Vocabulary and Grammar Test Unit 10 Test B

Name: ___________________________________________

Vocabulary
1 Replace the phrases in brackets with phrasal verbs in the correct form.
1 You should ___________________ (dress yourself in) a coat when we go outside.
2 ‘Let’s go to the shopping centre and ___________________ (see what they have in) the shops.’
3 I ___________________ (check that it fits) the dress in the shop, but when I got home I decided
that I didn’t like it.
4 I can’t ___________________ (remove) these boots – they’re too small!
5 He ___________________ (lifted) the shirt and looked at it for a long time.
6 The dress that I wanted to buy was ___________________ (no longer available for sale).

Mark: ___ / 6

2 Write compound nouns for the definitions below.

1 a piece of equipment that makes a place cooler ___________________
2 you can buy here things for a lower price ___________________
3 you can buy here things owned before by someone else ___________________
4 a business that sells things to other countries ___________________
5 a place where people work in poor conditions and for very little money ___________________
6 a piece of paper that says how much something costs ___________________
7 a place outdoors where people grow a plant that is used to make cloth ___________________
8 a person who makes things, usually using machines ___________________

Mark: ___ / 16

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3 Circle the correct answers.
Save the dolphins
In 2009 a group of people whose passion was to 1ban / destroy / protect marine life, decided to film
a documentary called The Cove and expose the cruel practice of killing dolphins in Japan. They
hoped that eventually this activity would get 2conserved / banned / used up. In Japan, dolphin
habitats are 3destroyed / cut down / conserved for their meat, which is used in school lunches. The
dolphins that 4survive / conserve / use up are taken from their natural environment and used in
‘swim with dolphins’ shows.
The documentary follows a group of activists who 5support / destroy / ban animal rights and
especially the freedom of these mammals. They use hidden cameras, microphones embedded in rocks
and the skills of free divers to show the cruelty against these animals. As a result of the documentary,
the number of killed dolphins has been 6used up / reduced / conserved, but it will still take some
time before it goes down to zero.
Mark: ___ / 6

4 Complete the sentences with the adjective form of one of the nouns in brackets. Use the
suffixes -ful and -less.
1 When I didn’t win the Young Inventor of the Year award for the second time in a row, I felt
___________________ (help / harm).
2 My computer keeps crashing all the time. It’s completely ___________________ (use / harm).
3 There are ___________________ (thought / end) opportunities for young inventors at
universities in the US.
4 Playing video games all day can be ___________________ (harm / end) to young children.
5 Just because a new invention is ___________________ (power / hope), it doesn’t mean that it
will become ___________________ (thought / success).
6 I’m ___________________ (hope / help) that I’ll get a job at Google.
7 There are a lot of ___________________ (use / hope) websites containing incorrect information
that don’t help anyone.

Mark: ___ / 8

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Grammar
5 Use the prompts to write present or past simple passive sentences.
1 YouTube / create by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim / in 2005
____________________________________________________________________________

2 The first video / put on the site / on April 23, 2005

____________________________________________________________________________
3 The video / make / by one of YouTube’s creators
____________________________________________________________________________
4 One hundred hours of video / upload / every minute
____________________________________________________________________________
5 In 2006, YouTube / sell / to Google
____________________________________________________________________________
6 The site / visit / by more than one billion users a month
____________________________________________________________________________

Mark: ___ / 6

6 Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect passive form.
1 Hamburgers ___________________________________ (eat) since the 1900s.
2 McDonald’s Big Mac ___________________________________ (known) as the best-selling
hamburger in the world.
3 Since the invention of the meat burger, many variations of the hamburger
___________________________________ (create), including fish burgers, chicken burgers and
veggie burgers.
4 The National Hamburger Festival in Ohio ___________________________________
(celebrate) for over seven years.
5 So far, the biggest hamburger ___________________________________ (make) in California
and weighs 352.5 kilograms.
6 It ___________________________________ (produce) in fourteen hours.

Mark: ___ / 6

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7 Rewrite sentence b so that it has a similar meaning to sentence a.
1 a In 2050, 80% of the world’s population will occupy city areas.
b In 2050, ____________________________________________________________
2 a According to experts, in the cities of the future people will drive only electric cars.
b According to experts, _________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
3 a Fumes from cars will no longer pollute the air.
b ___________________________________________________________________
4 a Solar paint will power buildings.
b ___________________________________________________________________
5 a Technology will run everything in future cities.
b ___________________________________________________________________
6 a People will build very tall buildings because there won’t be enough space.
b __________________________________________________ because there won’t be
enough space.

Mark: ___ / 6

8 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form.

Old socks, new socks
You take your socks off and you notice that there’s a hole in them. What do you do? Probably what
everyone else does – most old socks 1_____________________________ (throw away). As a result,
21 billion pounds of textiles 2_____________________________ (waste) in the US every year. A
new recycling programme 3_____________________________ (invent) by a company called Nice
Laundry. How does it work? People send in their old socks, which
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_____________________________ (made) into new socks or 5_____________________________
(send) to a specialist textile recycling company. The creators of the programme think that as a result
of this, waste 6_____________________________ (reduce) to zero in the near future. So, your old
socks can help the environment and you get a new pair, too!
Mark: ___ / 6
TOTAL MARKS: ___ / 60