File: MegaGoal Book 2 Exam: Units 4-6

Vocabulary

Question type: Fill in the blank

Complete each sentence with a word from the box.

1. I wish the mayor would have our city cleaned up. There is so much _______________ on the sides of the roads.

[Answer: debris
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

2. Mike: What do you think made that _______________ in the ground?
Tom: It must have been a meteorite. That’s a pretty big hole.

[Answer: crater
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

3. Susan: Who are you going to vote for in the election?
Jenna: I don’t know. I don’t really like either _______________.

[Answer: candidate
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

4. If no one is going to be home for dinner tonight, then I won’t _______________ to cook anything.

[Answer: bother
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

5. Many people believe that there is life on other planets, but we still have not found any _______________.

[Answer: proof
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

Complete each sentence with a word from the box.

6. I don’t think he should go into the swimming pool now. There is a _______________ of a thunderstorm.

[Answer: threat
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

7. Hussain: How can I _______________ my grade in English?
Teacher: Well, you could stay after school and do some extra work.

[Answer: raise
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

8. We always have fireworks at our National Day celebration. They are so beautiful when they _______________ in the night sky.

[Answer: explode
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

9. This lake is the _______________ of their drinking water. It all comes from here.

[Answer: source
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

10. Marcia: I really like these shoes! I am going to buy them even though they are too expensive.
Pam: Why don’t you think about it first? You might _______________ spending all of your money on one pair of shoes.

[Answer: regret
Learning Objective: Vocabulary]

Grammar

Question type: Multiple Choice

Choose the best answer to each question. 

11. It is 3:00 in the morning and Jana is still awake studying.
A. She won’t be tired.
B. She can be tired.
C. She couldn’t be tired.
D. She must be tired.

[Answer: D
Learning Objective: Grammar]

12. Mom: Who is watching TV?
Dad: It _______________ be Jack. I can see him outside.
A. can’t
B. might
C. must
D. couldn’t have

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Grammar]

13. When Beth arrived at the store, it _______________ already.
A. close
B. closed
C. had closed
D. has closed

[Answer: C
Learning Objective: Grammar]

14. If Claire hadn’t taken that train, she _______________ injured in the accident.
A. wouldn’t be
B. wouldn’t have been
C. hadn’t been
D. hadn’t been

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Grammar]

15. If I had know that you were going to be there, I definitely _______________.
A. had come
B. have come
C. would have come
D. would come

[Answer: C
Learning Objective: Grammar]

16. If you had told me that you needed money, I _______________ you some.
A. could have given
B. could give
C. have given
D. had given

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Grammar]

17. Carol: Do you have a pen I can borrow?
A. Carol asked I had a pen she could borrow.
B. Carol ask I have a pen she can borrow.
C. Carol ask if I have a pen she can borrow.
D. Carol asked if I had a pen she could borrow.

[Answer: D
Learning Objective: Grammar]

18. Teacher: How tall are you?
A. The teacher asked if I was tall.
B. The teacher asked how tall I was.
C. The teacher asked if I am tall.
D. The teacher asked how I am tall.

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Grammar]

19. Ali: I may sell my car.
A. Ali said that he might sell his car.
B. Ali said may sell his car.
C. Alisaid that he would sell his car.
D. Ali said that he could sell his car.

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Grammar]

20. Faisal: I haven’t read that book yet.
A. Faisal said that he read that book yet.
B. Faisal said that he couldn’t read that book yet.
C. Faisal said that he hadn’t read that book yet.
D. Faisal said that he has read that book yet.

[Answer: C
Learning Objective: Grammar]

Conversation

Question type: Multiple Choice

Choose the answer that has the same meaning as the underlined words in each question.  

21. Steven: What is this box doing here?
Max: Beats me. I’ve never seen it before.
A. Oh, I know.
B. I have no idea.
C. I tripped over it.
D. I think I know.

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Conversation]

22. Stella: Do you know what school you want to go to next year?
Nora: Yes. I have my mind set on going to Oxford University.
A. Nora does not think she wants to go to Oxford University.
B. Nora thinks she might want to go to Oxford University.
C. Nora definitely does not want to go to Oxford University.
D. Nora definitely wants to go to Oxford University.

[Answer: D
Learning Objective: Conversation]

23. Jack: Hey, Matt. Do you want to come over tonight?
Matt: Sorry, I can’t tonight. I have to study. My parents have been breathing down my neck all week. They want to make sure I am studying hard for the English exam.
A. constantly checking on me
B. sitting next to me
C. breathing on me
D. rubbing my neck

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Conversation]

24. Kevin: Are you going to be home this summer, Jason?
Jason: Actually, I think it is time for me to go out into the world. I am thinking about getting a job and moving in with my brother at his new apartment.
A. to travel around the world
B. to start school
C. to start to be independent
D. to take up a new hobby

[Answer: C
Learning Objective: Conversation]

Reading 

Question type: True/False

Read the text and answer the questions. Write T or F at the end of each question/sentence. 

25. This reading is about the accuracy of weather forecasts. ____

[Answer: True
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: main idea]

26. The study showed that weather forecasts are accurate for the next five days. ____

[Answer: False
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: main idea]

27. Meteorologists are hired based on how accurately they predict the weather. ____

[Answer: False
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: supporting detail]

28. TV viewers like to watch meteorologists who are attractive and entertaining. ____

[Answer: True
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: supporting detail]

29. You should trust the weather forecast for the next day. ____

[Answer: True
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: inference]

Question type: Multiple Choice

Choose the best answer to each question. 

30. A meteorologist is _______________.
A. the science of weather
B. a scientist who studies and predicts weather
C. an actor who reads the weather forecast
D. a part of a meteorite

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: vocabulary]

31. “There’s not an evaluation of accuracy in hiring meteorologists. Presentation takes precedence over accuracy” means:
A. Meteorologists are hired if they make accurate predictions
B. Meteorologists are never accurate.
C. TV stations like to hire meteorologists who are attractive and entertaining.
D. TV stations check that meteorologists make accurate predictions before they hire them.

[Answer: C
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: paraphrase]

32. Accuracy is not a big deal to viewers. The underlined words mean: 
A. something that is important
B. something that is entertaining
C. something that is expensive
D. something that is interesting

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: vocabulary]

33. Which word in the reading is another word for prediction?
A. qualification
B. evaluation
C. accuracy
D. forecast

[Answer: D
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: vocabulary]

Written expression

Choose the best way to rewrite each sentence. 

34. Meteorologist: Accuracy is not a big deal to viewers.

A. A meteorologist said that accuracy had not been a big deal to viewers.
B. A meteorologist said that accuracy was not a big deal to viewers.
C. A meteorologist told that accuracy is not a big deal to viewers.
D. A meteorologist told the researchers that accuracy could not be a big deal to viewers.

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Reading Comprehension: grammar]

35. I said something to my friend. I wish I hadn’t said it.

A. I wouldn’t have said that to my friend.
B. I had better not say that to my friend
C. I shouldn’t have said that to my friend.
D. I ought not to say that to my friend.

[Answer: C]
Learning Objective: Written Expression]

36. You left your house. Then I arrived to pick you up.

A. You left your house after I arrived to pick you up.
B. I already arrived to pick you up after you left your house.
C. When you left your house, I arrived to pick you up.
D. When I arrived at your house to pick you up, you had already left.

[Answer: D
Learning Objective: Written Expression]

37. We never went on a vacation. Then we visited Mexico City.

A. We never went on a vacation after we visited Mexico City.
B. We had never gone on a vacation until we visited Mexico City.
C. We visited Mexico City, and then we went on a vacation.
D. We had gone to Mexico City before we ever went on a vacation.

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Written Expression]

38. Jess: Yes, it’s a good idea to wait until tomorrow.

A. Jess agreed that it was a good idea to wait until tomorrow.
B. Jess told that it was a good idea to wait until tomorrow.
C. Jess asked if it was a good idea to wait until tomorrow.
D. Jess assured it was a good idea to wait until tomorrow.

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Written Expression]

39. I spent all of my money. Now I can’t buy a snack.

A. If I hadn’t spent all of my money, I could have bought a snack.
B. If I had bought a snack, I wouldn’t have spent all of my money.
C. I could buy a snack if I didn’t spent all of my money
D. If I hadn’t spent all of my money, I should have bought a snack.

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Written Expression]

Listening

Question type: True/False

Listen and answer the questions. Write F or T at the end of each question/sentence. 

 [AUDIO: The War of the Worlds, Audio: CD2, Track 23]
The War of the Worlds 

On October 30, 1938, CBS Radio interrupted a live radio program to deliver an important announcement. It said that astronomers had detected blue flames shooting up from the surface of Mars. The broadcast returned to its program, but it was soon interrupted again. This time the news said that a strange meteor had fallen on a farm near Grover’s Mill in New Jersey, and then CBS Radio switched over to continuous live coverage of the eerie scene around the meteor crash. 

As the event unfolded, the terrified audience discovered that the meteor was actually some kind of spaceship. The reporter on the scene described the emergence of an alien from the spacecraft. “Goodness, something’s wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake,” he said, in an appropriately dramatic tone of voice. “Now it’s another one, and another. They look like tentacles to me. There, I can see the thing’s body. It’s as large as a bear, and it glistens like wet leather. But that face. It... it’s indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it. The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate... The thing is rising up. The crowd falls back. They’ve seen enough. This is the most extraordinary experience. I can’t find words. I’m pulling this microphone with me as I talk. I’ll have to stop the description until I’ve taken a new position. Hold on, will you please, I’ll be back in a minute.”

The alien Martian crawled back into the crater, but re-emerged soon afterwards in a gigantic three-legged death machine, and quickly killed the 7,000 armed soldiers surrounding the crater. Then it proceeded across the landscape, joined by other Martians, blasting people and objects with heat rays, while releasing a poisonous black gas against which gas masks proved useless.

Listeners all over the United States began to panic. People filled the roads, hid in cellars, loaded guns, and even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from the Martians’ poisonous gas. People desperately wanted to defend themselves against aliens. Although the radio broadcast had warned listeners four times that this was a dramatized version of H. G. Wells’s story, The War of the Worlds, performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater, people simply ignored those announcements. However, by the time the night was over, most people had learned that they were actually listening to a radio play. The fact is that the broadcast had reached approximately six million people and had produced a huge national scare at a time of the growing tension and anxiety leading up to World War II.]

40. A live radio program was interrupted and an important announcement was made by CBS. ____

[Answer: True
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: main idea]

41. The news said that a flaming, blue meteor had fallen on earth. ____

[Answer: False
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: main idea]

42. The listeners were told, early on, that a spaceship had crashed. ____

[Answer: False
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: inference]

43. The reporter on the scene started describing the spaceship in detail. ____

[Answer: False
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: supporting detail]

44. The reporter was pleased to describe the alien creature. ____

[Answer: False
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: inference]

Question type: Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the best answer to each question. 

45. The alien’s mouth was _______________.
A. V-shaped with thick lips
B. V-shaped with no lips
C. V-shaped with square lips
D. V-shaped with V-shaped lips

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: vocabulary]

46. The alien used a _______________death machine.
A. two-legged
B. three-legged 
C. four-legged
D. five-legged

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: vocabulary, pronunciation]

47. People panicked and tried to ___________ 
A. defend themselves against the aliens.
B. throw rocks at the aliens
C. make friends with the aliens
D. wrapped their heads with paper

[Answer: A
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: supporting detail]

48. By the next morning  ________
A. most people had left town.
B. most people had hidden in cellars.
C. most people had found out the truth.
D. some people had found out the truth

[Answer: C
Learning Objective: Listening Comprehension: inference]
Form, Meaning and Function

Question type: Multiple Choice

Choose the best answer to fill in the blank in each question.

49. The ballpoint pen _______ until1888.
A. was invented
B. invented
C. not invented
D. wasn’t invented

[Answer: D
Learning Objective: FMF]

50,Could I have a pen please? Yes, of course, you ______.
A. may
B. can
C. could
D. can’t

[Answer: B
Learning Objective: FMF]