Straightforward Advanced Progress Test 4
Name _______________________ Score _____________
Language section
Vocabulary
A Complete the text with words and phrases from the box. Each word or phrase can only be used once. There are four extra words and phrases.
anchor at ease box office flop bright come to nothing glance high-flier
insatiable lost cause overnight prime soap stress-inducing
At first (1) _____ Sara Bakshi’s story doesn’t seem too remarkable. Born into a wealthy family – her father is a successful businessman while her mother is a famous actress on (2) _____ time television – Sara certainly seemed to have a (3) _____ future. What is amazing is her almost (4) _____ success in a field notoriously difficult to make it in – journalism. Just two years after leaving university Sara is already (5) _____ of the national evening news. When she told her friends what she wanted to do, most thought it would (6) _____ – just another unfulfilled dream. But, her (7) _____ appetite for getting to the bottom of a news story soon got the attention of her bosses. Now when you see Sara in the newsroom it’s amazing how (8) _____ she seems in such a (9) _____ environment and it looks as though she’ll be around for a long time to come.
B Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.
(10) She was ______ by her younger sister.
a) looked down b) overshadowed c) overstretched
(11) He’s always using the remote control to ______. It’s so annoying.
a) channel hop b) coach potato c) record highlights
(12) She’s got a lovely _____ in her eye.
a) gaze b) shine c) twinkle
(13) I’m so hungry. You can hear my tummy _____.
a) rattling b) rumbling c) rustling
(14) I’m sorry, you can’t go there. It’s _____ limits.
a) in b) off c) out
(15) It’s so hot in here. You need one of those air-______ units.
a) conditioned b) heated c) powered
(16) There was a horrible _____ as he put his brakes on.
a) creak b) scratch c) screech
(17) His stamina is amazing. He’ll keep going and ____ last everyone.
a) out b) over c) under
Grammar
C Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.
(18) I doubt you’ll like / liking the concert as it’s not really your type of music.
(19) I’m sorry, but I don’t like either / neither poem very much.
(20) If I had enough money, I’d buy / bought that painting.
(21) Do you fancy to come / coming to the science museum with me?
(22) I’ve been to quite a few / little concerts recently.
(23) The art gallery doesn’t open / to open until 10 a.m. during the week
(24) I don’t think I could / must ever play the piano as well as you.
(25) He’s bound to win / winning – that painting is amazing.
D Complete the sentences with words from the box. Each word can only be used once. There are four extra words.
all another aren’t every isn’t must need only other quite shouldn’t these this
(26) I was sure we had _____ chance of success – I really don’t understand what went wrong.
(27) I’m sorry, but that really _____ enough.
(28) If _____ I had listened to you before, but it’s too late now.
(29) Which of _____ do you want?
(30) You _____ to train really hard if you’re going to succeed.
(31) Is _____ the only one you’ve got left?
(32) This new technology has ______ a few uses, but I think it’ll soon be out-of-date.
(33) I knew I _____ have listened to you.
(34) Can you give me _____ five minutes, please?
Speech features
E Complete the sentences with nouns from the box. Each noun can only be used once.
technology poem painting news interview idea
(35) It’s crazy – your _____! How you ever think it’ll work is beyond me.
(36) That _____ – I could stand and stare at it for hours.
(37) The _____ – have you heard it? I only caught a bit on the radio as I was driving in, but it sounded
terrible.
(38) It was very funny – that _____. How did they manage to get the wrong guy?
(39) It was so romantic – that _____. Did he really write it just for you?
(40) That _____ – I don’t know how we ever managed without it.