Advanced English exam covering listening on soil biodiversity, smartphone debates, grammar, reading on smart shoes & epigenetics, steam car history, primate societies, plus writing tasks.

This ready‑to‑use test is designed for upper‑intermediate to advanced learners (B2–C1), ideal for grades 10–12 (ages 15–18) or young adult ESL/EFL exam preparation. The test includes a listening section with two academic talks (soil as a living ecosystem; trainee teachers discussing smartphone use in schools) featuring note‑taking and multiple‑choice questions. The lexico‑grammar section tests idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations, word formation (power napping passage), and error correction (volcanoes text).

The reading section contains a cloze test on smart shoes, a gap‑fill on epigenetics (DNA memory), a paragraph‑heading matching task on the steam car’s rise and fall, and a comparative passage on primate vs. chimpanzee social structures. Writing comprises five sentence transformations using given keywords (e.g., “stake,” “same,” “tongue”), a 150‑word graph description task (shop closures and openings, 2011–2018), and a 200‑250 word discursive essay on why people rely on the Internet for medical advice and whether this is positive or negative.

Skills targeted:
Listening for specific information and inference, grammatical accuracy, lexical precision, reading comprehension (main ideas, detail, inference, matching headings, paraphrasing), data interpretation (graph analysis), and academic writing (transformations, summary, argumentative essay).

Key topics covered:
Soil biology (microorganisms, earthworms, fungal networks, degradation), smartphone policies in education, power napping, smart shoe technology, epigenetics and inherited trauma, history of steam cars (Doble brothers), primate social organisation (troops vs. chimpanzees), commercial graph trends, and digital health behaviour.

Global in scope – no country‑specific references; suitable for international curricula and exam boards (Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL preparation).