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1   Complete the dialogues with the words below. There are two words you do not need.

advertising      banknotes      bargain      bids      goods      sale      purchased  

1   Customer:  How much is this T-shirt?

     Assistant:   £10.99. It’s half price today, so it’s a real ____________!

2   Jake:           I’m selling my camera on eBay. I hope I get a lot of money for it.

     Zoe:             I hope so too. Have there been any ____________ yet?

3   Ben:            I don’t like this website. There are so many pop-ups and flashing messages.

     Frank:         Well, the website can make a lot of money from ____________ like that.

4   Customer:  How much is the painting in the window, please?

 

 2    Choose the correct words.

1   Facebook is so boring! I’ve just deactivated / created my profile. 

2   How can I upload / update these photos to my blog?

3   I’ve forgotten my password, so I can’t log on / post to my email account.

4   Look! Jenny has created / deactivated an album so that we can look at her photos.

5   Kyle posted / logged his exam results on Facebook. He’s such a show-off!

6   I wonder if Larry’s ill. He hasn’t updated / created his blog for ages.

 

3   Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap. 

1   The library is a quiet area. Please switch ____________ your mobile phones.

2   Dan! I’m on the phone! Turn ____________ the music, please! It doesn’t have to be so loud!

3   I need to charge my battery. Can I plug ____________ my phone at your house?

4   Wait! Don’t pull ____________ the plug! I haven’t finished my essay.

5   If you put ____________ the headphones, you can listen to your music in the car.

6   It’s the end of the lesson, so you can put ____________ your books now.

 

4 Complete the text with the words below. There are two words you do not need.

across      audience      ceremony      hard-working      respect      through      voluntary

My brother finished university today. It was his graduation. I went to the ¹____________ with my parents. They are so proud of him! He is incredibly ²____________ and clever. He looked nervous as he walked ³____________ the stage to get his degree, but then he saw us in the

⁴____________, and he smiled and relaxed. After university he’s going to go to India and do

⁵____________ work in a hospital there

 

5 Read the text. Are the sentences true or false?

Martin Blane is a farmer in Cornwall, in England. One summer, Martin noticed that something strange was happening on his land. He was standing on a bridge and looking at the wheat in his fields when he realised there was a strange picture in the wheat.

‘I looked and saw lots of circles in the wheat. The line of circles went across the field from the gate all the way to the end by the stream. They were very big. Other circles made a kind of picture in the wheat. I thought aliens had come from space.’

During that summer, and all through the 1970s, more strange pictures appeared in wheat fields on farms in the south of England. Nobody knew what these ‘crop circles’ were. Photographs of them appeared in all the newspapers and people thought the subject was gripping. Many thought that aliens had come to Earth and made the pictures.

But then in the 1990s two men admitted to making the crop circles. They made a plan for a picture and then they went out secretly in the night to make their picture in the fields. Some people think they were creative and the crop circles were entertaining, but their actions were illegal. The men were on land that didn’t belong to them. Farmers were angry because their crops were damaged. The two men promised to stop.

However, the crop circles are still appearing. On the Internet, you will find photographs of crop circles on farms in different countries around the world. Some people believe the two men were lying, and the crop circles are really made by aliens.

 

1   Martin Blane noticed that the animals in his fields were behaving strangely. _____

2   The big circles went from one end of the field to the other.                         _____

3   The media weren’t interested in the crop circles.                                           _____

4   Everyone was angry because the men damaged farmers’ crops.                  _____

5   People disagree about who makes the crop circles.                                       _____

 

6   Match the technology below to the descriptions. There are two words you do not need.

digital radio      games console      HD TV      satellite TV      satnav      smartphone      tablet PC

1  You can use it listen to lots of stations. It tells you the name of the song that’s playing.        __________

2   You can use it to receive hundreds of channels of your choice. __________

3   It’s a small a computer that fits in your bag, but not in your pocket!  __________

4   You can use it to help you find the way when you’re driving. __________

5   You can use it to send text messages, make calls and surf the Internet. __________

 

7   Complete the sentences with the words/phrases below. There is one word/phrase you do not need.

create      deactivate      log on      post      update      upload

1    You need to ____________ an account to buy things from that website.

2   Can you help me ____________ my holiday photos to my web page?

3   I can’t ____________ to this website. It keeps blocking my password.

4   Mum told me to ____________ my social networking profiles because I was using them too much.

5   I’m going to ____________ a message on my blog and see if any friends can help me organise my party.

 

8 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or present perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

1   I _______________ (go) on holiday to Switzerland last year with my family.

2   My aunt _______________ (take) her driving test ten times, but she keeps failing!

3   Jake _______________ (not buy) a jacket in the sale last Saturday.

4   _______________ (you / ever / find) money in an old coat pocket?

5   When I was little, I _______________ (want) to be an astronaut.

 

9  Complete the text with the correct word from the three options.

An auction can be a great place to get a bargain / discount / reduction ¹. You can find some really interesting old things for buy / offer / sale ². You have lots of time to decide which things you want to exchange / purchase / sell ³, and then you can make bids / goods / lots ⁴ to buy them. Remember to bring a credit card or banknotes / receipt / wallet ⁵. And if you come to the auction by bike, don’t buy a grand piano!

1. The boy said he hadn't stolen the car. He just wanted to go j_ _ _ _d_ _ _.                                                 2. He doesn't like having kids in his shop because he's worried about s_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _s.                               3. There's a problem with v_ _ _ _l_ _ _ in our area. There's a lot of graffiti and kids smash things.               4. We went to the police station to report the t_ _ _ _ of my bike.                                                             5. Police q_ _ _ _ _ _ _ed the young man because they thought he might be the killer.                                6. The b_ _ _ _ _r came into the house through a window.                                                                        7. ‘Hands up and don't move! This is a r_ _ _ _ _y!' said the man in the mask.                                             8. I read about the m_ _g_ _ _ in the paper and now I don't walk alone in the streets at night.                       9. The fire wasn't an accident. It was the work of a_ _ _ _ _ _ _s.