REVIEW TEST 3 ● GROUP B
Vocabulary, Grammar, Use of English and Reading
Name: ______________________________________
Class: ______________________________________
Total: _________/60
Vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
There are two extra words.
agenda statement market output
field vocation accuracy steady
0 We’ve been told by the boss to increase our output
by fifty percent! That’s impossible!
1 I’d like to take a break before I enter the job
______________ . I’m still too young to choose a
career.
2 What do you think has caused the _____________
increase in unemployment? It’s very concerning.
3 Wow, that outfit really makes a ______________ .
He definitely wants to be noticed.
4 Can you check the ______________ of this
information? I can’t find any sources to confirm
the story is true.
5 Which would you prefer? To work in the
______________ of science or technology?
___/5
2 Complete the sentences with the missing words.
Some letters are given. There is one space for each
missing letter.
0 Unfortunately she never reached her full
p o t e n t i a l. She didn’t work hard and has a
tendency to give up.
1 Stella often upsets people because she isn’t always
t _ _ _ f _ _ in what she says.
2 We’re going to an event at the university to get
advice on how to improve our career p _ _ _ _ _ c _ _.
3 My brother’s business was going bankrupt, but
luckily he received a donation and now the
business is starting to t _ _ _ v _ again.
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4 Spending too much time on social networks can
t _ _ g _ _ r various problems in the lives of young
people.
5 That journalist is always trying to m _ _ l _ _ _
people by only reporting half the facts.
___/5
3 Complete the sentences with one word in each
gap.
0 My English teacher was great, she really
encouraged me to speak my mind rather than keep
everything to myself.
1 Dora’s upset because she’s just split __________
with her boyfriend.
2 The best __________ guidance I ever got was from
my father. He told me to do a job I love which is
why I became an author.
3 Have you ever considered having your own market
__________? It would be much cheaper than
opening a shop.
4 The Internet is __________ with information on
how to get a good balance between work and
leisure, but it’s hard to follow the advice.
5 This is a huge company with __________ of over
6000 employees.
___/5
Grammar
4 Choose the correct option.
0 This could lead / result in fewer people graduating
from university.
1 I wouldn’t be / wouldn’t have been at such a good
university now if I hadn’t done so well in my
exams.
2 Driving won’t be a problem provided / unless the
weather’s really bad, in which case we can go by
train.
3 You won’t see Steven if you get here at six – he’ll
have left / have been leaving by then.
4 Had you told / If you told me about the meeting
earlier, I would have been able to come.
5 My mum suggested talking / to talk to my teachers
about the problem.
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6 Amy said that the party has gone / had gone really
well.
7 What was wrong with Ana last night? She looked
as if she had cried / had been crying.
8 Jack says he went / goes to the gym twice a week,
so that’s why he’s so well-built.
___/8
5 Complete the second sentence so that it has a
similar meaning to the first.
0 We must finish the assignment. Only then can we
go home early.
We can’t go home early unless we finish the
assignment.
1 ‘I’m sorry I lost my temper,’ Edward said.
Edward apologised __________________________
___________ temper.
2 If you had put your bike in the shed, it wouldn’t
have been stolen.
Had ________________________________ in the
shed, it wouldn’t have been stolen.
Use of English
6 Read the text and choose the correct answer, A, B,
C or D.
Whilst I was still at university I decided I wanted to be
a 0 news anchor. I was fascinated by events happening
around the world and decided that I’d make my
passion my job. I started out by working as a 1_____ ,
and that’s when things started to go wrong. I was
given hundreds of stories to check every day. So many
that I couldn’t get 2_____ to checking all of them.
I also had to put up 3_____ my boss who was a bully.
He looked down 4_____ anyone less successful than
him. Finally I’d had enough, and I gave him a 5_____
account of exactly why I was leaving my job and the
media for good. I now work as a chef and I couldn’t be
happier.
0 A new anchor B news anchor
C news anchors D new anchors
1 A facts-checker B facts checker
C fact-checker D facts-check

3 ‘You should study art at college’, my parents said 2 A over B on C round D up

to me. 3 A with B for C to D by
My parents persuaded _______________________ 4 A to B at C on D for
_______________ art at college.
5 A blow-to-blow B blow-by-blow
4 ‘You must tell me the truth,’ Paula said to me. C blow-on-blow D blow-for-blow
Paula urged _______________________________ ___/5
her the truth.
7 Complete the text with one word in each gap.
5 ‘Have you seen that film?’ James asked me.
I went for an interview yesterday for a job as a waiter,
James asked me whether ____________________ but it didn’t go well at all. I was keen to impress the
________________ that film.
interviewer, so I told 0him I had a great 1__________
6 I didn’t meet my friends last night because I have a of experience of working in restaurants. Of course, he
project to finish.
insisted 2__________ giving me a tray full of drinks and
I ________________________________ my asking me to demonstrate my skills. I managed to spill a
friends last night if I didn’t have a project to finish.
drink all over him, 3__________ obviously didn’t go
7 It was wrong of you to lie to her. down very well! 4__________ I not done that, I think I
You shouldn’t _____________________________. might have got the job, because he seemed to like me.
But I now think there’s very little chance of them
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offering it to me, 5__________ all the other candidates
are even worse!
___/5

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8 Complete the text with the correct form of the
words in capitals.
My father was not a particularly
0
affectionate man, but he had other AFFECTION
far more important qualities that
have shaped who I am today. He
was extremely 1_________________ KNOW
on a wide range of subjects and was
always talking to my sister and me
about mathematics and science and
how the world works. In those days,
people held strong 2_____________ BELIEVE
about the role women should take
in society, and many jobs in the field
ACCESS
of science were 3________________
to me. Rather than being
4
_______________ , my father MISERY
encouraged me to follow my dreams
and I got a job in a lab. Through my
dedication and 5________________ COMMIT
other scientists began to take me
seriously and I became a very
successful researcher. I have my
father to thank for that.
___/5
9 Complete the second sentence so that it has a
similar meaning to the first. Use the word in capitals.
Write up to five words.
0 ‘Well done, you passed your exams’ the teacher
said. CONGRATULATED
The teacher congratulated me on passing my
exams.
1 She said we should leave by five o’clock. ADVISED
She __________________________________ by
five o’clock.
2 Our plan won’t work if he doesn’t come here too.
PROVIDED
Our plan will work __________________________
____________ here too.
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3 It wasn’t necessary for me to get there early.
BOTHERED
I __________________________________ getting
there early.
4 ‘Everything will be OK,’ she assured me. THAT
She assured me
_______________________________ OK.
5 I didn’t go away to university, so I still live with my
parents. IF
I wouldn’t still live with my parents ____________
_____________________________ to university.
___/5
___/50
Reading
10 Read the text. Then complete the sentences with
the words from the article in the correct form.
Mass media through the ages
Any mention of the media and people automatically
think of newspapers and magazines, television
and the Internet, entirely modern methods of
communication. This is understandable, the 20th
century saw the introduction of communication
technologies that have completely revolutionised the
way we work, play, relax and interact with other
people. These fast-paced, ground-breaking changes
do not look likely to slow down in the near future,
either.
Whilst the tools of communication we now have at
our fingertips have changed, so too has the general
perception of the media. We tend to look back fondly
on times where journalists could be trusted not to be
the perpetrators of harmful fake news stories, and TV
was not full of violence and aggression. But the past in
many ways is not the nostalgic place we dream about.
In any form of communication there is room for
misinterpretation and misunderstanding. It’s true that
modern media dominates our lives, but the will to
communicate is perhaps what makes us human, and
people have found ways to record their thoughts,
feelings and lives since the beginning of time. Here,
we take a look back on some of the most important
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forms of media and human communication through situation. Personal blogs allow anyone to express their
history. opinion online. One might say that the result is we are
bombarded with too much information and shouldn’t
Prehistoric cave paintings are often considered to be
trust anyone. I’d rather see it as a fantastic
the oldest form of human artistic expression, but
opportunity to read widely, engage with various
every artist has a story to tell and every painting holds
opinions and finally make up my own mind about the
a message. So what is the message behind these
information I am given. It has never been easier to
paintings? Many of them depict hunting scenes and
speak your mind, and this can only be a positive thing
are often thought to represent how these early
in my opinion.
people lived. However, we now know they survived
on a diet of reindeer meat, whereas the paintings
show bears, wild cats and even rhinos. Rather than
1 Many people dream of a past where journalists
their reality, it could be their dreams and aspirations
were honest and less ________________________
that are on show. Or perhaps these early people
_________________ was visible on TV.
wanted to show themselves as having greater
strength and bravery than they actually possessed. 2 Prehistoric paintings are often ________________
Either way, there is some confirmation that __________________ the daily lives of the people
dissatisfaction with life may not be a modern who created them.
invention at all.
3 The paintings probably show either the dreams of
Writing was of course another milestone in the prehistoric people, or their desire to ___________
growth of the media. Various systems of writing __________________________ than they actually
evolved in different civilizations around the world were.
increasing in accuracy until it became possible for a
reader to reconstruct the meaning conveyed by the 4 Early systems of writing date back to around 3200
writer. This can be dated to around 3200 BC although BC and paper was first used in 100 BC, allowing
it is difficult to be exact about dates. The invention of _____________________________________ more
paper in China in 100 BC meant books could be easily.
handwritten and be more easily circulated, but it was
the introduction of the printing press 1500 years later 5 Perhaps the biggest drawback of the printing press
that really enabled the mass media to take off. is that it __________________________________
manipulate the media.
The printing press enabled knowledge to be
distributed to a much wider audience. It also did much ___/10
to spread literacy with more and more people
learning how to read and write and for that reason is
often held up as one of the greatest inventions of our
time. However, it can be associated with a number of
drawbacks which can’t be overlooked. Mass printing
quickly became and remained a privilege of the rich
and educated. More importantly, the people at the
very top of society have typically always held all the
power, and the printing press gave them an even
greater ability to exert control and spread the
information which suited them. Whilst ‘fake news’
only became word of the year in 2017, it seems the
concept is as old as time.

Rather than feeling down about our inability to get to

the truth, we can look at the positives of our current
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