Insight Upper Intermediate test III

Please write your name in the box below! Task 1. Listen to a brother and sister, Jenny and Steve, discussing a birthday present for their mother. Write the correct answer (a-d). Play the recording twice. 1 At the beginning of the conversation, Steve’s general attitude to the suitability of an e-reader for their mother isa. positive. b. indifferent. c. negative. The letter of your answer: c2. The two people finally decide toa. buy the present Jenny suggested. b. take more time to think about the present.c. buy something different. The letter of your answer: a3. Jenny thinks her mother willa. still be able to shop in bookshops. b. enjoy not having to shop for books.c. soon forget about going to bookshops. d. soon forget about the disadvantages of e-books. The letter of your answer: a4. When their parents go on holiday,a. their father likes to read as well. b. they usually stay in a luxurious hotel. c. their father tends to carry the bags. d. the majority of their mother’s luggage is books. The letter of your answer: c5. Jenny can easily imagine her mothera. reading her e-reader by the pool. b. taking photos by the pool.c. creating an online library. d. going to the local libraries. The letter of your answer: a6. Steve doubts his mother willa. remember to charge her e-reader. b. be able to see the screen clearly.c. like vouchers for an e-reader. d. like the books available for the e-reader. The letter of your answer: a7. Jenny thinks Steve isa. joking. b. old-fashioned. c. being stubborn. d. repeating himself. The letter of your answer: b8. A problem with an e-reader is thata. their mother’s friends will want to borrow it. b. it is much more delicate than a book.c. e-books are more expensive than books. d. you can drop an e-reader more easily than a book. The letter of your answer: b9. Jenny thoughta. her brother’s idea was better at first. b. they were about to have an argument.c. they ought to have had this discussion earlier.d. she would be unable to get her brother to agree. The letter of your answer: d10. Steve is worried becausea. he is not sure the present will keep its value.b. he is certain that his mother won’t use the present.c. he wants it to be the best present she’s ever been given.d. he doesn’t usually spend so much on his mother’s birthday gift. The letter of your answer: d Task 2. You are going to hear a talk about a new sports pastime – curling. You are going to hear it twice. Read the sentences below. You will have 60 seconds to do this. Listen to the talk and complete the sentences. An example (*) has been done for you. Write no more than two or three words. A woman with two children has come out with a new Scottish pastime – curling. By leading Britain to its first Winter Olympic gold medal for 18 years, Rhona Martin (*)...has guaranteed..... that her sport will become one of the most heavily funded in the country. Martin and her team have prepared for Salt Lake City thanks to a 1 grant / donation of £200,000 from Sport Scotland. The success could also trigger a 2 building boom of curling rinks in England. Curling is played by 3 thirty thousand people in Britain. There are plans to build 10 sites across England. The £3m Olympic-sized rink in Cambourne is due to be completed in 18 months and will have three curling lanes along with 4 facilities to accommodate ice hockey and skating. The project started as a Cambridge University scheme 5 in conjunction / cooperationwith groups such as the English Curling Association. The English Curling Association has been flooded with 6 inquiries / questionsfrom the public asking where they can play the sport. The World Curling Federation is also ready to give £200,000 to help 7 spread / support the sportin England. A spokesman said that they saw England as a major developing market and would like to help. An audience of 5.7m watched live on BBC as the team beat Switzerland 4 - 3 with the very last throw in the final. In Scotland, a new initiative aims to 8 encourage childrento take up the sport. Rhona Martin is also set to 9 cash in personally on the team’s success. The supermarket Safeway wants her to appear in an advertisement to promote 10 floor-cleaning products. Reading task 1 the extracts from a tourist brochure and the titles below. Match the most suitable title (A–O) to each extract and write the appropriate letter next to the number 1 C 2 K 3 I 4 M 5 H 6 G 7 O 8 D 9 B 10 A Reading task 2.Read the passage. Parts of sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from A to M and copy the choice into a gap. Note that there are two more letters than you need. An example (*) has been done for you. This is a story about a part of America hardly anyone knows. There are snow-capped mountains here and lonely beaches at the edge of the sea and evergreen rainforests and meadows 1 D as bright with blossoms as a bride’s bouquet. This is the land that embraces a patrimony almost one-eighth the size of the United States. Over the past couple of years I was privileged to visit some of these national landscapes – to (*) B poke into the backcountryand test the edge of some wild places. In northern California I stood at the edge of the Pacific Ocean and watched 2 H the waves washing a long, sweeping crescent of black sand beachPeople call it the “lost coast because of its 3 L distance and isolation from coastal Highway 1 “. Behind the beach, chaparral slopes 4 I rise steeply towards mountaintops crowned by 4,000-foot King Peak, and behind the peaks stands a rain forest of old-growth Douglas firs. This – all 60,000 acres of it – is the King Range National Conservation Area, 5 K established by Congress in 1970, the first of its kind. Here, the Lost Coast Trail will show you the way 6 G through the mountains to Hidden Valley or up the beach past Sea Lion Gulch to Punta Gorda. Start at the mouth of the Mattola River at the north and 7 A hike the entire 54-mile trailand you will have travelled California’s longest unroaded coastline. Providing outdoor recreation in scenic settings, however, isn’t always 8 M the core mission of the managers of national landscapes. In some cases the goal is to preserve a biological or cultural resource.A hike the entire 54-mile trailB poke into the backcountryC protect its archaeological sites from artefact lootingD as bright with blossoms as a bride’s bouquetE preserve a biological or cultural resourceG through the mountains to Hidden ValleyH the waves washing a long, sweeping crescent of black sand beachI rise steeply towards mountaintopsK established by Congress in 1970L distance and isolation from coastal Highway 1M the core mission of the managers of national landscapes Reading task 3 Read the text the correct answers from below. Write the correct answer (a–d) A C D C C Language structures task 1 Complete the text with the correct words. Write the letter (a–d) C A B D A D D C Language structures task 2Complete each sentence with two to five words, including the word in bold 1 I’m sure that Frank missed the train. have Frank must have missedthe train.2 It wasn’t necessary for him to buy a gift, but he did. have He needn’t have boughta gift.3 It was not necessary for us to book a table because the restaurant is never busy on Monday nights. have The restaurant is never busy on Monday nights, so we didn’t have to booka table.4 Leaving without saying goodbye wasn’t right. should I shouldn’t have left withoutsaying goodbye.5 Perhaps Alice is at the hairdresser’s. might Alice might be at the hairdresser’s.6 I’m sure she was taking a bath when we tried to call her. must She must have been takinga bath when we tried to call her.7 Is it possible that Jane is leaving school this spring? be Could Jane be leaving schoolthis spring?8 I’d better start studying for my exams soon. ought I ought to start studyingfor my exams soon.9 The museum will exhibit the paintings. The museum has received funding. has The museum, which has received funding, will exhibit the paintings.10 Emma helped the boy. His mother had disappeared. had Emma helped the boy whose mother had disappeared. Language structures Tast 3Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. The professor 1 enlarged (large) the image for the students.He complained that we had tried to undermine his 2 credibility (credible) within the company.Independent shops are 3 endangered (danger) by large supermarketsThe film is about a young police officer and his struggle to expose 4 corruption (corrupt) in the force.In film-making, 5 footage (foot) is the raw, unedited material as it had been originally filmed by a movie camera.Organic food has been gaining more and more 6 popularity (popular) in recent years.