With answer key for advanced

Complete the sentences with the correct perfect tense form of the verb in brackets. 
1. The video game 
more money than any other game in history. (make)
2. The company estimates that it 
more than 200,000 laptops by the end of this 
year. (sell)
3. The students told the teacher that they 
Minecraft many times before. (play)
4. We 
this topic for about four weeks now, and I find it really 
interesting. (study)
5. I 
so many different computers over the last five years, but this one is the best. (try)
6. He 
music files for about ten minutes when his computer crashed. 
(download)
7. Tony 
a lot of positive feedback about the new smart phone, so decided to buy it. (read)
8. At this rate, the lesson 
before we 
this software 
working properly. (finish, get)
Look at the sentence below. Then try to correct the mistake.
Dear Alex, I am happy to receive a letter from you.
Get it right!

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ADVANCED READING AND USE OF ENGLISH  | PART 6 | 1
ADVANCED READING AND USE OF ENGLISH
© Cambridge University Press and UCLES 2018
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PART 6
Work and business
Exam task
1
You are going to read four extracts from articles in which experts give their views on progress 
and tradition. For questions 1–4, choose from the experts A–D. The experts may be chosen 
more than once.
Which expert
expresses a different view to the others about how rapid progress has affected people’s 
happiness?
expresses a similar view to B about the impact of rapid progress on economic prosperity? 
has a different view to the others about the effect of rapid progress on working life? 
expresses a different view to C about the rise in the age at which couples have children?