Key_Test_3B.doc

Module 3 Test B

Grammar

1 stand-offish/ 2 self-sufficient/ 3 level-headed/ 4 career-orientated/ 5 kind-hearted/ 6 absent-minded/ 7 single-minded/ 8 thick-skinned

9 Voted the president for a second term, he put more of his policies into practice.

10 Without saying anything, he got up and left.

11 Since getting the new job he has been much happier.

12 After finishing the meal, they went to a club.

13 In spite of not being a great player he won the tournament.

14 ’d/had been working/ 15 ’d/had been/ 16 were standing/ 17 started/ 18 worked/ 19 was shining/ 20 ’d/had been working

21 Before he retired he’d been working there for seventeen years.

22 We arrived at the meeting, met the directors and started the negotiations.

23 I’d been working on the project for a few hours before the rest of the team arrived.

24 We travelled to Paris last spring.

25 I was cycling down the street when the accident happened.

Vocabulary

26 cartoon/ 27 surreal/ 28 exaggeration/ 29 farce/ 30 black humour

31 turner/ 32 hooked/ 33 worm/ 34 moving/ 35 down/ 36 based/ 37 dimensional

38 elaborate/ 39 feeble/ 40 rumours/gossip / 41 taken in/ 42 concealing

43 She’s a lovely person, really friendly with a warm personality.

44 I think he’s ambitious. He has his sights set on the manager’s job.

45 As a couple, they had a stormy relationship – they were always arguing.

46 Jane’s feeling a bit under the weather at the moment – she’s got a slight cold.

47 She followed in her father’s footsteps and held all the positions he had had.

48 When I was in charge I called all the shots.

49 Her career had never really taken off until that moment.

50 They weren’t so impressed by my proposal. They gave me a frosty reception.