A2 FINAL TEST

PART I (8 points)
Complete the eight conversations. Choose A, B or C. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

Example
Alice: I’m sorry I’m late.
Mark: _______ I. 0.
A. You’re welcome. A
B. Yes, of course. B
C. That’s all right.

1. Susan: Where’s Dad? 5. Sam: How much did you pay for your car?
Tom: _______ Peter: _______
A. He’s been to the market. A. It wasn't expensive.
B. He’s gone to the market. B. It's my second one.
C. He was going to the market. C. It's cheaper to drive.

2. Ben: When do you usually do your 6. Tony: Why are you going to Scotland?
homework? Bella: _______
Sally: _______ A. For a week.
A. At school. B. By plane.
B. In the evenings. C. To visit my parents.
C. In the library.

3. John: When is your brother coming? 7. Bill: I’m really sorry. I’ve broken the vase.
Tom: _______ Jill: _______
A. Yesterday A. That’s very good.
B. Tomorrow B. Here you are.
C. For two days. C. Never mind. It was an old one.

4. Lisa: What was your holiday like? 8. Bill: Whose tennis racket is that?
Sandra: _______ Kate: _______
A. Terrible! It rained every day. A. It’s Mary’s.
B. I like spending my holiday at the B. It’s Mary.
seaside. C. It’s her.
C. We might go to Spain.

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Part II (7 points)
Read the text and the sentences (1-7) below. Are they true or false? Mark T (true) or F (false) on
your ANSWER SHEET.
Tattoos: In Fashion and For Life
In many countries, tattoos are in fashion. On TV you can often see a famous actor with a picture on her
arm or foot, or your favourite musician with a word on his hand.
However, tattoos are not modern. In fact, they are very old in human history. For example, archaeologists
found a human in ice from five thousand years ago. He had fifty-seven tattoos on his back, ankles, legs,
knees and feet. They were used for many different reasons too. In ancient Egypt, people put on tattoos
because they were ‘beautiful’. But in ancient Rome, tattoos were negative and put on criminals and
prisoners. In India, tattoos were religious.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, European sailors arrived in the islands of Polynesia. They saw
tattoos for the first time. The people on the islands had tattoos on their shoulders, chest, backs and legs.
The European sailors liked them and made their own tattoos. And so the idea travelled to Europe.
So is there a connection between traditional tattoos and fashionable tattoos? And can you call tattoos a
fashion? Chris Rainier of National Geographic is an expert in tattoos and his book Ancient Marks has
photos of tattoos from all over the world. He thinks people in modern societies often have tattoos
because they are a connection with the traditional world. And anyway, tattoos aren’t a fashion like
clothes or a haircut because you can’t put them on and take them off again like a jacket or a hat. They are
permanent for life, or at least not so easy to get rid of.

Example II. 0.
0. Lots of nowadays film and music celebrities appear with tatoos on their bodies.
F
1. According to the article tattoos have existed for a long time.
2. The found human in ice had tattoos all over his body.
3. Different cultures had various reasons for putting on tattoos.
4. In ancient Rome only noble men and women were allowed to have tattoos on their bodies.
5. European sailors took the idea of putting on tattoos from the Polynesian people.
6. Chris Rainer thinks you can call tattoos a fashion.
7. You can change your tattoo any time you get bored with it.

Part III (10 points)

Read the text below. Choose the correct word (A, B, or C) for each space (1-10). Write your answers
on your ANSWER SHEET.
Adventurers of The Year
Every year, readers of National Geographic magazine vote (0) for their adventurers of the year.
Here are two of (1) ___.
THE MOUNTAINEER --- (2) ___ a child, Edurne Pasaban lived in the mountainous Basque region of Spain
and she climbed her (3) ___ mountain when she was fourteen. In May 2010 she finished her biggest
challenge, to climb the world’s fourteen (4) ___ mountains. Nowadays she is famous for her (5) ___
climbing achievements. (6) ___, she didn’t climb in order to become famous. She says, ‘For me, adventure
is a way of life.’
THE ROAD TRIPPERS --- Steven Shoppman and Stephen Bouey were old friends who (7) ___ together in
Denver. But they knew (8) ___ a lot better after their adventure. They both had an ambition to go on a
road trip round the world. From 2007 to 2010, they drove through 69 different countries (9) ___ their
122,000-kilometre journey and had many adventures. They also got help from lots of people and they
found that the world wasn’t as dangerous (10) ___ they thought!

Example:
III. 0.
(0) A. about B. on C. for A

(1) A. they B. them C. their B

(2) A. Like B. As C. When

(3) A. first B. one C. a
(4) A. high B. higher C. highest
(5) A. many B. any C. some
(6) A. Although B. Besides C. However
(7) A. grew up B. brought up C. looked up
(8) A. another B. each other C. one other
(9) A. in B. while C. during
(10) A. like B. than C. as

Part IV (10 points)

Complete the text. Write ONE word for each space. Write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
Example: 0. the.

All Roads Film Festival

Every year, National Geographic has a film festival in (0) ___ USA. (1) ___ isn’t like the Oscars and
Bollywood because you don’t see lots (2) ___ famous film stars. The All roads film festival has films by
 directors and actors from many different countries (3) ___ cultures. You can see many types of (4) ___
including comedies, documentaries and animation. Here (5) ___ some of the films this year.
My Wedding and Other Secrets is a documentary by the director Aleksei Vakrushev. It’s (6) ___ the life of
the Chukchi people (7) ___ eastern Russia.
The Tundra Book is a romantic comedy about a Chinese family in New Zealand whose daughter falls in
love (8) ___ a local man.
Grandma is a short film by the Lebanese director, Merva Faddoul. It’s about a teenage girl called Sarah (9)
___ leads an adventurous life with (3) ___ sister and grandma.

Part V (5 points)
Read the letter and the information about Mr Ando, who is staying at a hotel in Leeds.
Fill in the Hotel Registration Form. Write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

Grange Hotel, Leeds

Sunday 14 April
Dear Joe,
We like Oxford and I love my job there. We’re renting a nice house at 23 Mount Road. We arrived in
Leeds yesterday and will go back to Oxford tomorrow. I am here for a meeting and my wife, Keiko,
has come too. She has a job as a teacher in Oxford. We will return to Japan next year.
Yours, Toshi
OXFORD WORLD COMPUTERS

Toshi Ando Engineer Hotel Registration Form

Date and place of birth: Name: 0 Toshi Ando
12. 03. 76 Tokyo, Japan UK address: 1 ……………….
Married, no children Nationality: 2 ………………..
Occupation: 3 ………………..
Name of wife /husband: 4 ………………..
Date of leaving Leeds: 5 ………………..

Part VI (15 points)

ReadWANTED
STUDENTS the tasks below and choose ONLY ONE TASK (Task 1 or Task 2) to write about. Write your text
for weekend ANSWER
on your work SHEET.
Task 1 Task 2
Write an email to an English-speaking friend (80- Write an email to an English-speaking friend (80-100
100 words) telling him/her how you spent words) to answer his/her questions about the place where
Christmas or New Year’s Eve. Write about: you live. Write about:
 the place where you were;  the town/city where you live;
 the people you were with;  your house/flat and neighbourhood;
 what you did and how you felt.  why you like/don’t like living there.