Progress Test 10B
Name: ___________________________________________
Grammar
1 Rewrite the sentences using a participle clause.
1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which belongs to the city of New York, opened in 1872. ______________________________________________________________________
2 The plane, which will carry 1,000 passengers, is going to be the largest passenger aircraft in the world.
______________________________________________________________________ 3 They are staying in a small hotel which is located near the old part of town.
______________________________________________________________________ 4 The photo which is hanging on the wall in the living room was taken by my sister.
______________________________________________________________________
5 Glastonbury Festival, which was changed into a rock festival in the 1970s, had originally been a festival of classical music.
______________________________________________________________________ 6 Audrey Hepburn, who was born in Belgium, became one of the best-loved actors of all time.
______________________________________________________________________ 7 The students who will be taking part in the maths competition must solve some very difficult
problems.
______________________________________________________________________
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2 Choose the correct answers.
1 I always put a little / little honey in my tea.
2 Each / Every of my friends sent me a card for my birthday.
3 I’m afraid I haven’t got much / many money on me, so I can’t buy you this book. 4 None / No of the people in my class study French as well as English.
5 I’ve already met most / all members of the team, but not everyone. 6 Who wants any / some ice cream?
7 Very little / few people came to the concert, so it wasn’t a big success.
3 Complete the sentences with so, such or such a(n).
1 Nazareth are still __________ amazing musicians – after forty years in the business.
2 My friend wants me to go to a museum with him, but I think museums are __________ boring. 3 The film was __________ scary that I couldn’t fall asleep afterwards.
4 You have got __________ great singing voice. You should be on The X Factor. 5 The ballerina danced __________ gracefully that I almost fell in love with her. 6 I don’t think I’ve ever tasted __________ delicious bread before.
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Vocabulary
4 Choose the correct answers.
1 The string ___ performed some beautiful music by Haydn.
a group b quartet c band
2 A heavy metal song without a guitar ___ in the middle is almost unthinkable.
a movement b solo c aria
3 The audience started to dance to the strong ___ of The Prodigy’s set.
a movement b solo c beat
4 I love singing along to my favourite songs, but I can never remember all the ___ .
a melody b lyrics c chords
5 A large group of people singing together is called a ___ .
a symphony b choir c melody
6 Outside the underground station, a ___ was playing some old Bob Dylan songs on his guitar.
a busker b DJ c solo
7 Eroica, one of my favourite pieces of music, is another name for Beethoven’s Third ___ .
a Movement b Harmony c Symphony
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5 Complete the text with one word in each gap.
Sziget (meaning ‘island’) is one of largest music festivals in mainland 1__________ . Every August more than
350,000 festival-2__________ come to Budapest to attend concerts and other events. There is a very
impressive 3__________-up of international artists in the programme each year. Headline 4__________ in
recent years have included Prince, Muse, Judas Priest and The Prodigy. There are dozens of stages and tents all over Sziget, and a 5__________site for those who want to sleep where they party. The venue is near the centre
of the city, and there is a free shuttle 6__________ service for those who have tickets. In 2007 the organisers
started another festival called Balaton Sound for lovers of electronic dance 7__________ .
6 Complete the sentences with the correct from of the words in brackets.
1 No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock is one of the most expensive __________ in the world. (paint) 2 The artist made a number of quick __________ before she began working on the main picture.
(sketch)
3 The visitors to the gallery admired all of the beautiful marble and bronze __________ . (sculpt) 4 Even if I don’t speak the language, I love looking at the __________ in foreign-language art
books. (illustrate)
5 I don't think you can teach __________ to someone who's not very artistic. (draw)
6 When the weather is bad, I often go to __________ in art galleries and museums. (exhibit)
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Use of English
7 Complete the text. Choose the correct answers, A, B, C or D.
One of the best films I’ve seen recently is called Inception. It was written and directed by Christopher Nolan and released in 2010. The main character is Dom Cobb, played by Leonard DiCaprio, who can create dreams for people. This allows him to enter their minds and steal their ideas or change their behaviour. The owner of a large energy company asks him to enter the mind of one of his competitors and ‘plant’ an idea, 1____ him
destroy his own company. Although the plot sounds 2____ , I thought the film was very 3____ and realistic.
The first time I saw it, I thought the ending was a bit 4____ , but the second time I watched it, it made more
sense.
5____ made the biggest impression on me was the way the film used time in dreams: something that feels like
an hour in a dream might only last for a few minutes in real life. And a person could have a dream, or several dreams, within a dream, so that every time you go into the next dream, time slows down even more. This means that something that only takes a 6____ seconds in the first dream lasts for several minutes, or even
hours, in the second or third dream.
There are a lot of 7____ in the film that you need to understand, but I’ve already seen it three times and 8____
time I see it, I understand and enjoy it more. I think the plot is 9____ original. I would definitely recommend it.
It makes other films look very two-dimensional and 10____ .
1 A made B make C making D are making
2 A unusual B gripping C familiar D irresponsible
3 A colloquial B confused C convincing D conscientious
4 A believable B colloquial C puzzling D satisfying
5 A How B That C What D Which
6 A any B few C little D some
7 A directions B details C roles D settings
8 A all B each C many D most
Listening
8 Listen to a conversation about an art exhibition. Choose the correct answers.
1 The exhibition was unusual because
a the gallery had showed the wrong pictures by mistake. b all the paintings were made using scientific techniques. c most of the paintings were forgeries.
2 These days, galleries
a use scientific calculations to set the price of a work.
b can rely on modern technology to study paintings in great detail. c don’t make mistakes any more.
3 In the nineteenth century a painting by Hans Holbein
a was a costly mistake for the gallery and its manager. b became more valuable after the artist died.
c was stolen from the gallery.
4 Regarding the two paintings by Botticelli, a neither of them was by the famous artist. b the one they paid less for is real.
c they were bought for a low price.
5 In 2004, an expert from the gallery
a made a controversial decision about a painting. b was criticised in the media and lost his job.
c spent over £22 million on a painting by Raphael that was proved to be fake.
Reading
9 Read the text. Are the statements 1–5 true or false? An unusual string quartet
What do you do after you have completed your studies in classical music at a famous music academy? Well, if you are like Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, Max Lilja and Antero Manninen, you form a heavy metal band, of course! But not just any band. The four friends left the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 1993 and formed a grouped called Apocalyptica, one of the most successful heavy metal bands today, selling millions of albums around the world.
What brought the four young men together was their shared love for the band Metallica. At first, their dream was simply to play their favourite Metallica songs. What makes Apocalyptica unusual among heavy metal bands is that the musicians play cellos, not electric guitars. Their first album, released in 1996, had a title that explained it all – Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos.
The band became an unexpected international success. They received invitations to play with some of the biggest bands in rock, and performed at many festivals around Europe and the United States. Although the friends never expected to make a career in rock music, they have recorded seven more albums to date – all worldwide hits. Eicca and Paavo still play together, but Max Lilja and Antero Manninen have been replaced by Perttu Kivilaakso, another cello graduate of the Sibelius Academy, and professional drummer Mikko Sirén. Apocalyptica have come a long way since 1993. They still play the music they loved listening to as teenage fans, but now they write most of their own material. Their fourth album, Reflections, released in 2003, was the first one to feature only original tracks by Apocalyptica. For songs that need a singer, they invite famous guest stars like Ville Valo of the band HIM, Till Lindemann of Rammstein or Gavin Rossdale of Bush.
The most ironic moment of their career came in November 2008. Their hit I Don’t Care appeared in third place on the Billboard chart, ahead of Metallica who managed only fourth place! Later, with the same song,
Apocalyptica became the first Finnish band ever to reach the top of the US charts.
1 The four friends from Sibelius Academy originally formed a quartet to play classical music. ____ 2 They started Apocalyptica because they all liked the same band. ____
3 Today only two of the original musicians are left in the band. ____
4 They write some of their material, but most of their songs are still by other bands. ____ 5 They made the US charts in 2008, just behind Metallica. ____
Writing
10 Write a review (200–250 words) of a book you have recently read. Include the following points:
Say what kind of book it was and who wrote it.
Say where and when it is set, and give information about the characters.
Describe the main points in the story.
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