IES Doña Leonor de Gúzman

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Test UNIT 2: USE OF ENGLISH

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

1 Choose the correct answer.
1. That dog looks harmless, but it has captured / attacked / punished people.
2. The police haven’t solved the crime because they haven’t found any clues /
causes of death / cases yet.
3. The girl approached / avoided / fainted when she saw the frightening creature.
4. Adult animals will do anything to defend / escape / fight their babies.
5. While the police were examining the body, they realised / grabbed / uncovered
evidence of murder.
6. Where is Tyler? I avoid / wonder / hide what happened.
7. How long did it take the police to solve the case / court / gun?
8. Poor James was the murderer / victim / judge of a terrible crime.
2 Match A to B to form sentences.
A B
1. The baby is sleeping. ..... a. Don’t step back!
2. Shut the door quietly. ..... b. We’ll have to break into it.
3. There’s a big hole behind you. ..... c. Let’s put together the evidence.
4. That man has got a knife in his hand. ..... d. Please keep quiet and turn
down the music.
5. We’ve got a crime to solve. ..... e. Don’t make a noise!
6. You locked your keys in your car. ..... f. Run away quickly!
3 Circle the word or phrase that doesn’t belong.
1. murderer • victim • thief
2. notice • realise • scream
3. attack • fight • run away
4. jury • court • crime scene
5. escape • run away • hide
6. keep quiet • scream • make a noise
7. attack • faint • break into
8. hide • keep quiet • wonder
4 Complete the sentences with the words below.
hide • gun • judge • jury • court • grab • guilty • innocent • case • crime scene
1. You must have a special licence for your ............................................... .
2. I didn’t take your bicycle – I’m ............................................... .
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 3. Paul is in prison because he’s ............................................... of a crime.
4. The ............................................... discussed all the evidence before they made a
decision.
5. Sally was a lawyer for many years. Now she is a ............................................... .
6. The lawyer isn’t in his office now – he’s in ............................................... .
7. The police found a lot of blood at the ............................................... .
8. The thief tried to ............................................... , but the police caught him.
9. That man in the green T-shirt tried to ............................................... my bag!
10. The detective is trying to solve a murder ............................................... .
5 Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the Past Perfect
Simple.
break • be • not snow • learn • not lock • borrow • finish • watch
1. David went home quickly because he ............................................... the door.
2. Did Gwen recommend the book to her friends after she ...............................................
reading it?
3. The dancer didn’t perform because she ............................................... her leg.
4. We didn’t go skiing because it ............................................... over the weekend.
5. Did Lucy return your camera after she ............................................... it?
6. Our dog slept all day after it ............................................... on a long walk.
7. We went hiking in Scotland after we ............................................... a video on YouTube.
8. Lauren didn’t go for a bike ride with us because she ...............................................
never ...............................................
to ride a bike.
6 Choose the correct answer.
1. We went / had gone for a walk because it stopped / had stopped raining.
2. Did you watch / Had you watched TV after you had / had had dinner?
3. How long was the man / had the man been in prison before his court case
began / had begun?
4. Louise didn’t understand / hadn’t understood the language because she
didn’t study /
hadn’t studied French.
5. By the time the story ended / had ended, the children fell / had fallen asleep.
6. Everyone in the neighbourhood felt / had felt safer because the police caught /
had caught the
gang of thieves.
7 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple or
Past Perfect Simple.

1. The thieves ................................................................ (escape) by the time the

police ................................................................ (arrive).
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2. Some people in the street ................................................................ (run after) the man
after he ................................................................ (grab) my bag.
3. I ................................................................ (fail) my exam because
I ................................................................ (not study) at all.
4. ............................................... you ............................................... (remember) that
you ................................................................ (meet) her before?
5. He ................................................................ (begin) a new life after
he ................................................................ (change) his identity.
6. We ................................................................ (not know) you were ill because
nobody ................................................................ (tell) us.
8 Choose the correct answers to complete the text.
One of the largest jewellery thefts in the USA occurred on 11th July
2022, shortly after two o’clock in the morning. Earlier, two lorry
drivers 1. collected / had collected 22 heavy boxes
of expensive jewellery from an exhibition in San Francisco. Their job
was to deliver it all to an exhibition in Los Angeles, over 700 km
south. After they 2. had driven / drove for a few hours, the drivers 3.
had stopped / stopped at a petrol station with a fast-food
restaurant. The theft
4.
took place / had taken place as soon as one of the drivers 5. left
/ had left the lorry to go
and get food. By the time he 6. had returned / returned, the
jewellery and the thieves
7.
had disappeared / disappeared.
What about the second driver? He 8. had fallen / fell asleep while
his partner was driving and
9.
didn’t wake up / hadn’t woken up during the robbery. According
to investigators, it’s
possible that the thieves 10. had made / made arrangements with
buyers for the jewellery
before the robbery.

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 READING

1 Read the magazine article. Then match A to B to form sentences. (10 points)

Crime Doesn’t Pay

The Lufthansa Robbery

On 11th December 1978, an aeroplane with almost $6
million in cash and jewellery arrived at New York’s JFK
Airport late at night. The airport workers couldn’t take
the money to the bank at that hour, so they put it in the
Lufthansa building. A gang of thieves entered the
building and took the cash and jewellery. Then, they
escaped in a van and hid the money. The whole
robbery took only about an hour. The thieves thought
they had succeeded, but the driver went to visit a
friend and parked the van illegally on the street. The
police found it together with the driver’s fingerprints.
The police never found most of the money, and only
one of the thieves ever went to prison for the crime.

The Great Train Robbery

The United Kingdom had always been proud of its
excellent railway system, so people were surprised to
learn that a serious crime had occurred on the night of
8th August 1963. It all began when a worker for the
British postal service contacted a gang of thieves.
They discovered that the British Royal Mail was
planning to send a train from Glasgow to London with
a larger amount of money than usual. The thieves
worked for more than a month to put together a plan to
rob the train. Finally, they got on the train, attacked the
driver and escaped with £2.6 million. But the thieves
had left a lot of clues on the train. In less than a year,
the police caught 12 of the 15 robbers – but they never
found all of the money. However, in 1971, Britain
changed its monetary system and the stolen money
completely lost its value.

A B
1. When the aeroplane arrived, ..... a. a group of thieves rob a train.
2. The robbers entered the Lufthansa building ..... b. it was parked illegally.
3. The police noticed the van because ..... c. to steal cash and jewellery.
4. A British Royal Mail worker helped ..... d. for more than a month.

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5. The thieves planned the robbery ..... e. the bank was closed.
2 Tick (✓) the sentences T (true) or F (false). (10 points)
T F
1. A gang of thieves entered the aeroplane and ..... .....
captured the pilot.
2. It took the thieves about an hour to steal the money ..... .....
and escape.
3. Most of the Lufthansa robbers went to prison in the ..... .....
end.
4. There was more money than usual on the UK train. ..... .....
5. The train robbers couldn’t use the money after 1971. ..... .....

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