Estelle Dupont was 100 years old in 2000 and living in an old people's home in Paris. She was born in France near Bordeaux, where her father was a rich businessman. As a child, she lived in a large chateau near Bordeaux that had 20 bedrooms and beautiful gardens, though she was unhappy because she was an only child and her mother died when she was 8 and her father died when she was 10. Today she says life is better.
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1. TEST A
Ingl¨¦s a tu manera
Read the text and mark the
correct answer (a¨Cc) to each question (1¨C4).
Estelle Dupont was 100 years old in 2000. She was born near
Bordeaux in France, where her father was a rich businessman.
Today she lives in an old people¡¯s home in Paris.
¡°My father was a rich businessman and we lived in a chateau
about ten kilometres from Bordeaux. Our home was very
comfortable. The house was very big ¨C there were twenty
bedrooms, beautiful gardens and lots of servants. But my
childhood wasn¡¯t happy. I was an only child, and my mother
was always ill. She died when I was eight, and my father died
two years later when I was ten. It was a very bad time. I was a
very unhappy child, but life is better now.¡±
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1 How old was Estelle Dupont in 1967?
a) She was living in Bordeaux.
b) She was 67 years old.
c) She was a hundred years old.
2 Where did she live when she was a child?
a) She lived in the city of Bordeaux, France.
b) She lived in a chateau near Bordeaux.
c) She lived in an old people¡¯s home in Paris.
3 Did she like the gardens at the chateau?
a) Yes, she said they were very big.
b) No, because she had no one to play with.
c) Yes, she said they were beautiful.
4 What happened to her parents?
a) Estelle¡¯s mother died two years after her
father.
b) She was an only child.
c) Her father died two years after her mother.
Mark the correct word (a¨Cc) to complete each
sentence (1¨C8).
5
My sister likes Mexican food, but I don¡¯t like ____.
a) her
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b) them
c) it
Does _______ friend like classical music?
a) you
b) your
c) yours
7 My parents haven¡¯t got calculators, but ______
have a computer at home.
a) it
b) they
c) them
8 I really like Craig David¡¯s music. My older brother
gave ____ some of his CDs.
a) me
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b) them
Read the utterances (9¨C12). Mark the place (a¨Cc)
where you would hear them.
9 Look at exercise 6 on page 21.
a) a restaurant
b) a shopping mall
c) a classroom
10 How much is a sandwich and a bottle of water?
a) a computer shop
b) a living room
c) a caf¨¦
11 What time does the main film start?
a) a video shop
b) a library
c) a cinema
12 Fasten your seatbelts, put the backs of your seats in
the upright position and fold away your tables.
a) an aeroplane
b) a train
c) a police station
Mark the correct word (a¨Cc) to complete each
sentence (13¨C20).
13 We are looking for a green car _________.
a) every day
b) at the moment
c) yesterday
14 I don¡¯t usually play tennis ________.
a) tomorrow
b) last week
c) on Thursdays
15 John isn¡¯t going to buy a new house _______.
a) last week
b) next year
c) yesterday
16 Where were you at 6 o¡¯clock ________?
a) tomorrow
b) in the summer
c) this morning
17 What time did you leave home ________?
a) on Thursday
b) tomorrow
c) at 6 o¡¯clock
18 There are a lot of clouds in the sky _______.
a) on Tuesday
b) at the moment
c) yesterday
19 Do you like going to the beach _______?
a) in summer
b) tomorrow
c) last month
20 She never drives her car ________.
a) today
b) next day
c) at weekends
c) my
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