’s very __________ However, it’s not quite as easy as it seems. No,
paid. I don’t have to get up early and travel a long
2 I have an easy-__________ mum, who usually distance to work, but I have to make sure that I
lets me do what I want. follow a routine or I would never manage to do
3 Agatha Christie is a __________-known author everything. So, I get up at the same time each day
of murder stories. and make sure that I’m sitting at my computer by
4 My brother gets very bad-__________ when 8:30. I try to write the same number of words
he’s hungry or worried. every day too and usually I do.
5 This __________-time job would be good for One of the disadvantages of working from
students. home is that people don’t think that I’m doing a
‘real’ job. People call me for a chat or come for a
coffee and I have to be very strict with them and
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difficulty is if I don’t have any ideas. This happens
quite often! There’s no one to tell me what I
should or shouldn’t write. It’s all in my head and if
I can’t think of anything, then I can’t write and I
have to go for a walk with the dog or listen to
some music to give my brain a rest. After a break
like this, I can usually start writing again.
I can’t imagine having another job. If I didn’t
write, I don’t know what I’d do. So, I have to hope
that people will continue to buy my books and that
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1 His office is in a small room in his T/F/NM Listening (Tests CD, Track 9)
house.
2 He would hate it if he had to get up T/F/NM 8 You are going to hear five people talking about
early every day. why they have their jobs. Listen and match the
speakers A–E with the comments in 1–6. There
3 He starts work at the same time every T/F/NM is one extra comment that you do not need.
day.
1 He finds the work quite easy and enjoys it.
4 He asks his friends not to interrupt him. T/F/NM
5 There are lots of other jobs that he’d T/F/NM Speaker ___
like to do if he wasn’t a writer.
2 He chose the job he does when he finished
6 Exercise sometimes helps him become T/F/NM university.
more creative.

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3 His mum and dad said that the job he chose

was very hard.

Speaker ___

4 He believes that he will have a lot of money

later in his life.

Speaker ___

5 He didn’t finish his studies.

Speaker ___

6 I wanted a well-paid job.

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Writing
Use of English
10 This is part of a job advertisement that you
9 Read the email and fill each gap with one word. have seen.

Hi Lizzie. We need young people to write articles for a

It was lovely to hear from you and good luck magazine for young people. Interested?! Send us
(1) __________ your exams tomorrow. You your details.
shouldn’t worry too much because I know you’re
(2) __________ to do well! Just relax. If I
(3) __________ you, I would get an early night. Write a letter to the magazine. In your letter,
You don’t (4) __________ to revise every minute you should
before bedtime! You (5) __________ watch some
TV and maybe read a magazine or something.  say why you’re writing
If I had the time, I (6) __________ come to see
you before the exams tomorrow morning, but I  explain why you’re interested
(7) __________ to take my little sister to school at
8:30. So, you should call me afterwards. And you  say why you think you’d write good articles
must (8) __________ forget to have a good for the magazine.
breakfast before you go. I know I sound like your
mum – sorry! Write 100 words.
I (9) __________ speak to you tomorrow!
Love,
Mandy

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