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GROUP A

Name: ________________________
Class: ________________________

LISTENING 2 [WIDGB1_EoYtest_Listening2.mp3] Listen to

four teenagers talking about their countries.
1 [WIDGB1_EoYtest_Listening1.mp3] Listen to Match the questions 1–10 with the four
an interview with a young History student speakers A–D. You can use the letters more
called Brendan. Decide if the sentences in the than once.
table are True (), False (X) or Doesn’t say (?).
Put the correct symbol in the table. Which speaker… Speaker:
Sentences , X or ? 1 … thinks the weather where they
___
live isn’t warm enough?
Brendan’s main subject at
1 university is Technology. 2 … says they can get food from
___
every continent in their city?
Brendan studies at university in
2 the UK. 3 … prefers food from another
___
Brendan is most interested in the continent?
3 nineteenth century. 4 … thinks food from their own
country is better than food from ___
Brendan likes studying about other countries?
4 unsuccessful technology the most. 5 … says that you can buy food from
The bag alarm wasn’t popular all over their continent in their ___
5 because it was dangerous. country?
6 … thinks that the weather in another
The computer screen hat was 40 country is worse than the weather in ___
6 cm across. their country?
7 … says that some people in their
People felt ill when they wore the country don’t like the weather in ___
7 computer screen hat. summer?
The computer screen hat is 8 … prefers the weather in another
8 ___
popular with many video gamers. part of their country?

The car that Brendan talks about

9 9 … plays in a group? ___
could go very fast.

No one these days owns a car like 10 … watches films from all over the
10 the one Brendan talks about. ___
world?
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USE OF ENGLISH 2 Choose the best response, A, B or C, to

complete these short dialogues.
1 Choose A, B or C to correctly complete the
blog entry. 0 What would you like A I like cheese.
0
Today I want to tell you all ___ my little sister, to eat? B A burger, please.
1 2
Madeleine. She ___ born eight years ___ and she C It’s delicious.
3 1 I can’t stand Maths. A Yes, I like it too.
makes me laugh. In fact, I think she’s ___ person I
B No, you can’t.
4 5
know! I help her to ___ her homework – she ___ C I don’t like it either.
6
get very ___ homework, not like me. 2 Let’s go to the A Did you enjoy the
Madeleine loves helping Mum in the kitchen. At the cinema. film?
7 B What a good idea!
moment, they ___ a cake together for my birthday.
C It’s over there.
8 9
I ___ be fifteen tomorrow. I ___ a party with some 3 I think we need to do A Sorry, but I don’t
10
of my friends at my house, but I ___ invite the rest all we can to help agree.
animals. B I think we can too.
of my family – there are too many of them!
C Perhaps that’s not
true.
0 A about B around C of 4 Can I borrow your A Sorry, I can’t.
book? B Sorry, I’m using it.
1 A is B were C was
C Sorry, just a second.
2 A old B ago C past
5 This is my friend A I’m fine thanks.
3 A the funnier B funnier than C the funniest Hattie. B See you later.
C Pleased to meet
4 A do B make C know
you.
5 A doesn’t B don’t C didn’t /5

6 A many B much C any

3 Write the correct word next to each definition.
7 A ‘s making B make C ‘re making The first letter is given. Do not change the
first letter.
8 A ‘m going to B ‘m go to C go to 0 These are the words that you
vocabulary
9 A have B ’m having C go to have know in a language.
1 A meal made with cheese or
10 A doesn’t B don’t C didn’t
other food between two pieces s_______
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of bread.
2 The time between the morning
a________
and the evening.
3 A teacher uses this to show
p________
things to all the pupils.
4 A person who is travelling to or
c_______
from work.
5 A competition, usually with lots
t_________
of matches in it.
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GROUP A

READING The World’s Most Difficult Weather

1 Read the text and decide if sentences 1–12 Humans now live in most places around the world.
are True, False or Doesn’t say. Put a cross (X)
We are good at using our intelligence to survive in
in the correct place in the table.
some very difficult places. But there are some
True False Doesn’t places on Earth which are impossible to live in.
say
Here’s one of them.
Humans now live on every
1
continent on Earth. It’s hard to say exactly where the hottest place in
Humans can’t live in some the world is because this can change from year to
2
parts of the world. year. At the moment, though, this record belongs
We know where the hottest to the Loot Desert in Iran. This part of the Asian
3
place in the world is. country beat America’s Death Valley and Africa’s
4 Iran is in Asia.
El Azizia in Libya by quite a few degrees. The
maximum at El Azizia was 58°C, slightly more
Libya is in the West of than Death Valley’s 57 °C in the west of the USA,
5
Africa.
but well below the temperature of 70.7°C recorded
Death Valley is the second
6 in the east of Iran in 2005.
hottest place on Earth.
It was over 70°C in Death We often think that deserts have no water in them,
7 but there is water here in the spring, as snow melts
Valley.
The Loot Desert is in the in the nearby mountains and flows in rivers
8 through the area. But this soon dries up and there
east of Iran.
There are very long rivers in is little or no water there for the rest of the year.
9
the Loot Desert in spring. The maximum rainfall is only 100 mm per year
There’s more rain in the compared to 50 mm in much of the Sahara.
10 Loot Desert than in most of In a seven-year study from 2003 to 2010,
the Sahara Desert. American scientists found that Loot was the
The Loot Desert was the hottest place on Earth for five of those seven
hottest place on Earth in
11 years. They used satellites in space to measure this
every year from 2003 to
because it’s too hot for scientists to live there!
2010.
Scientists can’t visit the Loot So, when you’re booking your next holiday, it’s
12 Desert in the summer probably best to choose somewhere different to
because it’s too hot. the Loot Desert!
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2 Read the text and choose the correct answer, My First Concert
A, B or C.
1 Lori joined her band Hi, I’m Lori. I play the guitar in a band. I started
A last year. learning about two years ago and the group got
B a week ago.
C two years ago. together last year. Anyway, a week ago we had
our first concert and I want to tell you about it.
2 Lori’s first concert was at
A a hotel. It was at the local town hall, not far from my
B her school. school, where we practise, and near the hotel
C the town hall. where my mum works. The concert was to make
3 Money from the concert went to some money for three local charities that help
A some charities. nature and animals. There were two other groups
B one of the singers.
on as well as us. Another group wanted to play
C the bands.
too, but their singer was ill so they couldn’t do it.
4 How many bands played at the concert?
The town hall is big enough for about three
A two
B three hundred people, but unfortunately there were only
C four about eighty people there (and thirty of them were
5 How many people can watch a concert at the our friends and families!).
town hall? Anyway, my friend’s band played first, then us
A 30
B 80 and finally a band of older teenagers, who were
C 300 really good. My friend’s band was OK, but they
made a lot of mistakes. They played a lot of pop
6 Lori’s band played
A first. songs, which most of the audience liked, but I
B second. can’t stand. We play rock and the older kids’ band
C third.
plays hip-hop, so there was a good mix of music.
7 The people at the concert When we started playing, we could see that the
A were rock music fans. audience liked pop more than rock. Some of them
B really wanted to see the hip-hop.
C preferred pop music to rock. left the building and didn’t come back. Then some
others started shouting. At first I thought it was
8 At the moment, Lori because they liked us, but then I realised it was the
A has a sore leg.
B is doing another concert. opposite! To make things worse, I fell off the
C is in hospital. stage in the middle of our fourth song and hurt my
/8 leg! I didn’t have to go to hospital, but it still
hurts.
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We’re doing another concert in two weeks’ time –
I hope it goes better than this one!

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