Ket trainer / test 1/ page 19) Read the article about a girl who found something strange Are sentences 21 – 27 ‘Right’ (A) or ‘Wrong’ (B)? If there is not enough information to answer ‘Right’ (A) or ‘Wrong’ (B), choose ‘Doesn’t say (C) Something strange falls from the sky Mikaya Shears was riding her horse across the fields at the farm where she and her parents live in Australia last November, when she saw something very strange on the ground ‘At first I was afraid to touch it!’ she said ‘I thought something may jump out of it!’ It was a 22 kilo ball made of lots of different metal parts Mikayla called her dad and he came in a truck and drove it back to the farmhouse People don’t drive hundreds of miles of a field ‘It dropped from above!’ he said ‘I was sure of that!’ Mikaya’s father emailed a photo of the ball to the Planet Museum He was told that the ball was possibly part of a rocket Two days earlier a rocket was used to fly an America satellite into space to study the sun Most of it fell into the sea after the satellite was safely in space, but maybe this part didn’t ‘I know a lot about cows and sheep.’ Mikaya said, ‘but I don’t know anything about rockets I want to find out more about them now Perhaps I’ll be an astronaut one day!’ Example: Mikayla lives on a farm in Australia A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Mikayla saw something that looked very unusual in the field A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say When Mikaya touched the ball, another piece of it dropped off A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Mikaya drove back to collect the metal ball in her father ‘s truck A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Mikayla’s dad was certain that the ball fell from the sky A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say AN American can from the Planet Museum emailed Mikayla A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say We know that the metal ball came from another planet in space A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Mikayla is thinking about being an astronaut in the future! A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say AMAZING PLACES Greenland has a very interesting summer In the months of May, June and July, the sun never sets so there’s daylight for twenty-four hours every day In winter, thing are very different because the sun never rises! It’s dark for twenty-four hours every day! Can you imagine seeing the moon and the starts at the lunchtime? Antarctica is an amazing place It’s covered in snow and ice, but it rarely snows and it almost never rains This mean it’s a desert Explorers and tourists visit Antarctica, but it’s too cold to live there There are penguins and birds on the coast and fish and whales in the ocean, but it isn’t warm enough for most animals Imagine hot sun and rain every day of year! This is what it’s like in the Amazon rainforest Here there’s no such thing as summer and winter The temperature changes very little and there’s no dry season Rain and sunshine help plants grow This is why there are so many tall trees and plants in the rainforest Read the text again and answer the questions In summer in Greenland it is always light A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Greenland is without sun in winter A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say It snows all the time in Antarctica A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Tourists only visit Antarctica in summer A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say There are lots of different creatures in Antarctica A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say There are two seasons in the Amazon rainforest A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say The temperature is always exactly the same in the Amazon rainforest A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Sol-Pre Inter/WB/page108 In the UK (1) ., people throw away about 1,500 kg of food packaging (2) second It makes up about 25% of household waste This is a (3) problem for the environment, and it is also expensive The amount of rubbish that ordinary families produce is increasing by 3% every year The (4) of collecting this rubbish is about £2.5 billion, and rising Where does all this packaging go? A lot of it ends up (5) China Each year, the UK (6) China to receive about two million tonnes of its waste Most of the plastic waste goes to Lianjiao, a small village in the south of the country As a result, the river there has become dirty and the air is (7) There is also a growing problem with (8) ., as some of the workers at the recycling centres are as young as four Most people agree that the companies who make sandwiches, pizzas and other products should take action If they used less packaging, it (9) reduce the amount of waste So some newspapers and politicians in the UK are telling people that they (10) to take unnecessary plastic packaging back to the supermarket and leave it there A one B lovely C alone D single A all B any C every D every A big B strong C heavy D bad A money B cost C price D refund A at B upon C on D in A affords B costs C earns D pays A polluted B stressful C busy D noisy A homelessness B famine C child labour D racism A can B must C will D would 10 A should B ought C must D mustn’t ... the Amazon rainforest A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say Sol-Pre Inter/WB/page108 In the UK (1) ., people throw away about 1, 500 kg of food packaging (2) second It makes up about 25% of household... the amount of waste So some newspapers and politicians in the UK are telling people that they (10 ) to take unnecessary plastic packaging back to the supermarket and leave it there A one B lovely... stressful C busy D noisy A homelessness B famine C child labour D racism A can B must C will D would 10 A should B ought C must D mustn’t