Name: STUDENT B

Date: TOTAL POINTS:

MARK:

TEST PAPER UNITS 9&10

CAE – EXPERT

I .Use cleft sentences to rephrase the following sentences: 5 x 0.4p= 2p

1. She learnt the irregular verbs by heart.

What she …….
2. People who are always late annoy me most.
What annoys …………….
3. He failed all his exams at school and that made him determined to be successful in business.
What determined him………………………
4. She went on a management course at the end of last year.
What she ………
5. I want to know how you were treated as a child.
What I ………………………

II. Rewrite the following sentences keeping approximately the same meaning: 5 x 0.4p = 2p

1. Even to establish in which country he was sitting was impossible.

It…..
2. That he should be found was essential.
It……………………
3. How easy it is to hack into government computers is unbelievable.
It……
4. To try and find out where he was based was futile.
It………………………….
5. That an outsider person knows the password to our system seems unlikely.
It …………………….

III. Choose the correct alternative in the following sentences: 5 x 0.4p = 2p

1. I need some advice/ advices about how to look after the kitten.
2. This bed is incredibly heavy. Is it made from an iron/ iron?
3. There hasn’t been much news/ many news about the recent volcanic eruptions in central Africa.
4. We had a very interesting time/ very interesting time when we visited Vesuvius last month.
5. We are only just beginning to learn about the true extent of space/ the space.

IV. Word formation: Why do zebras have stripes? 8 x 0.2p = 1.6 p

Zebras are certainly very attractive to us and they (1) ………………… find 1. DOUBT
each other very appealing too, but it is believed their stripes evolved because 2. CONCEAL
they help the zebra foil its predators. Zebras have what is termed “disruptive 3. CONFUSE
coloration”. The stripes break up the smooth contours of the animal’s body 4. THREAT
and result in the (2) ….. of the zebra’s true shape. When the zebra moves, the 5. ACCIDENT
pattern may be even more (3) …., so a (4) … lion may not be sure if this dinner 6. EVOLVE
after all! The ancestors of the zebra were monochrome dark-coloured animals. 7. PROTECT
Through the (5) … birth of some foals with lighter coloured stripes the process 8. SURVIVE
of (6) …. was set in motion. Since stripes were a (7) …. colouring, they were
an advantage . Striped animals had a better chance of (8) … and went on to have
more striped foals.
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Name: STUDENT A
Date: TOTAL POINTS:
MARK:

TEST PAPER UNITS 9&10

CAE – EXPERT

I. Use cleft sentences to rephrase the following sentences: 5 x 0.4p= 2p

1. I’d really like to have a new computer.

What I’d …………………..
2. She finally decided to ask her boss for a promotion but the company went bust and she lost her job.
What happened ………………
3. I stared going swimming first thing in the morning.
What I ………………
4. She went and told her boss about hoe she felt.
What happened ……………………..
5. They need to prove that they can do it.
What ………………………….

II. Rewrite the following sentences keeping approximately the same meaning: 5 x 0.4p = 2p

1. For us to find out who it was is absolutely vital.

It ………………
2. When you give me back that book doesn’t really matter.
It ……………..
3. That the Prime Minister will resign was announced yesterday.
It………….
4. How dependent people have become on computers is surprising.
It ………………
5. For people to warn each other about dangerous computer viruses is important.
It………………….

III. Choose the correct alternative in the following sentences: 5 x 0.4 = 2p

1. We need additional information/ an additional information about this before we decide what to do.
2. They want to do research/ a research into the possibility of time travel through black holes.
3. Oh, look. There’s a hair/ hair in my soup!
4. A travel/ Travel is one of my main interests.
5. Would you like a coffee/ coffee before we start working?

IV. Word formation: ANIMALS 8 x 0.2p = 1.6 p

Most cat or dog owners would swear their pet was virtually human. It’s pleased to 1. APPROVE
see you and shows its (1) … when you go. It may not be particularly (2) … or a 2. TALK
genius at mathematics but it sees grass as green and inhabitants a rich world of 3. IMAGINE
smells (3) … to us. Until recently such notions of a pet’s inner life, with (4) … 4. SIMILAR
to our own in some ways would have been met with a (5) … sneer in many 5. KNOW
respected (6) … circles. Nowadays in fact, claiming (7) … for your pets is 6. SCIENCE
commonplace. The problem now is providing and adequate (8) … of what this 7. CONSCIOUS
actually means. It is about having sensations like hunger and pain, or is it more 8.DEFINE
about the ability to be aware that you are experiencing something?

V.Phrasal verbs 1.4p