1. Balotario C1 – 2023
NAMES: ______________________
1. Complete the sentence with the correct verb.
a. Can I use your phone to ___________ a message to my dad?
2. Complete the text with a verb in the blank.
a. Ants are small but very strong insects. They can ___________ things that are up
to 5,000 times heavier than their own body weight.
3. How do you spell “amigos” in English?
a. _______________________.
4. Complete the definition with a technology noun.
a. It is the part of a computer or laptop that you use to write things.
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5. Complete the sentence
a. We need some medicine. Let’s go to the__________________.
6. Identify the mistake and correct the sentence.
a. We can’t to sing, but we love it.
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7. Complete the dialogue with the correct comparative form of the adjectives.
a. Saul: The gray camara is ___________(small) than the black one. It’s
__________ (light) too. - it is about 350g, but the black one is about 450g. This
means the gray one is ________________ (difficult) to carry around.
b. Kara: True, but it’s __________ (good) quality than the black one, in fact it’s an
excellent quality.
8. Complete sentence with a possessive pronoun.
a. That’s Max and Sue’s laptop, and the charger is ___________, too.
9. Complete the sentence with present progressive.
a. I’m at English class right now. I______________ about unusual homes in my
notebook.
10. Complete the mini dialogue with the correct present progressive form.
a. Ben: ______________________ (you/wear) a new dress?
2. b. Ali: yes, I ______________. Do you like it?
11. Write the missing months.
a. The month before May_____________________.
b. The month between July and September_______________.
12. Complete the sentences with the ordinal form of the numbers in parentheses.
a. New Year’s Eve is December _______________ (31).
b. Sam’s birthday is in March ________________ (2).
13. Complete the dialogue.
a. Lucas: Well, I’____________ in science and there was a great show on TV so I
stayed up. I really enjoy it.
b. Clara: That’s good. I watched some soccer last night but it wasn’t great. The
game was slow and I was ___________, so I went to bed early.
14. Fill in the blank.
a. There are a lot of people here today, it’s _________________.
15. Complete the sentence.
a. There is a problem with my bike. Can you_________________ it.
16. Complete the text with the simple past form of be.
a. Oasis was a very famous band from 1991 to 2009. There________ five people
in it, including two brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher. They _____________ all
from Manchester, UK. Their music ________really popular for many years.
17. Complete the dialogue with the simple past form of be.
a. Ivan: Hello Olga! Where __________ you on Sunday?
b. Olga: I ________ at the movie theater with my parents.
c. Ivan: ______ the movie good?
d. Olga: No, it _________! It was terrible.
18. Correct the incorrect sentences.
a. We goed to the movie theater last night.
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b. Years ago, Michelle Phan become famous on YouTube.
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19. Read the text and answer the question.
IN SPACE
Nicole Stott was born in 1962 in Albany, USA. She worked for NASA from 1988 to 2015.
As an astronaut, Nicole went into space twice. The first time was from August 28th to
November 29th, 2009, and she stayed in the international space station (ISS). While she
was there, she went on a spacewalk for 6 hours and 39 minutes.
a. When did Nicole first go into space?
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20. Read the text and answer the question.
a. How many hours did Nicole go for spacewalk?
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3. 21. Would you like to go into space? Give two reasons why/why not.
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22. Complete the sentences with transportations words.
a. A _____________ is bigger than a bike or scooter. It has two wheels and an
engine.
b. When people are very sick, an _______________ takes them to the hospital.
23. Complete the mini test with one transportation word.
a. There were about thousand ___________________ on the boat (that’s a lot of
people) and the _________________ took about two hours.
24. Complete the sentence.
a. I don’t like waiting in… ___________________________.
25. Fill in the blank
a. I need some new sneakers. Let’s go to the _________________.
26. Complete the sentence with the correct simple past negative form of the verb.
a. I ________________ out last night, I stayed at home.
b. We ______________ _ by plane, we took a train.
27. Complete the dialogue with the correct form of simple past question and short
answer.
a. Aiden: ______________ (have/you) a good vacation, Leila?
b. Leila: Yes, I _________.
28. Complete the mini text with the. Correct superlative form of the adjectives.
a. Is the Allure of the Seas__________________ passenger ship? It cost
$1,400,000,000 to build! Perhaps it is _______________ too because it has
everything, including a basketball court and two climbing walls.
29. Read the text and answer the question
GET ON YOUR SKATEBOARD!
The first skateboards appeared in the 1950s in California and Hawaii, both in the USA.
Many people went surfing in these two places, and the idea for a skateboard came from a
surfboard. People wanted to “surf on land”, so they added wheels to small boards. The
most expensive skateboard was the Supreme Mundi. It cost about $16,500!
a. In which two places did the first skateboards appear?
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30. Read the same text again and answer the question.
a. How much was the most expensive skateboard?
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