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Progress Test
Grammar
1 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
1 The man (take) my handbag while I (sit) in the restaurant.
2 I (try) to sleep when the doorbell (ring).
3 When I (reach) the other side of the lake, I (feel) safe.
4 While I (do) my English exam, I (decide) to ask for a drink.
I (see) the money on the ground as I (walk) to school
2 Complete the sentences with the words below. There are two extra words.
boots dinghy life jacket paddles paintballing poles rope orienteering
1 I always take a long with me when l go climbing.
2 When I went kayaking, I broke my and had to use my hands to get to the edge of the river.
3 People who go kayaking usually wear a for safety.
4 Good are really important if you’re walking a long way and you want to protect your feet.
5 When I went out to sea with my friends, I dropped my hat over the side of the .
6 is a good sport to do if you like looking at maps.
3 Read the text and complete gaps 1–10. Circle the correct answer A, B or C.
1 ________the centre of the photo there is a row of eight red kayaks on a river, with a teenager in each one wearing a yellow helmet. It 2______ like an adventure holiday and they’re 3______ feeling excited about doing something on the water. There is a boy 4_____ the left of the photo who is standing up with one foot in one kayak, and another foot in the next kayak. It 5_______ as if he’s trying to walk across the line of boats. I 6_____ he’s feeling quite nervous about falling in the water. 7______ the foreground there’s a woman who is standing on the bank of the river. She 8_____ to be the instructor. 9_______ by her expression, she’s feeling quite calm. This is probably because they are all wearing life jackets. 10_______ the bottom of the photo, I can see the end of a paddle. It must belong to another team.
1 A At B On C In
2 A shows B expects C looks
3 A probably B quite C a bit
4 A in B on C at
5 A looks B shows C xpects
6 A say B expect C judge
7 A At B On C In
8 A looks B shows C seems
9 A Judging B Looking C Showin
10 A At B In C On
1 Read the text. Choose the correct answers.
Climb every mountain
Stephen Venables’ love of mountains began at nine years old on a skiing trip to the Alps. ‘I was thrilled,’ he remembers. ‘It was actually far more impressive and exciting than seeing the Himalayas for the first time, because when you’re nine it’s all new and you don’t know what to expect.’
From that moment, Stephen knew that he wanted to climb mountains, but he didn’t realise then that one day he would be the first British man to climb Everest without oxygen. 1 He was coming down from the top of the mountain when he was caught in a snowstorm. After years of climbing, he was prepared for this and he knew that the best thing he could do was wait for the weather to change.
‘At first I tried sitting on a rock because rock is warmer than snow, but it wasn’t completely flat. 2 I did sleep a bit,’ he says. ‘They always say you should stay awake, but I was totally exhausted.’ Fortunately, the storm passed, and Stephen managed to climb back down to his camp and enter the record books.
The Everest expedition wasn’t Stephen’s only difficult climb. In 1992, while climbing another Himalayan mountain, he fell 100 m, breaking both his legs. ‘It was very unlucky that it happened, but I was lucky that there were five of us.’ The group included Chris Bonnington and Stephen’s good friend Harish Kapadia. It took them twelve hours to make camp in a safe place. Then two of the team went for help.
‘I think that was one of the most wonderful moments of my life – finally being in the tent and realising that I could just lie back in my sleeping bag.’ But Stephen didn’t know that the rescue would take four days. 3 ‘On the last day we had a boiled sweet and we used the last tea bag so many times that it wasn’t actually changing the colour of the water.’ But luckily, the team managed to keep going until help arrived.
1 What did Stephen Venables do when he was caught in a snowstorm?
a He decided to sleep all day until the weather changed.
b He didn’t follow important advice.
c He climbed down the mountain.
2 What is the writer’s purpose in this article?
a To warn about the dangers of mountain climbing.
b To compare two different mountain ranges.
c To tell the story of a mountain climber.
5 Read the text again. Match sentences A–E with gaps 1–3. There are two extra sentences.
A It wasn’t the first time that he needed medical attention because of his injuries.
B By that time, there was almost no food left.
C While he was climbing the mountain, he met the climber Chris Bonnington for the first time.
D However, his record-breaking expedition in 1988 was not an easy one.
E I really wanted to lie down so I decided to cut a ledge in the snow.