Gold Experience B1+ Progress test 5

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Grammar
1 Choose the correct answer (A, B or C).
1 This time next week I’ll ____ to Italy.

A travel B travelling C be travelling

2 Next year, people who don’t recycle enough ____ pay a fine.

A will have to B have to C having to

3 My little sister ____ any green vegetables – she hates them!

A don’t eat B won’t eat C isn’t eating

4 As soon as she ____ , we’ll go out.

A is arriving B arrives C will arrive

5 I ____ my friend at Kew Gardens later today.

A am meeting B meet C going to meet

6 Our neighbours ____ a rooftop garden.

A planting B will plant C are going to plant

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 2 Rewrite the sentences using the words given. Use between two and five words, including
the word given.
1 The water bottle was so heavy that I nearly dropped it.

SUCH

It was such a heavy water bottle that I nearly dropped it.

2 Jennifer arrived late so she couldn’t go to the party.

TOO

Jennifer arrived ________________________________ to the party.

3 The water in the lake was too dirty to drink.

ENOUGH

The water in the lake ________________________________ drink.

4 There were too many bags for me carry.

SO

There ________________________________ I couldn’t carry them all.

5 I felt ill because I ate a lot of chocolate.

MUCH

I ate ________________________________ that I felt ill.

6 There was a lot of rubbish and we couldn’t clean it up in one day.

TOO

There ________________________________ to clean up in one day.

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 Vocabulary
3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in capitals.
1 In my country we have a fantastic national park. NATION

2 She grows her own vegetables so she isn’t ________ on supermarkets. DEPEND

3 We want to brighten up our ________ by planting trees and flowers. NEIGHBOUR

4 I prefer to see animals in their ________ habitat, not in a zoo. NATURE

5 If we ban cars from the town centre, there will be less air ________ . POLLUTE

6 Thousands of ________ species around the world need protection. DANGER

4 Read the text and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Bottled water
Clean water is available to most of us for free and yet many 1) ____ still choose to buy it in plastic
bottles. Thousands of bottles are thrown into landfills every year and in addition, it’s expensive to buy
water instead of drinking it from the tap. In fact, bottled water has become a huge industry. But buying
water in bottles just doesn’t make 2) ____ , so why do we do it? We seem to think that it is healthier
and that it 3) ____ better. But is this true? And how can we 4) ____ sure that there is no environmental
damage when companies 5) ____ bottled water from other countries? What’s more, the labelling can be
confusing and difficult to understand. Maybe we should all 6) ____ without bottled water and go back
to drinking tap water.

1 A consumers B customers C shoppers D users

2 A right B sense C certain D sure
3 A tastes B cleans C drinks D imports
4 A take B make C get D do
5 A flood B export C import D produce
6 A keep B make C carry D do

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 Listening
5 Listen to people talking in five different situations and choose the correct answer
(A, B or C).
1 You hear two people talking about a new restaurant. What do they agree about?
A the quality of the food
B the standard of the service
C the range of vegetarian options
2 You hear two friends talking about an ecology project they are involved with. What does the
man think about the project?
A It takes more time than he had hoped.
B It is more complicated than he realised.
C It is more rewarding than he expected.
3 You hear a woman talking on the radio about recycling. What is she doing?
A explaining a change in the collection of recycling bins
B correcting a misunderstanding about recycling
C encouraging people to do more recycling
4 You hear two friends talking about their plans for the future. How does the woman feel?
A unsure about what her future work will involve
B unhappy about a decision she made
C nervous about what she’ll be doing in future
5 You hear two friends talking about their local supermarket. What do they both think is good
about the supermarket?
A It has food at cheap prices.
B It sells locally-produced food.
C It supports worthwhile projects abroad.

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 Reading
6 Read the text and match the questions (1–5) with the people (A–C).

Weather stories
Readers tell us how extreme weather conditions have affected them.
A Callum
It’s pretty obvious that our climate is getting worse and worse. As well as summer droughts we’ve had
some terrible winters recently. I live in the countryside, near a river and our village was completely cut
off after the rain we had last month. Our house was OK, but the river flooded all the fields and the
roads. We couldn’t drive anywhere. We had to get to the next village by boat! Next year, the
government is going to clean the river, so it probably won’t happen again. Anyway, Mum and Dad are
planning to move to another area. So this time next year, with luck, we’ll be living in a town – not in a
rural area!
B Rebecca
We live on the edge of a forest and there are lots of trees really close to the house. When it’s windy, like
it was last week, it’s very scary in my bedroom. The noise of the wind in the trees is so loud that you
think the trees are going to come down and crash on top of the house or through my window. My dad’s
going to ask the local council to cut down some of the tallest ones because they’re dangerous. I don’t
know if they’ll agree because some trees are protected by law, aren’t they? Maybe I’ll be able to move
into a room at the front of the house. With climate change I’m sure these storms are just going to
happen again and again.
C Peter
When I was younger, we hardly ever got any snow in our area. I wasn’t that happy about it! I wanted to
build snowmen and have snowball fights or go sledging down the hills. Now it’s a different story. Every
January we get so much snow that people here can’t use the roads to get to work or school. We live near
the end of a country road and it’s quite narrow, so the snow and ice builds up very quickly. Of course,
the machines that clear the roads concentrate on the big, busy roads and we’re always last. Perhaps a lot
of kids might like staying at home for several days, but it gets boring very quickly! They say that the
council will build wider and better roads in the future. But that might or might not happen.

Which person:
1 complains that they do not get immediate help in severe weather conditions? ____
2 felt in personal danger during an extreme weather event? ____
3 thinks it might be impossible to solve a problem? ____
4 mentions an alternative form of transport used because of extreme weather? ____
5 has changed his/her attitude to an extreme weather condition? ____

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 Writing
7 Complete each sentence with one word only.
1 To ________ with, let’s look at where all our rubbish goes.
2 In the first ________ , we should think about what we throw away.
3 ________ point is the use of electricity – as a society we waste a lot of energy.
4 ________ a final point, I’d like to mention environmental action groups.
5 ________ conclusion, if we do nothing we shall all suffer in the future.

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Optional writing task

8 Read the essay prompt and complete the task. Write your essay in 140–190 words.
What can each of us do to help the environment?
Write about:
 recycling
 using less electricity
 your own idea

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