Reading Passage The diseases connected to smoking are a big problem. Doctors think that the annual

Reading Passage 1.

The diseases connected to smoking are a big problem. Doctors think that the annual medical cost for lung cancer, heart disease and other illnesses connected to smoking is between 12 and 35 million pounds.

And smoking costs society money in other ways. Between 27 and 61 billion pounds are spent each year on sick days when people don’t go to work, on wages that you don’t get when you don’t go to work, and on work lost at the company when you are sick.

This money counts the wages from people who die of cancer at a young age and stop paying taxes. This does not count fire started by cigarettes which kill fifteen hundred people yearly and injure another four thousand. Smoking costs every man, woman and child in the UK from 110 pounds to 250 pounds each year in the lost work and wages. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to 1640 pounds a year more.

Smoking will also cause other problems. People who don’t smoke will live longer, and so they will take money from the government when they are old. But they will also work for more years and pay more taxes.

In the end, the value of a non-smoking nation is not in pounds. The good health of the people is the true value for all of us.

1. What does the underlined word in the passage mean?

A) Monthly

B) Daily

C) Yearly

D) Weekly

E) Forever

2. According to the passage, if everyone stopped smoking, all in the UK

A) Would have less money.

B) Would have more money.

C) Would live longer.

D) Would have no more problems.

E) Would not go to work.

3. Which of the following show how smoking- related diseases affect the companies?

A) Companies lose money because of the disease.

B) Companies gain a lot of money.

C) Companies lose work because of the disease.

D) Companies hire more workers.

E) Companies lose time because of the disease.

Listening 1

Listen and choose the correct answer.

1. Jake doesn’t believe … .

A) his brother is really depressed

B) his brother is very happy

C) his brother is really tired

D) his brother is really furious

E) his brother is very angry
2. Carol thinks … will help George.

A) sport

B) therapy

C) talking

D) medicine

E) studying

3. Jake thinks his brother … .

A) communicates very well

B) is very outgoing

C) plays baseball better than him

D) doesn’t communicate very well

E) gets on well with everybody

Vocabulary:
Match the words to their definitions.

1. Gape

2. Glare

3. Glance

a. To look at sb/sth angrily

b. To look at sb/sth with your mouth open

c. To look at sb/sth quickly

A) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c

B) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c

C) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b

D) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a

E) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a

Replace the words in bold with a synonym.

People who lose a leg do not expect to it to grow again.

A) To regenerate

B) To interpret

C) To set up

D) To treat

E) To behave

Grammar

Choose the correct form of the conditional clause.

If the weather ….. , we ….. a picnic.

A) Improved/ will have

B) Does not improve/ will not have

C) Will improve/ will have

D) Didn’t improve/ will have

E) Will improve/ have

Convert the direct speech into the reported speech.

The salesman said, “Are you interested in the scheme?”

A) The salesman said that if I was interested in the scheme.

B) The salesman said that if I were interested in the scheme.

C) The salesman asks if I am interested in the scheme

D) The salesman asked me if I was interested in the scheme

E) The salesman asked if I has been interested in the scheme.