UNIT TEST 1 ● GROUP A

Dictation, Listening and Reading

Name: ____________________________________
Class: ____________________________________ Listening

Total: _ /30 2 [Track 5] You will hear a conversation between

Natalie and John. Listen and complete the
Listening
sentences with a word or short phrase.
1 [Track 3] Listen to Martin and Jenny. For
sentences 1–5 choose True or False. Put a [X] in the
right place in the table. 1 John thinks that all the people who are
_________________ play football and rugby.
T F 2 John likes Mrs Peters because she doesn’t
1 Martin is surprised that he _________________.
will study with people that he 3 Natalie has to ________________ than other girls
knows. in PE lessons.
2 Martin is worried that he will 4 According to Natalie, the school has ___________
lose contact with people if he new table tennis tables.
moves away. 5 Only _______________ people can play table
3 Jenny agrees that Martin tennis.
should stay and study in his 6 In the end, John decides to play ______________
home town. __________.
4 Jenny thinks it would be hard /12
for Martin to make new
friends.
5 Jenny went out with Kevin
Sampson for a long time.

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Dictation, Listening and Reading

Finally, there is the comparison with the people

around you. Why do they all look so good in
Reading photos compared to you? Even those who aren’t
as attractive or slim as you? The reason is that
3 Read the text. Complete the sentences 1–5 with
one or two words from the text. you know exactly how they looked all evening
because you could see them. There are no
surprises. However, you are comparing yourself
SELF IMAGES
not to how you really looked but to an image of
As you prepare to go out, you check yourself yourself that was in your head. An image in
in the mirror. Everything looks good. The hair which your complexion is clearer, your eyes
style is right, your complexion is tanned and your bigger and even your clothes are more stylish.
smile could make Liam Payne jealous. Later in the So what can we do about it? On the one hand,
evening, when friends take photos, you are happy for all the reasons above, photos of ourselves
to pose for the camera. The next day, however, will rarely please us. There’s a reason why many
when the photos are uploaded to the Internet, celebrities do everything they can to not be
you are shocked. You don’t recognise that photographed in public. On the other hand, you
person. It can’t be you! The facial features are all should remember that your friends feel exactly
wrong, the skin too pale and the hair is horrific. the same. So, when they look at photos of you,
So just why do we look different in photos to how they will be as jealous of you as you are of
we imagine ourselves to be? them. Take comfort from that but maybe avoid
There isn’t just one reason. Firstly, people often looking at photos taken of you which appear on
look better early in the evening than later on. You other people’s social networking pages.
have probably just come out of the shower,
brushed your hair and put on your elegant clothes.
If there was something wrong, you would do 1 The article says that people ________________
something about it and then admire yourself again. _______________ when they realise what they
When the photos are taken, you may be tired or looked like the night before.
perhaps full after a good meal. Your hair may not 2 When we are home alone, it ________________
look quite so good as it did. Often, when people get _______________ if we look good or bad.
home and look in the mirror, they think: ‘I look 3 Our facial features look more flattering when we
terrible’. It’s just that, being home and alone, it look at them _____________________________.
doesn’t matter. 4 The way you look in photos is different to the
Another reason is to do with angles. In the way you look in __________________________.
mirror, we see our nose, mouth and chin from 5 According to the article we should ___________
above. This is more flattering than looking up from _____________________ at photos of us which
below. We also turn slightly and smile trying to are uploaded online.
get the best look possible. Unfortunately, our /10
friends probably aren’t as careful. Photos are taken
when we aren’t ready, often from the wrong
position. You could watch carefully to see when
someone is going to take a photo and pose for
it but, although the photos might look better, your
evening won’t be very relaxing.

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Dictation, Listening and Reading

Reading returned to the sea on her surfboard and, in

3 Read the text. Complete gaps 1-5 with sentences January 2004, she entered her first competition
A–F. There is one extra sentence. since the attack.
Around the same time as she was returning to
surfing competitions, Bethany was also busy with
A She was able to do this in 2005 when a appearances on television and in newspaper
youth group asked for volunteers to go to interviews. (3) ______ She was a modest person
Thailand. by nature, and didn’t enjoy all the attention. But,
eventually, she realised that it gave her an
B She loved it from the start, and she won her
first competition at the age of eight. opportunity to tell people about her life and her
beliefs.
C She also works hard to promote healthy In the same year, 2004, she wrote her
lifestyles and diet. autobiography: Soul Surfer: A true story of faith,
family and fighting to get back on the board. This
D She has never wasted time feeling sorry for brought her story to a much wider audience.
herself. Despite still being a young teenager with her own
disability, Bethany was determined to help others
E She was rushed to hospital, where doctors
who had even worse problems. (4) ______ This
carried out emergency surgery.
country had suffered badly from a tsunami in
F At first, she wasn’t keen on all the publicity. December 2004 and desperately needed
international help. Bethany went there and was
1 able to help local people overcome their fear of
2 the water.
3 Bethany won her first national surfing
competition in 2005 and she turned professional
4
two years later. Although surfing takes up a lot of
5 her time, she has other passions. She works hard
/10 to raise money for several charities. (5) ______ In
2011, her amazing story was made into a film and,
once again, Bethany was able to reach an even
BETHANY HAMILTON – SOUL SURFER wider audience and has become a role model for
many people with disabilities. When a journalist
Bethany Hamilton was definitely born with the sea asked what she would do if she could get her arm
in her blood. Her parents, who were enthusiastic back, her reply was immediate. She wouldn’t want
surfers, had moved to Hawaii before she was born to change her life as it was the loss of her arm
so that they could spend more time in the water. which made everything that she has achieved
With her parents and two older brothers, she possible.
started learning to surf almost as soon as she
could walk. (1) ______ So, it was no surprise
when, on the night before Halloween in 2003, she
went for an evening’s surfing with her friends. The
waves weren’t very high and she was just lying on
her board, relaxing, when a three-metre-long tiger
shark came up from below and bit off her left arm.
Thanks to her quick-thinking friends, Bethany
survived despite losing a large amount of blood.
(2) ______ When she came to after the operation,
her first words were ‘When can I surf again?’ She
didn’t have to wait long. On November 26th, she

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