Unit 10 Test: Higher - Interactive
UNIT 10 TEST: HIGHER
VOCABULARY
1 Complete the sentences with an appropriate word connected with news sections.
1. If you can’t find the story, have you tried looking in the digital to see if it’s there?
2. In the drop-down menu, there’s a section on environmental .
3. I was so sad when I saw our old teacher’s name in the ! He was only 65 when he died.
4. Before you make such a big investment, it would be a good idea to check the money and section.
5. topics are usually highlighted on the home page.
6. Have a look at the weather if you want to find out what it’ll be like tomorrow.
7. I love reading about people’s opinions in the ‘have your ’ section.
2 Choose the best answers to complete the news headlines.
1. on plane forces emergency landing
2. Travel industry worst in economic downturn
3. Politician with angry protesters over new cuts
4. Olympic bid win national economy
5. Latest over unwanted rail line
6. Message in a bottle solved after 50 years
3 Complete the text using the correct form of the words in the box.
break | day | event | hold | inform | item | make | pressure | sensation | subscribe
Do you wish you could find out what's going on in the world without scrolling through endless (a) stories?
Do you wish you could get quality journalism without having to wait for your (b) newspaper?
Well, now's your chance. Take out a (c) to our news app.
At the touch of a button, you can find out what's (d) the headlines and let us keep you (e) .
If the Prime Minister is (f) a press conference, it'll be right here, right now.
Our news items are reliable, fair and hot off the (g) .
GRAMMAR
4 Complete the sentences with the phrases in the box.
1. I go out for a run when it started to pour with rain.
2. Why did Dan make other arrangements if he knew Sally all the way from Spain to see him?
3. As soon as the head teacher came into the school library, we knew we a telling off.
4. Didn't we say that the sports event be rearranged for a more convenient time?
5. I knew there more to the story than one person's version of events.
6. They call the police when someone broke up the fight.
5 Combine the two sentences to make a mixed conditional sentence.
1. I’m hungry now. Why didn’t I eat a bigger breakfast?
If
2. We didn’t ask for her number. That’s why we can’t call her.
We
3. Mum didn’t ask for any help. That’s why we aren’t at the supermarket now.
If
4. He doesn’t have a good job at the moment. He didn’t study hard at school.
If
5. I’m so tired right now. That’s why I didn’t go to the cinema with the others.
I
6. Their grandmother was a famous inventor. That’s why they’re rich.
They
6 Complete the email with the correct question tags.
You were at football practice, (a) ?
You couldn't give me a hand with maths, (b) ?
I'm terrible at it, (c) ?
I think that indie band you like is touring, (d) ?
It'll be fun, (e) ?
I think the library closes at 7 pm, (f) ?
I can always retake the exams if I fail, (g) ?
7 Click the words to put them in the correct order to make indirect questions. (Ignore the extra word!)
1. could / wonder / is / if / I / you / tell / me / the / where / bank / it
2. Do / today / you / to / know / it / will / delivered / be / whether
3. We / can / these / wondering / were / be / if / we’d / to / laptops / use / allowed
4. is / you / tell / Can / bicycle / cost / much / me / how / this
5. on / keen / this / teacher / would / to / know / like / study / you’re / to / subject / The / if
6. yet / you / project / know / hasn’t / why / the / set / been / never / Do / work
USE OF ENGLISH
8 Read the text. Use the words given to form a word that fits in the gap.
I'm a (a) (column) for a local newspaper.
(b) (environment) issues come up quite a lot.
It's a subject people are quite (c) (passion) about.
There is always someone who is going to (d) (agreement) with what I write.
If we all had the same opinion, I would never have gone into (e) (journal).
One week, I wanted to know whether all the big local companies would agree to (f) (reduction) the pollution...
My colleague once said he would find my job (g) (depression).
Seriously though, there's nothing worse than working for (h) (break) news in my opinion.