TEST IN ENGLISH NAME: ______________________________________________ DATE: ______________________________________________ CLASS: ______________________________________________ A. READING COMPREHENSION Read the text and answer the questions that follow. ADRIFT ON THE OCEAN Early in 1973, 33-year old Marilyn and Maurice Bailey were sailing in their 31-foot yacht down the west coast of South America. They had left Southampton on the south coast of England six months before, and were half-way through their journey to New Zealand. On 4 March they had just passed a whaling ship, when all of a sudden there was a terrible crashing noise. They ran outside to see the water red with blood and a huge whale disappearing under the waves. Then they noticed an enormous hole in the hull of the boat, through which water was pouring into the cabin. They realized that they didn’t have much time. Maurice started inflating a small rubber dinghy, while Marilyn started grabbing things. They tied the dinghy to the yacht and started throwing the things in it-tins of food, a small oil burner, a map and compass, glue to repair the dinghy, water containers, knives, mugs and passports. Then they clambered into the dinghy, untied it and watched in horror as their beautiful yacht sank under the water. QUESTIONS 1. How long did the Baileys expect their journey to take? (1,5 points) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Imagine you were marooned on a small uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What would you do to survive? How would you get off the island? Think about these things : food? water? shelter? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ (2,5 points) VOCABULARY Match the words with the definitions. (2 points) Clambered a) b) c) d)
pouring
grabbing
inflating drifting
take hold of something suddenly or roughly climb or move with difficulty flow quickly blow air into something
B. GRAMMAR 1. Complete the sentences with the present perfect simple or continuous form of the verbs in brackets. (4 points) a) I __________________________(have) this cold since I went swimming last Friday. b) How often _____________________(you be) to the USA? c) I ________________________(often wonder) if learning another language would be difficult. d) Where ______________________(you stay) for the last few days? 2. Rewrite the sentences beginning with the words given. (5 points) a) I had never before seen such a beautiful sunset. Never________________________________________________________ b) We not only went out of for a meal but we went dancing too. Not only ______________________________________________________ c) They had no sooner started the exercises than the lesson bell rang. No sooner _____________________________________________________ 3. Choose the correct answers. (2 points) a) b) c) d)
I expect hearing/ to hear from Lucy in the next few days. The teacher made Gemma going/ to go home because she wasn’t feeling well. I can’t imagine enjoying/ to enjoy a backpacking holiday. I like my home comforts. Did you manage contacting/ to contact Mr Barton about the meeting?
4. Complete the sentences with determiners. (3 points) a) b) c) d)
You should check your bank account __________________week. Are there __________________good reasons for buying your own house? _________________breakfast we had at the hotel this morning was excellent. _________________of the band members has spoken to the newspapers. I don’t know where the information came from. e) I’m afraid there’s _____________________I can do to help you.
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