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    Unit 1 Higher Test

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    The document is a practice test for a higher level English exam. It contains questions in listening, vocabulary, language focus, reading, communication and writing. The listening section asks questions about an interview with Amy, including what she describes herself as, how many One Direction albums she has, where she first heard their music, and where she buys memorabilia. The reading comprehension is about memories from a time before digital technology when people had to use landlines, write letters, and could only speak to family abroad once a year due to high phone costs. The writing prompt asks the student to write a 100-120 word story with the title "A valuable discovery" including describing the time, place and people

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    The document is a practice test for a higher level English exam. It contains questions in listening, vocabulary, language focus, reading, communication and writing. The listening section asks questions about an interview with Amy, including what she describes herself as, how many One Direction albums she has, where she first heard their music, and where she buys memorabilia. The reading comprehension is about memories from a time before digital technology when people had to use landlines, write letters, and could only speak to family abroad once a year due to high phone costs. The writing prompt asks the student to write a 100-120 word story with the title "A valuable discovery" including describing the time, place and people

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    The document is a practice test for a higher level English exam. It contains questions in listening, vocabulary, language focus, reading, communication and writing. The listening section asks questions about an interview with Amy, including what she describes herself as, how many One Direction albums she has, where she first heard their music, and where she buys memorabilia. The reading comprehension is about memories from a time before digital technology when people had to use landlines, write letters, and could only speak to family abroad once a year due to high phone costs. The writing prompt asks the student to write a 100-120 word story with the title "A valuable discovery" including describing the time, place and people

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    Unit 1 Higher Test

    Listening 9 These apples are very ____________. I picked


    them this morning.
    1 [1.03] Listen to the interview with Amy. Answer
    the questions. Write complete sentences. (10 10 I’ve forgotten the new teacher’s name. Can you
    marks) ____________ me what it is?
    1 What does Amy describe herself as?
    3 Read the sentences and write the most suitable
    ___________________________________ adjective. (5 marks)
    ___________________________________
    1 This car has just left the factory so it hasn’t been
    2 How many One Direction albums has she got?
    used. ___________ ___________
    ___________________________________ 2 You can do lots of things with this. ___________
    ___________________________________
    3 Food you can’t eat. It isn’t fresh. ___________
    3 Where did she first hear the band’s music?
    4 The opposite of ‘modern’. ______-_____________
    ___________________________________ 5 This is easy to break. _____________
    ___________________________________
    4 Where does she buy a lot of memorabilia?
    ___________________________________
    Language focus
    ___________________________________ 4 Complete the sentences. Use the past perfect
    5 How many items of memorabilia has she got? form of the verbs in brackets. (10 marks)
    ___________________________________ 1 Jim felt ill because
    ___________________________________ ________________________________________.
    (he / eat / too much / ice cream)
    2 I couldn’t buy a ticket because
    Vocabulary
    ________________________________________.
    2 Complete the sentences. (10 marks) (I / leave / money / home)
    1 This bird is very ____________. There are only a 3 Before Janet had a holiday in France last year,
    few in the world. ________________________________________.
    2 This nut is really ____________. Look! I can’t (she / never / be / another country)
    break it! 4 You were carrying lots of bags this morning.
    3 This watch is very ______________. It’s worth a ________________________________________?
    lot of money. (what / you / buy)
    4 I dropped my smartphone, but luckily, it’s 5 I didn’t go to the cinema with my friends.
    ________________. It still works. ________________________________________.
    5 Fashion shows tell us what clothes will be (I / already / see / the film / twice)
    ________________ next year.
    6 He got ____________ of all his old records,
    because he never listens to them now.
    7 Where’s my bag? I can’t ____________ where I
    put it.
    8 When I look ____________ on the past, I realize
    how much technology has changed.
    Unit 1 Higher Test
    5 Correct the mistakes. Write one or two words. Reading
    (10 marks)
    Memories of a non-digital era
    1 We were tired after the match, so we were
    I was helping my dad tidy up the attic when we came across
    deciding to go home. __________________ an old computer. It was so big and old-fashioned! He told me
    2 I recognized the girl because I was seeing her it used to belong to his older brother when he was younger.
    When he left home, he gave Dad the computer to write essays
    before. _________________
    for his homework. Dad explained that that was about all he
    3 My brother was leaving his smartphone on the could do on it! The internet didn’t exist when he was younger,
    so he didn’t spend time chatting online or posting messages on
    bus yesterday. ______________
    social media. Imagine!
    4 They went to football practice after they were
    He had to use the house phone to chat to his friends because
    eating breakfast. _______________ mobile phones weren’t common. Only rich businessmen had
    5 When I called Amanda nine o’clock this morning, them and they were large and heavy. Some people said they
    looked like bricks! So when Dad made plans to meet a friend,
    she slept. ___________________
    he had to hope they remembered where and when to meet on
    the day because they couldn’t contact each other. If his friend
    6 Complete the sentences with the correct form of was late, he had to wait around. And while he was waiting, he
    the verbs in the box. There are two verbs that couldn’t play games on his phone because he didn’t have one!
    you do not need. (5 marks) How boring!

    Dad said my uncle used to live in Australia, and the only time
    come remind ring belong leave look recognize
    he spoke to his brother was once a year because telephone
    calls were so expensive. Instead, they wrote letters to each
    1 When he saw me, he ____________________
    other. Now, you can video call anyone in the world for free!
    me straight away. Apparently, I haven’t changed.
    Dad said he hadn’t realized how much life has changed
    2 I asked her if she had seen my necklace, but she because of technology until he came across all his old stuff. I
    ____________________ across it. think life has improved because it helps us save time. He’s not
    so sure!
    3 She was tidying her room when the phone
    ____________________. 7 Read the blog post. Complete the sentences.
    Write one, two or three words. (10 marks)
    4 He ____________________ the house by the
    1 The blogger was giving her dad a hand to
    time I arrived, so I didn’t see him.
    ____________________ the attic.
    5 I ____________________ forward to seeing my
    2 The computer ____________________ to her
    friend, but she had to cancel our meeting.
    dad in the past.
    3 He used the computer ____________________.
    4 Mobile phones ____________________ when
    her dad was young.
    5 The blogger thinks our lives
    ____________________ because of technology.
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    Communication
    8 Complete the text with suitable words. (5 marks)
    1
    Have I _____________ you about the time I lost my
    2
    laptop? It _____________ the day after my birthday.
    3
    I remember _____________ really excited because
    my parents had just given me the laptop as a
    present. I decided to take it to school the next day.
    But when I got to school it wasn’t in my bag. I was
    4
    shocked! _____________, my parents were trying to
    phone me. They wanted to tell me that I’d left my
    5
    laptop at home. _____________, I hadn’t lost it!

    Writing
    9 Write a story with the title ‘A valuable
    discovery’. Use the plan below. Write 100–120
    words. (10 marks)

    Paragraph 1
    Describe the time, place and people. Say what
    happened first.
    Paragraph 2
    Say what happened next, and describe the main
    events.
    Paragraph 3
    Say how the story ended. Describe people’s
    feelings.

    Total marks:
    Listening _______ / 10 Vocabulary _______ / 15
    Language focus _______ / 25 Reading _______ / 10
    Communication _______ / 5 Writing _______ / 10
    TOTAL _______ / 75

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