Unit 2 C1 Summative Assessment

Name and Surname: Koroli Otilia

Grammar
1 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences. Tick the correct sentences.
1 If I’ve ’d listened to you, I would be in a much worse situation right now.
2 If you’d failed your driving test, how would you have felt?
 3 But for John’s quick thinking, the boy would’ve been badly maimed for life.
4 We’d have helped you if we’d known you were in trouble. Why didn’t you call us?
 5 Ashley wouldn’t have lived in Australia if he hadn’t met Rachel but is very glad that he did.
6 If only we hadn’t forgotten to tell Jill where we were going. She’ll be worried sick.
7 Now that he’s in his twenties, Leigh regrets playing truant at school when he was a teenager.
8 I wish you’d said that you’d be arriving early. I’m still at work!
 9 Had he not gone to the university to study sports science, Joe would’ve joined the navy instead.
10 If you’d known he was an imposter, what would you have done?
11 If only I hadn't told my boss what I really think. I’m not surprised he sacked me.

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2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1 Don’t you just hate being told what to do?!
(hate/tell)
2 I             don't expect to hear                  from Matt until tomorrow as I know he’s very busy today. (expect/hear)
3 You       were given              an opportunity   to ask                  questions at the end of the lecture. (give/ask)
4 Esra           wanted to offer                    Mick some support but knew how difficult that might be. (want/offer)
5 Kim       encouraged              Alex             to enter        the quiz as she was sure he’d do well. (encourage/enter)
6 Will was surprised when his boss asked him if he still     enjoyed working                          with him.
(enjoy/working)
7 After seeing the doctor, Tom           was advised to make                    another appointment for two weeks’ time.
(advise/make)
8 Although Jen               contemplated to move                a few times, she never had. (contemplate/move)
9 Finally, they     seem to have finished                          the job. I expect they’ll send us the bill now. (seem/finish)
10 Pam         refuses to live                      in a noisy, crowded city and said nothing would make her move. (refuse/live)
11 I really               dislike speaking                in front of a lot of people. I get very anxious. (dislike/speak)

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Vocabulary
3 Match 1–6 with a)–h). There are two options you do not need.
1 My father told me to always trust   d 
2 I’m glad that my science teacher always made us figure out   a 
3 It was only after a health scare that I realised I had been working myself   f       
4 Having never set up a company of my own before, I was on a very steep     b     
5 I was told that after I’d learnt   e       
6 If you always take advantage of   h     

a) how to do our own experiments as it taught me to think more creatively and logically.
b) learning curve for the first few years of trading.
c) feeling which led me instinctively to make the right decision.
d) my instincts when making important decisions.
e) the ropes, I’d really start enjoying the challenging of working in the company.
f) into the ground in an attempt to make the business work.
g) effect of being awarded a scholarship for further research.
h) opportunities that come your way, you’ll be surprised at what you can achieve in life.

4 Complete the words in the sentences.

1 Being well qualified and ambitious, it didn’t take Joel long to reach the peak        of his profession.
2 My boss believes time                     is money and takes umbrage at anyone who wastes his.
3 Initially, the detectives found the witness’s account of what had happened hard to swallow                    . It seemed
so implausible.
4 The unexpected offer of a job managing the company’s office in Hong Kong certainly gave Chan food for though
.
5 After completing her research project, Katrina found herself at a crossroad                     and had a difficult
decision to make.
6 The business started to go downhill                     when it failed to react fast enough to changes occurring in the
market.

5 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

convincing eye-opening mind

narrow-minded perspective preconceptions
stereotypes thoughts

1 A new set of resources which will instigate discussion on racial stereotypes, particularly those which students have
found to be untrue, is now being piloted in U.S. high schools.
2 Although she’d initially gone along with her friend’s idea of doing a bungee jump, Jane began to have second
thoughts             when they were standing on the bridge the following day.
3 Dealing with other people’s             preconceptions         about depression added to Lee’s anxiety when he
returned to work.
4 While Liam looked the part, his ideas on how to turn the company around and make it a big success were far from
convincing                .
5 If you imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes, you may start to appreciate a whole new        perspective             
on life.
6 The documentary on social conditions in parts of the country really was     eye-opening                . I hadn’t
expected it to be so revealing or shocking, to be honest.
7 The judge kept an open    mind                  and based her verdict on the evidence presented.
8 There’s no point trying to change Bev’s opinions. She’s incredibly          narrow-minded            and inflexible in
her thinking and is never open to new ideas.

6 Underline the correct answer, a), b) or c).

1 Look, there’s nothing wrong with           b        your mind but sometimes you really should try to be more tactful!
a) saying b) speaking c) talking
2 Just take anything Derek says with a pinch of salt; he loves       a              devil’s advocate just to create a heated
discussion.
a) playing b) showing c) acting
3 If you truly believe that Robin’s plan will sink the company, you can’t         c            on the fence. You have to say
something.
a) get b) stay c) sit
4 Let’s not   b                  about the bush. You have ruined the company’s reputation and we have lost faith in your
integrity.
a) hit b) beat c) boot

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Function
7 Underline the correct alternative in the sentences below.
1 The reality stands/is that we really don’t know how secure our computer system is and that is why we need to hire
an IT expert.
2 To my knowledge/reality, no other individual was involved in the scandal, only the one person accused.
3 As long/far as I’m concerned, the way in which the issue has been dealt with does comply with employment
regulations.
4 See/Look at it this way, if we can buy more shares in the company, we’ll have a bigger stake in it and therefore
more control.
5 From what I can gather/take, employees are feeling increasingly disgruntled at the lack of transparency within the
company.
6 I find it highly unlikely/unsure that the money from the robbery will ever be found. It’s been two months and I
think the trail’s gone cold.
7 With/In reality, the economy is going to reach rock bottom before it starts making a recovery.
8 Quite honest/frankly, I don’t understand why they awarded themselves a generous pay rise during the recent
recession.
9 If you tell/ask me, most of these so-called celebrities are completely overrated. What skills or talents do they really
have?
10 According to the statistics/figure, the majority of young people feel disenchanted with politicians and ambivalent
about voting.
11 If you want my honest/really opinion, we should decline both offers and instead, come up with our bailout
strategy.

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