6 New Inspiration 3

Unit 6 Standard Test

VOCABULARY B: Yes, please. Let me (1) do / make the

washing up first and then I’ll (2) do / make a
1 Complete with these words. list.
cupboard curtains desk envelope keys A: There was a fire in town yesterday. Did you
matches mirror saucepan vacuum cleaner see it?
B: No, but I saw on the news that it
1 It’s dark now. Go and close the (3) did / made a lot of damage.
_____________ in your bedroom. A: You’re right. The firefighters
2 Mum can’t find her car _____________. (4) did / made three attempts to put it out
3 I cook with this _____________. It’s made before they succeeded.
from recycled metal.
A: I’m looking forward to going to my new
4 I’ve written a letter to Sam, but I can’t find an
school. I hope I’ll (5) do / make some friends.
_____________ to put it in.
B: Of course you will. (6) Do / Make sure you
5 Have you got some _____________ to light
smile a lot and be friendly. It will really
the fire?
(7) do / make a difference.
6 I’ve got something in my eye. Is there a
_____________ I can look in? A: Have you (8) done / made any work for the
7 Dad is sitting at his _____________ in the biology project yet?
office and doing his work. B: No, I haven’t started yet. I’m going to
8 Could you put the clean plates and bowls (9) do / make the first exercise this
away in the _____________? afternoon. I (10) did / made a lot of mistakes
9 They didn’t use to clean carpets with a in my last project. so I’ve done lots of
_____________ 200 years ago. research for this one.
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2 Complete the words. PRONUNCIATION

1 Car tyres are made of r_____________.
2 G_____________ is used to make bottles and 4 Underline the stressed syllable in each word.
windows. 1 advantage
3 I just bought a very warm jumper made from
2 communicate
w_____________.
4 C_____________ is a cool, natural fabric 3 inspiration
which used to make clothes, towels and sheets. 4 realise
5 W_____________ comes from trees and is
used to make furniture. 5 translator
6 P_____________ is made from oil. It’s used to /5
make many modern things.
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3 Choose the correct option.

A: I’m going to the supermarket later. Do you
need anything?
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New Inspiration Level 3 Tests Unit 6 Standard Test

LANGUAGE WORKOUT 8 They ________________ (buy) new clothes for

the party tomorrow.
(GRAMMAR) 9 Did you ________________ (invent) games
and stories when you were young?
5 Complete the sentences with the past simple 10 He ________________ (do) any sport but
or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets. now he plays football every week.
1 I _____________ (miss) the train because it
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had already left the station.
2 He started to walk quickly because he
_____________ (notice) someone following him. 7 Complete the text with the past simple active
3 Mick _____________ (live) in three countries or passive form of the verbs in brackets.
by the time he was ten years old.
4 Nobody had understood her before she Have you ever seen a clockwork radio? They’re
_____________ (improve) her pronunciation. unusual because you don’t need batteries or
5 She had to go to hospital because she electricity – you just turn a handle to get power!
_____________ (break) her leg in an accident. The clockwork radio (1) _____________ (invent)
6 Tess had learnt to drive before she by a British inventor called Trevor Baylis in 1991.
_____________ (be) 17. He started working on it when he (hear)
7 I cooked dinner because my mum (2) _____________ that many people in rural
_____________ (ring) and asked me to. parts of Africa couldn’t find out valuable
8 Harry _____________ (go) out every night and information about Aids because they
now he had no money. (3) _____________ (not have) electricity for
9 By the time my grandmother was 25, she their radios. Baylis worked on his invention for
_____________ (have) three children. three months and then tried to get companies to
10 In my gap year I _____________ (do) things I help him develop it. At first, his idea
had never done before. (4) _____________ (not accept) and he nearly
(5) _____________ (give up).
/10 But in 1993, he (6) _____________ (interview)
by the BBC, and a programme about Trevor and
his invention (7) _____________ (broadcast).
6 Complete the sentences with the past simple After that, people (8) _____________
or the correct form of used to and the verbs in (encourage) him to continue with his project by
brackets. sending him letters and money. He started work
1 Ten years ago, this part of town again, but he (9) _____________ (have)
________________ (be) fields. a lot of problems making the radio sound loud
2 Carla ________________ (visit) six different enough. After a year of hard work, he solved the
countries while she was at college. problem, and in 1995, the first radios
3 Dad ________________ (not like) classical (10) _____________ (make) by a factory in South
music, but now he really enjoys it. Africa. Now clockwork radios are sold all over
4 I ________________ (know) that paper was the world.
invented in China until you told me just now!
5 They ________________ (watch) the show /10
once to see what it was like.
6 He ________________ (not go) to the cinema
before he went to the restaurant last night.
7 I ________________ (play) the violin at school
but I don’t now.

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New Inspiration Level 3 Tests Unit 6 Standard Test

READING When Andrew Cowan, 17, from Wimbledon in

London, (1) ___ a remote-controlled search and
8 Read the text. Then choose the correct recovery robot as part of his A-level coursework,
option A, B or C. he had no idea how successful it would be.
1 2 Andrew (2) ___ the robot to help firefighters
A had created A invented and other emergency and rescue workers. The
B created B used to invent robot is designed to go into buildings that are
C used to create C was invented falling down or on fire. It can help emergency
workers find out if anyone is inside the building
3 4 and needs help, without going into the building
A chose A used to fly themselves.
B was chosen B had flown The robot impressed the exam judges so
C used to choose C was flown much that Andrew (3) ___ to represent the UK in
a European-wide competition for young
5 6 scientists.
A sent A had already won He (4) ___ to Portugal in September 2010 and
B was sent B won took part in the 22nd European Union Contest
C had sent C used to win for Young Scientists.
Before Andrew (5) ___ to Portugal, the robot
7 8 (6) ___ a number of prizes and sponsorship
A won A was persuaded deals. A few months earlier, in March 2010,
B had won B persuaded Andrew (7) ___ the Siemens prize and the
C wins C had persuaded engineering and technology prize at the National
Science and Engineering Competition in
9 10 Manchester. While he was working on the
A were placed A was offered invention, Andrew (8) ___ a number of
B had placed B offered companies to sponsor the project. He
C placed C used to offer approached the companies and asked them for
some of the parts needed for the robot, such as
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sponsorship, their logos (9) ___ on the side of
the robot.
Andrew’s robot is fitted with a camera,
sensor and fire fighting equipment, and this
caught the attention of some major electronic
companies. As a result, the electronics company
Siemens (10) ___ to sponsor him through
university, while two other major electronics
companies have offered him jobs for when he
leaves university.
‘I put a lot of time and effort into creating the
robot, so it is very rewarding that is has done as
well as it has,’ said Andrew.

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New Inspiration Level 3 Tests Unit 6 Standard Test

LISTENING WRITING
9 Listen to Pat and Rob talking about 10 Choose one of these inventions. Describe
inventions. Choose True or False. what life was like before the invention.
1 Rob thinks the most important invention was car clock Internet mobile phone paper
the light bulb.
plastic telephone television train wheel
True / False

2 In the past, most masterpieces were created Think of these things:

by candlelight. • What did people use to do before?
True / False • Why do you think it was a good invention?
• How did it change people’s lives?
3 Gas was used for lighting lamps in the 17th
century. _______________________________________
True / False
_______________________________________
4 Pat thinks the telephone, the television and
the car were the most important inventions. _______________________________________
True / False
_______________________________________
5 Pat thinks that penicillin is important because
it has saved so many lives. _______________________________________
True / False
_______________________________________
6 Rob doesn’t know who discovered penicillin.
_______________________________________
True / False
_______________________________________
7 Penicillin was discovered by Alexander
Fleming in 1829. _______________________________________
True / False
_______________________________________
8 It was developed into a commercial drug by
more than one person. _______________________________________
True / False
_______________________________________
9 Fleming, Florey and Chain were awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. _______________________________________
True / False
_______________________________________
10 Pat has learnt all this from her father.
True / False _______________________________________

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