Unit Test Unit 5

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SŁOWNICTWO

1 Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions.

It’s always a good idea to check on the weather at your destination.

1 We can try to get tickets for the next ferry, but I wouldn’t bank ___ it.

2 I tried to fit ___ with their plans, but in the end it proved too difficult.

3 On that day I decided to forget the guidebook and just soak ___ the atmosphere of
the place.

4 Travelling ___ a shoestring can be fun if you’re with someone you really like.

5 Knowing a bit of the local language will stand you ___ good stead if any problems
pop up and need solving.
_____/5

2 Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box. There are more verbs than
you need.

twinkle wheel chug clang flutter roam stagger

I watched the colourful butterflies flutter their wings.

1 The children looked out of the windows as the old steam train continued to
______________ across the countryside.

2 We were so exhausted that all we could do was______________ off to our beds.

3 I heard the massive metal door ______________ shut behind me.

4 Two hundred years ago millions of buffalo used to ______________ the prairies of
North America.

5 We stood for some time watching a flock of birds ______________ and turn in
the sky.
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3 Match the sentence beginnings and endings.

Mike loves getting off – B

1 After six months of intense work, I really felt like getting away – ___

2 The top of the mountain was shrouded – ___

3 After a hot day we longed to take – ___

4 For security reasons, if a stranger asks you to keep an eye – ___

5 The sight was so astonishing that I pinched – ___

A from it all and going to some remote place.

B the beaten track to look for adventures.
C on their luggage at an airport, you shouldn’t agree.
D in fog, which made it look mysterious and appealing.
E myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming.
F a dip in the lake.
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GRAMATYKA

4 Complete the sentences with the words from the box. There are more words
than you need.

as fewer heavier more rather so such

It was so cold that my mobile phone shut down.

1 The ______________ he travelled around India, the less he felt he understood about
it.

2 The decor of the hotel was ______________ weird than stylish.

3 The climb was not ______________ exhausting as we’d feared.

4 It was ______________ a lovely, quiet place that we felt like staying there indefinitely.

5 The rain was becoming heavier and ______________.

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5 Choose the correct option.

This resort doesn’t seem to be as / such popular as it used to be.

1 Charlie and Sally are so / such reliable travelling companions that I could travel
around the world with them.

2 The more tourists our town manages to attract, the richer / richer than it will become.

3 The rollercoaster ride was not such / as thrilling an experience as the guidebook
claimed.

4 The holiday was more / rather dull than relaxing.

5 We spent a lot of time cycling around the island and we enjoyed it the more / more
and more.
_____/5

ŚRODKI JĘZYKOWE

6 Complete the sentences with the words from the box. There are more words
than you need.

best ever ever so than ever whatever whichever whenever wherever

We had a fantastic time in Amsterdam, the best ever!

1 _______________ path you choose, you’ll get to the forest lodge in about two hours.

2 The people were _______________ nice to us. They helped us a great deal.

3 _______________ you go these days, you find the same fast food chains.

4 Today more people travel for pleasure _______________ before.

5 _______________ have you done with the suitcase keys? I don’t want to have to
break the lock!
_____/5

7 Complete the text with words formed from the words in brackets.

THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS

One of the high points of our trip to northern India was to be the Valley of Flowers,
a national (NATION) park in West Himalaya. And so one afternoon we arrived in Ghangaria,
a small 1 _____________ (SETTLE) at the altitude of 3,049 metres. We had walked fifteen

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kilometres to get there, so we put off the trek to the valley until the next day. We spent the
night in 2 _____________ (RELATE) comfort in a hostel in Ghangaria. In the early morning
we set off along a winding, 3 _____________ (STONE) path. After about an hour, the first
thing we noticed was the smell – there was a 4 _____________ (DELIGHT) perfume
hanging in the air. In another thirty minutes we reached a place of 5 ____________ (HAUNT)
beauty. The 6 _____________ (VARY) of flowers was stunning; they covered the ground like
a carpet.
_____/6

8 Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
Use no more than six words in each gap including the word given in CAPITALS.

The place was less touristy than we’d feared. AS

It was not as touristy a place as we’d feared.

1 Sometimes the water was very cold, but we still went swimming every day.
HOWEVER
_____________________________________, we went swimming every day.

2 Even though I was a bit afraid, I decided to try rock climbing. GIVE
Even though I was a bit afraid, I decided _____________________________.

3 Because the city was so huge, we kept getting lost. SUCH

It was ______________________ we kept getting lost.

4 In her opinion, the hotel was pretentious rather than luxurious. MUCH
In her opinion, the hotel was ______________________ as pretentious.

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9 Complete the text with one word in each gap.

PLANNING OR IMPROVISATION?
When you’re thinking about a trip, there’s always a dilemma of how much to plan. Should you
organise everything in advance to make the most of each day, or should you 1 ___________
with the flow? The more you plan, the 2 _______________ you risk feeling that your holiday
lacks spontaneity. On the 3 ________________ hand, without any planning at all, time may
4 _______________ wasted on making improvised arrangements. As 5 _______________
the trick is to strike the right balance. Learn about the places where you’re going, and plan
especially the practical aspects of your trip, but be prepared to change your arrangements
and play it 6 _____________ ear.
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Complete the email with the words below.

alert break get away gridlocked hit luggage sampling sightseeing

Hi Lucy,
1
Guess what! Last week my parents decided we should _______________ from it
all and
2
go on a city _______________ . So, here we are in South America’s most
exciting city −
Rio de Janeiro!
We’re having a great time here, but we had a terrible journey over! We boarded
our plane in Lima right on time, but then it left late due to a security
3
_______________ , and everyone had to disembark. When we finally arrived in
Rio, we discovered that our bags had been mislaid, so we went to the airport lost
4
_______________ office. They soon located our
things − in Calgary, Canada, of all places! But the bags didn’t arrive from Canada
for two days, so we had to buy some new clothes.
Anyway, that was the bad part of our holiday. The great thing is that Rio is a
5
beautiful city. We’ve been on a few _______________ tours, but there are so
many amazing places to visit here that we won’t have time to see them all. I’m
6
also really enjoying _______________ the local cuisine, which is fantastic. But I
7
can’t say I like the traffic here − it’s _______________ 24/7.
8
Anyway, tomorrow we’re going to _______________ the beach for a bit of a rest.

See you next week.

Pablo

Ma
rk:
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Read about time travel. For questions 1−5 choose the correct option A, B, C, or D.
Time travel − truth or fiction?
There are many urban myths about time travel, but are any of them able to stand up to serious
examination?
Here are some of our favourite tales.
In 2002, Andrew Carlssin suddenly appeared on Wall Street, New York, and began buying shares.
Starting out with only $800, he made 126 high-risk investments in a row – and managed to turn his
cash into $350 million! His activities must have come to the attention of fraud investigators because he
was soon arrested. Carlssin later ‘confessed’ that he was a time traveller from the year 2256 who had
used his knowledge of the past to make money. It all sounds fascinating, but unfortunately Carlssin
doesn’t exist. The story originated in a tongue-in-cheek magazine and later appeared on Yahoo News,
who failed to make it clear they were reporting a fictional story. After that, the story spread across the
internet, with details added here and there until it became completely believable.

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Old photographs and films are another source of time traveller stories. A few years ago, an old film clip
caused a sensation on YouTube. The film showed people arriving for the premiere of a Charlie
Chaplin film in Los Angeles, in 1928. At one point, a woman walks past in the background, holding
something which is ostensibly a smartphone. It looks as if she could be speaking into it, making a
mobile call half a century before mobiles were invented. There might be other explanations, however.
Experts say that she may have been using a large, square portable hearing aid – a new technology at
the time – holding the bulky device up to her ear. It also seems unlikely that a time traveller with a
smartphone would wear period costume unless, of course, she wanted to blend in.
Another alleged ‘time traveller’ photo shows a young man standing in a crowd in Canada, in 1941. The
people around him are wearing the typical suits and hats of the 1940s, but he’s got casual trousers,
modern-looking sunglasses and what could well be a T-shirt with a logo on it. The photo is apparently
genuine, so the man must have been there in the crowd that day in 1941. Printed T-shirts didn’t exist
in 1941, so could this be a tourist from the future? Vintage clothing experts say not. Although the man
is dressed much more casually than the people around him and the glasses and trousers look modern,
they are correct for the period. And the so-called T-shirt could be a woven sports shirt with a team logo
– something that was worn at the time. Aside from photographic evidence, there is also the question of
how time travellers would manage to visit us. What kind of machine would be able to travel through
time? One famous story, about the Philadelphia Experiment, attempts to answer this question. It is
claimed that, in 1943, the US Navy conducted a top-secret experiment aimed at making ships
invisible.
A US Navy ship, the USS Eldridge, was fitted with huge electromagnetic generators at the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Allegedly, these created a force field which not only made the ship
invisible – as expected – but briefly moved it in both space and time.
The experiment was said to have taken place at the height of the Second World War, when German
submarines were hunting down allied ships. So, the government might well have investigated ways to
make ships less visible to the enemy. However, the Navy has no official record of such an experiment
and denies that it took place. Some commentators also question the basic science behind the story.
Interestingly, however, the equations that the great physicist James Clerk Maxwell developed to
describe electromagnetism work equally well going forwards and backwards in time. This fact,
along with some recent experiments in quantum physics, makes some people believe that we may be
able to travel in time one day.
Scientists have long debated whether the laws of physics allow for time travel to the past, with such
great minds such as Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel and Stephen Hawking weighing in. It may be
generations before we can answer that question. However, although we can’t actually visit the past
right now, we do have a way of seeing it. Point any telescope at the
stars and, depending on where you look, you are seeing the universe as it was hundreds, thousands,
or even millions
of years ago.

1 The Andrew Carlssin story shows

A how quickly people believe fake news.
B that you can make a lot of money in high-risk investments.
C that time travel may be possible.
D how time travellers know a lot about money.

2 The author suggests that the woman in a 1928 video

A was added to the image later.

B is holding a device which looks like a mobile phone, but isn’t.

C isn’t correctly dressed for the period.
D is very difficult to explain.

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3 A photograph taken in 1941

A shows a man dressed differently from others in the crowd.

B includes a time traveller in modern clothes.

C appears to be a faked image.

D shows a crowd of people around a time traveller.

4 The writer concludes that the Philadelphia Experiment
A proved the link between electromagnetism and time.

B helped the US Navy to fight the Germans in the Second World War.
C is so sensitive that documents relating to it remain top secret.

D is a popular myth which isn’t supported by historical facts.

5 The author’s opinion of time traveller stories is that
A they can’t all have been made up.

B there are other explanations for them.

C it is difficult to discover the truth about them.
D they are ruled out by the laws of physics.

Ma
rk:
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