Part 1. Look and read. Choose the correct words and write them on the lines. ⇱
Part 2. Choose the best correct answer to complete the sentence. ⇱
Part 3. Read the conversation and choose the best answer. Write letter A-H for each answer. ⇱
Harry's mother:What shall we get Dad for his birthday this year?
Harry: ___(17)___ ……………
Harry's mother: That's a good idea. Or a watch?
Harry: ___(18)___ ……………
Harry's mother: ___(19)___ ……………
Harry: I think blue is best.
Harry's mother: OK. Shall we go to the shops and buy new one now?
Harry: ___(20)___ ……………
Harry's mother: Thanks, and what time is it, Harry?
Harry : ___(21)___ ……………
Harry's mother: Come on then! We need to catch the bus. It goes in five minutes
Harry: : ___(22)___ ……………
Harry's mother: Yes, and get mine, too, please!
Answers:
A. Shall I go and get my coat, then?
B. How about a new shirt?
C. Yes, let's go to the one in the High Street and I can help you choose
D. My watch says twenty past one
E. You're right - a shirt is better. What colour?
F. No, Mum. He's got one already
G. I started at nine o'clock and finished at ten
H. It's on Sunday. We can invite grandma
Part 4. Read and choose a word from the box. Write the correct word next to numbers 1-6 ⇱
Helen usually walks straight home after school, but last Monday, she didn't (23) to, because her mother was at the dentist's. Helen had a key to their door but the decided to go to the park.
She went to play on the (24) first. She sat down, kicked hard and went higher and higher. She
closed her eyes and felt like a (25) in the sky. Suddenly, she remembered her mother's words. 'You must be home by four o'clock.' She ran home, but when she put her hand in the (26) of her skirt to take out the key, it was empty. She went to her grandmother who lived in the next street. Helen began to (27) 'Here's another key for your house. Take this one.” Helen's grandmother said. 'Please don't tell Mum!' Helen said. 'OK. It's our secret,' her grandmother (28) Helen went home and sat down to watch TV just before her mother arrived!
Part 5. Read the passage and answer the following questions by choosing A,B,C or D ⇱
After inventing dynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late. Nobel preferred not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to mankind. Originally there were five awards: literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and peace. Economics was added in 1968, just sixty-seven years after the first awards ceremony. Nobel's original legacy of nine million dollars was invested, and the interest on this sum is used for the awards which vary from $30,000 to $125,000.
Every year on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, the awards (gold medal, illuminated diploma, and money) are presented to the winners. Sometimes politics plays an important role in the judges' decisions. Americans have won numerous science awards, but relatively few literature prizes. No awards were presented from 1940 to 1942 at the beginning of World War II. Some people have won two prizes, but this is rare; others have shared their prizes.