TEST "Unit 8. Talking to the World" (Wider World 1)

Complete the sentences with appropriate article.

1. There is     [a, an, the] new cinema and     [a, an, the]old cinema in town.     [A, An, The] new cinema is next to the football stadium, it is big.     [A, An, The] old one is small.

2.     [A, An, The] man is walking down the road. There's     [a, an, the] dog with     [a, an, the] man.

3. There is     [a, an, the] nice bike outside the house. I think     [a, an, the] bike is Helen's.

4. Mark bought     [a, an, the] new car last week.     [A, An, The] car is very expensive.

5. They built     [a, an, the] new road in town. You can take     [a, an, the] road to get to the country quicker.

6. The old museum is on the same street as     [a, an, the] park.     [A, An, The] park is     [a, an, the] good place to sit and to eat your lunch.

Choose the correct word to complete the sentences.

1. English isn't Katia's         [country, foreign, native] language but she speaks it really well.

2. My cousin speaks Italian          [fruently, easily] because he lived in Italy when he was younger.

3. I have a really nice phone              [message, conversation, number] with my granny every week.

4. The         [main, biggest, capital] city of Scotland is Edinburgh.

5. The Pacific       [ocean, sea, lake] covers about half of the planet.

6. In the Geography quiz at school today, the teacher          [demanded, aksed, made] questions about different countries.

Complete the text using a word from the list.

bilingual-----email-----languages-----Asia-----letters-----mountains-----north-----population------rivers

India

India is a huge country in      It has the second largest            in the world after China about 1.3 billion people. The main           people speak there are Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, Tamil and English. Many people can speak at least two of these, so they are           . There are many long        in India, like the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. Many boats use them to travel from place to place in the region. For many people now,       is the main type of communication, but lots of others, who don’t have access to the internet, still send         .

In the       of the country, there are some of the highest           in the world – the Himalayas. Some of these are over 8,000m high!