UNITS 1–5 ■ Review Test 1

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Listening A
Part 1
‫ ﲵ‬Listen to Part 1 of an announcer at an awards ceremony. Read the

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sentences. Then listen again and circle the letter of the answer that
correctly completes each sentence.

The speaker is announcing awards for people who .

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Example:

a. are talented and gifted b. performed community service c. won

on a contest
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1. Mr. Williams got involved by .

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a. donating his heart at death b. working without pay c. planting flowers and tr
trees

2. After attending camp with Mr. Williams, children became

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a. self-confident b. self-conscious c. self-critical
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3. Mr. Williams could be described as a

a. workaholic

4. The other camp counselors described

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a. brain b. team
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Part 2
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sentences. Then listen again and circle

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correctly completes each sentence.

Example: Mrs. Wells is .

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a. a librarian b. a teac
b teacher c. the president of a company

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rs. Wells got involved by
b .
a. raising
sing money b. b
beautifying the town c. working without pay
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6. Mrs. Wells could be d

described as .
a a spendt
a. spendthrift b. generous c. a tightwad

7. The speaker suggests that some people might find Mrs. Wells’s contribution
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to be .
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egotistical b. gifted c. amazing

8. The speaker does not describe Mrs. Wells as being .

a. passionate b. energetic c. a workaholic

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Listening B
‫ ﲵ‬Listen to the conversation. Read the questions. Then listen again and circle
the letter of the correct answer.

Example: What did the father buy?

a. a DVD player
b. a VCR

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c. a new movie

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9. Which statement about the father is true?
a. He kept the VCR.
b. When he bought the DVD player, he was worried that it might
ight bee a pain.
pain
c. He regrets not having kept the VCR.

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10. Which statement about the son is true?
a. He thinks VCRs are popular.
b. He thinks VCRs are no longer popular.

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c. He thinks VCRs are hard to operate.

11. Which phrase does not describe the DVD player?

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a. old-fashioned
b. hard to operate
c. a pain
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12. Which of the following

wing is a problem with VCRs?
VCRs
a. It is difficult
lt to find
nd videotapes for newe
newer movies.
b. The manuals
nuals for them are too difficult
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difficu to understand.
c. They
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ly play half a movie.
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he letterr of the answer that correctly

Circle the co completes each sentence.

Example: “I always lleave big tips at restaurants. It’s better to be generous than to be .”
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a. gifted
fted b. energetic c. cheap

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would be perfect for the wedding. It’s in good taste and is quite .”
a. shock
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“The violinist was talented but ; she wore strange clothes and had her own way of
doing things.”
a. eccentric b. gifted c. chic

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15. “Don’t be ; the staff is starting to hate you because you’re working them too hard.”
a. so egotistical b. such a tyrant c. such a cheapskate

16. “I love soul music, especially the love songs. They’re so .”

a. tacky b. difficult c. passionate

17. “With its wild style and rainbow colors, her dress attracted a lot of attention. It was just
ust too

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for such a formal occasion.”
a. moody b. flashy c. stylish

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18. “Matthew is buying all of us dinner? Great! I didn’t realize he was .”
a. so frugal b. so stingy c. such a big spender

19. “Kyle doesn’t make an effort to share his ideas or help other people
ople in his
is group.

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He’s just not .”
a. a team player b. moody c. a wise guy

20. “There’s nothing wrong with being if you’re

ou’re on a tight budget.”
a. thrifty b. chic

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21. “All heads turned toward the door when the tall,
the room.”
c. difficult
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a. tacky b. striking c. old-fashioned

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PREFIXES ADJECTIVES
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Example:
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actually twenty-nine years old.”

22. “For some reason, Steven seemed very worried about how he would look when we asked him
if he would make a speech. I didn’t know he was so .”

23. “Blue jeans and sneakers are generally considered for formal
occasions.”

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24. “You’d have to see it to really understand; the beauty of the Sistine Chapel is
.”

25. “That would give him the wrong impression; it would be false and .”

26. “Fear of something that is actually harmless is .”

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Complete each sentence with the correct form of the verb in parentheses.

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Example: “She says she got a letter from me, but I don’t remember sending one.”
one.
(send)
end

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27. “Don’t forget to Martha to find out if she’ll
’ll be coming
(write)
to our party this year.”

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28. “It’s important to remember off all cell phones
phon and
(turn)
cert hall.”
pagers when you’re at a movie theater or concert all.

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29. “You really should stop
(ask)
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He’s disrespectful to your parents and he’s a troublemaker.”
your friend
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imple past tense, the present
perfect, or the present perfect continuous
uous form of the verb ini parentheses.
Use the present perfect continuous
inuouss if the action is unfinished
unfinis or ongoing.
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Example: “ Have you traveled

aveled to Europe before? Or is this your first time?”
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30. “That last song

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bett than before. It’s obvious that
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(practice)

31. “Does
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(perform)
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32. Pavarotti perform several times when she lived in New York.”
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Circle the letter of the answer that correctly completes each sentence.

Example: We have problems: where to go and how to get there.

a. few b. many c. two

33. company has its own unique challenges and problems.

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a. Every b. Most c. All

34. Our staff is smaller now, and employees means days off for everyone.
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a. less, less b. fewer, fewer c. fewer, less

35. employees want to change the vacation schedule.

a. Every b. Some c. Any

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out it. Use
Read each sentence. Write a sentence expressing your opinion about
a possessive with a gerund and one of the verbs in the box.

appreciate like mind object

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Example: A woman who works with you smokes in the
he office.
I don’t like her smoking in the office.
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36. Your colleague listens to music all the
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work
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37. You started a new job where

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dresse in casual
ca attire on Fridays.

38. Your colleague

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t his friends while he is at work.
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Complete te each
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you own way. Write about your plans or goals
for the
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p By the ttime I’m 21 , I hope to have graduated from college .

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40. By this time next year, I plan .

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Read the short biography. Then read it again and check true or false.

Howard Hughes

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ENGINEER, PILOT, MOVIE PRODUCER
1905 — 1976

oward Hughes was born in 1905,

H to a wealthy family in the Texas oil
industry. By the age of eleven, Hughes
had demonstrated genius in math and
mechanical engineering—once building
a motorcycle from parts taken from a
steam engine. At fourteen, he took his
first flying lesson. These early
experiments were the beginning of his
lifelong passions for aviation and
engineering. As a teenager, Hughes
declared that his goals in life were to be
Eccentric
ccentric billionaire,
billiona Howard Hughes was
the world’s best golfer, its greatest pilot, ma figure of the 20th century.
a major
and its most famous movie producer.
Amazingly, during his lifetime he achieved In 1932, Hughes
Hug founded Hughes Aircraft.
two of these ambitions. As a pilot
ilot and
a self-taught engineer, he set
many
m world speed records and made
On his father’s death in 1924, the significant advances in aviation technology.
nineteen-year-old Hughes inherited
nherited Hughes His H-1 Racer was the fastest plane in the
Tool Company, valued at a million dollars. world and his H-4 Hercules flying boat was
Hughes used his wealth
ealth to become a the largest plane ever built.
Hollywood film producer.
oducer. His films
included Hell’s Angels, a fighter pilot ep
’s Angel epic However, as Hughes aged, he started to
that Hughes spent four yea years and a record become more and more eccentric. Before
$3.8 million
lion to make. A d demanding eating peas, for example, he would sort
director,
ctor, Hughes once stopped production them by size on his plate. Fearful of germs,
for months to w wait for a specific type of he avoided shaking hands with people. By
cloud to appear in the sky. Once, when his the 1950s, his health had deteriorated and
pilots refused to attempt a particularly he disappeared, living in hotel rooms with
dangerous stunt, Hughes flew it himself—
dangerou blacked-out windows. Rumors circulated
getting the shot but crashing the plane.
gettin about his strange lifestyle—that he wore
When the film was nearly complete,
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tissue boxes as shoes and that he used

Hughes decided that silent movies were paper towels to cover any object before he
outdated and reshot the film with sound. touched it. When Hughes died in 1976, he
A box office success, Hell’s Angels cemented was so changed that fingerprints had to be
Hughes’ reputation for thinking big and used to identify his body.
never hesitating to go in new directions.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org; www.socalhistory.org

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45. As a movie producer, Hughes was famous for being a big spender. 䡺 䡺

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46. Pilots on the set of the film Hell’s Angels described Hughes as 䡺 䡺
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48. Hughes was an old-fashioned director who preferred silent movies 䡺 䡺
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49. Hughes was never self-critical; once he started something,
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never change direction, even if he thought he had made a mistake.

51. Hughes was a brain who taught himself how

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Choose two of the following topics to write about. Write a paragraph of at

least four to five sentences for each topic.

• Describe a major personality change that you have seen in someone you know. What was that
person like before? What is he or she like now? What caused this change?
• Describe your favorite musician or band.
• Imagine that you will be starting your own business. What steps will you take? What plans

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will you make and how will you carry them out? How successful do you think you will be?
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• Describe the difference between the fashions of your childhood and those off today.
y. What has
changed and how?

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• Identify a problem in your town or city. What do you think should bee donee to solve it? Who
should be responsible for fixing it?

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