Student’s full name: ______________________________
Tutor’s name: ____________________
PRE-INTER. FINAL EXAM (SAMPLE)
Section 1. Grammar and Vocabulary
Exercise 1. Listen to the audio. Decide if the statement is TRUE (T) or FALSE
(F).
1 Vanya first became involved with ZSE when she was a high-school student. ___
2 Vanya studied environmental science at university. ____
3 Africa is the continent Vanya prefers working on. ____
4 Vanya is keen to work with animals in the cat family. ____
5 Vanya developed a special relationship with a monkey during her time
in Africa. ____
Exercise 2. Listen again. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each space.
6 In the rainforest, Vanya collected information on one kind of _____________.
7 Vanya has worked for the ZSE for more than __________ years.
8 As far as her changing her career goes, Vanya says she has no ____________.
9 The name of the elephant ‘Malika’ means ____________.
10 Vanya says she would be happy to work in __________ one day.
Exercise 3. Underline the correct option.
11 They applied for a visa, but everyone / someone / nobody got it because of
problems with documents.
12 If anybody / somebody / everybody asks about me, tell them I’ve gone
abroad.
13 You’ll see a lot of GM cars somewhere / everywhere / anywhere you go in
Uzbekistan.
14 The restaurant staff were very polite; someone / no one / anyone was always
there to help us out.
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Exercise 4. Complete the email with will, won’t, might or might not.
Hi James
I wanted to discuss about our meeting on Monday next week. We meant to
meet at about 10.30. But, a client changed his mind. Now, sadly, I believe we
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________ meet at this time, we ________ meet a bit earlier at 10.00. The
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client isn’t sure he says he ___________ come late or he _________.
Anyways, I will see you at 10.00. Let me know what you think.
Susie
Exercise 5. Complete the text with suitable adjectives in the correct form:
-ed or -ing.
19 All the visitors were disappointed / disappointing after the concert
because it finished too early.
20 The pictures in these museums are surprised / surprising. They all have
different shapes and bright colors.
Exercise 6. Complete the sentences with must / mustn’t, have to/
don’t/doesn’t have to or can/ can’t.
Welcome to the ‘Perfect University’. Here we support an untraditional way of
educating students. We are trying to change the way students do their
homework, visit classes and take exams. At our university you
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______________ wear a uniform if you don’t want to. However, you
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______________ attend classes regularly as it will affect your overall
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performance in the end. You _____________ park your car for free because
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we believe students ____________ pay for basic things like parking and food.
Exercise 7. Complete the sentences with correct form of ‘can, can’t, or be
able to’ and the verbs in brackets.
25 James hopes he ________________ win the championship one day.
26 Everyone _____________ buy a mobile phone these days.
Exercise 8. Complete the sentences with a, b or c.
27 You ___________ your weight if you don’t exercise.
a) won’t lose b) lose c) will lose
28 ___________ the presentation, I will read the book.
a) If b) When c) Before
Exercise 9. Complete the sentences with the correct verb.
29 The main ingredients of this soup _____________ of eggs and peas.
a) belongs b) consist c) depends
30 It’s a bad habit to take or touch the things that don’t ____________ me.
a) think b) belong c) believe
Exercise 10. Use the correct form of passive voice.
31 The first tea leaves __________________ (introduce) to Europe in 16th
century.
32 First, wheat ____________ (grow) in the fields. Later, it ___________
(transport) into the factory.
33 According to the statistics, coffee and tea ___________ (drink) in almost
all countries.
Exercise 11. Complete the sentences with correct form of the verbs in
brackets to make second conditional sentences.
34 If we __________ (not have) so many problems, I ___________ (help)
those people.
35 Passengers ___________ (use) public transportation more if the price
_____________ (not be) so high.
36 Michael ___________ (dance) on your birthday party if people
___________ (not laugh) at him.
Exercise 12. Underline the correct answer in the sentences.
37 Despite / Even though the rain, she attended to the course.
38 Jeremy survived in the jungle, however / although he was attacked by a
tiger and other dangerous animals.
Exercise 13. Combine the pairs of sentences using the present perfect
simple and for and since.
E.g. Jack has a new boss. His boss began work a week ago.
Jack’s boss has worked for a week.
39 Michael is a chef. He started working in 2015.
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40 Piotr lives in Russia now. He moved when he was a baby.
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Section 2. Reading.
The first newspapers appeared in the 17th century, but ordinary people didn't
use to buy them often because they were expensive. This changed in the
1850s with the invention of powerful printing presses, which could print 10,000
papers per hour. As a result, newspaper prices came down and more people
could afford to buy them. Thanks to another new invention, the photograph, it
was also the first time that newspapers contained pictures as well as articles.
When a volcano erupted on the Pacific island of Krakatoa in 1883, it killed
36,000 people. It was one of the worst natural disasters in history. It was also
significant because it was the first time that news could travel around the
world in minutes, using undersea electrical telegraph wires. Before the
telegraph was invented, it used to take weeks for news to travel to a different
continent. News of Abraham Lincoln's death, for example, took nearly two
weeks to reach Europe in 1865.
In the early 20th century, before televisions became popular, people used to
go to the cinema to watch the news. Ten-minute films called 'news reels'
contained moving images of four or five top news stories. The news reels
were changed weekly, not daily, so the news wasn't always up to date.
Nowadays, they are important as historical documents, as they provide the
only audiovisual records of those times.
At the start of the 21st century, developments in smartphone technology and
the growth of social media like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have
completely changed the way that we get our news. Now anybody can report
news. This is sometimes called 'citizen journalism'. One of the first and most
famous examples of it happened in New York in 2009 when a plane carrying
150 passengers landed in the Hudson River after a flock of birds flew into the
plane's engine. People who saw the crash posted comments and photos on
Twitter and the news spread around the world in minutes, Professional
journalists didn't arrive at the scene until 15 minutes later.
Exercise 14. Read the text and complete the sentences with ONE OR TWO
WORDS.
41 With the invention of powerful printing machines, the _____________ of
papers decreased.
42 The creation of a photograph let the newspapers have both photos and
____________.
43 With the help of __________ under water, the news could travel in
minutes.
44 Before the telegraph came to existence, it would take weeks for
information to travel to another ____________.
45 The term ____________ refers to people reporting news through their
smartphones.
Exercise 15. Read the text again. Choose True / False / Not Given for the
following words.
46 With the arrival of different social media sites the way people
communicate had no noticeable change. ______________
47 Social media sites have always presented false information to the public.
________
48 The New York plane which had 150 passengers had to land in Hudson
River because of oil problems in the engine. ____________
49 Some people who were there at the moment of landing took a video and
posted on social media sites. _____________
50 Journalists came to see the landed plane only after 15 minutes. _______
Section 3. Writing.
Exercise 16. Write a review of a restaurant you have been to. Make notes
about what you liked / didn’t like about the location, the service, the
food, the atmosphere, the prices, etc. (60-70 words)
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