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UNIT 1: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF................................................................5
UNIT 2: SCHOOL TALKS........................................................................16
UNIT 3: PEOPLE'S BACKGROUND........................................................28
UNIT 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION..............................................................44
UNIT 5: TECHNOLOGY AND YOU.........................................................56
UNIT 6: AN EXCURSION........................................................................ 69
UNIT 7: THE MASS MEDIA..................................................................... 84
UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE....................................................97
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD...............................................................121
UNIT 10: CONSERVATION...................................................................133
UNIT 11: NATIONAL PARKS.................................................................146
UNIT 12: MUSIC.................................................................................... 163
UNIT 13: FILM AND CINEMA................................................................175
UNIT 14: THE WORLD CUP..................................................................187
UNIT 15: CITIES................................................................................... 203
UNIT 16: HISTORICAL PLACE..............................................................220
ANSWER KEY......................................................................................241
I. Write the word so that hi becomes l'v.l and vice versa.
hi - h:l
1. rich reach
• 2._________ peak
3. hit _________
4. ________ beat
5. rid __________
6. ________ sheep
7. live ______
seek
9. sin

_____________
chapter four, (read)
8. My mother ... all the doors and windows before she
goes
to bed. (lock) 9- I ______ away most of my old books when I
moved house, (throw)
10. Scientists ________ some fundamental discoveries in the
18th cen
tury, (make)
11. Alice _________ her mother in London most weekends, (see)
12. 'What's that terrible noise?' The neighbors ____________ a
party.' (have)
13. At the start of his career, Cousteau ____________ the aqualung,
opening the oceans to explorers, scientists, and leisure divers,
(invent)
14._________________ durian when you lived in Malaysia? (ever/
eat)
15.
Both ancient and recent records show that farmers
long hours, (work)
VI. Choose the correct verb form.
1. I'd like to borrow this book._______it yet?
a. Did you read b. Had you read c. Have you read d. Do you
read
2. We _____ in this town for a long time. We _____ here sixteen
years ago. a. had been/come b. have been/ came c were/ came
d. are/ came
2. No breakfast for Mark, thanks. He______ breakfast.
a. hasn't eaten b. didn't eat c. isn't eating d. doesn't
eat

home during term-time, so he (12) (avoid) the noise, too.
Stella (13) (not go) to school yet, of course. Next year,
she
(14)_________________ (start) at the nursery school where Ben
used to
go. Her mother (15) (look) forward to this, as it will
mean
that she can go back to work. Before her marriage, she (16)_______
(live) in London, where she (17) (work) for the National Gal-
lery. She (18) (hope) to find the same sort of job in
Newcastle.
IV. Complete the conversation. Put in the past simple form
of the verbs.
Claire : (1) (you/ have) a nice weekend in
Paris?
Mark : Yes, thanks. It (2)__________(be) good. We (3) ________
(look) around and then we (4) (see) a
show.
We (5) (not/ try) to do too much.
Claire : What sights (6) (you/ see)?
Mark : We had a look round the Louvre. I (7)_____._____„ (not/
know) there was so much in there.
Claire : And what show (8).________________ (you/ go) to?
Mark : Oh, a musical. I forget the name. I (9) (not/ like) it.
Claire : Oh dear. And (10) (Sarah/ enjoy) it?
Mark : No, not really. But we (11) (enjoy) the
weekend. Sarah did some shopping, too, but I
(12)________________(not want) to go shopping.
V. Complete the sentences. Put the verb into the correct form.
1. Trees . more quickly in summer than in winter,

because they sleep in the heat of the day. Then, in the distance,
we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet. We crept
nearer and found a dead deer, still bleeding. This was the tiger's
lunch! Suddenly I started to feel very frightened.
We heard the tiger a second before we saw it. It jumped out like
a flash of lightning, five hundred kilos plus and four meters long. I
looked into its eyes and face, and saw right down the animal's
throat. It grabbed Kamal's leg between its teeth, but I managed to
pull Kamal away. One of our elephants ran at the tiger and made
it go back into the grass, so we quickly escaped to let the tiger eat
its lunch. That night it was impossible to sleep!
1. The writer went to Nepal_________________.
a. for holiday b. for treatment c. for business d. on a visit
2. When having a few days off, he decided to go into
.
a. the remote villages b. the mountains
c. the seaside d. the tropical forest
9. According to the research reports, people usually______in their
sleep 25 to 30 times each night.
a. turn b. are turning c. have turned d. turned.
10.____________________________________Homestead High
School's football team_____________________a championship until
last season.
a. has never won b. had never been winning
c. is never winning d. had never won
VII.Complete the conversations using the words in brackets.
Put the adverbs in the best place.
1. A: Did you know the man who tried to steal your bag?
B: No, but I____________ him again, (certainly/ recognize/
would)

3. We seldom see each other anymore.
a. sometimes b. occasionally c. frequently d.
rarely 4. She purchased a number of shares in the
company.
a. invested b. sold c. exchanged d. bought
5. She got_______as soon as the alarm clock went .
a. over/ on b. up/ down c. up/ off d. on/ off
6, The plane from Dallas______two hours late, so I missed my
con
necting flight from Frankfurt to London,
a. took on b. took in___c. took over d. took off
7. We had a nice chat over a cup of tea.
a. formal talk b. informal talk c. serious talk d. long
talk
8. It was time to_______ the kids ready for bed.
a. prepare b. get c. take d. make
9. Houses as a bomb exploded in the
neighborhood,
a. dipped b. disappeared c. dropped d.
shook
10. It was a difficult time, but we never gave up hope.
a. stopped b. continued c. had d. offered
III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE
A. Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best
completes the sentence. 1. I'll see him when he ____ here
tomorrow.
a. comes b. will come c. has come d. had
come
2. We've given up............ to persuade them ,
a. trying/changing b. trying/to change c. to try/changing d. try/

A. Choose the word that has the underlined letter(s) pro
nounced differently from the others.
1. a. scream b. death c. ready d. peasant
2. a. traveled b. stared c. landed d. seemed
3. a. chat b. panic c. park d.
passenger
4. a. frightening b. brigade c. pilot d. fire
5. a. technology b. teaching c. purchase d. lunch
B. Choose the word whose main stress is placed
differently
from the others.
1. a. tobacco b. contented c. buffalo d.
transplanting
2. a. passenger b. purchase c. district d. routine
3. a. technology b. comfortable c. activity d.
experience
4. a. repair b. harrow c. arrive d.
announce
5. a. interested b. serious c. wonderful d.
immediate II. VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSION
Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best
completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined
word or phrase.
1. John isn't content with his present salary.
a. excited about b. satisfied with
c. disappointed about d. interested in
7. I know you're too busy to stay, but I look forward to see you
again.
A B CD
8. Have you forgotten to lock the back door frequently?

3.a. No, I sometimes do. b. Yes, I often do.
c. About three times a week. d. Often I don't
do.
4.a. I usually go swimming and play badminton, b. No, I never do.
c. I go straight home after work. d. I watch TV a
lot.
5.a. Every day from 5 to 6. b. I always go to the YWCA.
c. No, I play tennis. d. I usually go by motorbike.
6.a. Yeah, I'm a real couch potato. b. Oh, are you?
c. Thanks a lot. d. Good for you!
a. wash b. washing c. to wash d. washed
8. The last time I________swimming was when we were in Spain.
a. had gone b. went c. has gone d. was going
9. Johnny________the paper when I.________him.
a. read/ interrupted b. read/ was interrupting
c. has read/ interrupted d. was reading/ interrupted
10. We were told_______and fasten our seat belts.
a. to sit down b. sitting down c. sit down d. that sit down
11.1________at six o'clock, but________to be up by five.
a. normally get up/1 have sometimes b. normally get up/ sometimes
I have c. get normally up/ sometimes I have d. get normally up/1
sometimes have
12._______________________________________________The
house was very quiet when I got home. Everybody________to bed.
a. have gone b. went c. had gone d. goes
13. It was the most_______experience of my life.
a. frighten b. frightening c. frightened d. frightful
14.________I sympathize with your point of view, I cannot accept it.
a. Although b. In spite of c. Because d. As
15.________a long time for the bus.

a. we can do them in the morning b. they make a habit of never thinking
c. they save time and energy d. we all have them in bur lives
3. The word 'loo' in line 9 can best be replaced with____________.
a. balcony b. bedroom c. sink d. toilet
4. What is the main disadvantage of routines?
a. Routines make us unable to create things or to have new ideas.
b. Routines may change our life.
c. Routines make a habit of never thinking before doing.
d. Routines make us do the same things day after day.
5. Which of the sentences is true?
a.Routines make our brain creative.
b.People who have routines are unable to think.
c. We shouldn't break our routines.
d. Our lives could be changed if we change our routines.
VI. WRITING
Choose the best answer to complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
1. I wish I hadn't sold my bike.
I regret _______________________________
a. to sell my bike. b. selling my bike,
c. I had sold my bike. d. not to sell my bike.
2. No one told me about the change of plan.
I_________________,
V. READING COMPREHENSION
A. Choose the one option • a, b, c or d ■ that best fits each of the numbered blank.
David Evans is a farmer. He does farming on his own land in Wales. The
farm has (1)____his family for generations. The soil is poor. David (2)_
sheep on his land. He does not employ
(3).
.____
help him when they are not (4)____ school. His wife adds to the family