Unit 5 Higher Test 

Listening
4 Circle the mistake and write the correct word.
1 [1.06] Listen to Angela and Mike talking about (5 marks)
music. Answer the questions. Write full 1 Lewis Hamilton is a racing car scientist.
sentences. (10 marks) _______________
1 What is Braille? 2 The musician Alexander Graham Bell was
_______________________________________ responsible for the first telephone.
2 Why was Rodrigo an amazing musician? _______________

_______________________________________ 3 Marie Curie was the first female Nobel Prize

expert. _______________
3 What instrument did Rodrigo compose music
for? 4 Sir Isaac Newton was a great composer in the
17th century. _______________
_______________________________________
5 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the artist who
4 What happened to Beethoven when he was 20?
created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
_______________________________________ _______________
5 What did Beethoven continue to do until he
died?
_______________________________________ Language focus
5 Correct the mistakes. (10 marks)
Vocabulary 1 London is bigger Madrid.
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2 Write the numbers in words. (5 marks)
2 Usain Bolt is the faster man in the world.
1 1m = _________
________________________________
2 1000 years = ___________
3 Tigers are most dangerous than lions.
3 100 years = ___________
________________________________
4 10 years = ___________
4 Who is the most tall student in the class?
5 ½ = ___________
________________________________
3 Rewrite the sentences. Change the underlined 5 Kate is the good swimmer I know.
words without changing their meaning. ________________________________
(5 marks)
1 It took us fifteen minutes to do the exercise. 6 Complete the sentences. Use the affirmative or
negative forms of can and could and suitable
_______________________________
verbs. (10 marks)
2 The street is 1000 metres long.
1 My brother ____________ when he was two,
_______________________________ and write when he was three! He was very
3 They stayed at the hotel for 48 hours. clever.
_______________________________ 2 I don’t go to the swimming pool because I
4 May is my favourite time of year. ____________.
_______________________________ 3 My mum ____________ when she was young,
but she’s a very good cook now.
5 We stayed in London for seven days.
4 My dad is a musician. He ____________ the
_______________________________
violin really well.
5 Rosa is good at reading Japanese, but she
____________ it very well.
Unit 5 Higher Test 
7 Read the answers and then write the questions. 3 Why did he visit his local hospital?
Use How. (5 marks)
_______________________________
1 ______________________________________
4 What did his university professors realize?
Usain Bolt ran the 100m in 9.63 seconds at the
_______________________________
London Olympics.
5 Why does Akrit want to become a doctor?
2 ______________________________________
_______________________________
I go to the cinema twice a week.
3 ______________________________________
Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa is 5895m. Communication
4 ______________________________________
9 Complete the dialogue. (10 marks)
The Amazon River is 6,000 kilometres.
A What’s 1______________ to learn how to bake
5 ______________________________________
a cake?
A DVD costs £10.
B 2
______________ look in a cookbook. I’m sure
your mum has got one.
Reading A I 3_____________. But they’re usually difficult to
understand.
8 Read the text. Then answer the questions with
full sentences. (10 marks) B Well you could watch videos on YouTube.
A That’s a 4_______________.
A MEDICAL PRODIGY
B Or I could help you if you like?
Akrit Jaswal was born in India in 1993. His parents could soon
see that he was more intelligent than other children. He could A That would be 5_________________!
talk when he was only ten months old and he could read and
write at the age of two. When he was five, he could read better
than most adults. Medicine was one of his favourite interests, Writing
and he decided to become a doctor. When he was six years
old, doctors at his local hospital said he could watch them. He 10 Look at the information about the author J.K.
spent many hours watching them and he also read a lot of Rowling. Then write a biography of her. (Write
books about medicine. 80–100 words) (10 marks)
Akrit started university in India at the age of eleven to study
Born 1965, west of England
medicine. He was younger than any other student there. His
professors realized that he was more intelligent than they Education 1983 Exeter University (French)
were. He plans to finish his studies in India and then go to
Work London (office); 1990 Portugal
Harvard University in America. When he was a small child, he (English teacher)
saw people dying in the streets in India. They couldn’t go to
hospital because they were poor and didn’t have any money. Famous for 7 Harry Potter books (first published
Akrit wants to help people like these in the future. He wants to in 1997). Now also films.
give them better lives.
1 Where does Akrit come from?
Total marks: Listening _______ / 10
_______________________________
2 What could he do before he was a year old? Vocabulary _______ / 15

_______________________________ Language focus _______ / 25

Reading _______ / 10 Communication _______ / 10

Writing _______ / 10 TOTAL _______ / 80