High flyer upper intermediate tests with keys

` yrs xã =: ` “ải wi bem ean ‘eet ro Pe sre 3v = `” ‘ 1” ý ¬ v / J = ULIA JLIA st = NEWSOME NEVVOUMNIE ` > F ° ~ Ẻ - JULIA NEWSOME kh LONGMAN Addison Wesley Longman Limited, Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 27E, England and Associated Companies throughout the world © Addison Wesley Longman Limited 1996 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers, First published 1996 Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo ISBN 582 25606 [lustrated by Steve Gibson Under no circumstances may any part of this book be photocopied for resale The author wishes to thank the editor, Judith Aguda, for her professional advice and encouragement, the designers, Annette Peppis and Simon Cuerden, for their skill and patience and Nicola Gooch for her cheerful efficiency TEST | Units 1,2 and 60 marks Vocabulary, structure and usage Choose the best definition, a, b or c, for each of the a) Cedric became an accomplished academic by his late thirties had an extremely good opinion of himself c) wanted to go on doing a) b) c) Tanisa doctor and is going to emigrate to Australia move about from one country to another travel along the same route to the same place every year leave his own country and go and live in another Marie is worried about how much it will cost to go to London b) c) is letting herself think about negative things is taking the wrong side in an argument 10 marks words or phrases in italics b) a) achieved a high standard suffers a lot a) We need to increase the teachers’ understanding of our problems c) stop getting smaller b) proceedupahill growormake larger He must take great care in the areas affected by the polar winds a) Ifyou stay there a long time you adapt to the months of darkness c) understand b) get used to get very good at Please don’t talk about my stupid mistake You ezzbarrass me c) be very fond of someone a) a) b) improved b) liked made a difference to make someone feel shy give someone a kiss a) This car can function even in Antarctica get used to difficulties c) beaffected by extreme cold b) c) work well a) b) c) She did not attend the summer courses because she had to work wait for at a particular place take part in at irregular intervals goto ona regular basis 10 a) Lam sure that the school will accept Gina because her marks are so good b) agree toreceive c) expect to make money from driftapartfrom TEST | Units |, and Choose a word from the box and put it in its right form 10 marks to complete each sentence There are more words than you will need amuse jealous deprive want get conference make condition keen flow go waste behave fond lack I As chidren they were of security and love although they had lots of money Itall started with my agreeing to lend him the money After that GWELVHEHDD desaeosaallaeesnaeae wrong You can tell from the colour that the blood is ccceseceeseseeesseseees away from the heart ‡- TheyalliftiuilTCVTV -svissesesessoaesaesasees , but I was wet and muddy YOw WONT sp issecsssrcovasecinssccisnasisss much progress if you don’t train at least twice a week _ She says she has never the least bít nervous before a show ỞƠ -UH-QUNanunsdensdtoeeae on skiing but I don’t like climbing much You have to know what the temperature -sss-5- are going to be so you can take the right equipment 10 Litsa couldnthide her of Mina’s brilliant dancing and spoiled the party by stopping the music We could have finished by now but we a lot of time this morning Complete these sentences by putting the verb in brackets into the correct tense 10 marks TL, L ND hoeveveraittdtloiseitiiesedasoxEbi (never dance) at that disco Have you? 2ˆ c0as3ì60gvdix dam the IHfepUATŠ ¡ác sccccsiis8scsnessee (watch) when Dick swam over to the rocks? Miby siiiche anid GUẾ esicAassiiscuensacsssacsin ei Wr eenverseaernsonciencreacs (already The expedition leader ccececcicsscssvsssesseasosssacasvssacsasss (not mention) yesterday that we’d need torches today There was a time when I o .ccccccccssesescessessesessecesceeesseees (find) the idea emigrate) to Australia when my cousins were born amusing, but now I don’t TEST | Units I,2 and Ốx ‹ ĐỀ DOW SĨG can S0 eskciosiciooadeeessno (not see) either of them since last week f “THÊNUEH€SWNTDoeeenoaonobesnssoaeo (flap) its wings and flew away BY VRE teres 02t00020/00ã206676xt16xkts27766%3 (not watch) that series on TV We’re always out on Saturdays Ms, “2098 AJ0Nbs2t(039 366sala VỮ6¿5066:604sozsnaoas6taies6t423563260 bai (ever meet) my parents before the party last Friday? 1G Tey secceecaioiehoiiendeooiiuaokoe (chose) the participants Let’s go Each sentence has a mistake in it Underline it and write He had never talked to nobody about his jealousy of his brother and see if we’re on the list the correction in the space provided EERE „+! "- >~ œ Bs ag Œ =, œ œ® œ a ~ er ~ < œ ® œ EERE RETR EERE EERE Ee tò EEE ROO š E NEHER EERE ERE ER EEE OTHER EERE EEE EEE EEE REET wn `e v SEER REE © E wn TREE ^ © “+ Mm TORR 10 marks Ee EERE ED Nothing wasn ever said about the ghost again -. 5555255: _ ml very keen atusing less medication rather than more kh tt tt** Đ ® cS wp - œ ot os = © = đ E â = S oO eee ct 2, = đ = cũ â .*ggxk oO ORT RTE 28 © © c ca TORENT 99999999999 069996 My grandmother Is very fond on her three cats ¿¿5-52 55-5252 Didntyou fnd your photos nowhere? I’m sure they’re in the kitchen MAWES, Socsasacaseiasiincitiogpivacedcatncaiactins 10 It was important to encourage the participants not did eat in their ĐẾCGOOES: 551ieséciesvicicsssidevacnceanevasoeaiedl TEST | Units 1, and3 The following sentences are about life at home after marks Sam’s big brother went to university Fill in the gaps with the correct form of (not) be/get used to I So, now Jamie has gone and he won’t be back ’til Christmas I can’t +++ soyasá0nistlioieeeinrdvye being able to use the bathroom almost any time I like! T will eventually sncsssssssssissesccisestsiicctssrseaves eating my food more slowly, now that he isn’t trying to take it because ‘I’m hungrier than you are’ Mum and Dạd.,., ccsscseeoooesee there being food left over They keep asking if I’m on a diet! None OF US ssisssssicesssssesassaccsssssessepssosss the quiet yet — no more drum practice Dita fesacsdeaschtventnblsen nt deanee having unlimited access to the computer but now I can play games and homework wheneverI like! Ï might even c writing to my friends on it! 14 marks l He told me a very strange story I decided to have his identity checked (such) Join these pairs of sentences using the word in brackets and making any other necessary changes ‘They were inexperienced They did not waste any time or money (despite) ÑGvitatfelitalniSCervauegfoffissgsspnssesoanusedfiSiti6a Vic is very tall now He can wear his father’s shirts (so) STEERER ETHER OEE EEE ETTORE EERE E ETHER E HEHE REE EERE EE EEE RHEE EEE EERE HEHE REE E EEE EEE E EEE EEE HEE EEE EEE E EE EEE A great many intelligent explorers have felt a ‘phantom’ travelling with them I almost believe in ghosts (such) SEER E ETE H TERETE OHHH EEE EE HEHEHE EEE EEE HEE EE EEE EEE EE EEE ERE EE EEE HEHE EEE EEE EEE EE EERE EER EEE EEE EEE EEE EERE EERE EEE EEe She was deprived of sunlight for so long She stayed cheerful and full of fun (even though) TREE EEE HEHEHE .x EHH HEHEHE EHO H TEESE HEHEHE HEHEHE EHTS HEHEHE EERE EEE HEE EEE E REET HEE HEE E HEHE EEE EEE E EEE EEE EEE ETHER EEE REESE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE HEHE EEE EEE EE EES EEE H EEE THEE E EEE E EEE EEE EEE EEE EE EERE EE EEE REE HEEE EEE HEHE EEE EEE ES They had frostbite and altitude sickness They reached the ship in four days as they had promised (despite) SERRE EERE EERE EERE EEE RHEE HERERO EERE EEE HEHEHE EE HEE EEE HEE EEE HEE E EEE E EEE EERE TEE EEE EEE HEHEHE EE EEE HEHE EE EEE EEE EER EEE EEE EES TEST | _—Unit 1,2 and + 20 marks Reading c@mact | Read through the questions after the passage and then read this article from a weekly news magazine 40 marks There’s no weather metres down | © _Itis not easy, it seems, to live in the undersea town of Manapa, off northern Australia, and stay normal, For some it is the most exciting and wonderful experience of their lives For | others it is a matter of being | able to handle boredom and panic restaurants to choose from © _|tseems emotion is the And itis ‘night’ from midnight | weather here and you can to am go from thunder-storm to heavenly sunshine within © What seems to make five metres or five minutes people restless, however, is | Those who not take part not the created light and in the emotional weather dark Itis the lack of find themselves both bored weather | was told that no and frightened by those who wind, no rain, no sunshine, do, so they very soon apply no heat and no cold make to leave © Thetownhas people believe they have everything you can imagine lost the ability to feel And @ Forme, a ‘normal’ to keep people busy and SO, if they cannot feel with topsi de journalist, Manapa is happy, except the sky It is their skin, they begin to a town where | would like to built in a great air bubble at Create relationships with spend more time.| would about 200 metres depth other people that make them | like to explo re the glorio us Even though theseabedis | feel with their emotions world of underwater flora not totally dark there, many Walking the streets |heard | and fauna, visit the of the first inhabitants began | arguments due to jealousy, fascinating farms and mines to feel the effects of SAD guilt, anger and fear raging on the seabed, and see and after a couple of months, around me | heard people hear more of the inhabitants’ due to lack of natural telling each other how much unusu al and apparently daylight But under the many | they loved and respected affec tiona te way of relating small ‘suns’ there are all each other, as well as how °| to each other Unfortunately kinds of sports facilities, - shocked or amused they they are not prepa red to cinemas, dance halls and i tk a) b) c) d) | were feeling HT ý accommodate tourists as yet! _ Which of the following you learn from the first paragraph? The article is about a town under the sea The town is there to farm and mine the seabed How many people live in the town How people feel about living in the town | | | | { I ss! { } TEST | Units |, and Read the first sentence (for C, the first two sentences) of each paragraph again Underline the parts of the sentence(s) which indicate the contents of the paragraph that follows EXAMPLE A Itis not easy, it seems, to live in the undersea town of Manapa, off northern Australia, and stay normal According to the passage, people living in Manapa begin to create emotional relationships with each other because a) b) c) d) a) b) c) d) they are afraid of the sea all around them and need friends they miss the feelings people get from the weather there is too much free time for them to spend with each other there is nothing else to Which of the following would the writer not want to if he or she could stay for a while in Manapa? see how the bottom of the sea is being used watch the people of Manapa arrange for tourists to visit for as long as they like go outside the bubble to look at the animals and plants Read this film review and then answer the questions as briefly as possible 10 marks Neranda Man Most of us not think of the totally empty spaces of Siberia as being particularly exciting, but in this film such strange happenings occur on and around Lake Neranda in northern Siberia that we can sit through two and three-quarter hours of views of it and not notice the time Sam Marlin’s iceblue eyes and Michelle Lang’s increasingly weird behaviour, as they lead the team of scientific experts towards the unknown, add to the drama The scientists are trying to find the ‘doorway to another world’ which they believe was found in the 1930s by a man who escaped from one of the communist prison camps They set off from the warmth of St Petersburg by plane and end up walking along the freezing valley of a river running out of Lake Neranda They are searching for a mysterious waterfall that never freezes, behind which they will find the doorway There are eight of them and they walk in pairs, each pair with their sled of supplies pulled by dogs We see the last sled attacked by wolves We see the two women dealing with altitude sickness and one of the men with frostbite We see Sam hearing a voice beside him as he walks alone behind the sled He eventually replies to the voice’s questions and it turns out they are all apparently hearing the voices ‘The voices TEST | Units 1,2 and are affectionate and even funny They make some great jokes about the members of the team Only Ms Lang is left out of this comradeship — until she sees spooky footprints in the snow appearing beside Sam as he trudges along Are these the voices of people (Neranda men?) from another world, or are they the ‘phantom travellers’ who are said to accompany lonely explorers? You will learn a lot about Lake Neranda as well as the answer to that question if you go to see the film You might also find that you are a changed person, even if the change is only in your opinion about the excitement possible in the great ‘emptiness’ that is Siberia E2 WAG WwW What is memorable about the malÌe star? SS What are the scientists looking Íor? o-2.«2 Ilike to know how to play golf, Vill you teach me? 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