Unit 2 Test B

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Use of English: Grammar The accident ___________ by the

rain but we dont know yet.
1 Complete the sentences with
3 Perhaps she hasnt passed her
one of the modal verbs from the
driving test and thats why she is
box below in the correct form.
in a bad mood.
Each modal verb can only be
MAY NOT
used once.
She ___________ her driving test
and thats why shes in a bad
be allowed to
mood.
be supposed to
have to
4 It would have been cheaper for
dont have to
them to catch the train.
should
OUGHT
They ___________ the train.
1 If she wants to go travelling after
university, she ___________ start
5 Its probable that the man will
saving now.
spend six months in prison for
2 We ___________ tidy the house
the offence.
before our parents got back from
MAY WELL
work but we didnt.
The man ___________ six months
3 They ___________ take their
in prison for the offence.
driving test this month. They can
wait a little longer.
4 In the US, children as young as
/5
16 ___________ take their driving
test. 3 Complete the sentences with
5 When you get to the crossroads the correct alternative.
you ___________ turn right
because the traffic states no left 1 The twins might/will be good at
turn. cycling but they are awful at
driving.
/5 2 They didnt need to go/may not
have gone by car because the
venue was really close.
2 Complete the second sentence
3 Have we/ Do we have to ring the
so it means the same as the
insurance company if we have an
first. Use the word given in
accident?
capitals. Do not change the
4 We are allowed to/might as well
word given.
buy an electric car because they
are cheaper.
1 Im certain that he wasnt
5 Drivers arent allowed to/dont
speeding.
need to stop on the hard
CANT
shoulder of a motorway unless
He ___________ speeding.
its an emergency.
2 Maybe the accident was caused
by the rain, but we dont know /5
yet.
MIGHT

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towards drivers that use their

mobile phone whilst driving.
3 Catching drivers that do not have
any car insurance is the
responsibility of the police.
4 Change to the law is inevitable,
once the government has dealt
with all the possible issues the
new law might cause.
Use of English: Vocabulary 5 Im not sure why the traffic is
increasing; its not rush hour. Its
4 Complete the sentence with the
only ten past two!
correct words. You are given
two letters that make up a
compound noun. /5
1 It is illegal to travel in a car 6 Complete the gaps in the text
without wearing a s______b______. with either take, make or do in
If you are caught, you have to the correct form.
pay a fine.
2 As they were stuck in a We all sat nervously in the meeting
room for over an hour whilst the
t______j______for over two hours,
board of directors (1)__________ their
they missed the concert they had decision. The situation was
been waiting for for months. unfamiliar to us. Usually whilst
3 He failed his driving theory test discussions were taking place within
because he was unaware of what a company, you were told to leave
one of the r______s______ meant. the room and you only returned
4 Luckily the s______w______ in my when called upon. In all of our years
new car is not as heavy as the (2)__________ business, this situation
old one. I used to find it so had never arisen and the silence of
the room made us all a little
difficult to turn the car!
anxious.
5 The main m______w______ in
When the board came to their
Norwich is one of the safest roads decision, they all stood up. The
in the country. sound of chairs scraping on the floor
only heightened our emotions. The
/5 chairman announced that their
company would be happy for us to
(3)__________ control of their
5 Replace the word/s underlined
marketing. We all shook hands and
with the correct phrasal verb in
my associates and I assured them
the correct form.
that they (4)__________ the right
choice and that we would
1 Recently a new law has been
(5)__________ our best to enhance
introduced which bans the use of their media coverage in the banking
mobile phones at the wheel. world.
2 Police in this area of south
London are becoming stricter /5
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addition, the use of private

vehicles was limited.
Reading
Driving in the capital of China
7 You are going to read an article Beijing, the capital of China, is one
about driving in Beijing. Five of the most polluted cities in the
sentences have been removed world, with the main contaminant
from the article. Fill in the gap believed to be gases emitted from
by choosing the most suitable transportation. On average, 3.6
sentence from the list A-F. There million private vehicles are driven
is one extra sentence which you through the capital every day. (1)
do not need to use. ____________.

A Those particularly affected were Before 2006, the city was

babies and young children, the constantly covered by an ugly, dingy
elderly, and asthmatics who often brown cloud. The cause was
suffered respiratory problems as pollution emitted from public
transport, private vehicles and also
a direct effect of the problem.
by the citys numerous factories and
B The city now has thousands of
power plans. Nitrogen dioxide, the
number plate recognition main pollutant from these sources,
cameras set up around the city. was not only above the ground
C Today, the prohibition of vehicles covering the heads of inhabitants
in the city still exists, with, on but also on the ground in the form of
average, a fifth of 3.6 million dense smog. When rain descended
private vehicles being banned upon the city, dirty smog turned to
acid rain which inevitably caused
from the roads each week day.
serious damage to cars, buildings
D With a rapidly increasing
and the citys water supply. The
population and a risk of more effects of traffic pollution were
drivers taking to the road, in everywhere. (2) ____________.
2006, the Beijing Traffic
Management Bureau began to A solution needed to be
think of the future and the implemented. With the justification
different ways it could deal with of the Beijing Olympic Games
looming in the future and the
this grave environmental
desperate need to act, the
problem. government set up some controls to
E The high quantity of nitrogen reduce the quantity of pollution and
dioxide emitted by public and to improve the quality of air in the
private vehicles meant there was city. (3) ____________. The
a high number of patients being experiment took place between 4th
admitted to hospitals throughout and 5th of November. It recorded a
the city every week. 30% decrease in the number of
F In November 2006, an vehicles in the city and, most
importantly, a substantial reduction
experiment was carried out in
in nitrogen dioxide levels. In view of
which the use of government and the need to further increase the air
commercial vehicles was quality in the city, for its inhabitants
prohibited in the city and, in

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and for the Olympic Games, the

model was enforced permanently,
but with some changes.

During the Olympics even tighter

measures were adopted. The
government brought in a system
where only odd or even numbered
privately-owned cars were allowed
to use the streets in the city on any
specific day. Inevitably this enraged
many of the citys inhabitants who
felt their civil rights were being
violated as they were forced to use
buses or trains to get to their
destinations. The Beijing Traffic
Management Bureau again reported,
during this period, a substantial
drop in traffic congestion, and the
levels of pollution within the city
diminished.
Many wonder how such a large and
complex ban can be enforced, and
the answer is simple. (4)
____________. If cars that should not
be on the streets are found, the
driver receives a 100 Yuan (7.30)
fine. This is a deterrent which to
date has worked effectively.

(5) ____________. The results of the

ban are positive and a daily
reduction of approximately 275
tonnes of emissions has been
recorded. Beijing is by no means
clear of its pollution problem, but it Listening
can be said that the city is now
becoming cleaner. The cloud that 8 You are going to hear
used to loom above the city has now three speakers talking about
been lifted, and its inhabitants can their driving test experiences.
now see the real colour of their sky. Match each speaker 1, 2 or 3
with the best answer A-E from
/5 each list. There are two answers
in each list you do not need.

How did their driving test

experience begin?

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A It started off badly but got better

B It didnt Writing
C With an immediate mistake
D No real recollection of the event 9 You have seen this
E With a long wait announcement in a magazine:

1 Speaker 1: Traffic accidents

2 Speaker 2: How can we prevent them?
3 Speaker 3: What can we do in the future?
Write to the magazine and tell us what
How would the speakers you think.
describe their driving test
experience? Write an article of 120-180
words.
A Time consuming, a waste of
money but also exciting _____________________________________
B Frustrating from start to finish _____________________________________
C Frightening _____________________________________
D Nerve-racking but exciting _____________________________________
E Faultless but emotional _____________________________________
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4 Speaker 1: _____________________________________
5 Speaker 2:
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6 Speaker 3:
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