Straightforward Pre-Intermediate Progress Test 3

Straightforward Intermediate Progress Test 3


Name ______Ivan Tonkov________ Score _____________

Language section

Vocabulary
A Complete the conversation with words from the box. There are five extra words.
adolescent article circulation elderly embarks headline
idiot limit move on one-way prison relief
sentenced shame toddler took off zone

Man: Wow! Look at this (1) ___ elderly _____, ‘Man, 80, (2) _ embarks ______________ on epic journey across Canada.’

Woman: What does the (3) __ article _____________ say?
Man: Apparently this man has just decided to walk from one side of Canada to the other. It says he had a heart attack last year so he’s decided he wants to do something different.
Woman: What an (4) __ idiot _____________!
Man: Why?
Woman: Well he should have done something like this when he was younger. It’s not the kind of thing for an (5) ___ elderly ____________ person to do.
Man: Yeah! Well, he couldn’t do it before because he spent 25 years
in (6) ____ prison ___________!
Woman: What for?
Man: I’m not sure. It says here that he broke the speed (7) _ limit ____________, but you don’t go to prison for 25 years just for that! … Oh, that’s why.
Woman: What? What did he do?
Man: First of all he robbed a bank, then he drove the wrong way down
a (8) __ one-way _____________ street and he hit a mother and her (9) __ toddler _____________. At his trial the judge said he was a danger to society and (10) _ sentenced ______________ him to life in prison. Now it turns out he wasn’t driving but nobody believed him.
Woman: What a (11) __relief_____________!
Man: Yes, but he says he’s not angry. He just wants to (12) ___move on____________ and make the most of the years he’s got left.


B Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect simple or present perfect continuous.