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Unit 1 Progress test B

Grammar
1 Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use to + verb or for + -ing.

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1 I’ve put all the photos in a folder _____________ at home.

2 There are some great apps _____________ photos with friends.

3 Did you bring your laptop _____________ notes during the lecture?
4 A generator is a machine _____________ energy into electricity.

5 They researched the market _____________ about similar products.

6 This button is _____________ cyberbullying or hate hoaxes.

Mark: ___ / 6

2 Put the words in order to make present perfect sentences.

1 haven’t / news / they / yet / the / heard ______________________________________________
2 sushi / never / eaten / my / has / gran ______________________________________________

3 fantastic / I / seen / just / film / have / a ______________________________________________

4 your / ever / hacked / computer / has / been / ? ______________________________________________

5 bought / we / already / our / tickets / have ______________________________________________

6 unloaded / Ben / the / has / dishwasher / still / not ______________________________________________

Mark: ___ / 6

3 Complete the dialogue. Use the present perfect or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
1_____________
Max: (you / hear) of a boy called Richie Stachowski?
Lucy: No, why? Is he famous?

Max: Not exactly, but he’s interesting. When he was 10, he 2_____________ (create) a gadget for talking
underwater.

Lucy: What?!

Max: Well, he was surfing with his dad in Hawaii and he 3_____________ (want) to tell him about some of the
amazing things he 4_____________ (can) see under the water. He 5_____________ (start) researching
ways of doing this, and finally invented a ‘water talkie’ gadget.
Lucy: Interesting, and what 6_____________ (he / do) with the invention?

Max: Well, since then, he 7_____________ (manufactured) 50,000 water talkies and sold them to a big toy shop
and he 8_____________ (invent) several other pool toys too – ‘made by a kid for kids’!

Mark: ___ / 8

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Vocabulary
4 Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences.
1 I need to get a new anti-virus program / external hard drive to protect my computer!
2 You can upload / interact with your apps more easily on a touchscreen.

3 I don’t believe that really happened – it must be fake news / clickbait.

4 If you click on / back up that icon, the app will open.

5 Some speakers are very good at influencing / deceiving people’s opinions.

6 Great news – John’s been asked to lead / give a lecture at the university.
7 My brother bought a great gadget / device for feeding the cat when we’re on holiday.

Mark: ___ / 7

5 Complete the sentences with the words below. There is one extra word.

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1 Do you think it’s possible to report the news without having a _____________?
2 I think my brother was behaving badly to _____________ from my mum.

3 The invention of television allowed moving images to be _____________.

4 I’ve always been interested in _____________. I started to read my dad’s newspaper when I was six!

5 Some _____________ can be very funny, but others can be cruel.

6 Now that I’ve finished my exams, I want to _____________ on my tennis skills.

Mark: ___ / 6

6 Complete the text with the correct option A, B or C.

Have you ever had an X-ray? X-rays are photos of the inside of the body, and X-ray machines are
1_____________ in hospitals all over the world. But did you know they were discovered

2_____________?

Wilhelm Roentgen was a German scientist. In 1895, he was doing an experiment when he
3_____________ that one of the machines was producing a strange light. He didn’t know what it was,

so he called it an ‘X’ ray. He also 4_____________ that it could pass through skin, but not bone. This
was an important 5_____________ in medical technology.

Since then, scientists have developed other ways of looking inside the body, but X-rays are still both
highly 6_____________ and 7_____________ today.

1 A produced B improved C installed

2 A by accident B in accident C an accident

3 A installed B co-ordinated C noticed

4 A improved B discovered C co-ordinated

5 A milestone B improved version C workshop

6 A fiddly B processing speed C effective

7 A widely used B co-ordinated C analysed

Mark: ___ / 7

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Use of English
7 Complete the mini-dialogues with the correct option, A, B or C.
1 Lily: Did you research the background to that story before you posted it online?
Matt: No. Why would I need to do that?

Lily: Well, _______ to me.

A it just doesn’t sound very likely B I’m not sure that’s really true C maybe you’re right

2 Liz: Do you think this might be fake news?

Joe: Well, _______, it could be made up.

Liz: Let’s google the facts.

A it looks to me B now that you mention it C I’m not sure it’s a fair point
3 Emma: Look at the people in the picture. They don’t look very angry.

Zoe: Oh yes. It looks _______ it’s a festival, not a protest!

Emma: Yes, maybe you’re right. I think they’re dancing!

A to me as B to me if C to me as if

4 Liam: You can’t really see what’s happening. Perhaps the photographer wasn’t very good.
Dan: _______ there might be another explanation?
Liam: What do you mean?

A Have you checked B Don’t you think C Did you research

5 Sam: If I were you, I’d check stories before you share them.

Ella: _______. I’ll delete the post.

Sam: Good idea!

A That’s a fair point B Well, now that you mention it C Maybe a fair point

Mark: ___ / 5

8 Choose the translation of the word or phrase in brackets that completes the sentence correctly.
1 I’m very excited! I’m getting a (całkiem nowy) ______________ laptop tomorrow.

A fiddly B handy C brand new

2 This gadget has the (możliwość) ______________ to charge devices without using a cable.

A ability B curiosity C generosity

3 Many inventors show a lot of (ciekawość) ______________ as children.
A curiously B curiosity C curious

4 I (potrzebuję) ______________ a new phone. I dropped my old one in the bath!

A ’m needing B need to C need

5 Do you (musisz) ______________ print out your essay or will you email it to Mr Turner?

A need B need to C needing to

Mark: ___ / 5

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Reading
9 Read the text. Match paragraphs A–E of the text to questions 1–7. There are two extra questions.

A history of electricity
A The discovery of electricity was an important milestone in the history of technology. But
when exactly was it discovered? That’s not an easy question to answer! The English
word ‘electricity’ was first used in the 17th century, but it comes from a much older Greek
word – elektron – for a type of rock called amber.
B Several thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks had noticed that, if they rubbed pieces
of amber together, the amber then had the power to move other objects. Along with the
Egyptians and Romans, they had also figured out that they could get an electric shock
from some kinds of fish. In fact, doctors sometimes suggested that people with
headaches should touch electric fish to make them feel better! Ancient Arabs used to
use the same word for ‘electric fish’ as they now use for ‘lightning’.

C In the 17th and 18th centuries, several scientists became very interested in researching
electricity. In 1752, in the USA, Benjamin Franklin did a famous experiment with a kite
and a metal key in a storm. He showed that lightning was made of electricity. And in
1800, Italian scientist Alessandro Volta created an early kind of battery. It was the first
gadget to transmit electricity and show that electricity could move.

D By the 19th century, scientists understood a lot more about what electricity was. Now
they wanted to find out what they could do with it. When Michael Faraday invented the
first electricity generator in 1831, he made electricity much easier to use in everyday life.
There was enormous progress in electrical engineering in the second half of the 19th
century. By 1900, the American scientist Thomas Edison and British scientist Joseph
Swan had invented several ways of using electricity to produce light.

E Since then, there have been countless developments in technology. We have invented
ways of using electricity to get warm, stay cool, cook food, freeze food, make things,
entertain ourselves, communicate with each other, move around the planet and even
travel into space. Can you imagine life without it?

Which paragraph tells us ...

1 how to make electricity with a key? ___

2 how people first noticed the effects of electricity? ___

3 about scientists who tried to figure out how electricity works? ___
4 why electricity is called electricity? ___

5 about current uses of electricity? ___

6 about how scientists started to make electricity useful? ___

7 when electricity was discovered? ___

Mark: ___ / 5

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Listening
10  Listen to five people talking about science and engineering.
Match the speakers (1–5) to the statements (A–F). There is one extra statement.
A Speaker ___ is giving a careers presentation to students.
B Speaker ___ has a lot of job satisfaction.

C Speaker ___ talks about the scientists who discovered something.

D Speaker ___ recommends a great gadget.

E Speaker ___ has found out lots of information about someone.

F Speaker ___ describes an invention from a long time ago.

Mark: ___ / 5

Writing
11 Read the task and write a review (80–130 words).

You have just bought a new product and you are writing a post on a UK technology forum.

• Identify yourself and the product you are reviewing.

• Say why you’re posting a review.
• Review the item, giving your opinion on its performance.
• Give your reaction to the product and say how you will use it.

Mark: ___ / 10

Total: ___ / 70

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