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PROGRESS TEST NUMBER 17 TOTAL ________/55
GRAMMAR
I. Complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs below.
do win catch go read speak get

1. My brother _________________ a school chess competition last year.
2. I _________________ a lot of gifts for my last birthday.
3. Last weekend we _________________ to the cinema.
4. We _________________ a book by Jane Austen in our English literature class last week.
5. The head teacher _________________ to my parents about my poor grades yesterday.
6. Colin _________________ his Maths homework late last night.
7. We only _________________ one fish in the lake at the weekend. Mark: ___ /7
II. Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Use the affirmative, negative or interrogative forms.
1. _________________ (you / see) the football match last night?
2. My parents _________________ (go) shopping to buy some new clothes.
3. We _________________ (have) a great time on our holidays. The weather was hot every day.
4. Sally _________________ (cook) dinner yesterday. She went to the new restaurant in town instead.
5. _________________ (Dad / buy) a newspaper this morning?
6. _________________ (you / write) the party invitation to Suzie yesterday?
7. Mark _________________ (go) to the theatre because he was busy. Mark: ___ /7
III. Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs below. Use the affirmative or negative forms. have go be do give visit
Mike and I 1_______ to London last weekend. We 2_______ much time so we hurried everywhere. We only 3_______ one museum and 4_______ some shopping. Mike 5_______ really kind and he 6_______ me a book that he bought in Charing Cross Road. Mark: ___ /6
VOCABULARY
IV. Complete the sentences with the correct nationalities.
1. A person from China is __________.
2. A person from Italy is __________.
3. A person from Spain is __________.
4. A person from the USA is __________.
5. A person from Lithuania is __________.
6. A person from Egypt is __________.
7. A person from Japan is __________.
Mark: __ /7

V. Complete the sentence with the correct prepositions.
1. The good students always sat _________________ the front of the bus.
2. We came back _________________ Italy on Monday.
3. Give those books _________________ Tamara, please.
4. She goes to school _________________ bicycle.
5. We spent the weekend _________________ the north of Germany.
6. _________________ an hour waiting in the queue, we left the shop.
7. The weather was awful: it rained _________________ two weeks! Mark: __ /7
VI. Complete the dialogue with the words below.
shame fun really what who how

A: Hi! 1__________ are things with you? B: Fine, thanks. And you?
A: I had a difficult weekend! B: 2________? What happened?
A: Just some family problems. B: What a 3_________! Well, I went cycling.
A: Sounds 4________! 5________ did you go with? B: Three of my friends from the cycling club.
A: 6________ was the weather like? B: A bit wet, actually! But we had a good time.Mark: __ /6
USE OF ENGLISH
VII. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. When they _________ (BUILD) the Titanic at the beginning of the twentieth century, they _________ (THINK) that it couldn’t sink
2. The famous _________ (POLAND) composer Frédéric Chopin _________ (BEGIN) playing the piano when he was only five years old.
3. In the 2005 Athletics World Championships in Helsinki, the _________ (RUSSIA) pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva _________ (BREAK) the world record by jumping over five metres.
4. When I was young, my parents _________ (GROW) vegetables and _________ (SELL) them in the local market in our village.
5. The 2010 FIFA World Cup final _________ (TAKE PLACE) in the _________ (SOUTH AFRICA) city of Johannesburg, between Spain and the Netherlands. Mark: ___ /10
READING
VII. Read the text. Emile Zola
Emile Zola, the famous French writer, was born in 1840. His father was an Italian engineer and his mother was French. The family lived in the south of France for a few years, but moved to Paris after Emile`s father`s death, when he was only three. Zola did not pass his high school exams, so he could not study at university. Instead, he worked in several different jobs, before he decided to become a journalist and writer.
At the age of 28, he knew what he wanted to write: a