Cumulative Tests B – Answer 6

1 ran into
Keys 2 hang out
3 get away
4 broken up
Units 1–5 5 turn up
6 looked up
Grammar 7 came across
8 let us down
1
1 as much money as
2 Did there use to be Use of English
3 mustn’t wear 7
4 do Tom and I meet up 1 word
5 No sooner had the match finished 2 see
3 say
2
1 crash 4 other
2 Living 5 like
3 to close
4 wearing Translation
5 pay 8
3 1 I had been cleaning my bedroom all morning
1 used to own 2 we used to go swimming every day
2 would spend / used to spend 3 we should have invited Claire to the party
3 had seen 4 I’ll be sitting on a train
4 have watched / watch 5 warned us not to touch anything
5 to go
6 buy Listening
7 needn’t have worried
9
8 have I seen 1 C
9 will have released 2 C
10 to buy 3 A
4 B
Vocabulary 5 A
4
1 c
2 b
3 a
4 b
5 a
6 c
5
1 quick
2 home
3 time
4 run
5 system
6 rough

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Transcript Daisy Oh no!
1 ‘We won’t be back until late tonight!’ shouted my dad, George Yeah! I’d locked the door, but I was left
as my parents walked out of the front door. ‘And don’t holding the top part of the key while the bottom part
forget to take the dog for a walk.’ My parents climbed was stuck inside the lock. I couldn’t believe it …
into their car and drove away. ‘Brilliant!’ I thought.
Now I could do whatever I wanted. An hour later, I Reading
wandered downstairs on my way to check the letter
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box, which was just outside the front door. There was
1 A
Boris, our huge, not too bright Saint Bernard dog
standing at the bottom of the stairs. Ignoring Boris, I 2 B
opened the front door, stepped outside and opened 3 A
the letter box. 4 C
Bang! 5 B
The door behind me banged shut. Boris, thinking I
was about to go for a walk, had followed me, bumped
into the half-opened door and caused it to slam shut.
I was locked out, in my pyjamas. And, as far as I
knew, while Boris had accidentally mastered the art
of closing the front door, the chances of him learning
to open it any time soon seemed remote.
2
Danny Have you seen the YouTube clip where
the thief threatens the shopkeeper with a knife and
asks for money, but instead of giving him any, the
shopkeeper runs to the door and locks it?
Ellie Yeah. I’ve seen that. The thief can’t find
the key anywhere, and the shopkeeper laughs at
him, saying he won’t get out until the police arrive.
Danny Yeah. And the last thing you see is the
police banging at the door.
Ellie There’s another clip, taken from a CCTV
camera, that’s just as good … a thief climbs on to the
roof of a store, somewhere in America, … smashes a
hole in the roof, then jumps into the store. He seems
to be only interested in taking cash from the till, and
smashes it open. Then you see him banging on the
door, but it’s locked and made of reinforced glass –
you know, super-strong glass.
Danny Of course it is. A lot of them are in
America. Why wouldn’t he have thought of that?
Ellie I know! Anyway, then you see him trying
to climb back through the roof, but of course it’s too
high. The police arrest him in the end!
3
George Did I tell you about the time I got locked
out of my boss’s house?
Daisy No. What happened?
George Well, my boss let me stay in her house
while she was away. I moved in late on a Sunday
evening, picking up the key from her neighbours.
Next morning, as I left the house, I closed the door
behind me, put the key in the lock and turned it. I’d
been told to make sure that the house was locked.
The key felt stiff in the lock so I turned it a bit more,
applying a bit of force, and then to my horror, it
snapped.

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Units 6–9 Use of English
6
Grammar 1 do you think you could repeat
1 2 was wondering if you could / might / would explain
1 was being grown in China 3 seems to me that
2 being very well-off, 4 as far as I’m concerned
3 if / whether my sister wanted to come 5 might be a case for arguing
4 is now known why
5 had stopped, there wouldn’t have been Translation
6 she would come round the next day
7
7 would work harder this 1 the sports centre has been closed
8 of having stolen money from her 2 it was thought that the Earth was flat
9 weren’t raining, we could go 3 asked me if I had spoken with
10 did was start 4 Supposing I had lost all my money
2 5 On walking into the room
1 Would you call
2 asked Listening
3 having said
8
4 were believed
1 C
5 was discovered
2 D
6 continuing
3 A
7 placed
4 C
8 should be put
5 B
9 Finding
10 to adopt Transcript
Tom So, Jenny, tell me, what do British people like
Vocabulary doing at the weekends?
3 Jenny Well, the weekends are a time for families in
1 d Britain, as they are in most places, I guess. Often
2 a parents are not at work, having worked a five-day
week from Monday to Friday. On Saturdays, many
3 a
families head for the shops. City centres are crowded
4 b
and car parks are packed at the big out-of-town
5 c
shopping malls.
6 b
Tom That sounds boring. Do they go shopping on
4 Sunday as well as Saturday?
1 heart Jenny Well, Sundays used to be different to other days
2 thought of the week. Most shops were closed and most
3 dairy people were at home. Popular leisure activities on
4 mind Sunday used to be doing jobs around the home such
5 absent as washing the car and DIY. They were both much
6 check more popular than they are these days. But the law
7 global changed in 1994, over twenty years ago now, so just
8 over about every shop is open on Sundays these days,
and, although shop-opening times are more limited
5 than on other days, it’s still a really popular day for
1 vote for getting in the groceries.
2 own up
Tom OK. So, apart from shopping, how do people
3 taken in spend their free time?
4 put in
5 set up
6 holed up

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 Jenny Well, sports and hobbies make up a large part 7 Being unable to get a ticket for the match,
of what people do in their free time, as you’d imagine,
but unlike many other countries in Europe, the telly
comes out top of the list when you look at the
statistics and analyse which leisure activity is the
most common. I guess it’s fair to say that the British
love football, cooking and gardening, but they prefer
sitting on the sofa watching other people doing these
activities to actually doing any of them themselves!
Tom That’s funny. I thought fewer people would be
watching TV now that there are so many other things
they can do – you know, digital technology, mobile
phones and such like?
Jenny Well, I’d have thought that would be the case
too, but the statistics show that TV is still popular.
Tom I know that football plays a major role in the
sporting life of Britain. No matter where you live in the
world you must have heard of teams like Manchester
United. I guess it’s by far the biggest sport.
Jenny Well, yes, it’s incredibly popular, and at
weekends lots of people are glued to their mobiles
checking up on the latest scores. And, of course,
most stadiums are full every week. Not only that, but
almost two million people take part in a football
match at the weekend.
Tom Two million? That’s a lot.
Jenny It is, but interestingly, other sports such as
swimming and running have even more participants. I
guess going for a swim is easier to do than playing in
a match.
Tom True. It’s also something people of all ages can do.
Anyway, thanks for your views. Next time I have to
write an essay about the UK, I’ll give you a call.

Reading
9
1 D
2 B
3 F
4 A
5 C

Units 1–9
Grammar
1
1 don’t need to
2 have I met such lazy students
3 nowhere near as exciting as
4 into tooth decay is being carried out by the National
Dental Institute
5 (that) his parents had flown to Paris the previous
weekend
6 I hadn’t been late for the interview, I would have got
the job.

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2
1 the
Translation
2 both
3 like 8
1 we’ll be taking the exam
4 for
2 my brother used to cycle to school
5 did
3 You should have asked
6 than
4 we would have won the match
7 do
5 learning to drive is more difficult than in the past
3
1 had never done
2 used to go
Listening
3 had rained 9
4 to put A 3
5 must have looked B 1
6 will have become C 2
D 4
E –
Vocabulary
Transcript
4
1 b 1 Taking on a job with fixed hours, often at the
2 a weekend, and having to travel long distances to get
3 d to work, are big no-nos for me. I wouldn’t dream of
4 a getting a job in a café, serving customers, for
5 c example. I’d always look for a job with some
6 a flexibility. I made some pocket money last summer
from pet sitting. The suburb where I live is full of big
7 b
houses, and many of my neighbours commute long
8 c
distances, so more often than not, dogs are left on
9 a
their own for part of the day. Someone to pop round
10 d to feed and play with their dog, or take them out in
5 the middle of the afternoon, was just what they were
1 check looking for.
2 after 2 Forget about waiting tables or stacking supermarket
3 half shelves, and be a little bit proactive. That’s my
4 tell advice. There are loads of jobs to be had in your own
5 out neighbourhood. Do you realise how expensive it is to
hire a landscaping company to cut the grass or clear
6 out all the garden rubbish? Why not offer your
1 blew his top services for a fraction of the price? And why not be a
2 see eye to eye little bit professional about it too? Last summer, my
3 recharge my batteries mate Tom and I designed our own cards, advertising
4 raised his eyebrows our services, and splashed out on garden gloves and
5 make ends meet a few tools. We ended up busier than we’d ever
been. Not only that, but we got to spend July in the
sun, in the open air, got to work when we liked, and
Use of English not when we were told to, and you should have seen
7 our suntans!
1 looks to me like
2 brings me to the subject of
3 was wondering if you could help
4 ’s clear to me that
5 have a word with you about

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 3 Last July, just about everyone I know ended up
working in a café, running around, taking orders,
getting shouted at. Not for me, I thought, so I looked
further afield, and found an afternoon job in a cinema
of all places. And I don’t mean a big multiplex with
twenty screens, selling popcorn in buckets, but a
small place, with a little kiosk and one screen, which
often showed old black and white films. Getting there
and back on the bus each day was time-consuming,
but the overall experience was great. I worked four
afternoons, from two to six, selling the tickets, and
selling programs from the kiosk too. And, of course, I
got to sneak in and see bits of a film.
4 On the first day of my summer job last year, I got
chased by an enormous dog which pulled the bag I
was carrying off my shoulder. I kept running, I can tell
you. Despite all that, though, I’d really recommend
delivering free newspapers to people’s houses as a
great part-time job. I got lots of exercise, for a start,
and I had some control over when I started, although
I did have to be back at the shop by ten. So, on some
days I went round as fast as I could, and on other
days, I took my time. Most days, I had finished my
round before breakfast, so I had the whole day to do
whatever I liked.

Reading
10
1 C
2 D
3 D
4 A
5 D

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