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Test I
1. Put the verbs into the correct form
1. Those students who (fail) the exam are going to take another one held in August
2. All the tickets (sell) out by the time we arrived at the theater
3. I just (go) out to buy an evening paper
4. I (remember) this summer all my life
5. We (ask) them to stay with us is they (come) again for the next meeting
6. For the last three years I (spend) every minute of my life on this problem
7. Hurry up or you (be) late for class
8. Turn the TV off. By the time the lights (be0 on again the TV station (stop) broadcasting
9. Hurry up or your favorite TV programmer (be) over long before we (reach) home
10. We came to sit on a park bench for a rest. We (stop) around all morning and (buy) a lot of food
11. In spite of the clear scientific evidence, people still refuses to believe that cigarette smoking (be ) dangerous
12. We must emphasize the need for greater care when acids (be) used
13. A week ago, the guilty man (sentence) to five years in prison
14. We are going to London next month. This will be the second time I (be ) there
II. Choose the best answer
1. There ......of stars in the sky
a. is million b. are million c. are millions d. has millions
2. There ..............a number of people wanting to see you now
a. is b. was c. are d. were
III. Rewrite using the passive form
1. must white/ the answer / in ink
2. What language/ speak/ in France?
IV. Rewrite these sentences
1. She know. She does not care (neither....nor)
2. His parents want to watch TV. His wife want to watch TV
( Neither ........nor)
V. Find the word has different sound
1. a. sky b. hungry c. industry d. policy
2.a. may b. pay c. day d. may
3. a. hall b. valley c. call d. fall
4. a. living b. line c. rice d. nice
VI. Fill in the blank with suitable word
1. Our father is our........................
2. Our sister is our ......................
VII. Give adjectives of these words
a. break b. cheer c. north d. progress
VIII. Give the correct form of the words
a. More than a thousand workers are ...........here (employ)
2. Three films are in ...............for the same contract (compete)
3. My car very .....................It is always letting me down (rely)
4. I wrote ........letters of application but for no reply (end)
5. I apologize for the mistakes made by my office. There appears to have been a sight ....................(understand)
6. Burning coal is an .........way of heating a house. Gas is much cheaper (economy)
7. I have just been told some ..........news (astonish)
8. In .................with most other countries. Britain has a very high rate of heart attacks (compare)
9. We have to keep our costs as small as possible. We have so many .........trying to take our customers away (compete)
10. There are very few.............places left on earth. Man has been nearly everywhere (explore)
IX. Fill in the blank with suitable word
Today the fastest way to get from one city to another in most countries is to fly. But the trains of the future will change the way we travel. In West Germany and Japan a new kind of train that floats..........are is being tested. These trains are ...............Magnetically Levitated Trains or simply . They move on a magnetic cushion of air. On a recent.........in Kyushu island, a magnetic train reached a speed..............320 miles per hour. The Japan National Railway hopes that..............1990 trains like this can replace the Shinkansen, the bullet train travel between Tokyo and Osaka.........140 miles per hour. IN England, in North - western Germany, a 196 - passenger maglev train -......soon be tested at speed of 250 miles per hour. German engineers hope that in the future a maglev train system will...............the cities of western Europe
X. Rearrange the dialogue
1. And what about weekend?
2. I have to study every evening except Wednesday
3. And Sunday?
4. What do you do in the