Use of English

Vocabulary

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words.

1 Some f__________ t__________ are quite frightening for children, don’t you think?

2 I acted in a Shakespeare p__________ when I was at school.

3 My favourite films are s__________ f__________ films because they usually have fantastic gadgets in them.

4 When I read a c__________ n__________, I like to try to work out who did it before the end of the book.

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5 Complete the sentences with the correct kind of books.

1 You use a __________ to find out how to make different kinds of meals.

2 If you don’t know which country’s next to Brazil, you need to look in an __________.

3 You use a __________ to help you fix a computer problem, for example.

4 You read a famous person’s __________ if you want to find out about his or her life.

5 Some monthly or weekly __________ are full of photos and advice for readers.

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6 Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions.

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1 I quickly flicked _____ the magazine to find the story I was interested in.

2 The policeman wrote _____ everything I told him about the robbery.

3 Please use a black pen when you fill _____ a form.

4 For this exercise, please cross _____ the mistake and write the correct word.

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Reading

7 Read the article from which some sentences have been taken out. Choose the correct sentences A–G to fill the gaps. There is one extra sentence that you do not need.

News online

For many people, buying and reading a newspaper is part of their daily routine. They enjoy spending time searching the pages for interesting political stories, laughing at cartoons, catching up with the latest sports results and reading about celebrity scandals. They can take their newspapers into work, on the bus or into a café, or even read it over breakfast. The newspaper is part of our culture. (1) ___

There has been a news revolution going on over the last few years. Unsurprisingly, people are now turning to the Internet to provide them with daily news reports. (2) ___ We can access these free of charge and from laptops, mobile phones and other hand held devices. Why should we pay for newspapers anymore?

(3) ___ Because news is now so available online, newspapers are losing money. Soon, some of the big papers are going to start charging people to read their newspapers online. The newspapers have a difficult choice. Will people continue to visit their sites if they have to pay? (4) ___ Will they start buying newspapers again? (5) ___ Many say that the idea of the Internet is to allow people to have free information and we will not agree to pay for it. (6) ___ We shall have to wait to see what happens.

A However, the popularity of online news is soon going to be tested.
BYou can learn a lot more from a newspaper than simply the facts.
COthers, however, have said that this step is inevitable and soon we shall have to pay for more and more information that we find online.
D Nearly all the major newspapers have online versions.
E Or is it?
FWill they visit another newspaper’s site which is still free?
GExperts do not agree on what is going to happen.

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Listening (Tests CD, Track 11)

8 You are going to hear two friends talking about a writer. Listen and decide if the statements are true (T), false (F) or not mentioned (NM).

1 Stan Nielsen is the only author that the girl likes at the moment.	T/F/NM
2 The girl’s friend recommended Stan Nielsen to her.	T/F/NM
3 All the Stan Nielsen books tell stories about the same detectives.	T/F/NM
4 The girl read all the books in the right order.	T/F/NM
5 The boy might borrow the books to read.	T/F/NM

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Use of English

9 Read the email about an interview and fill each gap with one word.

Did you hear that interview with the young writer Chris Parkin on the radio yesterday? It was really good. The interviewer (1) __________ him whether he had started writing at a very young age and which writers had influenced him. He said that he (2) __________ not read very much while he was a child, but then when he was a teenager, his favourite authors had (3) __________ Agatha Christie and Shakespeare! The interviewer asked him what his plans (4) __________ for the next year and he said that a film company had bought the rights to his first story and the film would (5) __________ in the cinemas soon. The interviewer asked if he had changed any of the story, but he said that they hadn’t asked him to. It was (6) __________ to be exactly like he’d written it.

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Writing

10 This is part of an email you receive from your friend, Ronnie.

I want to buy a book for my nephew. He’s 6 years old. Can you recommend a children’s book or a story that you like now or liked when you were a child?

Write a reply to Ronnie, telling him about a good book you’ve read. Write 100 words.

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