PHOTOCOPIABLE © Cambridge Universit y Press and UCLES 2019 PREPARE SECOND EDITION LEVEL 5
PREPARE SECOND EDITION LEVEL 5 UNIT 8 TEST: PLUS
Name Class Date
VOCABULARY
1 Complete the sentences with a suitable adjective.
1 It looks like a building from the
outside but the rooms are very unusual.
A brand new B modern C traditional
2 It’s quite a small room but that makes the
atmosphere very .
A spectacular B cosy C classic
3 They’ve changed a lot inside the house but kept the
doors and windows.
A original B cosy C fresh
4 The views of the city from the top floor are
.
A historic B spectacular C cosy
5 My parents’ washing machine is very old so they’re
going to buy a one.
A brand new B traditional C historic
6 The big house on the right is two hundred years
old but the small building next to it is more
.
A cosy B traditional C modern
7 Yesterday we visited a building and
saw what life was like in the sixteenth century.
A recent B historic C fresh
8 The old town museum is a example of
a nineteenth-century building.
A classic B modern C brand new
2 Complete the sentences with a suitable adjective or
adverb. The first letter is given.
1 I was incredibly tired after the long walk – I was
really e
2 This is a great book about architecture, but that one
is t !
3 Today was a amazing – the best day of
my life!
4 Don’t forget your gloves – it’s f out
there in the snow!
5 This building is a – it’s 500 years old!
6 The show was s – really really good!
7 This village is full of v pretty houses.
8 This is a really big living room – it’s e !
GRAMMAR
3 Complete the gaps.
1 adjective: bad comparative:
superlative: the
2 adjective: good comparative:
superlative: the
3 adjective: original comparative:
superlative: the
4 adjective: thin comparative:
superlative: the
4 Complete the second sentence so it means the same
as the first. Use no more than three words, including
the correct form of the adjective in brackets.
1 Peter prefers the new college building to the old one.
Peter thinks the new college building is
(nice) the old one.
2 Jane says that watching golf is more boring than
watching football.
Jane says that watching golf is
(interesting) watching
football.
3 Tom’s always writing good stories, and the one he’s
just written is great!
Tom’s always writing good stories, and
(recent) one he wrote is
being published in a magazine tomorrow!
4 Ian says he needs his laptop all the time to do his
college work.
Ian says his laptop is one of
(useful) things he has for
doing his college work.
5 Sally is taller than Paula.
Paula isn’t (tall) Sally.
6 Rob paid more for his sofa than for any other piece
of furniture.
Rob’s sofa is his
(expensive) piece of furniture.
7 My parents don’t want me to stay at the party after
teno’clock.
My parents don’t want me to stay at the party
(late) ten o’clock.
8 Our living room looks larger now we’ve painted it
white.
Our living room didn’t use to look
(large) it does now
before we painted it white.
