Unit Language Test 2 | Group A

VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, USE OF ENGLISH

VOCABULARY GRAMMAR
1 Complete the sentences with the words in 3 Complete the sentences with one word in
the box in the correct form. There are two each gap.
extra words. 0 Never again will I ride a camel as long as I live.
balance fidget force light ride 1 No sooner had I got off the bus
road steer word ______________ it began to rain and got
windy.
0 I think, on balance, I’d say Bridport is a lot 2 ______________ really annoys me about this
more accessible for wheelchair users than city is the constant traffic at all times of the day.
Oxton, especially in the town centre. 3 To be honest, I didn’t mind the ferry trip at all.
1 When travelling abroad, ______________ clear ______________ was the bus journey that
of hitchhiking. I didn’t like.
2 Stop ______________ , Harry, and start paying 4 ______________ did I know, my dad had hired
attention to the lecture, please. a car to take us to the hotel so that was a nice
3 When we discovered the apartment didn’t exist, surprise.
we knew the advert was fake and he had taken 5 ______________ was the interest in the rocket
us for a ______________ . launch that thousands of people turned up to
4 I was told that the driving ______________ watch it.
behind the new cycle path was a group of
students. ___ / 5
5 Giving a speech in public isn’t easy and you
can often stumble over your ______________ if 4 Rewrite the sentences using the words and
you haven’t practised. phrases in the box to start each one.
___ / 5
Barely Never before Not since
2 Choose the correct options to complete the On no account Only when Seldom
dialogue.
0 We haven’t had such good weather since the
Magda: The weather forecast for tomorrow is summer of ‘92.
heavy rain, so I think we’ll have to Not since the summer of ’92 have we had
0 drive / park / sail your idea of doing the such good weather.
walking tour. 1 This was the first time that anyone had travelled
around the world in a hot-air balloon.
George: Well, all along you thought the bus tour
______________________________________
was 1 infinitely / grossly / wholly
preferable to walking, so now you can ______________________________________
have your way. 2 The bus had only just set off when smoke
Magda: I don’t know what you’ve got against the started coming out of the engine.
bus tour. You’ve been 2 wildly / gravely / ______________________________________
vehemently opposed to the idea from the ______________________________________
start.
3 You must not lean out of the window when the
George: The cost! They shouldn’t get 3 away /
train is in motion.
over / on with charging those prices for ______________________________________
a thirty-minute tour. It’s criminal.
______________________________________
Magda: Well, there’s a lot to be 4 done / told / said
for a comfortable seat and a running 4 I’ve never seen so many tourists in the city
commentary from a local historian. centre.
George: I’m sure it will be good, but charging ______________________________________
more than ten euros is 5 wholly / wildly / ______________________________________
blindingly unjustified, no matter how good 5 I didn’t realise that I hadn’t bought a ticket until
an experience it turns out to be. I got on the train.
___ / 5 ______________________________________
______________________________________
___ / 5

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USE OF ENGLISH
5 Choose the correct option a–d to complete 6 Complete the text with one word in each gap.
the text.
Visitors to Bilbao (Northern Spain) with time on
Yesterday, I learnt that one small action can
their hands should hop on a train and visit the
have a knock on 0 ___ on your whole day. I was
nearby town of Portugalete, just a twenty-minute
riding down to the train station at 1 ___ speed
trip and home to one of the region’s finest
because I was running a bit late and I was
monument, the Vizcaya Bridge. 0 What is so
worried about missing my train and arriving late
special about this construction is that it is the only
for work. I knew something was wrong almost
working transporter bridge of its kind not only for
from the 2 ___. The front wheel on my bike was
3 ___ from side to side and I was bouncing about
vehicles, but for foot passengers too.
It 1 ______________ this particular fact which
all over the place. I stopped and checked the
makes it a unique and popular tourist attraction for
wheel and realised I had a flat tyre. Not once
4 ___ a flat tyre in the years I’d been riding that
locals and visitors alike. The bridge was built in
1893 by Alberto Palacio and is one of the oldest
bike. I suppose in one way that makes me lucky,
transporter bridges in the world.
but it also made me a bit complacent. This was 2 ______________ no time in its history has the
a big 5 ___ for my plans to arrive at the train
bridge ceased to function with trips every eight
station by 11 a.m. of course. I missed my train,
minutes throughout the day and every hour at
arrived over an hour late at the office, missed an
night. 3 ______________ when you make the trip
important meeting with a client, got some angry
across the river yourself will you get an idea of the
words from my boss and spent the rest of the
extent of this engineering feat. If you think I am
day in a bad mood. Let’s hope that tomorrow is
bragging 4 ______________ a mere bridge, think
better.
again. There’s nothing ‘mere’ about it.
Children enjoy going up in the lift and walking
___ / 5
across the top to the other side of the river. So if
0 a mark b effect
you are travelling with young ones who are driving
c event d force
you up the 5 ______________ asking for some
1 a breakup b breakthrough
kind of funfair attraction, you know where to go.
c breakneck d getaway
The views from the top are spectacular.
2 a outset b outlook
c outback d outcry
___ / 5
3 a hobbling b shuffling
c bubbling d wobbling TOTAL ___ / 30
4 a I had ever had b had I ever had
c had I ever d I had ever
5 a cutback b setback
c breakthrough d tailback
___ / 5

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