New Impact 1 Tests

Reading
1 Read the text and answer the questions.
(6 marks)
1 What problems do parents have with
children’s mobile phones?
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2 When did companies start making phones for kids?
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3 How is a child’s phone different from an
adult’s phone?
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4 What do most children use their mobile
phones for?
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5 Who usually has the most expensive phone bills?
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6 What does Parentline think that parents
should do?
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Grammar
2 Rewrite the sentences in the passive.
(6 marks)
1 Children use mobile phones to send text messages.
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2 Teenagers are buying more phones every month.
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3 Phone companies have developed new
phones for children.
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4 Manufacturers will sell 2,000,000 mobile
phones this Christmas.
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5 People wrote billions of text messages last year.
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6 My parents are going to pay my mobile phone bill this month.
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3 Rewrite the sentences in reported speech.
(6 marks)
1 ‘You can buy phones with coloured covers.’
She said that ……………………………………
2 ‘Is Tim going to take his driving test today?’
He asked ………………………………………
3 ‘Please don’t be late tomorrow Sam, or we’ll miss our train.
Sam’s mother asked ……………………………
4 ‘What is Dave doing today?’ said Fred to Pete.
Fred asked ………………………………………
5 ‘James, go to the supermarket and buy some milk.’
His mother told …………………………………
6 ‘We’ve been to Tenerife three times.’
They said that …………………………………