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UNITS 1–5 ■ Review Test 1

Name

Listening A
Part 1
‫ ﲵ‬Listen to Part 1 of an announcer at an awards ceremony. Read the
sentences. Then listen again and circle the letter of the answer that
correctly completes each sentence.

Example: The speaker is announcing awards for people who .

a. are talented and gifted b. performed community service c. won a contest

1. Mr. Williams got involved by .

a. donating his heart at death b. working without pay c. planting flowers and trees

2. After attending camp with Mr. Williams, children became more .

a. self-confident b. self-conscious c. self-critical

3. Mr. Williams could be described as a because of his ability to work well with children.
a. workaholic b. people person c. wise guy

4. The other camp counselors described Mr. Williams as a .

a. brain b. team player c. workaholic

Part 2
‫ ﲵ‬Listen to Part 2 of an announcer at an awards ceremony. Read the
sentences. Then listen again and circle the letter of the answer that
correctly completes each sentence.

Example: Mrs. Wells is .

a. a librarian b. a teacher c. the president of a company

5. Mrs. Wells got involved by .

a. raising money b. beautifying the town c. working without pay

6. Mrs. Wells could be described as .

a. a spendthrift b. generous c. a tightwad

7. The speaker suggests that some people might find Mrs. Wells’s contribution
to be .
a. egotistical b. gifted c. amazing

8. The speaker does not describe Mrs. Wells as being .

a. passionate b. energetic c. a workaholic

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Listening B
‫ ﲵ‬Listen to the conversation. Read the questions. Then listen again and circle
the letter of the correct answer.

Example: What did the father buy?

a. a DVD player
b. a VCR
c. a new movie

9. Which statement about the father is true?

a. He kept the VCR.
b. When he bought the DVD player, he was worried that it might be a pain.
c. He regrets not having kept the VCR.

10. Which statement about the son is true?

a. He thinks VCRs are popular.
b. He thinks VCRs are no longer popular.
c. He thinks VCRs are hard to operate.

11. Which phrase does not describe the DVD player?

a. old-fashioned
b. hard to operate
c. a pain

12. Which of the following is a problem with VCRs?

a. It is difficult to find videotapes for newer movies.
b. The manuals for them are too difficult to understand.
c. They only play half a movie.

Circle the letter of the answer that correctly completes each sentence.

Example: “I always leave big tips at restaurants. It’s better to be generous than to be .”
a. gifted b. energetic c. cheap

13. “That dress would be perfect for the wedding. It’s in good taste and is quite .”
a. shocking b. elegant c. gifted

14. “The violinist was talented but ; she wore strange clothes and had her own way of
doing things.”
a. eccentric b. gifted c. chic

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15. “Don’t be ; the staff is starting to hate you because you’re working them too hard.”
a. so egotistical b. such a tyrant c. such a cheapskate

16. “I love soul music, especially the love songs. They’re so .”

a. tacky b. difficult c. passionate

17. “With its wild style and rainbow colors, her dress attracted a lot of attention. It was just too
for such a formal occasion.”
a. moody b. flashy c. stylish

18. “Matthew is buying all of us dinner? Great! I didn’t realize he was .”

a. so frugal b. so stingy c. such a big spender

19. “Kyle doesn’t make an effort to share his ideas or help other people in his group.
He’s just not .”
a. a team player b. moody c. a wise guy

20. “There’s nothing wrong with being if you’re on a tight budget.”

a. thrifty b. chic c. difficult

21. “All heads turned toward the door when the tall, beautiful, woman entered
the room.”
a. tacky b. striking c. old-fashioned

Form words by matching the correct prefixes with the adjectives below.
Complete each sentence with a word formed from the box.

PREFIXES ADJECTIVES

dis mature

im appropriate

un imaginable

in conscious

ir honest

self- rational

Example: “Candice is so immature that no one would guess she is

actually twenty-nine years old.”

22. “For some reason, Steven seemed very worried about how he would look when we asked him
if he would make a speech. I didn’t know he was so .”

23. “Blue jeans and sneakers are generally considered for formal
occasions.”

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24. “You’d have to see it to really understand; the beauty of the Sistine Chapel is
.”

25. “That would give him the wrong impression; it would be false and .”

26. “Fear of something that is actually harmless is .”

Complete each sentence with the correct form of the verb in parentheses.

Example: “She says she got a letter from me, but I don’t remember sending one.”
(send)

27. “Don’t forget to Martha to find out if she’ll be coming

(write)
to our party this year.”

28. “It’s important to remember off all cell phones and

(turn)
pagers when you’re at a movie theater or concert hall.”

29. “You really should stop your friend Jim to visit.

(ask)
He’s disrespectful to your parents and he’s a troublemaker.”

Complete each sentence with either the simple past tense, the present
perfect, or the present perfect continuous form of the verb in parentheses.
Use the present perfect continuous if the action is unfinished or ongoing.

Example: “ Have you traveled to Europe before? Or is this your first time?”
(travel)

30. “That last song sounded much better than before. It’s obvious that
you .”
(practice)

31. “Does anyone know how long they together?”

(perform)

32. “She Pavarotti perform several times when she lived in New York.”
(see)

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Circle the letter of the answer that correctly completes each sentence.

Example: We have problems: where to go and how to get there.

a. few b. many c. two

33. company has its own unique challenges and problems.

a. Every b. Most c. All

34. Our staff is smaller now, and employees means days off for everyone.
a. less, less b. fewer, fewer c. fewer, less

35. employees want to change the vacation schedule.

a. Every b. Some c. Any

Read each sentence. Write a sentence expressing your opinion about it. Use
a possessive with a gerund and one of the verbs in the box.

appreciate like mind object

Example: A woman who works with you smokes in the office.

I don’t like her smoking in the office.

36. Your colleague listens to music all the time while he is working.

37. You started a new job where everyone dresses in casual attire on Fridays.

38. Your colleague often talks on the phone to his friends while he is at work.

Complete each sentence in your own way. Write about your plans or goals
for the future.

Example: By the time I’m 21 , I hope to have graduated from college .

39. When I , I’ll .

40. By this time next year, I plan .

41. Once , I’ll .

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Read the short biography. Then read it again and check true or false.

Howard Hughes
ENGINEER, PILOT, MOVIE PRODUCER
1905 — 1976

oward Hughes was born in 1905,

H to a wealthy family in the Texas oil
industry. By the age of eleven, Hughes
had demonstrated genius in math and
mechanical engineering—once building
a motorcycle from parts taken from a
steam engine. At fourteen, he took his
first flying lesson. These early
experiments were the beginning of his
lifelong passions for aviation and
engineering. As a teenager, Hughes
declared that his goals in life were to be
Eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes was
the world’s best golfer, its greatest pilot, a major figure of the 20th century.
and its most famous movie producer.
Amazingly, during his lifetime he achieved In 1932, Hughes founded Hughes Aircraft.
two of these ambitions. As a pilot and self-taught engineer, he set
many world speed records and made
On his father’s death in 1924, the significant advances in aviation technology.
nineteen-year-old Hughes inherited Hughes His H-1 Racer was the fastest plane in the
Tool Company, valued at a million dollars. world and his H-4 Hercules flying boat was
Hughes used his wealth to become a the largest plane ever built.
Hollywood film producer. His films
included Hell’s Angels, a fighter pilot epic However, as Hughes aged, he started to
that Hughes spent four years and a record become more and more eccentric. Before
$3.8 million to make. A demanding eating peas, for example, he would sort
director, Hughes once stopped production them by size on his plate. Fearful of germs,
for months to wait for a specific type of he avoided shaking hands with people. By
cloud to appear in the sky. Once, when his the 1950s, his health had deteriorated and
pilots refused to attempt a particularly he disappeared, living in hotel rooms with
dangerous stunt, Hughes flew it himself— blacked-out windows. Rumors circulated
getting the shot but crashing the plane. about his strange lifestyle—that he wore
When the film was nearly complete, tissue boxes as shoes and that he used
Hughes decided that silent movies were paper towels to cover any object before he
outdated and reshot the film with sound. touched it. When Hughes died in 1976, he
A box office success, Hell’s Angels cemented was so changed that fingerprints had to be
Hughes’ reputation for thinking big and used to identify his body.
never hesitating to go in new directions.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org; www.socalhistory.org

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true false

Example: The article describes a creative personality. ✔

䡺 䡺

42. Howard Hughes was gifted in math and engineering. 䡺 䡺

43. Hughes was passionate about one thing: the oil industry. 䡺 䡺
44. As a teenager, Hughes didn’t have the self-confidence to become 䡺 䡺
successful.
45. As a movie producer, Hughes was famous for being a big spender. 䡺 䡺
46. Pilots on the set of the film Hell’s Angels described Hughes as 䡺 䡺
a sweetheart.
47. As a director, Hughes was not very energetic and he tried to not get too 䡺 䡺
involved in the films he made.
48. Hughes was an old-fashioned director who preferred silent movies 䡺 䡺
to movies with sound.
49. Hughes was never self-critical; once he started something, he would 䡺 䡺
never change direction, even if he thought he had made a mistake.
50. Hughes was an imaginative man who was not afraid to try new things. 䡺 䡺
51. Hughes was a brain who taught himself how to design airplanes. 䡺 䡺
52. Later in life, Hughes became known for his increasingly eccentric 䡺 䡺
behavior.
53. A real people person, Hughes had a smile and a handshake 䡺 䡺
for everyone he met.
54. Hughes remained energetic, piloting airplanes and directing films 䡺 䡺
until his death in 1976.

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Choose two of the following topics to write about. Write a paragraph of at

least four to five sentences for each topic.

• Describe a major personality change that you have seen in someone you know. What was that
person like before? What is he or she like now? What caused this change?
• Describe your favorite musician or band.
• Imagine that you will be starting your own business. What steps will you take? What plans
will you make and how will you carry them out? How successful do you think you will be?
• Describe the difference between the fashions of your childhood and those of today. What has
changed and how?
• Identify a problem in your town or city. What do you think should be done to solve it? Who
should be responsible for fixing it?

55–57.

58–60.