English Test 2 Bachiller April 2013 A) VOCABULARY 1

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Complete the sentences with the words below. (025)

nourishing liable lack assortment imbalance treat crave rate 1. People who stop smoking sometimes ........................ a cigarette. 2. Try to eat food that doesnt .................................. vitamins and fibres. 3. She cooked some delicious, .................................. soup. 4. If youre careless, you are .................................. to have accidents. 5. The tests showed a serious .................................. in her body chemicals. 6. The crime .................................. has dropped in the last year. 7. They served an interesting .................................. of dishes. 8. Alternative medicine offers new ways to .................................. diseases. 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 3 Replace the words in bold with a suitable phrasal verb beginning with put or bring. (025) She will earn much more money this year. ................................... I wont tolerate any more bad behaviour. .................................. The teacher agreed to extend the exam date for another week. .................................. Please extinguish your cigarette. .................................. Dont forget to return the sweater I gave you. .................................. I hope they discuss my proposal. ................................... Rewrite the sentences using the words in brackets. (025)

1. Harry Potter books are very popular. (cakes) Harry Potter books sell .................................. . 2. You cant believe everything they say. (pinch) You have to take what they say .................................. . 3. He got very angry with me. (bit) He .................................. off. 4. I dont like science fiction films. (cup) Science fiction is not .................................. . 5. The exam was very easy. (piece) The exam was .................................. . B) GRAMMAR 1 Rewrite the following sentences in Indirect/Direct Speech. (1) father said 2. Tommy has had an accident. Lets visit him in hospital tomorrow, said Fay. 3. Dany asked Ellen if she had been home the previous night and she said she had

1. You mustnt drink beer. You are too young. Youll do it when you are older, his

4.Do you know what to do? Shall I help you?, she said

5. She advised me to read the book and she offered to lend it to me.

2 Rewrite the sentences with the words below without changing the original meaning. (05) consequently despite if finally apparently 1. Jim didnt arrive till hours after we had got to the hotel. We had been waiting hours for Jim at the hotel, but .................................. . 2. I know he must trust me because he lent me his house key. He lent me his house key, so .................................. . 3. John was late for work; he didnt hear the alarm clock. John didnt hear his alarm clock; ................................. . 4. Im not sure whether Ill have time to visit her. Ill visit her .................................. . 5. The rain didnt stop the match. The match took place .................................. . 3. Change the sentences from the active into the passive. 1. Bad organization spoilt their holiday. 2. Did anybody tell you how to behave? 3. She told them not to tell anyone 4. She made them go to the meeting 5. They said the president had been shot. 6. They think he lied to them. 7. They should have given us a bonus 8. Dont waste time discussing unimportant things 9. Many people believe that eating too fast causes indigestion 10. We heard her complaining strongly to the manager

4).- Causative have/get 1. He was building their swimming pool. 2. We are going to install a new shower. 3. They are resurfacing our drive tomorrow. 4. Someone cleans my house every week. 5. The dentist is extracting her tooth now. 6. Somebody sends Martha her dresses from Paris 7. Someone is organizing a birthday party for her. 8. The secretary had prepared the minutes for him before the meeting. 5. Complete the passage with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London are magnificent. The small royal palace, which 1. .................................. (situate) in the gardens, is also well worth a visit. It 2. .................................. (build) more than 200 years ago and was 3. .................................. (say / be) the favourite home of King George II and his family. A few years ago, the authorities 4. .................................. (decide) to have the palace 5. .................................. (re-decorate). The work took years, but now the palace looks almost exactly as it 6. .................................. (look) in the days of King George II. Among the interesting items that 7. .................................. (can / see) in the palace are a childrens dolls house and a wax mask of the king.

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Eating Less Meat Could Save Lives. More than 45,000 lives a year could be saved if everyone began eating meat no more than two or three times a week, health experts claim today. Widespread change to low-meat diets would stop 31,000 early deaths from heart disease, and 9,000 from cancer, according to new analyses of British eating habits. Dramatically reduced meat consumption would slow down climate change and deforestation in South America, where rainforests are being chopped down to raise cows, which are later exported to Europe. Eating too much meat, particularly processed meat, is unhealthy because it can involve consuming more fat than official guidelines recommend. "We don't need to go vegetarian to look after ourselves and our planet, but we do need to cut down on meat," said Peter Bennett. "While the government has ignored the environmental aspect of meat and dairy consumption, it can't ignore the lives that would be saved by switching to less and better meat." Meat producers criticised the report. "The vast majority of consumers eat less than average recommendations of red meat already," said Chris Lamb. "It is oversimplistic to say that changing one element of the diet can have such a dramatic result. Red meat has a valuable role to play as part of a healthy diet." Jen Elford,of the Vegetarian Society, added: "Of course less meat is better than more, but we can't start solving the environmental and health problems without moving away from animal protein." I * COMPREHENSION (1) Answer the questions according to the information given in the text. Use your own words.. 1. How are the rainforests affected by meat consumption? 2. Why is eating too much meat so bad? 3. What arguments do meat producers use to defend themselves? Give two.

Are these statements true or false? Justify your answers with the precise words or phrases from the text. (05) 4. Eating meat twice a week is bad for you, experts claim. 5. Diets containing big amounts of meat can cause heart disease and cancer. II * USE OF ENGLISH (025) Find in the text one word that has the following definition: distributed over a considerable extent (adjective). Find in the text one synonym for: illness (noun). Find in the text one opposite for worse (adjective).

Give one synonym for look after (verb) as it is used in the text (line10)