Complete the table with the infinitive and past simple forms of the verbs in blue in the quiz. Then listen and check.

How GOOD is your MEMORY?

1. What was the last film that you saw?

2. When was the last time that you ate in a restaurant?

3. When did you last go to a circus or a zoo?

4. Where and when did you first ride a bike?

5. Who taught you English at primary school?

6. How old were your parents on their last birthdays?

7. What was the last music that you heard?

8. When did you last make something to eat?

9. What mark did you get in your last English exam?

10. At what age did you first have a mobile phone?

11. What did you do on your last birthday?

12. Who spoke to you first at school today?

13. Who did you speak to last before you left home this morning?

14. How many people gave you presents last year? What were they?

15. How many people did you buy presents for last year? What were they?

1. How are you?
2. What's your favourite school subject?
3. Who's your best friend?
4. Do you like your hometown?
5. What is your favourite food?
6. What's your father's job? 7. What is your daily routine? 8. What do you usually like to do on Sundays?
9. What do you do in your free time?
10. What is your favourite hobby?
11. What is your favourite type of holiday?
12. How do you like to travel? 13. Where did you go your last summer holiday?
14. What place do you want to visit?
15. In what foreign country would you like to study?
16. What's the weather like in your hometown?
17. What type of weather do you like?
18. When was the last time you felt scared?
19. What was the last film you have seen?
20. How was the last test you've taken?

I.

1. The weather is fine , but Thu is still bringing a raincoat with her.

=> Although__________________

2. "Do your homework , son", said the mother.

=> The mother told___________

3. No other members in thr class are as tall as Lucie is.

=> Lucie is the_______________

4. When was the last time you watched an action movie?

=> When did________________

4. "What time does your class start?" she asked her son.

-> She asked__________________

II. Imagine that you have recently visited a place of interest . In about 80 - 100 words, write a paragraph about your trip. Your paragraph may include:

When and where you went

How you got there

Who you went with

What the place was like

What you did there

Your impression of the place

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the long- term memory. This division of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of the memory.

Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory.

Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as long as you keep repeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long term memory.

Long-term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.
The expression “on its own” in the last sentence can be best replaced by

A. by itself

B. in its own time

C. with its

D. in only one way

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

The three phases of the human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the long-term memory. This division of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of the memory.

Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory.

Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as long as you keep repeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long term memory.

Long-term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.

Question:The expression “on its own” in the last paragraph could best be replaced by________.

A.  in its own time

B. by itself

C. with its possessions

D. in only one way

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 18 to 25.

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the long- term memory. This devision of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of the memory.

Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory.

Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as long as you keeprepeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long term memory.

Long-term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.

he expression “on its own” in the last sentence can be best replaced by “______________”

A. by itself

B. in it own time

C. with its possessions

D. in only one way

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 31 to 35.

For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (31) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (32) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (33) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (34) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (35) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 31:

A. aim

B. point

C. show 

D. develop

For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (31) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (32) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (33) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (34) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (35) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 32:

A. maintain 

B. gather

C. collect

D. save

For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (31) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (32) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (33) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (34) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (35) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 35:

A. alright  

B. even

C. earlier 

 D. already