4th December, 2024 The First Written Examination

Group A
I/ Complete the second conditional sentences. Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1 If I ___________ (know) how to do these maths exercises, I ___________ (finish) my homework tonight.
2 If my brother ___________ (not be) a journalist, he ___________ (not meet) and write about famous people.
3 Jeremy ___________ (have) more money if he ___________ (work) part time.
4 My brother ___________ (not eat) at home very often if he ___________ (get) that job in the restaurant.
5 If you ___________ (buy) a better mobile phone, you ___________ (can) play lots of games on it.

II/ Read the definitions of shops and services and write the correct words. The first letter of each word has been
given.
1 This shop only sells fresh flowers. f________________
2 This is a shop where you can buy fresh fruit and vegetables. g________________
3 This shop sells clothes and other things to raise money for a good cause. c________________ s________________
4 If you want to buy or sell a house, you go to this place. e________________ a________________
5 If you don’t have a washing machine, you can go to this place to wash your clothes. l________________
6 This is a great place to have a hot drink and meet your friends for a chat. c________________ s________________
7 This shop only sells beauty products. c________________ s________________
8 In this shop, you can buy special or unusual foods from other countries. d________________
9 If you want to decorate your home, you need to buy things from this shop. D________________ s________________
10 People go to this place if they want to invest or borrow money. b________________

III/ Complete the sentences with the words below. There is one extra word.
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1 I really like finding bargains in the __________________, so I’m going shopping this weekend.
2 Can you give me a 20% __________________ if I buy two dresses?
3 You have to show me your __________________ if you want a refund, so I know you bought the dress at our shop.
4 I used that paper __________________ from the magazine, and I saved £30.
5 Could you tell me how much this bag is? There’s no __________________ on it.

IV/ Match 1–5 with a–e, then complete the sentences with the correct past perfect form of the verbs in brackets.
1 John was smiling because a she ________________ (not find) any shoes in her size.
2 Jill was disappointed because b her daughter __________________ (pass) her driving test.
3 The woman was proud because c he __________________ (not leave) work until 11.30 p.m.
4 Kate felt scared because d he __________________ (have) some good news.
5 Gareth was very tired because e she __________________ (hear) a loud noise.

V/ Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use one verb in the past simple and one in the past
perfect.
1 The film _________________ (start) when we _____________ (arrive) at the cinema because we were very late.
2 Mum _________________ (find) my homework after I _________________ (go) to school.
3 When Sharon _______________ (get) to the bus stop, she realised that the bus _________________ (leave) a few
minutes earlier.
4 After Dad _________________ (come) home from work, we _________________ (eat) dinner together.
5 When I _________________ (call) my grandma, she _________________ (not receive) my letter.
VI/ Complete the sentences with the words below.
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1 The new CEO invited all the company’s __________________ to visit the factory.
2 When I'm older, I’d like to get an interesting job with a good __________________ .
3 The two young Korean __________________ had a great idea, but they needed money to start their business.
4 In their first year, most companies don’t make much __________________ .
5 My uncle is excited because his video games company has just got a __________________ with Sony.

VII/ Read the text. Match sentences A–G with gaps 1–5. There are two extra sentences.

Shopping habits in the UK have changed over the last sixty years, and this can be seen in the changing
appearance of any British high street – the main shopping street in a town or city. In the 1950s, high
streets had rows of individual shops selling different things. 1___ Most people did this every few days in
order to buy fresh food. The high street was a sociable place to be.
This started to change in the 1970s with the arrival of supermarkets. They gave people the chance to
buy everything that they needed in one place. People didn’t need to go to individual shops any more.
2
___ So this new type of shop, along with a new way of storing meat and fruit at home, meant that
instead of doing a small shop every few days, people could buy all the food that they needed for a
week, or sometimes even a month.
As supermarkets became more popular, they changed from small local shops to huge superstores.
3
___ They took people away from the high street. They also tried to offer customers everything that
they needed, like a coffee shop, a hairdresser's and a chemist's. 4___ But this meant that the shops on
the high street started to close down as they lost their customers.
These days, more and more people are choosing not to go to supermarkets to do their shopping. 5___
People are also trying to spend less money, so a new type of discount shop has become very popular.
It may be because of this that people have stopped doing big weekly or monthly shops. Now they go to
shops more frequently to buy what they need for the next few days. So, in many ways, people seem to
be going back to the way people shopped in the 1950s.

A The idea was to get customers to spend all their money in one place.
B Customers knew exactly where to find the things they needed in each shop.
C And because of their size, many of these supermarkets were outside town.
D People loved it because they had never had the chance to do all their shopping there before.
E At the same time, more and more people had freezers in their houses.
F There was a greengrocer's next to a butcher's next to a baker's, and people visited each place to do their shopping.
G Instead, they are using the internet to shop from home and get their shopping delivered.