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44 marks. Use Practice to check each answer as you go, or Exam to answer everything first. Section A has 15 objective questions on Unit 12 (vocabulary, reading, grammar and writing). In Section B, write your answers and ask a parent or teacher to help you mark them.

Section A: objective questions

15 marks
Choose the best answer A, B, C or D.
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Question 1

When you go to a shelter, you are given
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B
A shelter is a temporary place to stay. A permanent home, money or a job are not what a shelter gives.
For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard Vocabulary 1: services and solutions
Textbook p. 150
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Question 2

A person in a halfway house will
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A
A halfway house is a step between help and independent life. B is the opposite; C describes a nursing school, not a nursing home; D describes social welfare.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Vocabulary 1: halfway house
Textbook p. 150
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Question 3

Hannah Taylor chose a ladybug as the symbol of her foundation because
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D
The article says the insect represents good luck, which Hannah believes the homeless need. Painting jars was how she collected money, not why she chose the ladybug.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Reading: Hannah Taylor
Textbook p. 148
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Question 4

The 'monkey bridges' built by Kids Saving The Rainforest are used to
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B
The bridges are thick ropes that help monkeys cross roads, cables and places with too few trees. The article does not mention tourists or food.
For the teacher: Understanding, medium difficulty, standard Reading: monkey bridges
Textbook p. 148
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Question 5

Mary's Meals provides free meals at school mainly to
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C
Many children do not attend school, so the free daily meal encourages them to go and get an education that can lift them out of poverty.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Reading: Mary's Meals
Textbook p. 149
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Question 6

The article ends: 'why not use [money and time] to do something constructive?' What is the writer's intention?
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D
The whole article gives examples and then invites readers to act. The writer does not ask for donations to one charity (A), and describing the charities (B) is only a means to the purpose.
For the teacher: Analysing, high difficulty, standard Reading: writer's intention
Textbook p. 149
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Question 7

You've visited the nursing home before, ____?
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A
The sentence is positive with the auxiliary have, so the tag is negative with the same auxiliary: haven't you?
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Grammar 1: question tags
Textbook p. 151
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Question 8

Let's raise some money for the shelter, ____?
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C
The tag for Let's is always shall we?
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Grammar 1: question tags after Let's
Textbook p. 151
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Question 9

My sister never had a teacher. She taught ____ to play the guitar.
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C
The subject (she) and the object are the same person, so we need the reflexive pronoun herself.
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Grammar 1: reflexive pronouns
Textbook p. 151
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Question 10

Is the youth centre only for members? No, ____ wants to join is welcome.
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A
Whoever means 'any person who'. Whatever is for things, wherever for places, whenever for times.
For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard Grammar 1: indefinite pronouns
Textbook p. 151
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Question 11

Not only ____ the nursing home every week, but she also helps at a food bank.
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D
After Not only at the start of a sentence, the auxiliary comes before the subject: does she visit.
For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard Grammar 2: not only ... but also
Textbook p. 153
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Question 12

Which sentence is correct?
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B
It's about time is followed by the past tense (found). A should be did; C should be had better leave; D needs inversion: Not only is he kind.
For the teacher: Analysing, medium difficulty, standard Grammar 2: had better, it's time
Textbook p. 153
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Question 13

'When I see homeless children, my heart goes out to them.' This means that I
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A
My heart goes out to someone means you feel great sympathy for them.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Vocabulary 2: expressions
Textbook p. 152
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Question 14

The hotel has installed bright lights in the garden to ____ thieves from trying again.
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C
Deter means to discourage people from doing something, which is what bright lights do to thieves. Inspire (give someone the wish to do good), assist (help) and represent (act for someone) do not fit the meaning.
For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard Writing: vocabulary for letters
Textbook p. 157
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Question 15

You write to the mayor about a dangerous road outside your school. Which sentence has the best tone?
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B
B is polite, personal, gives a suggestion and sounds hopeful of action. The others blame or order the reader, which makes a positive reaction unlikely.
For the teacher: Evaluating, medium difficulty, standard Writing: tone of a letter
Textbook p. 156

Section B: structured questions

29 marks
Answer all the questions.
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Question 16

Read about Hannah Taylor and Kids Saving The Rainforest (pp. 148-149).
[1 mark] (a)How did Hannah first collect money from local businesses?
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She painted baby-food jars like ladybugs and asked businesses to put small change in them.
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[2 marks] (b)Name two things that the money raised by The Ladybug Foundation provides for the homeless.
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Shelter and food.
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[2 marks] (c)Give two main causes of death for the Mono Titi monkeys.
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Electrocution from cables, and being hit by cars crossing the new roads.
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[1 mark] (d)How did Martha Payne help Mary's Meals?
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She raised money and encouraged her blog readers to donate.
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For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Reading: kids with a conscience
Textbook p. 148
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Question 17

Write the social problem that matches each meaning: bullying, poverty, mental illness, addiction, unemployment.
[1 mark] (a)the state of not having a job
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unemployment
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[1 mark] (b)frightening or hurting someone weaker than you
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bullying
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[1 mark] (c)the state of not having money or the basics of life
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poverty
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[1 mark] (d)the need to do something without being able to stop
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addiction
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[1 mark] (e)a disease of the mind
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mental illness
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For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard Vocabulary 1: social problems
Textbook p. 150
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Question 18

Write the correct question tag.
[1 mark] (a)Everyone donated to UNICEF, ____?
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didn't they
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[1 mark] (b)I'm being a bully, ____?
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aren't I
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[1 mark] (c)Julia didn't raise the most money, ____?
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did she
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[1 mark] (d)Don't forget to visit Grandma, ____?
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will you
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For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Grammar 1: question tags
Textbook p. 151
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Question 19

Answer each part.
[2 marks] (a)Rewrite beginning Not only: 'Mia collects food and also delivers it to the shelter.'
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Not only does Mia collect food, but she also delivers it to the shelter.
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[1 mark] (b)Correct the sentence: 'It's time they give him an award.'
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It's time they gave him an award.
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[1 mark] (c)Correct the sentence: 'Tina had better to speak to her parents.'
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Tina had better speak to her parents (no to).
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[2 marks] (d)'It's high time you stopped asking me for money.' Does this refer to the present or the past, and what is the tense of the verb?
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It refers to the present, but the verb is in the past tense.
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For the teacher: Analysing, high difficulty, standard Grammar 2: inversion, had better, it's time
Textbook p. 153
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Question 20

A newspaper reports that many elderly people in a nursing home are depressed because of loneliness. You decide to write a letter beginning 'Dear Mayor,' to suggest how to help.
[2 marks] (a)Which closing is correct for this letter: 'Yours faithfully' or 'Best wishes'? Why?
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Yours faithfully, because it is a formal letter to a person in authority.
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[3 marks] (b)Write one suggestion and say how it would help the elderly.
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With your agreement, volunteers could visit the home once a week, so that the elderly would have regular contact with other people and feel less lonely.
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[3 marks] (c)Write a closing paragraph that shows you expect the mayor to take action.
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I am sure you agree that these measures would make a real difference. I look forward to seeing you put these ideas into action soon.
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For the teacher: Creating, medium difficulty, standard Writing: letter to a person in authority
Textbook p. 157