Solutions. Intermediate. Test 3

Read the text and choose the correct words.

Local girl plans walk across Sahara Desert

By July this year, Sarah White, from here in Gerrards Cross,                    [will have finished, will be finishing] her A-level exams, but she                    [won't have relaxed, won't be relaxing] on a beach somewhere to celebrate. Sarah and two friends                 [will be walking, walk] across the Sahara Desert!

People                [leave, will have left] water and food at different places along the girls’ route, but they                         [will still be carrying, will still have carried] 25 kilograms of food, water and equipment on their backs every day. It will be too hot for Sarah and her friends to walk in the middle of the day, so they                 [get, will be getting] up early in the morning to walk before it gets too hot. Then they’ll rest in their tents until the evening.

‘Our bodies                    [will have got used, get used]to the high temperatures by then,’ Sarah says, ‘because we’ll stay near the Sahara for a few weeks before we start the trip. But I                [doubt, 'm fairly sure] it will be very comfortable to sit inside a tent in temperatures of 45°C! And lots of things       [could, may] not go wrong too. Strong winds           [will have, may] come in from the Atlantic and blow sand around. This is called a “sand storm”, and if one         [happen, happens] on our trip, we        [won't, aren't] be able to see anything − or go outside our tents for days!’

Complete the mini-dialogues with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the future continuous, future perfect, or the first conditional.

Paula             (you / go) to the concert with me tomorrow if I     (buy) the tickets?

Samantha Thanks for asking me, but the weather forecast for tomorrow is terrible. I             (not be) surprised if they        (cancel) the concert.

Ellen You                 (move) to Manchester by the end of September.

Josh Yes, and I’m going to miss you a lot. But I’m sure we                  (chat) on the internet all the time!

Mandy                            (scientists / cure) cancer by 2050?

Rick Maybe. Fifty years from now, perhaps everyone                (live) a lot longer than we do now.

Write the second sentence. Use the future continuous, future perfect, could, or the first conditional.

You can borrow this magazine tomorrow. I / read / it / by then.