• For each space, choose ONE word which you think best completes the sentence. Look carefully at the words both before and after each space.

     The red panda in the name is not (1) _______ related to the giant panda, but genuinely closer to the raccoon family. It adores (2) _______ bamboo but won't turn down the occasional bird, insect, or mammal for a snack. Native to the Eastern Himalayas and Southwestern China, red pandas (3) _______ in trees and are nimble, agile climbers. Their reddish-brown fur and bushy tails camouflage them in their (4) _______ from predators like snow leopards. Furthermore (5) _______ animals, humans pose a major threat, poaching and hunting them for their fur. The forest that they live in is shrinking fast and estimates say that their population has been (6) _______ in half in the last 20 years.

IV. SPEAKING
      Choose the appropriate sentence to fill in each gap to complete the following conversation.

     A: Goodbye everyone! (1) ____________________________________________________________

     B: Where are you going?                                                                              
A: To Australia. (2) _________________________________________________________________

     C: When are you coming back?

     A: Well. (3) _______________________________________________________________________

     B: It sounds great! (4) _______________________________________________________________

     A: Thanks. (5) ______________________________________________________________________

     a. I'll send you postcards.

     b. we're going on a two-week tour of Australia.

     c. I'm taking my family to visit the Great Barrier Reef.

     d. I'm going on holiday.

     e. Have a good time!

IV. Read the text below. Complete the gaps (1-3) with appropriate words A-F from the box to obtain a
grammatically and lexically correct text. Fill in the gaps with appropriate letters. There are three
extra words that do not match any of the gaps.

A. invented

B. designed

C. discovered

D. planned

E. first

F. early

CALENDARS
These days, everybody uses calendars to note important dates like birthdays, but when did we start
measuring time?
Until recently, experts believed that people in the Near East made the 1) ………………..……. calendar
5,000 years ago. However, they then 2) ………………..……. an ancient site in Scotland from over
10,000 years ago. At the site, there were 12 holes in the ground. Scientists think that people
3) ………………..……. them to track the movement of the Moon and measure time. It’s an exciting discovery because it shows that people had calendars many centuries ago.

II Complete the sentence, using the appropriate adverbs in the box. in/ on/ there/ outside/ inside/ upstairs/ here/ downstairs

1) The children love Disneyland. They want to go ____ again.

2) I opened the box and look ____.

3) She ran ____ to open the door for him.

4) I’m afraid I can’t drink coffee with milk ____.

5) Let’s go ____ and sit in the sun.

6) Wait ____. I’ll be back in a minute.

7) He ran up the stairs to see what happened ____.

8) What’s ____ at the Rex Movie Theater this weekend?

Part 9. Fill in each numbered space with ONE appropriate word to complete the passage. The University of Cambridge is a public university. It is (1)……….. in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. It is regarded (2)…………. the second oldest university (after the University of Oxford) in the United Kingdom and the third (3)…………. surviving university in the world. The University of Cambridge was (4)…………. in 1209. Over the years, it is always (5)…………… to be one of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom and the world. In 2012, the university was (6)…………. second after Harvard in the United States of America. Today, Cambridge is a collegiate university (7)………… a student population (8)………….. about 18,000. Its faculties, departments and 31 colleges occupy different (9)………….. in Cambridge. Graduates of the university have (10)………….. a total of 65 Nobel Prizes, the most of any university in the world.