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Gold Preliminary Unit 4 Test

VOCABULARY
1 Complete the sentences with words or phrases from the box.

as well as that / despite / although / however / in spite / though

1 I know that there's a great museum in my town, ___________ I haven’t been there for years.
2 __________of being 2,000 years old, the shoes looked almost new.
3 My family live in Australia. __________, I haven't been there for years.
4 __________ the weather was bad, we enjoyed our holiday.
5 We saw lots of ancient objects at the exhibition. __________, there were films about how the people
lived.
6 Thousands of people went to the exhibition __________ the high price of the tickets.
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2 Underline the correct alternative.

1 Which country has the fastest population size / growth?
2 Students have to pay quite high rents / payments for flats in this area.
3 We live in the country miles to / from anywhere.
4 The public vehicle / transport system in Britain is very expensive.
5 There aren't many work / public opportunities for young people in my country.
6 Britain has a mild weather / climate compared to China.
7 There's not much going / coming on in my town, so we usually go to the city at night.
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GRAMMAR

3 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past simple or present perfect form.
We (1)__________ (visit) the local museum yesterday. We (2)__________ (be) surprised at how good it was.
The museum (3)__________ (collect) an amazing number of interesting objects over the years. They have
hundreds of ancient knives and spears, which archaeolgists (4)__________ (just / dig) up from the hill fort
just outside the town. Last month, someone even (5)__________ (find) some gold coins, but experts
(6)__________ (not identify) how old they are yet. I (7)__________ (have) no idea that my town
(8)__________ (be) so ancient. In fact, some of the objects are more than 5,000 years old. The museum
(9)__________ (have) some objects for nearly 100 years, locked away in drawers and boxes. The new head
of the museum (10)___________ (discover) them a few months ago and a special exhibition of these objects
(11)___________ (be) open since last Saturday and many people (12)__________ (already / see) them.
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