Straightforward Advanced Unit Test 7
Name _______________________ Score ______/50_
Vocabulary
A Complete the text with words from the box. Each word can only be used once.
There are four extra words.
altered cause dropped
entered fined made returned
In January 2003 Andrew Stobbs was (1) ___sentenced____ to one year in jail. On hearing this,
Andrew collapsed and his friends in the gallery became rowdy( agitado, alborotado). Andrew had been
(2) ___charged____ with burglary earlier that year. He had (3) ___denied____ the accusations and (4)
___entered____ a plea (declaración) of not guilty. During his trial a number of key witnesses had
failed to appear and he was expected to be (5) __acquited_____. In the end the jury had (6)
___returned____ a verdict of not guilty, but someone in the court had coughed just as the verdict was
being read out. The unfortunate judge did not hear the word ‘not’, and so (7) __imposed_____ a jail
term on Mr Stobbs. A member of the jury reported his surprise at the sentence to a court official, and
before Andrew’s lawyer had time to (8) ____appeal___ against the verdict the judge had (9)
___dropped____ the conviction. However, Mr Stobbs was subsequently (10) ___fined____ £100 for
using foul language!
B Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in capital letters.
(11) He was charged with tax ___evasion____. EVADE
(12) That’s a serious __allegation_____. Do you have any proof?ALLEGE
(13) He was held on ___suspicion____ of robbery, but later released without charge. SUSPECT
(14) He spent six months in jail after being ___convicted____ of fraud. CONVICT
(15) Yesterday a 33 year old woman was found ____guilty___ of murder. GUILT
(16) I’m sure she’ll be __appealing_____ against the sentence. APPEAL
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