UNIT TEST 9 • GROUP A

Dictation, Vocabulary and Grammar

Name:  Class: 

Dictation
4 Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box in
the correct form. There is one extra verb.
1 [Track 10] Listen and write the sentences that you hear. act boost constitute have put tackle
 1 The advertising campaign has been effective in
 the sales of the brand.
 2 Governments have been trying to the
 problem of global warming for several decades now.

3 When she travelled to the famine-struck region, the

actress was accused of to her own

advantage.

4 Reporting by independent journalists helped to

 the refugee issue on the map.
5 Rice the staple food of about half of
/10 the world’s population.
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Vocabulary
Grammar
2 Complete the sentences with words formed from the
5 Put the words in brackets in the correct order to form
words in CAPITALS using the prefixes from the box.
emphatic beginnings of the sentences.
There is one extra prefix.
1
cross- inter- post- pre- pro- sub- (storm only did after realise the we)
1 The (GOVERNMENTAL) the danger we’d been in.
Panel on Climate Change is a scientific body set up by the 2
UN to advise them on issues related to global warming. (way our are no problems in) comparable with
2 The Arab Spring is the name given to a wave of the suffering of war refugees.
(DEMOCRACY) 3
protests in Arab countries between 2010 and 2012. (that no did think anyone time at) the
3 In today’s world, next day would bring another disaster.
(CULTURAL) understanding is a necessity if we want to 4
avoid conflict. (behaving people have seldom seen I)
4 This is a fairly detailed issue and in my opinion it should so selflessly as after that flood.
be dealt with by a
5
(COMMITTEE).
(contribute deforestation only to does not)
5 In a (INDUSTRIAL)
global warming; it leads to loss of biodiversity as well.
economy, there is a large service sector and an emphasis
on information technology, while the manufacturing of /5
goods is often outsourced to other countries. 6 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
/5

3 Complete the sentences with the names of animals. Use by hardly moment under until
the plural when necessary.
1 Not we’d seen the water approaching did
1 There’s no point in pretending we haven’t got a problem; we realise what was happening.
we have to take the by the horns.
2 no circumstances should you re-enter
2 You can tell him what he did was wrong, but it’ll be
a burning building.
water off a ’s back. He’s incapable of being
3 had I managed to drive away from the
sorry for harming others.
trees when one of them broke and fell onto the road.
3 The event was supposed to be a surprise but someone
let the out of the bag. 4 Only staying calm could we hope to save
4 ‘All the people could just refuse to fight and there would ourselves.
be no more wars.’ ‘Sure, and might fly.’ 5 Not for a did it occur to him to abandon
5 Hold your ! We haven’t discussed the his companion on the mountain.
implications of this plan yet. /5
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 UNIT TEST 9 • GROUP A
Language in Focus and Use of English

Language in Focus
9 Complete the second sentence so that it means the
same as the first. Use no more than six words in each
gap including the word in CAPITALS.
7 Put the words in brackets in the correct order.
1 Before we went on holiday, we hadn’t expected we
1
would experience the worst natural disaster we’d ever
(important that it I consider) we avoid wasting food.
seen. LITTLE
2
(fun people make Jack like when it doesn’t) of him being
before we went on holiday that we would experience
a vegan.
the worst natural disaster we’d ever seen.
3 I’m sure
2 Large petrol companies claim they are environmentally
(Emily can leave we to do let to it) everyone
friendly. I think it’s laughable. FIND
know about the demonstration.
4 large petrol companies claim they are environmentally
(him Derek you it to owe tell to) the truth. friendly.
5 3 It was pure luck that they escaped the avalanche.
(helped appreciate you would it if I) me plant some CHANCE
flowers in front of the school. Only
/5 the avalanche.
4 Our yacht sank immediately after we managed to get
Use of English into the rescue boat. SOONER

8 Complete the text with one word in each gap.

to get into the rescue boat than our yacht sank.
AFTER THE NEPAL EARTHQUAKE /8
We may sometimes think of disaster victims as passively
waiting for humanitarian aid to arrive. Not so. After 10 Complete the sentences with words formed from the
the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, people in remote words in CAPITALS.
mountain villages were often cut 1                   from 1 As a green organisation, we are happy to work with
external help for days. They quickly organised themselves
anyone who shares our goals,
to help 2                   other. Not only 3                   they
rescue people from under rubble, treat the injured and (REGARD) of their political orientation.
bury the dead; they also constructed provisional shelters 2 Agricultural
and toilets. A family who owned 4                   shop (INDUSTRIALISE) not only damages the environment,
used the food they stocked – rice, oil, vegetables, eggs but also results in poorer quality food being produced.
– to feed more than seventy people for several days. In
another village, the owner of a small hotel cooked for 3 We should learn to use the Earth’s resources in more
5
                   whole community using supplies from her (SUSTAIN) ways.
kitchen. A seventeen-year-old student 6                   had 4 Air pollution in some of the world’s largest cities is
learned about earthquake response organised a training reaching proportions
group to share his knowledge. When the second quake (CATASTROPHE).
came in May, they were prepared: it 7                   them
less than 40 minutes to dig out a boy trapped under the 5 UN aid agencies prefer to be represented by celebrities
rubble of a collapsed house, thus saving his life. who have a convincing track record of
/7 (ENGAGE) with
humanitarian causes.
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