Test unit 10

Unit 10: LIFE ON THE OTHER PLANNETS
Choose the best answer:
1. Have you ever thought of an exciting trip to nowhere, a trip (to the world/ to the sea/ to space/ into the earth)?
2. When you are in orbit, you’ll be out of the earth’s (gravity/ atmosphere/ outside/ outskirt): you’re weightless.
3. You’ll be able to walk on the walls or on the ceiling like in a (dance/ reflected/ infected/ affected) by the problem of weightlessness.
4. Here if we let go of a pencil, it doesn’t (fall/ run/ travel/ walk).
5. Space trips to distant (worlds/ planets/ moons/ suns) or the nearest stars might take a lifetime.
6. There’s someone at the door. Perhaps it’s Peter. Peter (must be/ will be/ should be/ may be) at the door.
7. There is a possibility of better weather tomorrow. It (should be/ will be/ might be/ must be) fine tomorrow.
8. We (had to/ may/ can/ had better) put the milk in the fridge before it spoils.
9. It (could be/ must/ might/ will be) rain this evening. Why don’t you take your rain coat?
10. You (needn’t/ don’t have to/ may not/ mustn’t) drive so fast. The speed limit is only 50km per hour.
11. You know, you really (should/ must/ may/ might) stop smoking, or you’ll be ill.
12. Remember you (needn’t/ mustn’t/ may not/ don’t have to) use a mobile phone a plane.
13. (If/ As if/ Unless/ Whether) he passed the final examination, he won’t be able to graduate.
14. If you (drink/ drank/ will drink/ had drunk) less coffee, you would have been able to sleep.
15. If you (studied/ had studied/ didn’t study/ hadn’t been studying), I would have drought my friends over to your house last night.
16. If you didn’t stay up so late last night, you (will be/ would be/ are/ would have) able to go to school on time.
17. If people (don’t drive/ hadn’t driven/ didn’t drive/ drive) so fast, there wouldn’t be so many traffic accidents.
18. If George had been honest, he (will turn/ would turn/ returned/ would have returned) the money.
19. If two of our player (weren’t/ aren’t/ hadn’t been/ didn’t) injured, they wouldn’t have won the game.
20. If you (change/ changed/ had changed/ have changed) your job would it affect your pension.
21. (If/ Unless/ If not/ Whether) you save some money, you will never be able to buy a car.
22. The film was marvelous. If you (come/ came/ had come/ were coming) with us, you’d have enjoyed it too.
Mistakes:
1. If the news turns out to be true, I would sell my shares at once.
2. If she studied English before, she wouldn’t be in a beginners’ class.
3. Unless you hadn’t told me about Mary’s hair, I wouldn’t have noticed.
4. We have been waiting for our friends. I wonder if they had lost their way.
5. The people at the party were worried about Jane because no one was aware of which she had gone.
6. Children enjoy telling and listen to ghost stories, specially on Halloween night.
7. Mary usually arrives at the office at 8 o’clock, but because the storm, she was two hours late.
8. If Monique had not attended the conference, she wouldn’t meet her old friend Dan, whom she hadn’t seen for years.
9. John wouldn’t have missed the ferry if his car didn’t break down on the way.
10. If he painted that picture, he would sign his name in the corner.