FINAL TEST PAPER X MIE

USE OF ENGLISH

I. Fill in each blank by putting the verb in (brackets) into the correct past tense.

1) I (see) my first baseball game when I

(live) in New York.

2) How many pints of beer (he/drink) before he

.(leave) the pub?

3) It ..(rain) so we .
(decide) to stay at home all afternoon.

4) By the time I ..(leave) university I

.(be) to France fifteen times.

5) What ..(you/do) at the time the murder was

committed?

6) When we (get) home we saw that someone ..

(break) in to steal the DVD recorder.

7) He ..(send) to prison four times before he

..(decide) that it would be better to go straight.

8) I didn't realise I (lose) my credit cards until I ..(try)

to pay for dinner at the restaurant.

9) I (write) an email to my sister when she

.(ring) me.

10) She was so upset by the news that she (drop) her tea
and(start) crying.

II. Change these active sentences to passive. Choose if you need the agent or not.

1) People speak Portuguese in Brazil.

2) The Government is planning a new road near my house.
3) My grandfather built this house in 1943.
4) Picasso was painting Guernica at that time.
5) He had written three books before 1867.
6) John will tell you later.
7) By this time tomorrow we will have signed the deal.
8) The traffic might have delayed Jimmy.
9) They are building a new stadium near the station.
10) At six oclock someone was telling a story.

III. For each question, fill the space or spaces in the sentence using the base word given in
bold at the end. The required word may be a noun, adverb, adjective or verb and it may be
either positive (e.g. helpful) or negative (e.g. unhelpful).

1. The survey showed many young offenders had had difficult _____________.
bring

2. Despite the _____________ similarities between the two paintings, the court decided the artist was
not guilty of making a _____________ copy.
strike
fraud

3. You should dress _____________ for the party. No tuxedo required!

formal

4. The stray dog spent his days following tourists hoping to _____________ one of them.
friend

5. Severe _____________ problems in the country's prisons persuaded the government to invest more
money in its prison _____________ programme.
crowd
build

6. The child's _____________ to hear his mother calling was blamed on a slight hearing
_____________ which was eventually solved using a _____________ new technique from Norway.
ability
ability
revolution

IV. In this exercise, you need to take the information in the first sentence and re-write it, using
the word in bold so that the second sentence has exactly the same meaning. You cannot change
the word in bold in ANY way. You can use only a maximum of FIVE words for each space. Only
use contractions for negatives: e.g. don't / hadn't / wouldn't, etc.

1. She wants nothing less than to get that job. It would be a dream come true.
set
She has getting that job.

2. If they ever discover your role in the incident, you will go to prison.
light
If your role in the incident , you'll go to prison.

3. Harry plays tennis much better than I do.

nearly
I am not tennis player as Harry is.

4. Both candidates for the job are strong. They are both equally good.
hardly
There is the two job candidates.
5. That child is twice as tall as he was two years ago.
doubled
That child's in the last two years.

6. As soon as I arrived at the pub, a fight started.

sooner
No a fight broke out in the pub.

7. There were very few people who understood what the professor said in the meeting.
virtually
There who understood what the professor said in the meeting.

8. The bank robbers had disappeared completely by the time the police arrived.
sign
There robbers when the police arrived.

9. You shouldn't be surprised at Kevin winning that tournament.

come
It that Kevin won that tournament.

10. There is no doubt at all that the government will win the election.
conclusion
It is that the government will win the election.

V. Fill in the blanks with the correct word for each of the sentences below:

1. A college or university building containing living quarters for students is called a dormitory, or "
" (dorm/dormitorium) for short.

2. Another way of saying "dormitory" is "student " (residents/residence).

3. A student from another university who comes to study for one or two semesters is called an
(exchange/elite) student.

4. A (freshman/starter) is someone in their first year of (an American) university.

5. A (senior/leaver) is someone in their final year of (an American) university.