Name: ______________________________________ Class: ______________________________
Gold Advanced Unit 9 test
Section 1: Vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences with the words in the box. You can use some of the words more than
once. There are three words you do not need to use.
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1 You have to _____________ in mind that you need to get a visa to travel to that country.
2 I found his lecture on the space-time continuum absolutely mind-_____________ .
3 When you visit my parents, _____________ your language theyre rather old-fashioned.
4 We had a great _____________ this morning and came up with some exciting ideas for
the product launch.
5 Britain lost a lot of highly-qualified people to America in the _____________ drain of the 1960s.
6 Never _____________ about the match. You should be working on your thesis this evening.
7 Youd need to be a mind _____________ to work out what shes going to do next as shes
so unpredictable.
8 This invention was the _____________ of my father, who spent his whole life trying to make
it work.
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2 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the text.
Genevieve didnt mind living (1) unaccompanied/alone/lone at all. She loved doing things
(2) by herself/to herself/on the own and, in fact, whenever anyone wanted to visit her, she
tried to put them off as she preferred to live her life (3) lacking/for/without anyone else.
Consequently, many people thought she was rather weird living in a big old house ten
rooms all (4) unaccompanied/to herself/lone. After all, there were many families who had
nowhere decent to live and she could accommodate two families at least in that sprawling
manor she had lived in all her life. Her (5) solitary/unaccompanied/sole existence had
become the talk of the village over the past few weeks, especially as a building company
wanted to build ten new homes on the village green to house people who lived in
cramped conditions.
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Section 2: Grammar
3 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
When memory fails
We (1) ___________________ (plan) our holiday for months when, eventually, the departure day
(2) ___________________ (arrive) last June. Josh and I (3) ___________________ (be) so
excited to finally be leaving. We (4) ___________________ (get) to the airport quite early.
However, we hit a huge snag when we got to the check-in desk as I (5) ___________________
(not/can) find my passport. I (6) ___________________ (check) everything so many times over
the previous week it (7) ___________________ (have to) be in my bags somewhere. I opened
every case and looked in every pocket but to no avail. What on earth (8) ___________________
(we/do)? Our six-month trip (9) ___________________ (disappear) fast. I told Josh to go on
without me but he refused. Looking at his watch, he was convinced that we had enough time for
me to get back to the house if I took a very expensive taxi ride. The check-in person said I had
one hour before the flight closed. One hour to do a journey which (10) ___________________
(take) us just over 40 minutes one-way earlier that morning with little traffic.
I knew it was impossible but I jumped into a taxi and headed off home, every minute seeming
like an hour. While I (11) ___________________ (sit) in the taxi, I tried to visualise where my
passport might be but without success. It took me fifty minutes to get there. I called Josh from the
taxi and told him I (12) ___________________ (not/get) back in time. He was silent for a
moment and then told me to turn around and come back to the airport. He announced that he
(13) ___________________ (find) my passport tucked inside his bag. There was no way I
(14) ___________________ (be) able to get back in time for the flight. I screamed at him that he
could have looked through his things when we were at the airport and called him all the names
under the sun. Then I recalled that I (15) ___________________ (put) it there the night before
because I thought it would be safer with him but I (16) ___________________ (forget) to
mention it to him!
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4 Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three
and six words, including the word given.
1 I love this job because I have flexible working hours.
ABOUT
What _________________________________ the flexible working hours.
2 He was excited because he was digging a brand new archaeological site.
FACT
What excited him _________________________________ digging a brand new
archaeological site.
3 They had agreed to be guinea pigs for the medical studies, which worried me.
THAT
What _________________________________ they had agreed to be guinea pigs for
the medical studies.
4 Susanna is a great person to be with because of her sense of fun and upbeat personality.
ARE
Her sense of fun and upbeat personality _________________________________
Susanna a great person to be with.
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