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Unit 9 Test A
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3 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.
Grammar There is one mistake in each sentence.
1 Report each sentence in Gary’s email. 1 Joe said me that he wanted a lift to college.
Hi Ben,
I’m glad you’re getting better now. I’ve caught
2 What did you tell to Peter? He looks very upset.
a cold too! I’ve been off school for two days. I’m
really bored. Yesterday I finished reading the last
Harry Potter book. I’ll give it to you when I see
you.
See you soon, 3 I asked to Mary if she could help me with this
Gary exercise.
1 Gary said _____________________________
4 Yesterday the teacher asked us what did we
_____________________________________. want to do on Friday.
2 Gary said _____________________________
_____________________________________.
3 Gary said _____________________________
_____________________________________. 5 Jim said he has seen the film with Bobby last
4 Gary said _____________________________ Wednesday.
_____________________________________.
5 Gary said _____________________________
_____________________________________.
6 Gary said _____________________________
_____________________________________.
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2 Report these direct questions starting with the 4 Complete the sentences with the correct words.
words given. 1 I never watch h__________ films before bed
1 ‘Where do you live?’ because I get nightmares.
He asked me __________________________ 2 I think s__________ f__________ films are a
bit silly because you know these things can
_____________________________________.
never happen.
2 ‘Have you seen Emma this morning?’
3 C__________ novels are very popular. People
He asked me __________________________ love to read about murders!
_____________________________________. 4 By reading h__________ f__________ you can
3 ‘Where can I buy a newspaper?’ learn a lot about the past as well as enjoy a
He asked me __________________________ good story.
_____________________________________.
4 ‘Did you speak to Tony about the party?’
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He asked me __________________________
_____________________________________.
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5 Complete the sentences with the correct kind of
books.
Reading
1 You use a __________ in class to learn about a 7 Read the article from which some sentences
subject and do exercises in. have been taken out. Choose the correct sentences A–
2 You need a __________ to tell you how to use G to fill the gaps. There is one extra sentence that you
a new piece of equipment. do not need.
3 People use a __________ to give them
information about the sights to see in different
News online
cities.
For many people, buying and reading a
4 A(n) __________ shows you where different
newspaper is part of their daily routine. They
countries in the world are.
enjoy spending time searching the pages for
5 You can find information about a lot of interesting political stories, laughing at cartoons,
different subjects in a(n) __________. catching up with the latest sports results and
reading about celebrity scandals. They can take
/5 their newspapers into work, on the bus or into a
café, or even read it over breakfast. (1) ___ Or is
6 Complete the sentences with the correct it?
prepositions. There has been a news revolution going on over
the last few years. (2) ___ Nearly all the major
in out down through newspapers have online versions. We can access
these free of charge and from laptops, mobile
1 We had to cross _____ the wrong answers in
phones and other hand held devices. (3) ___
the exercise.
However, the popularity of online news is soon
2 I always flick _____ a book in the shop before I
going to be tested. Because news is now so
buy it.
available online, newspapers are losing money.
3 In the lesson I wrote _____ all the important (4) ___ The newspapers have a difficult choice.
things the teacher said. Will people continue to visit their sites if they have
4 We have to fill _____ our university to pay? Will they visit another newspaper’s site
application forms soon. which is still free? (5) ___ Experts do not agree on
what is going to happen. (6) ___ Others, however,
/4 have said that this step is inevitable and soon we
shall have to pay for more and more information
that we find online. We shall have to wait to see
what happens.
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A Many say that the idea of the Internet is to Use of English
allow people to have free information and we
will not agree to pay for it. 9 Read the email about an interview and fill each
gap with one word.
B Will they start buying newspapers again?
C Why should we pay for newspapers
Did you hear that interview with the young
anymore?
writer Chris Parkin on the radio yesterday? It was
D Soon, some of the big papers are going to really good. The interviewer asked him
start charging people to read their (1) __________ he had started writing at a very
newspapers online. young age and which writers (2) __________
influenced him. He (3) __________ that he hadn’t
E Unsurprisingly, people are now turning to read very much while he was a child, but then
the Internet to provide them with daily news when he was a teenager, his favourite authors had
reports. been Agatha Christie and Shakespeare! The
interviewer asked him (4) __________ his plans
F You can learn a lot more from a newspaper were for the next year and he said that a film
than simply the facts. company had bought the rights to his first story
G The newspaper is part of our culture. and the film (5) __________ be in the cinemas
soon. The interviewer asked if he had changed any
of the story, but he said that they hadn’t asked
(6) __________ to. It was going to be exactly like
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8 You are going to hear two friends talking about
a writer. Listen and decide if the statements are
true (T), false (F) or not mentioned (NM).
1 The author writes in English. T/F/NM
2 The girl learned about the writer from T/F/NM
a review in a magazine.
3 The writer hasn’t written many books. T/F/NM
4 The stories are all set in Denmark. T/F/NM
5 It isn’t important which book you read T/F/NM
first.
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Writing
10 This is part of an email you receive from your
friend, Tess.
I’ve just finished a really good book and now I’ve
got nothing to read! Can you recommend
something you’ve read recently?
Write a reply to Tess, telling her about a good
book you’ve read. Write 100 words.
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