I. Listen to an interview with an Olympic swimming champion – Jackson Avery. Decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F). Circle T or F. You will listen TWICE. 1. Jackson won in the 500-metre competition. F 2. Jackson went running every day before the event. T 3. Jackson ate a normal diet. T 4. Jackson didn’t have a trainer. F 5. Jackson needed to balance between training and rest. T II. Choose the one word or phrase (A, B, C or D) – that best fits the space in each sentence. 1. Have you ever done martial arts? 2. I would like to go rock climbing. 3. How often do you play badminton on the weekends? 4. Funny people make you smile and laugh. 5. Mean people don’t like helping others and always think about themselves. 6. People sing and dance a lot in this kind of movie. (musical) 7. School finished early yesterday because there was a lot of snow. 8. Saturday is the busiest day of the week to go to the shopping centre – it’s very busy! (worst) 9. Robots can run out of energy. 10. I love making things so I’d rather do robot building. III. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting. 11. What does your mother like? – She is friendly and kind. (no correction needed) 12. The book was successful and she become a popular name all over the world. (became) IV. Read the following text. Decide if the statements from 13 to 16 are True or False and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for the questions 17 and 18. 13. The male birds sing the most beautiful songs. (T) 14. Sometimes, birds sing to warn other birds to keep away. (T) 15. One bird uses shells and flowers to make a house. (T) 16. All of the birds can sing well. (F) 17. Why do people usually sing? (B) 18. What do most birds usually do if they cannot sing well? (B) V. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage. 19. A. be 20. D. taking 21. D. There’s 22. A. a spacesuit 23. C. need to 24. D. floats VI. Use the correct form of the word given in brackets to complete each sentence. 25. Robots can be very helpful to people in hospitals. 26. This is an interesting book. It tells you all about Asia. 27. Action movie has a lot of exciting and adventure. 28. The city has more amusing parks than the countryside. 29. Do you know the writer of this book? VII. Rearrange the groups of words in a correct order to make complete sentences. 30. How will homes change in the future? 31. Seoul is a city with many modern tall buildings. VIII. Rewrite each of the following sentences in another way so that it means almost the same as the sentence printed before it. 32. Are there twenty-five students in your class? 33. The hotel is behind my house. 34. This house is older than any other house in the street. 35. My father gets to work by riding his motorbike every day.