Straightforward Pre-Intermediate Progress Test 4

(5) Which of these is the best response?
a) Well done! b) My pleasure. c) I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Part 2
[Track 14] Listen to Maxine and Jenny talking about two sporting events. Match the things they talk about to the correct sporting event. Write RA for Royal Ascot, W for Wimbledon and B for both.
(6) wearing fancy clothes _W_________
(7) horse racing __RA________
(8) champagne ___W_______
(9) meeting famous people ___B_______
(10) strawberries and cream __W________

Reading

Part 1
Read the articles about the Nazca lines and Stonehenge and complete them with phrases from the box.
as a calendar to mark important events in religious ceremonies
other lines make up shapes or pictures you will see an amazing thing
you will suddenly come across
Nazca Lines
In the Nazca Desert in southern Peru there is a collection of lines that appear to be nothing unusual from close up. However, if you fly above the desert (1) you will see an amazing thing . Many of the lines are perfectly straight and run for many kilometres while (2) other lines make up shapes or pictures. There are over seventy such pictures including a spider, a monkey, a hummingbird and a 300-metre-long pelican. The most mysterious part is how anyone could make such lines and drawings more than 1,000 years before the invention of the airplane. The other mystery is why the lines were drawn. One idea is that they were used (3) in religious ceremonies
and were designed to be seen by the gods.


Stonehenge
Crossing the southern plains of England (4) you will suddenly come across
a circle of stones in the middle of a field. Stonehenge was built around 4,000 years ago and is the most famous stone circle found in Britain. Nowadays most people agree that Stonehenge was built (5) as a calendar to mark important events in the life of the people. In the summer when you stand in the circle the sun rises between two stones. Stonehenge is also a feat of engineering. The largest stone weighs around 50 tons and probably took 600 men to move it. Some of the stones were also transported from the Welsh mountains over 200 kilometres away.