I. Read the text. Match sentences A-F with gaps 1-5 in the text.

There one
sentence that you do not need.
A. In fact, the history of illegal gardening goes back much further.
B. There were areas of empty land because nobody wanted to build houses
there.
C. Instead of spreading death and destruction, it spread plant life!
D. That's why the area was particularly unattractive.
E. Similar groups began in other cities and then other countries, including
Australia and Brazil.
F. However, the authorities usually allow it to continue.

In 1973, an artist called Liz Christy had a meeting with a group of friends to talk
about the part of New York they lived in. It was a poor, unattractive
neighbourhood. (1) …… Christy and her friends decided to do something to
improve their environment.
Secretly, they cleared away the rubbish from these areas of empty land. Then they
planted flowers, trees and even crops. At the same time, they gave classes to local
residents to teach them about gardening. The group called themselves the Green
Guerrillas. (2) …… They weren't soldiers like normal guerrillas, but they did invent
their own weapon: the seed bomb. It contains earth, seeds and water. (3) …C…
(4) …… Around 1650, a group of Englishmen who called themselves the Diggers
decided to plant vegetables on common ground to feed the local people. It was an
illegal act and the government put a stop to it.
Modern “guerrilla gardeners” are acting illegally by using land they do not own.
(5) …… After all, in many cases, they are making the environment better for
everyone.

II. Match sentences A-E with gaps 1-4 in the text. There is one sentence that you
do not need.
A. But they wouldn’t let his father go, and he died.
B. At that time, the rulers of Australia were the English.
C. Ned saved another boy’s life when he was at school.
D. In one fight, the outlaws murdered three policemen.
E. When he was 16, he went to prison for three years.

Ned Kelly was Australia’s most famous outlaw in the 19th century. (1) …… . But
Ned’s family had originally come from Ireland, not England, and the English police
were often cruel to Irish families. So most Irish people in Australia hated their
English rulers and saw Ned as a hero for fighting against them.
There were seven children in the Kelly family and they were very poor. They
sometimes had to steal food to survive. When Ned was 11, the police arrested his
father. He went to prison and soon became ill. (2) …… Ned hated the police from
that time on.
Three years later, the police arrested Ned for fighting with another man. He was
found not guilt, but the police put him in prison for ten days anyway. From then
on, Ned was always in trouble with the police. (3) …… At the age of 19, Ned came
out of prison and formed a gang called the “Kelly Gang”.
When Ned was 23, the gang ran away from the police and became outlaws. They
lived in the outback and robbed banks. For two years the police chased them. (4)
…… They made
suits of amour for protection, but in 1880, when the gang robbed a bank, the
police shot Ned in the legs. At his trial they found him guilty of murder , and they
executed him.
IV. Read the text and match sentences A-F with gaps 1–5. There is one sentence
that you do not need to use.
John Myatt is an artist. He may not be the greatest artist in the world, but he is
possibly the world's greatest forger. He is able to paint pictures in the style of
famous artists like Monet and Matisse. (1) …… This skill got Myatt into a lot of
trouble in the 1990s. For many years he taught art at a secondary school, but then
he got divorced and he gave up his job to spend more time with his children. In
order to make some money he started painting pictures in the style of famous
artists and selling them. (2) …… He was honest about his work – he wrote his
name on the back, and he sold them for £150 each. However, one of his
customers, John Drewe, started to resell Myatt's paintings as genuine, original
works. Drewe had sold one of Myatt’s paintings for £25,000. He contacted Myatt
and suggested that they go into business together, Myatt agreed. He continued to
paint and Drewe sold his paintings to art collectors around the world. (3) ……
The amazing thing is that Myatt painted his pictures with decorator's paint. (4) ……
But it soon came to an end. Drewe was divorced too, and his ex-wife found out
about the forgeries. She went to the police and they arrested Drewe and Myatt. At
their trial Drewe was sent to prison for six years and Myatt for less than one year.
(5) …… When he came out he started to produce pictures in the style of famous
artists again. But he put his name on the back, as he’d done before he met Drewe.
Myatt is now famous and instead of charging £150 for a painting, he can charge
£40 – 50,000. That’s more than Drewe gave him for his “genuine” paintings!
A. It wasn’t illegal
B. Then he decided to stop copying famous paintings.
C. Myatt only spent four months in prison for good behaviour.
D. They are so good that experts can’t tell that they are not originals.
E. It was the same paint that people use to paint houses!
F. Between 1986 and 1994 they sold about 200 paintings and made over a
million pounds.

V. ELLIS ISLAND
Between 1892 and 1954, over 12 million immigrants arrived in New York. They
came from all over the world on crowded, dirty ships, but most came from
Europe. They were often poor and life was difficult for them in their own
countries. The journey from their own countries was long and tiring. (1)
_____People went to America because they wanted to make a new life for
themselves.
They got off the ship at tiny Ellis Island in New York Bay. (2)_____ First, American
officials asked them a lot of questions about their families, their jobs and the
money they had. (3) _______.Very sick people, very old people and criminals had
to return home. The busiest year for Ellis Island was 1907 when over one million
immigrants arrived. The busiest day was 17th April, 1907. (4) ________ .
From Ellis Island the new immigrants travelled by boat to New York. The city was
full of different races, cultures and languages. There was an Irish district, a Jewish
district, Chinatown, Little Italy and Harlem (where many ex-slaves lived). The new
immigrants usually lived in apartments with six or seven other families.
(5)______ . Life wasn’t easy!
But the new immigrants worked hard and helped to make America successful.
Today, one third of the population – over 100 million Americans – are descendants
of the Ellis Island immigrants.
Read the text below and match sentences A-F with gaps 1 - 5. There is one
sentence that you do not need.
A. Then doctors checked their health.
B. The first thing they saw as their ship came into New York Bay was the
enormous Statue of Liberty.
C. Every member of the family had to work, and most of them didn’t speak
English!
D. They waited patiently in long queues.
E. Over 11,000 people arrived on that day!
F. But they had very little luggage with them.
VI. Read the text. Five sentences have been removed. Choose the best sentence
(A-F) for each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence that you do not need to use.
It was evening when we arrived at the gate. We couldn't see the house from the
road. There were lots of dark trees and bushes. We walked through the garden.
We turned the corner and there it was. It was a very tall house with lots of high
windows. The door was huge, old and black. It didn't look like a hotel. Maybe we
had the wrong address. (1) …… It was very quiet.
Finally, an old woman came to the door. “Come in,” she smiled. We carried our
bags into the hall. (2) …… To the left was a sitting room, with dark walls, lots of
bookshelves, and brown armchairs. To the right was a dining room with big
portraits of old-fashioned people on the walls. There was a long table down the
middle with big wooden chairs. It looked clean, but everything smelled old. Stacey
and I looked at each other. We didn't like it at all. (3) ….… We were really tired.
We followed the woman and carried our bags up the big staircase. She took us to
a bedroom and unlocked the door. Inside there were two beds with an old
fireplace in between. There was a small table, two chairs and a large cupboard.
“Here you are,” she said. "Would you like something to eat before bed?” (4) ……
We ate and drank and felt better. Then we went to bed.
We woke up suddenly. There was a strange noise in the room. “What was that?” I
said. “I don't know,” said Stacey, scared. “I think it came from the cupboard”.We
waited. (5) …… “Open the cupboard,” she said quietly. “But I don't want to,” I
answered.
A. It was very big with a wide staircase
B. There it was again - a knocking, scratching sound.
C. When we opened it we were shocked.
D. We rang the doorbell and waited.
E. We said yes, and she brought us hot chocolate and sandwiches.
F. But the woman seemed nice, and we needed a bed for just one night.

VII. Read the text. Match sentences A-E with gaps 1-5.
Many of the problems which face governments nowadays are international ones.
Take traffic, for example. All the major cities of the world are having to try to find
ways of dealing with too many vehicles and the congested roads which they
cause.
A large number of the vehicles which clog our cities are private cars. Motorists are
very reluctant to leave their precious cars behind and go to work on public
transport, despite the constant traffic jams. (1) …………….. Thus, our roads are
chock-a-block with traffic. Of course, parking space is not always available. Some
firms provide car parks or garages, where at least some of their employees can
leave their cars. (2) …………….. Since this is usually highly restricted, with many
parking meters in evidence, parking is a source of frustration to many motorists.
People who are otherwise quite law-abiding are apt to take a bit of a risk when it
comes to traffic offences. Thus, they ignore both signs that say “NO PARKING” and
lines painted down the edge of the road which indicate parking restrictions.
Should they be away from their cars for longer than the amount of time allowed
by the parking meter, they are not worried - until they see that the traffic warden
has left a parking ticket on their windscreen, (3) ……………...
The authorities in more and more cities are trying to keep cars out of the city
centre. (4) ……………... park-and-ride schemes so that people will leave their cars at
the city boundary and complete their journey by bus.
Still, there are fears that ever-increasing traffic will cause gridlock in cities,
particularly at rush hours. With so many tailbacks and bottle-necks on so many
roads, (5) …………….... Why, then, do so many of us persist in using our cars?
A. motoring is no longer a pleasure.
B. and realize that they will have to pay a fine.
C. With this aim, they have pedestrianized large and introduced
D. They regard buses, trams and trains as being for other people, while they
themselves like to drive from door to door.
E. Most people, however, have to rely on public car parks, often multi-storey
ones, or else try to park in the street.
VIII. Read the news report and decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).
Twenty years ago, recycling only did if you were really interested in being “green”.
Today, recycling is a normal activity for families all around the UK. Local Councils
make it easier for families to recycle by collecting materials from their houses.
They even give them two different bins, so families can separate their rubbish
from their recycling.
Recently, some local councils have decided to do even more; they are putting
computer chips inside the rubbish bins they give to families in their area. The
chips measure the amount of rubbish in the bin and also give information about
the kind of materials in the bin: paper, glass, metal etc. In other words, if the
family throws away these materials instead of recycling them, the council finds
out. And when this happens they write a letter to the family asking them to be
more careful about recycling.
The councils say their main aim is education. “If you regularly have problems
putting the wrong items in your bins, we will simply provide guidance and possibly
come out to visit you.” they claim. But many people think that putting computer
chips in bins is like having “bin police”, and they are not happy about it!

1. If British families want to recycle, they have to go to their local recycling centre.
2. Some local councils give families two separate bins for their rubbish and their
recycling.
3. The computer chips give information about the rubbish inside the bin.
4. If a family doesn't recycle enough, they get a letter from the council.
if the family throws away these materials instead of recycling them, the council
finds out
5. The councils say the main aim of the computer chips is to help the “bin police”.
IX. Read the text. Are the following sentences (true) or (false)?
 I never stay in one country for a long time. It gets boring. I like to move on, see
new places, and meet different people. It’s a good life most of the time. When I
need money, I get a job. I can do most things - hotel and restaurant work, building
work, picking fruit. In Europe you can pick fruit most of the year. It’s not easy
work, but the money is not bad.
I like to go south for the winter. Life is easier than in the sun, and northern Europe
can get very cold in the winter. Last year I was in Venice for October. I did some
work in a hotel for three weeks, and then I began slowly to move south. I always
go by train when I can. I like trains. You can walk about on the train, and you meet
a lot of people.
I left Venice and went on to Trieste. There I got a cheap ticket for the slow train to
Sofia, in Bulgaria. This train goes all the way down Eastern Europe and takes a long
time - a day and a half. But that didn’t matter to me.
The train left Trieste at nine o’clock on a Thursday morning. There weren’t many
people on it at first, but at Zagreb more people got on. Two girls went along the
corridor, past my carriage. They looked through the door, but they didn’t come in.
Then an old woman came in, sat down and went to sleep. The two girls came back
along the corridor and looked into the carriage again. The train left Zagreb and I
looked out of the window for ten minutes, then I went to sleep too.
When I opened my eyes again, the two girls were in my carriage. They looked
friendly, so I said, “Hello”.
1. The writer is a traveller.
2. The writer doesn’t want to do hotel or restaurant work.
3. The writer prefers hot to cold weather.
4. The writer’s favourite means of transport is the train because it’s fast.
5. The writer was in a hurry = vội vã when he left Trieste.
6. It took the writer a day and a half to go all the way down Easter Europe by
train.
7. Sofia is a city in Italy.
8. The train left Trieste on a Thursday morning.
9. Two girls joined the writer after the train left Zagreb.
10. The writer started the conversation with the girls because they were
pretty.

X. Read the text. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

This year, thousands of young people in the UK will take a year off between
school and university, or before their first job. The aim of this ‘gap year’ can be
to travel, learn a new language, or get experience for a future career. Some
people do voluntary work; others want to earn money. Here are three typical
teenagers who are planning a gap year.

EMMA
‘I’m going to take a gap year before university. I’m going to study Spanish and
Portuguese at university, so I’ll go to South America where they speak both
languages! I’m going to spend the first four months in Peru, and then I’m going
to do voluntary work for a charity in Rio. The charity provides education for
street children. We’re going to build a small school. Then I’m going to give
English lessons at the school for two months. After that, I’m going to visit
some other countries. I’ll do part-time jobs while I’m travelling. It will be great
experience because I want to work in the tourist industry.’

PHOEBE
‘I’m really excited about my gap year job. I’m going to lead a team of
volunteers on a six-month conservation project in Cabo Verde, Africa. The aim
of the project is to protect turtles, because hunters kill them and sell their
shells. We’ll build special nests on the beach for the turtles’ eggs and then
we’ll watch the nests at night and check that they’re safe. We’ll also clean the
beach so the baby turtles can get to the sea safely. I’ll earn money – but I’m
not doing it for that reason. It will be useful experience because I want a
career in conservation after university’.
ROB
‘In November, I’m going to go to the French Alps for six months. For the first
eleven weeks, I’m going to do a training course to become a ski instructor. It
will be hard work! When I’ve got the qualification, I’ll stay and work until the
end of the skiing season. I’ll earn about €700 a month, plus tips. I’ll have the
perfect gap year job for me because I love skiing, and I need to save some
money for university. But it won’t be my career– I want to be a lawyer.’

1. All three teenagers are going to work in Europe.

2. Emma won’t earn any money during her gap year.
3. Phoebe will work with a group of people.
4. All three teenagers are going to do something connected with their future
careers.
5. Emma will go to more than one country.
6. All three teenagers are planning to go to university.
7. Rob and Phoebe are both going to give lessons.
8. Rob needs to get a qualification before he can earn money.
9. Rob wants to work as a lawyer.
10. Emma is going to spend a month in Peru.

XI. Read the passage and answer the questions.

Scott Baldwin had just spent the evening at home. His 21-year old nephew
Carl had visited him. It was just normal day for Scott, but then someone
burgled his house when he was asleep in bed. They stole his games console
and £700. Scott was shocked. He'd heard a noise in the night, but his dog
hadn't barked, so he had gone back to sleep. In the morning Scott
remembered a Sherlock Holmes story called Silver Blaze. In the story, the dog
didn't make any noise because it knew who the burglar was. So Scott
questioned Carl, who eventually confessed to the burglary. Scott told the
police that he was very disappointed in his nephew.
Two weeks after bank robber John Hickinbottom left jail, he tried to rob
another bank. He walked in wearing a mask and carrying a weapon. He
demanded the cashier hand over all the cash in the bank. There was a queue
of old people waiting for their pension money. They said, "We don't want this!
Get out!” Hickinbottom refused, so one of the customers hit him in the face.
All the pensioners helped to get the robber on the ground. Then they sat on
him until the police arrived. Hickinbottom asked the pensioners to take mask
off as he couldn't breathe. The police came and took him back to jail.
1. When had Scott’s nephew visited him?
2. Why didn’t the dog bark in the Sherlock Holmes story?
3. What was John Hickinbottom wearing when he tried to rob the bank?
4. Who hit Hickinbottom?
5. Why did Hickinbottom ask the pensioners to take off his mask?