SECTION I: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY A. GRAMMAR: Choose the best answer 1. 90% of the world’s rice in Asia. A. were grown B. grew C. is grown 2. English in over 45 countries. A. was spoken B. spoke C. is spoken 3. I at home so I don’t go to school. A. am taught B. taught C. was taught 4. A hundred watches every hour on eBay. A. were sold B. are sold C. sold 5. That book by an eighteen- year-old writer. A. was written B. wrote C. written 6. The competition _ by a a group of people from Liverpool. A. were won B. won C. was won 7. Today, eBay by almost 100 million people. A. uses B. is used C. was used 8. Every 90 seconds someone _ a digital camera. A. is bought B. buy C. buys 9. In 2001 the jeans company, Levis, _ a pair of jeans for $46,532. They in 1880. A. bought/ made B. was bought/ made C. bought/ were made 10. Between 1998 and 2003 over 100 books about eBay. A. are written B. were written C. wrote 11. In the 1950s, lots of new things . A. were invented B. invented C. was invented 12. They phoned the emergency number and came and quickly repaired the lift. A. anyone B. someone C. nobody 13 The police couldn't find him _ . A. nowhere B. somewhere C. anywhere 14. Our favourite restaurant The Lemon Tree. A. called B. is called C. calls 116 15. Things that were owned by famous people by Christie’s every year. A. were sold B. sold C. are sold 16. The Gucci fashion house beautiful bags and shoes. A. designs B. was designed C. is designed 17. I pressed the button but _ happened. A. nothing B. anything C. something 18. The Turkish manager hasn't got _ to say about the teams' terrible performance. A. anything B. nothing C. everything 19. We have got new to play our matches. It is a big park near the town centre. A. anywhere B. somewhere C. somebody 20. Can you answer the phone? is calling. A. Someone B. Everybody C. No one

Read paragraph A of the text. Which of the ideas in exercise 3 are mentioned in the reading?

A. Home (2009) is a 90-minute documentary about human threats to the Earth's ecological balance. It is made up of aerial shots of various places across the globe. Aiming to raise people's awareness of the alarming environmental destruction, this French movie shows human huge impacts on the Earth and the consequences of climate change. Viewers of the documentary particularly enjoy the footage of human origins, the Earth's water cycle, population growth, the melting Arctic ice cap and the coral reef.

B. The film was completed in eighteen months and the film crew did their filming of 488-hour raw footage by flying in a helicopter over various regions in more than fifty countries. At a press conference in Paris on March 9, 2009, its director, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, announced that its released versions would include theatre, television, DVD and the internet. About two months later, the film's worldwide release date was confirmed to be June 5.2009. Despite its availability in various forms, Home (2009) had its world festival premiere at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival in 2012.

C. Home (2009) is available for free access in 14 languages. Director Yann Arthus-Bertrand has insisted that the film has no copyright. He has also stressed the educational benefits of the film over its financial gains. With this aim in mind, the film producer made the film available to as many people as possible. The film can be downloaded to your smart TV or any kind of digital device, with the proceeds all going to the GoodPlanet Foundation.