Name: Score: ______/50

Date: Total: ______/10

7-1 (B)

1. Read Tom's story and fill in the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. (21)

Something funny happened to me while I __________________(to come)home yesterday.

It __________________(to rain) so I __________________(to take) the bus. I __________________(to sit) down on
a seat in the middle of the bus. The boy who __________________(to sit) next to me __________________(to be)
about my age. He __________________(to act) as if he __________________(not / to know) me.

Ben: Hi ! I'm Ben . Do you remember me? We __________________(to meet) at the football match last
Saturday .
Me Sorry , but I __________________ (not / to go) to a football match last Saturday !
Ben Well, you __________________(not / to be) in the crowd, that's true. You__________________(to play)
and I__________________(to play) for the opposite team. I __________________(to run) down the line
with the ball and you __________________(to manage) to take it away from me.
You __________________(to get) past three of our players and __________________(to kick) the ball
into the net from twenty meters.
Me Look, you've got the wrong person. I __________________(not / to play) football last Saturday
afternoon. My brother and I __________________(to take) part in a sailing event off the coast.
Ben OK, whatever you say. I must have got the wrong person.

He __________________(to move) to another seat. Obviously, he __________________(not / to believe) me ! I

must have a double somewhere.

2. Read the following text:

I was with my parents. My father was going to open a business

in Winnipeg. People were saying to my mother and father When we were in the water, we could hear people rushing
how fortunate they were to get on the Titanic. I was excited about on the deck. That's when the panic must have started
because I was going on a wonderful big ship. – when they found there weren't any lifeboats left. I was
I had no fear or apprehension or anything. It was very terrified. I didn't know what a shipwreck would mean or how
beautiful: luxurious beyond words. It was the first time I'd long it would take but I was too terrified to do anything but
been on board a ship. Captain Smith was on deck and he was shriek for my father I knew we'd left behind. Before it sank, it
very nice. He had a beard like my own grandfather and he was a very beautiful ship: stationary on the ocean with all its
admired a doll I had. lights on. It was dread cold, but the sea was the calmest I'd
ever seen. The starlit night was the brightest I'd ever seen.
On the third night I was sound asleep. My mother woke me I looked back and saw the whole of that tragedy. And I saw
and said "I'm going to dress you." But before she could by that ship break in half. The front part went down and left the
father came back from deck and said "You'd best put this thick stern sticking up in a horrifying fashion. It was enormous. It
coat on." That was all he said. Standing on deck, I couldn't seeseemed to stick up in the air for a long time. And then it
around the funnel. My father came back and said "The ship gradually went down, turning over.
has struck an iceberg." My father had no difficulty in putting
me and my mother in lifeboats but he made no attempt to And after that there was the sound of the whole disaster. And
get in himself. that was people drowning. That is something you could never
forget. And then the dreadful silence that followed it. It
seemed as if the whole world was standing still. It was
discovered that my lifeboat was overcrowded and the officer
in charge of the boat decided he would get rid of his load by
putting people in other boats. I got separated from my
mother and didn't find her until the next day.
The next day, the icebergs were like white sails in the
distance: white yachts with the sun on them. They were very
beautiful. They were all around us. The crew of the ship that
rescued us were very kind and good to us. We were given
clothes because I'd only got my nightclothes and a blanket
around me. I had nightmares from the time it sank until I was
23. And though I wouldn't like to say I'm not frightened of the
sea, I lost a lot of the horror. I've never been in anything
touching the Titanic. A beauty. It was lovely.

After reading, number the events (a–g) in the order in which they happened:

________The Titanic broke into two pieces and slowly sank into the ocean.

________ Another ship came and rescued the survivors.

________Eva's father took her to the deck and put her on a lifeboat.

________When the lifeboat reached the water, the people on the Titanic were running about and starting to panic.

________Eva and her family were travelling on The Titanic because her father was going to start a new business in Winnipeg.

________The ship struck an iceberg while Eva was sleeping.

________Captain Smith was standing on the deck when Eva boarded the ship.

3. Choose if the following sentence is right or wrong. If it is right, Write R. If it is wrong, Write W. (1 point each)

a. How thrifty were they? _____

b. I did not dwell in her house. _____
c. There weren't enough money for the tickets. ____
d. Did Stella were in the right place? _____
e. There were a little apples over the table._____

4. Circle the correct option for each sentence (1 point each):

1. His feelings were ___ your expectations. 4. He is so ____ her.

a. Over a. Into
b. Next to b. Out of
c. Above c. Between
2. The fish were swimming ___ the water 5. The arrow passed directly ___ her heart.
surface. a. Across
a. Below b. Around
b. Above c. Through
c. on 6. You sit ___ me in the classroom.
3. There are apple trees ___ the house. a. Between
a. In b. On
b. On c. In front of
c. Behind
5. Write the letter of the meanings in the right, with its correct word in the gaps of the left. (1 point
each)

1. ____ Ooze
2. ____Dread a. To force someone to do something
b. Not be able to pay money that you owe
3. ____Dam
c. To confine or restrict.
4. ____Rig d. A wall to stop water flowing
5. ____Riot e. Become decomposed, rot.
f. A structure for getting oil or gas out of the
6. ____Bankrupt
ground
7. ____Dwell g. Violent actions by a large group of angry people
8. ____Seize h. To take possession of something by force.
9. ____Tie i. To live permanently in a place.
j. To flow liquid or pass liquid slowly or gradually.
10. ____Decay
k. To fear greatly, terror or apprehension.
11. ____Compel