Test

1 Read the following passage and answer the questions.

WASTEFUL TOWN
The average citizen of an industrial country throws out nine times his or her weight of solid waste a year.
Every year, the average US household throws away 1,800 plastic items, 13,000 paper things, 500 aluminum
cans and 500 glass bottles.
Paper and card are the biggest part of our household waste and most of this is packaging. Paper is made
from trees and each year every person in Britain uses six trees' worth of paper. Drink cans are made from
steel or aluminum -both need a lot of raw materials and energy to produce. Each year in the UK about
25 million worth of cans are thrown away.
Instead of throwing things away, they can be recycled. This saves raw materials, energy and the cost of
disposing of so much waste. Bottle and can banks are familiar in most cities. Of the 50 largest US cities,
47 have schemes where people sort their rubbish separately into glass, paper, plastics and cans. Lorries
collect the separated rubbish from the road side.
In many cities recycling has long been a way of life. Calcutta is India's most densely populated city,
creating 3,150 tones of solid waste a day. About 70% is collected by the city authorities and old clothes and
rags are used to make bedding or rugs. Plastics are melted down and used to manufacture items such as
toys. Calcutta's large glass-making industry reuses waste glass and the waste metal is melted down for re-
use by the city's steel industry.

1 Why do we have so much paper to throw away?

a because paper cannot be recycled.
b because of packaging.
c because we each cut down six trees.
d because education uses so much.
2 The average American
a weighs nine times as much as someone from a
poorer country.
b buys nine times more aluminum cans than
glass bottles.
c throws away nine times more waste than someone from India.
d throws away nine times his weight in waste
each year.
3 Bottle banks are
a where you buy reusable bottles.
b where you get money for old bottles.
c where you put old bottles to be recycled.
d where new bottles are made.
4 The advantages of recycling are
a you use fewer raw materials and less energy.
b lorries do not have to come to your house.
c no more cans will be thrown away.
d Americans will use less packaging.
5 Calcutta
a has more waste than anywhere in the world.
b recycles at least 70% of its waste.
c throws away more cans per person than Britain.
d bases all its industries on waste.

6 Name two different kinds of household waste mentioned in the passage.

7 How can old clothes be recycled?

8 What happens to waste glass?

9 Forty-seven US cities have a special scheme for recycling. What do people in these cities have to do?

10 What is your household waste mainly composed of?

2 Verb tenses
Put the verb in brackets into the correct tense and form.

l If I___________________(have) a computer, I could talk to my friends by e-mail.

2 By this time tomorrow, we _____________________(finish) our Science project.
3 Tigers __________ (protect) for some years now and numbers are starting to rise again.
4 As soon as Bogdan __________ (get) home, I'll ask him to phone you.
5 Many health problems _________ (cause) by pollution, and asthma is on the increase in children.
6 Lisa never goes out without ______ (tell) her mother when she'll be home.
7 Unfortunately Mrs Harris forgot ____________(buy) any milk on the way home so now she can't
have her usual cup of tea.
8 If I __________ (be) you, I'd buy the black T-shirt rather than the white one.
9 I hope I __________ (do) all my homework by the time Friends starts on TV.
10 After Susie __________ (cook) dinner, she'll go off to her evening class.

3 Asking questions
You are talking to an American student, Kerry, about her school. Her answers are given. Write the
questions, which must include the word in brackets.

1 You: (girls) _______________________? Kerry: No, I go to a mixed school.

2 You: (have) _____________________? Kerry: No, we can wear our own clothes - most of us wear
jeans.
3 You: (how) _______________________? Kerry: We have tests every six weeks - you just get used to
working hard all the time.
4 You: (commute) __________________? Kerry: Because the school has such a reputation for excellence
5 You: (located) ____________________? Kerry: No, it's out of town in a wonderful setting with huge
grounds. I wouldn't like to go anywhere else.