Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

They arrived _______ that train station late because their taxi had broken _________.

A. at / down

B. for / off

C. on / over

D. on / up

These common phrasal verbs are connected with travelling and transport. Complete the text with the phrasal verbs below. Put them in the correct tense.

John and David's flight home from Amsterdam was nine in the morning. They had arranged to meet with John's friend Mark at half past six but Mark arrived at the hotel almost half an hour late-that, however, was just the beginning of their problems. On the way from hotel to the airport, their car (1) ................ in the middle of a busy intersection, causing a traffic jam. Then, David realized that he had left his mobile phone in the hotel, but it was too late for them to (2) ................ When they arrived at the airport, they had just enough time to (3) ................, go through passport control and security check and (4) ................ the plane. The plane (5) ................ very shortly after that and eight hours later, they landed in New York, but they couldn't (6) ................ the plane because there was a problem on the runway. They left a jet lag and finally, fourty-five minutes after landing, they (7) ................ .

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.

EXAMS OR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT?

How do you feel when you (24) ______an exam? Do you always succeed in getting all your ideas down on paper, or do you sometimes feel that you’re (25) ______a mess of it? Apart from those lucky few who sail through exams, most secondary school (26) ______find them very stressful. Many teachers are aware of the problems their students face and use a different method for measuring their progress: continuous assessment. With continuous assessment, students are given various (27) ______to do through the year. All their marks are added together to produce a total mark at the end of the year. Students have to take more responsibility for their education because they can’t rely on doing well on just one day. Also, they have more time to (28) ______ over their work, meaning that they are able to do their best.

Question 26

A. colleagues

B. classmates

C. perfects

D. students

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.

EXAMS OR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT?

How do you feel when you (24) ______an exam? Do you always succeed in getting all your ideas down on paper, or do you sometimes feel that you’re (25) ______a mess of it? Apart from those lucky few who sail through exams, most secondary school (26) ______find them very stressful. Many teachers are aware of the problems their students face and use a different method for measuring their progress: continuous assessment. With continuous assessment, students are given various (27) ______to do through the year. All their marks are added together to produce a total mark at the end of the year. Students have to take more responsibility for their education because they can’t rely on doing well on just one day. Also, they have more time to (28) ______ over their work, meaning that they are able to do their best.

Question 28

A. consider

B. imagine

C. think

D. examine

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.

EXAMS OR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT?

How do you feel when you (24) ______an exam? Do you always succeed in getting all your ideas down on paper, or do you sometimes feel that you’re (25) ______a mess of it? Apart from those lucky few who sail through exams, most secondary school (26) ______find them very stressful. Many teachers are aware of the problems their students face and use a different method for measuring their progress: continuous assessment. With continuous assessment, students are given various (27) ______to do through the year. All their marks are added together to produce a total mark at the end of the year. Students have to take more responsibility for their education because they can’t rely on doing well on just one day. Also, they have more time to (28) ______ over their work, meaning that they are able to do their best.

Question 25

A. doing

B. making

C. having

D. taking

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.

EXAMS OR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT?

How do you feel when you (24) ______an exam? Do you always succeed in getting all your ideas down on paper, or do you sometimes feel that you’re (25) ______a mess of it? Apart from those lucky few who sail through exams, most secondary school (26) ______find them very stressful. Many teachers are aware of the problems their students face and use a different method for measuring their progress: continuous assessment. With continuous assessment, students are given various (27) ______to do through the year. All their marks are added together to produce a total mark at the end of the year. Students have to take more responsibility for their education because they can’t rely on doing well on just one day. Also, they have more time to (28) ______ over their work, meaning that they are able to do their best.

Question 24

A. sit

B. write

C. make

D. give

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.

EXAMS OR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT?

How do you feel when you (24) ______an exam? Do you always succeed in getting all your ideas down on paper, or do you sometimes feel that you’re (25) ______a mess of it? Apart from those lucky few who sail through exams, most secondary school (26) ______find them very stressful. Many teachers are aware of the problems their students face and use a different method for measuring their progress: continuous assessment. With continuous assessment, students are given various (27) ______to do through the year. All their marks are added together to produce a total mark at the end of the year. Students have to take more responsibility for their education because they can’t rely on doing well on just one day. Also, they have more time to (28) ______ over their work, meaning that they are able to do their best.

Question 27

A. tasks

B. efforts

C. achievements

D. results

Ex1: Fill in gap in the sentences below with a suitable preposition or adverb particle.

1. It is predicted that over the next few decades many species will die ___ as once fertile areas turn ___desert.

2. I object ___ being kept waiting. Why can't you be ___ time?

3. She still can't get ___ the shock___ her baby's death.

4. The monitor is responsible ___ our form-master ___ the class.

5. Those workers are ___ difficulty because wage increases cannot keep up ___ inflation.

6. He was absent ___ work yesterday because he was ill. We are ashamed ___ his behavior.

7. Due ___ the rain, they had to postpone the match___ the next day.

8. He is very keen ___ English, but he is not good ___ listening.

9. I was brought ___ in the countryside by my aunt after my parents has pass ___

10. He is very worried ___ his new job because he is not quite prepared ___working.

 Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage:

It was a cold night. The train traveled through some very lonely countryside. There was (1)__________sign of human life and the station at Brest seemed (2)__________an oasis. The passengers were advised to get (3)____________the train because they were going to be there for a long time. The customs officers had to (4)____________their duty, searching the entire train looking mainly for illegal literature. They found quite a lot, including some interesting magazines to take home to their families. (5)___________ this was happening, the train moved away from the platform to (6)____________its wheels changed. It was lifted up and swung over on to a wider set of (7)________________. But the passengers in the station did not know about this. To them it was a long, unnecessary wait, (8)_______________worse by the fact that their luggage disappeared with the train for at (9)_______________an hour. If they had been given a better explanation of what was going on, they (10)________________have been in a better mood.