ADV 3 Unit 6-7 GLOBAL UPPER INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH EVALUATION

NAME _____________________________________________ DATE :_____________________________________

SCHEDULE : _________________________________________ TEACHER: LIC. ERLY ALEMAN GARCIA .

GRAMMAR B Choose the correct answer, a, b, c or d to complete

A Rewrite the sentence so that it has a similar the sentences.
meaning, using the word given.
11 The exam questions were ……… easy.
Example: a to b much c fair d quite
I have lived here all my life.
Since : I have lived here since I was born.
12 They have had the computer ………
1 People lost a lot of money when the company collapsed. a fix. b fixes. c fixing. d fixed.
Was : A lot of money …………………………………
when the company collapsed. 13 The chickens could have ……… killed by a fox.
a had b were c been d being
2 People saw the bank as a safe place to keep money.
Seen : ………………………………………………….. as 14 We will have ……… the trees cut down by the end of
a safe place to keep money. November.
a had b been c planted d fairly
3 We have made the decision to make 20 employees
redundant. 15 The witnesses were questioned ……… the police last
Been : The ………………………………… …………to
night.
make 20 employees redundant.
a already b to c from d by
4 The government will clear the slum.
Be : The slum ………………………………………... the C Complete the sentences with the correct form of the
government. words in brackets.

5 They say that the company is losing too much money. Example:
Said : It ……………………………………………………. is They thought the investment (invest) was too risky.
losing too much money.
16 ……………. (need) to say, I refused to pay so much
6 Her car will be repaired tomorrow. money.
Have: She ……………………………………………….… 17 She was …………….… (obvious) very tired after the
repaired tomorrow.
race.
7 His suits are dry-cleaned by a man who works in the 18 The girls say they want to study ………………………
station. (economy) at university.
Gets: He ……………………………………………… by 19 Sherman McCoy is a ……………………….. (million).
a man who works in the station. 20 The people in the slums were ………………………
(desperate) poor.
8 Jack drove Bernays to work every day.
Was: Bernays …………………………………….… Jack D Choose the correct words from the list a–k to complete
every day. the sentences. There is one extra word you do not need.

9 It is fairly difficult to run your own business.
Quite: It ………………………………………………… to run
your own business
10 The Quick Crop hair salon cuts his hair.
Gets : He ………………………….………………… at
the Quick Crop hair salon.
21 You should chew your food carefully before you
……………………….… it.
22 Your glass is empty. Shall I …………..…… you some more
juice?
23 I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve ………………… out on a new
dress for the party.
 42 ‘Will you make a speech?’
24 Of ………………………. I’ll help you with the cooking. Let me They asked me ………………………………… .
just wash my hands.
25 Sherman made a ………..…… on the stock market. 43 ‘I can run the marathon.’
26 Waiter, we’ve finished. Can we have the ……….……, She claimed ………………………………… .
please?
27 We don’t just give our children ………………. money. They
have to earn it. 44 ‘Don’t forget to buy some milk.’
28 …………………….… no one wanted to be the first to agree He reminded me ………………………………… .
with the new policy.
29 I just feel that paying more tax is like pouring money down 45 ‘You broke the window.’
the ……… . He accused me ……
30 Our business consultant thinks we should invest in the new G Choose the correct words from the list a–k to
company and get a ………….…… of the pie. complete the sentences. There is one extra word you
do not need.
a strangely b drain c settle d pour
e bill f splashed g swallow h slice
i pocket j fortune k course 46 She knows this city like the back of her ……… .
47 We have to learn all the dates by ……… .
E Choose the correct answer, a, b, c or d to complete 48 Vanoa is a(n) ……… of soap.
the sentences. 49 I was completely out of my ……… .
50 It was a very clever advertising ……… .
31 The advert was ……… convincing that everybody believed 51 She looked absolutely ……… .
it. 52 They used a(n) ……… to break down the door.
a that b too c so d such 53 ‘Don’t ……… at the man. It’s rude.’
54 Ask James, he’s a(n) ……… of information when it
32 I wonder ……… she will wear her new red dress. comes to the European market.
a does b whether c did d that 55 I didn’t have a(n) ……… about what she was trying to
say.
33 The newspaper refused ……… publish her letter.
a to b on c that d why
a gorgeous b target c stare d Brand
34 The police ……… on getting an answer from the suspect. e slogan f axe g heart h depth
a insisted b begged c admitted d wondered i clue j mine k hand

35 It was ……… cold day that we stayed indoors.

a so b so a c such d such a H Complete the sentences with the correct form of
the words in brackets.
36 They ……… to behave better next time.
a promised b mentioned c confirmed d assured Example: They thought the exhibition was a little
controversial (controversy).
37 We ……… to know where they had taken John.
a said b wanted c insisted d accused
F Rewrite the direct speech as reported speech. 56 To sell her bike she put an ……… (advertise) in the
Example: ‘Is it going to snow?’ I wondered. local paper.
I wondered if it was going to snow. 57 On TV they stop the programmes every 20 minutes for
38 ‘The film is boring.’ a ……… (commerce) break.
They complained ………………………………… . 58 The new building looks very ……… (attract).
59 I don’t have the ……… (faint) idea where it is.
39 ‘We didn’t steal the money.’ 60 The way they argue isn’t very ……… (science)
They denied ………………………………… .

40 ‘Yes, we’ll help you.’

They agreed ………………………………… .

41 ‘Why did you do it?’

They asked me ………………………………… .
 READING
Name: ________________________________________ Date: ______________

Teacher : Lic. Erly Alemán García Schedule: ___________

Part B
Reading, listening and pronunciation Although propaganda remains an unpopular term, there is no
doubt that PR has become very big business. What people now
A Reading call spin is more important than ever, and it sometimes seems,
Read the article about people who work in public relations. that creating the right image for something matters more than
Choose the correct answer, a, b, c or d. actually helping people to understand what is going on. This is
an excellent reason for going back and reading the book by one
The Power of PR of the people who started this trend.
Ask most people what they think public relations (PR) is
and they will probably say it is a fairly unimportant 1 According to the passage, Bernays believed that the public
department in large companies that does things like send didn’t know …
news about the company to media outlets. This is far from a what the real meaning of democracy was.
the picture painted by Edward Bernays, who is now b who the most powerful people in society were.
recognised as the father of PR. For him, public relations c what caused World War One.
experts were actually the most powerful people in society, d that this is the best of all possible worlds.
even if hardly anyone knew who they were.
2 What does the passage say about modern democracies?
According to Bernays, PR experts have a crucial role to a Leaders need to gain public agreement.
play in modern democratic societies, which face a new b The public always give their consent to the leaders.
problem in the exercise of power. Because they are c Ordinary people have the most power.
democracies, the vast majority of the public needs to d They have the best form of government.
consent to what the leaders do, but with huge urban
populations and a complex network of mass media there 3 From the passage we learn that in 1928 Bernays wrote a
is no easy way to gain that consent. The situation calls for book which …
someone with an expert knowledge of mass psychology a became a best-seller.
and the media, and that is exactly what the PR person is. b made him a rich man.
Bernays was happy to say that the job of the PR expert c very few people understood.
was to create propaganda. The word sounded very d had the title Propaganda.
unpleasant in 1928 when Bernays wrote a book with that
as the title, but he hoped that people would change their 4 Bernays did not manage to persuade people …
opinion when they saw how important propaganda of all a that he was the father of PR.
kinds was. At the beginning of his book he defines this as b that propaganda has a positive meaning.
any activity that consciously shaped ‘the habits and c that PR was born during World War One.
opinions of the masses’. Talking about America, he also d that experts should manage social problems
said that the people who ‘pull the wires which control the
public mind’ are ‘an invisible government which is the true 5 What does the author think about Bernays’ book?
ruling power of our country.’ a People should read it.
The birth of PR occurred during World War One, when b No one could find it interesting now.
every means possible was used to maintain public support c He thinks its predictions were wrong.
for the war. After the war, it was logical that some people d He agrees with everything Bernays said.
would wonder if they could continue to use this idea to
solve problems during peacetime. One of the problems
was that parts of the population were demanding larger
changes in society. Bernays was confident that PR experts
and their propaganda could hold society together and point
these energies in the right direction.
 C.-Read an article about girls working in a mill (a factory) in America
B.- Read the article about reason and the age we live in. in the 19th century. Five sentences have been removed from the
Five sentences have been removed from the article. Write article. Write the correct letter a–f in each space. There is one extra
the correct letter a–f in each space. There is one extra sentence you do not need.
sentence you do not need. a However, they soon got used to it.
b Then they could earn 75 cents a week, which was much less
a That was why he began arguing that people open their than the two dollars being offered by the mill.
eyes and their minds and find the truth by studying the world c That took up about 15 minutes in every hour.
around them. d When it was announced in 1836 that the wages were to be cut
b People started to wonder if the Earth really was at the the girls went on strike.
centre of the universe. e This was the main reason why most of the girls regularly sent a
c This new knowledge would be power, Bacon said. large part of their wages back to their families in the
d That ship’s destination later became known as the Age of countryside.
Reason. f They each had a supervisor who made sure that they were
e This enthusiasm for novelty, though, is actually rather old. behaving correctly.
f Francis Bacon, who was an English lawyer, wrote a
number of books that The Mill Girls of Lowell
became a great influence on some of the greatest minds The cotton mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, which began operating in
of Europe. 1832, very quickly attracted hundreds of young women to live and
work there. Hearing about the offer of high wages, they ignored the
The Age of Reason general view that a mill girl was the lowest of the low. As things were,
The phrase the modern world is used every day to refer to single women had very little choice. Most professions were closed to
present day civilisation. But what exactly is the modern world? women and away from the home and the farm there were only a
One of its characteristics is a passion for things that are new. handful of jobs that women could do. They might, for instance, work
(6) ……… In fact, it goes all the way back to the early 17th as tailors. (21) ………
century, to the time of Francis Bacon, in whose works you can
see the same passion. Some of the mill girls were only ten years old, although the majority
were between 16 and 25. The youngest girls were called doffers.
(7) ……… The idea of the new appears in the title of one of Their job was to take the bobbins full of cotton thread from the
those books: Novum Organum, which means New Tool. Bacon spinning frames and replace them with empty ones. (22) ……… For
was very optimistic about the most important the rest of the time the supervisor might let them go out into the mill
new tool: science, which he actually called natural philosophy. yard to play. The day for them, like the rest of us, was very long,
He was one of the first to suggest that with a new scientific way starting at five o’clock in the morning and continuing until seven
of studying nature humanity could at last begin to progress and o’clock in the evening with half an hour each for breakfast and dinner.
improve its condition here on Earth. It wasn’t until several years later that a law was passed to reduce the
Bacon wasn’t a great scientist, although he did do a few working day to ten hours.
experiments; but he was good at persuading people to become
more scientific. He saw that science could not really get going The girls didn’t complain too much about the conditions in the mill. There
was a tremendous noise from all the machines, which caused some of the
unless people stopped looking for the truth in books written by
girls to have temporary hearing problems. (23) ……… Standing at the
the wise men of the past. (8) ……… machines for so many hours each day also made their feet ache and swell.
(9) ……… It would enable humanity to discover and invent
things that would make life easier and better. This was a Almost all the girls lived in boarding houses close to the mill. (24)
completely new way of thinking. Before, people had seen ……… Nobody at the mill wanted the girls to get a bad reputation.
human life as having a fixed order that people just had to accept The owners also organised lectures and other educational activities
and it was common to think of history moving in a cycle. Bacon to help the girls learn more, especially about literature. These were
used the cover of the 1620 edition of his book to show what he privileges that relatives and friends out in the countryside could not
thought of this idea. The picture showed a ship sailing beyond enjoy.
the pillars of Hercules, which symbolised the limits of the known
world. Sometimes there was friction, though. (25) ……… They went on a
parade through the town and listened to speeches by people
(10) ……… This is the time in which people think for supporting the strike. One of the girls got up and spoke out very
themselves, throw off the dead hand of the past and so create forcefully about how angry they all were. That was the first time a
a newer and better world for humanity. It is also known as the woman had ever spoken in public at Lowell. Unfortunately the
Enlightenment because people believed that we had moved employers refused to compromise and the girls soon got tired of being
from a time of darkness and ignorance into an age of light, on strike and losing their pay, so they gave in and went back to work.
knowledge and understanding. This lack of success was repeated on many future occasions.
 Writing Assessment

Name: ______________________________________________ Date: ______________

Writing
Write 200–250 words in answer to one of these questions:
Either:
A local magazine wants to publish short stories about childhood. Write a short story about one of
your childhood experiences. Describe what happened and how you felt.
or:
A local tourist agency is going to publish a brochure with information about your country’s
attractions. Write about one place which you think tourists should visit and give reasons why
they should visit it.

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Organization / 5 Content / 10 Language use / 10 Communicative Score / 30

Achievement / 5
 LISTENING
Name: ________________________________________
1 Listen to five people talking about money. Choose
the correct answer, a, b or c.
1 Speaker 1 is worried that …
a her house might catch fire and burn down.
b she might lose her job.
c they might not be able to pay back the loan.
2 What does speaker 2 say about money?
a It is essential to society.
b We could use apples or wheat as money.
c It causes a lot of arguments in society.
3 Speaker 3 met a man who …
a had travelled around the world in a caravan.
b believed money should be shared equally.
c used to work for a bank.
4 Speaker 4 says that …
a an experiment will end badly.
b gold is losing its value.
c the government should do an experiment.
5 Speaker 5 criticises people who …
a waste their money.
b don’t know how to enjoy their lives.
c love money.
3.-Listen to a lecture about a famous Scottish
economist. Choose the correct answer,
a, b or c.
1 How quickly did The Wealth of Nations sell out?
a in two months
b in 18 da
c in six months
2 What does the lecturer say about capitalism?
a It had no father.
b Adam Smith was its father.
c It had more than one father.
Date: ______________
2 Listen to five people talking about poetry. Choose
the correct answer, a, b or c.
1 Speaker 1 says that he dislikes …
a reading poetry to children.
b people who are fans of poetry.
c poetry that rhymes.
2 According to speaker two …
a poetry is garbage.
b poetry is good.
c she can’t stand poetry.
3 From speaker three we learn that slam poetry …
a is performed on stage.
b is written by professionals.
c is becoming more and more popular.
4 Speaker four says that poetry …
a needs to be read aloud.
b can’t be taught at school.
c is dead now.
5 Speaker five says that …
a fish and chips are his favourite meal.
b poetry is no good without music.
c downloading lyrics is crazy
3 In the lecture it is said that Adam Smith …
a enjoyed studying ants.
b had no personal experience of business.
c was the father of modern economics.
4 Who is mentioned in a famous quotation?
a a baker
b a tailor
c a butcher
5 What did Smith think about A Theory of Moral
Sentiments?
a It was his best book.
b Its ideas about sympathy were wrong.
c It was not as good as The Wealth of Nations.
Speaking
Work in pairs. Talk about the younger generation and what makes it different.
You should think about:
 what you think the younger generation is like.
 what you like about the new generation.
 what you dislike about it.
 how it is different from the previous generation.
 what the causes of the changes are.
Pair work Speaking evaluation
Names grammar vocabulary fluency pronounciation coherence Total

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Speaking
Work in pairs. Talk about the younger generation and what makes it different.
You should think about:
 what you think the younger generation is like.
 what you like about the new generation.
 what you dislike about it.
 how it is different from the previous generation.
 what the causes of the changes are.
Pair work Speaking evaluation
Names grammar vocabulary fluency pronounciation coherence Total

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Speaking
Work in pairs. Talk about the younger generation and what makes it different.
You should think about:
 what you think the younger generation is like.
 what you like about the new generation.
 what you dislike about it.
 how it is different from the previous generation.
 what the causes of the changes are.
Pair work Speaking evaluation
Names grammar vocabulary fluency pronounciation coherence Total
 ADV 3 FINAL GLOBAL UPPER INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH EVALUATION

NAME _____________________________________________ DATE :_____________________________________

SCHEDULE : _________________________________________ TEACHER: LIC. ERLY ALEMAN GARCIA .

A Rewrite the sentence so that it has a similar meaning, 9 It was obvious that the woman knew what her
using the word given. husband ………
a was done.
Example: Their intention is to write a blog. b must be done.
Going : They are going to write a blog. c have done.
d had done.
1 The pie was too sweet to eat.
so
The pie ………………………………… I couldn’t eat it. 10 Little John still ……… to getting dressed on his own.
a doesn’t get used
2 I am certain that she didn’t know what she was doing. b isn’t used
can’t c hasn’t used
She ………………………………… what she was doing. d hadn’t used

3 Every Saturday Mum took us to the park. C Complete the sentences with the correct form of the
would words in brackets.
Mum ………………………………… the park every
Saturday.
Example:
4 In the past I didn’t like yoghurt. Currently (current) there are 600 investors in the
use company.
I ………………………………… yoghurt.
11 On the plane the flight ……… (attend) was very
5 Our representative will meet you at the airport. helpful.
be 12 Do you know the ……… (deep) of the lake?
You ………………………………… our representative at 13 She is very ……… (predict). You don’t know what
the airport. she is going to do next.
14 The child’s constant movement and chatter is
B Choose the correct answer, a, b, c or d to complete the ……… (relent).
sentences.
15 This advert will catch the attention of young ………
6 He asked us ……… we had seen anything strange. (consume).
a did
b what D Choose the correct words from the list a–h to
c if complete the sentences. There are three extra
d do words you do not need.

7 I didn’t know it was ……… a big shop. 16 When the children do something good remember to
a that ……… them.
b such 17 When we did something wrong Mum would tell us
c many ……… .
d so
18 Her parents ……… up when she was seven.
8 Every morning when we were children we ……… to
19 The soup was very ……… .
get water from the well.
20 ……… is made from wheat.
a must have
b would
a bland b pity c off
c had gone
d broke e flour f praise
d went
g bring h report