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1 Circle the correct words to complete the sentences.

1 Did you reach / gather a conclusion about the topic of your science project?

2 I’d rather you don’t / didn’t wear your shoes inside the house.

3 I should go to bed, but I don’t feel very sleeping / sleepy.

4 There could / can’t be a running track in the park, but I’m not sure.

5 Our coach urged us work / to work together as a team.

6 I wish I had applied / applied to study at a university in the UK.

7 Do you think you’ll go to / for that bike you saw at the weekend?

8 Steven’s French is excellent. He must / can’t have spent some time in France.

9 I’d buy / have bought your festival tickets this week if I were you.

10 Neither / Neither of us had our mobile phone with us.

2 Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1 tickets / as / The / expensive / weren’t / quite / I expected. / as

2 Social media / to build / confidence. / little / does / people’s

3 swimming stuff / If / with us! / only / brought / we’d / our

4 any / They / part-time / jobs. / don’t / suitable / have

5 I / extremely / was / that / biased. / thought / article

6 luggage. / that / We / were / explained / looking for / our / we

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3 Complete the sentences with the correct word. Use the letters to help you.

1 It was a beautiful day, so there were an a lot of people at the beach.

2 I’d love to be a photographer, but I doubt I can make a l from my hobby.

3 It’s a time our managers told us what’s going on.

4 The book was fascinating. The writer has been t some incredible experiences.

5 They asked me w it was the first time I’d visited South America.

6 I can’t believe she turned d the chance to move to Italy!

7 Could you go o that again? I didn’t really understand it.

8 The more you tell him to do it, the l likely it is that he’ll listen!

4 Read the sentences and write the words.

1 This verb means ‘sleep longer than you meant to’.

2 This is the opposite of ‘believable’.

3 This is a person who studies geology.

4 This means ‘a person who has started his or her own business’.

5 This means ‘not legal’.

6 This is a single office, shop, etc. that is part of a chain.

Score out of 30

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5 Complete the text with the words in the box. There are five words that you do not need to use.

a account blueish by generally if influence interestingly into large

little metres miles number side silver than the what with

Zaha Hadid (1950–2016)

The Iraqi-British woman Zaha Hadid is 1 regarded as one of the most important
architects of her time. She was described 2 reporters from the British newspaper
The Guardian as ‘Queen of the curve’, since she often used smooth, flowing lines in her designs, and her
work has had an 3 on many other architects and designers.
By and 4 , Hadid’s buildings have been popular with both critics and the public. This is
perhaps because Hadid always took the setting of a building into 5 . One of her most
famous projects, the Guangzhou Opera House in China, provides an excellent example of this. This
beautiful cultural centre consists of two buildings which sit side by 6 next to a river, like
two large, 7 stones.
However, some of Hadid’s projects have been criticized. For example, a 8 of people
felt that her designs for the London Aquatics Centre, a swimming and diving centre which was built
for the 2012 Olympics, were more complex 9 they needed to be. The project ran
10 problems due to the complicated design of its 11 -grey roof and the
total cost of the building was almost £270 million.
Hadid wouldn’t have been able to design large projects like these 12 she hadn’t started
out with much smaller ones. 13 , one of her first architecture projects was a ski jump,
Score
which is located in Innsbruck, Austria. It’s 48 14 high and includes 15
café with 150 seats, which offers great views of the surrounding mountains.
out of 15

6 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word(s) in brackets.

Was this Apple’s least successful product?

As it wasn’t a popular device, you 1 (might / not / hear) of the Newton, but it played an
important role in the history of the technology company Apple.

In the 1990s, this kind of device 2 (know) as a PDA – a personal digital assistant. It could take
notes, organize your calendar and store contact details. After the design for the Newton 3
(present) to managers at Apple, the CEO of the company had the designers 4 (change) one
important feature. He told them 5 (make) the computer small enough to fit in his pocket.
At the time, this was 6 (incredible) difficult to do – in fact, the designers admitted that they
7 (joke) about stealing the CEO’s trousers and sewing bigger pockets into them! The final
product, which was launched in 1993, was 8 inches tall and 4.5 inches 8 (width).
9 (unfortunate), Apple did not see the 10 (grow) in sales of the Newton
that it had hoped for. The device’s handwriting tool, which changed the user’s writing into text on screen,
was supposed to be its 11 (impressive) feature, but it didn’t work very well. Moreover, many
customers said the price of the Newton was much 12 (high) than what they were prepared
to pay.

However, the story of the Newton has both ups and downs. Today, much of the Newton’s technology
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13 (use) in other Apple devices, such as the iPhone and the iPad – if the Newton
14 (invent), these 15 (desire) products wouldn’t exist.
out of 15

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The sleep hotel

Earlier today, I arrived at a beautiful hotel in the Swiss countryside. The rooms are lovely, the staff are charming and the views
from the hotel windows are absolutely stunning. But this is a hotel with a difference. There are only seven guests and they
all have one thing in common: they’re severely sleep-deprived.
The hotel offers ‘retreats’ for people who have trouble sleeping: guests stay here for four nights and the staff at the hotel
aim to help them to improve their sleeping habits. The guests who are staying here this week come from a variety of
different backgrounds. One is a businesswoman who wakes up at 2.30 a.m. every day. Another is a man in his 50s with an
ear condition called tinnitus which often keeps him awake.
The man who set up the hotel, Patrice Rochat, used to struggle to sleep, too. In fact, he came up with the idea of a sleep
retreat while he was lying awake in bed one night. He wanted his hotel to provide people with a chance to enjoy some peace
and quiet, while also benefitting from a programme of scientifically-proven treatments for sleeplessness. The programme
includes one-to-one meetings with a psychologist and a personal exercise plan developed for each guest. Other, less scientific
ideas are also used: you can smell the calming scent of lavender throughout the hotel and all bedrooms have incredibly
comfortable beds. Healthy eating during your stay is guaranteed thanks to a delicious menu in the hotel restaurant, which
avoids foods known to disrupt sleep, such as sugar and coffee.
So what do the guests on this week’s retreat think of the experience? None of them have had a perfect night’s sleep during
their stay, but they explained that they had not expected to. ‘I didn’t think that my problems would be fixed immediately,’
said one guest called Anna. ‘But I feel I have some good techniques for dealing with the problem in the future.’ Another
guest, Eduard, said ‘I’ve learned that my sleep problem is not as bad as I thought it was, so I feel less concerned about it
now.’ I spoke to Eduard again a week later. He had just enjoyed an eight-hour-long sleep – the longest he’s had in several
years. Understandably, he was delighted. He said that, following the retreat, he believes that his dream of sleeping normally
might finally come true.

7 Read the text. Are the sentences true (T), false (F), or is there not enough information in the text to decide
(N)? Write T, F or N in the box.

1 All of the guests at the hotel find it hard to get enough sleep.

2 Most of the people who come to the hotel have jobs in business or finance.

3 One of the current guests can’t sleep because of a problem with his ears.

4 The owner of the hotel had problems with his sleep in the past.

5 Guests take cookery lessons while they are staying at the hotel.

6 Patrice Rochat believes that certain smells can help us to sleep.

7 This week’s guests slept better at the hotel than they do at home.

8 Anna felt disappointed because the retreat didn’t fix her sleep problems.

9 Eduard isn’t as worried about his sleep problem as he was before. Score

10 Eduard slept for eight hours every night during the last week. out of 10

Total score out of 70

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