Unit9 TestA

Complete the third conditional sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. The train tickets                 _________ (be) much cheaper if we            _________ (buy) them on the internet.

2. We                      _________ (not spend) all night in the desert if the car             _________ (not run) out of fuel.

3.                      _________ (you / take) a taxi to my house if my dad             _________ (not meet) you at the bus station?

4. Zoe                     _________ (not go) up in the hot-air balloon if she          _________ (feel) scared.

5. If they           _________ (build) a better underground system in this city, it                       _________ (not become) famous for traffic jams. 

Use the verbs and phrases in the box to complete the sentences.

carry / 300 passengers     open / last month     sit / over there     talk / about me     write / by Tara Bradley

1. I heard you                  _______________________ to Rebecca. What did you say?

2. This travel guide to France,                         ______________________ , has got some really useful information in it.

3. A cruise ship                         _______________________ hit rocks near a Greek island. But luckily it didn’t sink.

4. Sarah,                    _______________________ , is Paul’s new girlfriend.

5. The Waterfront Shopping Centre,                   _______________________ , has already become very popular with local people.

In this article, the writer

A is told to do something that they don’t want to do.

B nearly loses something important on the first day of a holiday.

С is very frightened by something that he/she hears.

D meets a person who has an unusual life.

E suggests doing something about a problem.

1   [a, b, c, d, e]__

Elizabeth seemed like an ordinary person − just another old lady sitting on the deck of a cruise ship. I wouldn’t have started talking to her if I hadn’t noticed that everyone on the ship knew her name: from the captain to the cleaners. Elizabeth told me that she’d moved into a cabin on the cruise ship nine years earlier, and had never left. Elizabeth pays £4,000 a month to stay on the ship − about the same as a hotel room on land. But the ship has great food and entertainment, and Elizabeth sees the world!

2   [a, b, c, d, e]___

It was 3 a.m., and I just wanted to sleep. But the people cleaning the departure lounge had other ideas.

‘You can’t stay here. You have to move!’

I wanted to say, ‘Look, if a hurricane hadn’t hit Cuba, they wouldn’t have cancelled my flight − and I wouldn’t be trying to sleep on your floor. Does it look like I’m having fun?’

But, of course, I just picked up my things, walking back to the all-night airport café. It was my third cup of coffee that night, and I wasn’t feeling very good. ‘If anyone else tells me to move,’ I thought, ‘I’ll scream!’

3   [a, b, c, d, e] ___

I was sitting on a flight to São Paulo, enjoying a film, when someone cried, ‘Look! The engine’s caught fire!’ Moments later, the captain made an announcement.

‘Ladies and gentlemen, both our engines have stopped. We’re trying to start them, so please stay calm.’

Calm − we were falling out of the sky! People began to scream. The cabin crew rushed around. I cried! Then suddenly, the left engine came back to life.

‘Ladies and gentlemen,’ the captain announced, sounding happier this time, ‘we’re going to land in Senegal, West Africa. I hear it’s nice at this time of year.’

4   [a, b, c, d, e]___   [a, b, c, d, e]

On our first day in New York, we went for a walk through Central Park, sitting on a bench to eat hotdogs. Then we left the park, planning to go to the Empire State Building. We were walking down Fifth Avenue, enjoying the sunny weather, when my Mum suddenly cried, ‘Oh no. I’ve left our bag in the park.’

‘My camera is in that bag!’ Megan said. ‘It wouldn’t have happened if you’d been more careful,’ Dad said. But I just said, ‘Let’s stop blaming Mum and go back to the park.’ And luckily someone had found our bag and hidden it behind the bench, thinking we might come back for it.