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A. SAMPLE TESTS

TEST 1

I. Fill in the blanks with the words given :

as took schooling chemist scientific lectures
in on informal attended went discoveries

Michael Faraday, the English physicist and (1)___________ , is best known for his (2) ___________ of electricity and chemistry. He was born (3) ___________ September 22nd, 1791, in Newington, England. He was the son of a blacksmith and received little formal (4)___________. While apprenticed to a bookbinder in London, he read books on (5) ___________ subjects and experimented with electricity. In 1812 he (6) ___________ a series of lectures given by the British chemist Sir Humphry Davy and forwarded the notes he (7) ___________ at these lectures to Davy, together with a request for employment. Davy employed Faraday (8) ___________ an assistant in his chemical laboratory at the Royal Institution.

II. Use the correct form or tense of the verbs in parentheses :

1. Last night I (go) ____________ to a party. When I (get) ___________, the room (be) ____________ full of people. Some of them (dance) _____________ and others (talk) ____________. One young woman (stand) ____________ by herself. I (never, meet) ___________ her, so I (introduce) ____________ myself to her.

2. John is in English class. He (study) ____________ English this semester. He (also, take) ____________ some other classes. His Classes (begin) ____________ at 9 o’clock every day.

3. I don’t like (force) __________ (leave) _________ the room (study) _________ whenever my roommates feel like (have) _________ a party.

4. While she (talk) __________ on the phone, the children (start) __________ fighting and (break) __________ the window.

5. I hope they (repair) __________ this road by the time we (come) __________ back next summer.

III. Complete the following sentences with correct prepositions :

1. He was _________ prison _________ 2 years. _________ that time he became interested _________ pigeons.

2. I want two seats _________ Romeo and Juliet _________ Friday night.

3. Go on _________ you see the church _________ your right.

4. How do you go _____ school ?

It depends _______ the weather. ______ wet days, I go _____ tube. _____ fine weather I go ______ foot.

5. I look forward _________ seeing you again next year.

6. I’m tired _________ walking all day long.

IV. Fill in the blanks with correct form of the word in parentheses :

1. Her ____________ from school without any excuse made the teacher angry. (absent)

2. She can’t stand his _____________. (rude)

3. They are all _____________ educated persons. (good)

4. Hard work always brings _____________ (succeed)

5. Your rice field is more _____________ than ours. (produce)

6. Most children are not _____________ good at their future work. (expect)

7. With the help of the computer, you can _____________ make a business plan. (ease)

8. Tom has never had accidents. He drives very _____________ (care)

9. His parents _____________ him to study harder. (courage)

10. I’m sure they will get used to the _____________ condition soon. (work)

11. Your new dress makes you more _____________. (beauty)

12. You should do these exercises _____________. (quick)

13. There are a lot of _____________ differences in England. (region)

14. Driving _____________ is _____________. (fast / danger)

15. One of the _____________ diseases that mankind has ever had is AIDS. (bad)

V. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed above it :

1. Tom is sorry that he didn’t watch the football match last night.

- Tom wishes
2. The test we did yesterday was so difficult that we couldn’t finish it in two hours.

- Yesterday we did
3. “How many students are there in your class ?”

- The man asked me
4. “You should go to the lecture”

- The teacher advised us
5. You must hurry or we’ll miss the train.

- Unless we
6. It’s not