Grammar and vocabulary 10.

jimmy and nancy ______ a shower

every day
1. the students ___ in the classroom
a. takes b. take c. are taking d.
a. is b. am c. are d. to be
is taking
2. a: _______________ ?
11. we______ to have a test next
B: 27 Friday

a what old are you ? c how old a. are going b. will going c. is
are you? going d. took

b how old are you? d How are 12. angie _______ to the mountain in
you? 2000

3. what time is it? a. moved b. is moving c. moves

d. will moving
a. five to three c. 2 o` clock55
b. five to tree d. two fifteen`s
five reading 1

4.____ shoe ____ unusual read the article. Then answer the
question from 13 to 15
a. my brother-are c. mine-are
mike and rene are new students at
b. my brothers- is d. my Washington state university. It is a
brothers-are big university in Washington d.c. its
5. our friends ______at night on Pullman avenue. It is clean and
beautiful. Mike and rene are
a. are work b. work c. works d. classmates and they are good
working friends too. Mikes frrom England and
6. the seminar is ___ june____3:30 pm renes from Australia, they are happy
because the students and the
a. in-at c. at-at teacher are very friendly. Sam and
b. the-on d. on-at nora fung are teachers at
Washington state university. They are
7. mary _____her hair every morning from taipe in Taiwan. They are good
a. washs b. wash c. washes d. is teachers.
washing There are 22,500 students from
8. tom____ cook, but he______ dance different countries at this university.
salsa The classrooms are modern and the
desks are all comfortable. theres a
a. can-can c. would-will big language laboratory with new
computers but there isnt a stadium.
b. cant- cans d. can-cant
There are two libraries and four
9. is there a good restaurant near swimming pools. Its nice place !
here?
13.mikes _____and renes ______
a. yes, theres c. yes, it`s
a. English-Australian c. Australian-
b. yes, there is d. yes, it will english
b. Taiwan-japan d. no to take your food home . you add an
information extra fifteen per cent to the bill as
tip. In top class restaurant , yu need
14. are there many students at this
reservation and you need tip arrive
university?
on times. The waiter shows you
a. millions of students c. thousand where to sit. If you name wine, he
of students may ask you to tastes bad, not if you
dont like. When you get your bill ,
b. just hundred d. no check it and then add fifteen to
information twenty per cent to it as a tip. You pay
15. is this a technological university? the waiter

a. no, its not c. yes, it 16. in a ____ you only pay for what
is you eat

b. no, its an ugly place d. no a. top class restaurant c. family

information restaurant
b. fast food restaurant d. pizza
restaurant
17. waiters playa n important role in
reading 2 ______
read the article. Then answer the a. top class restaurant c. family
question from 16 to 18 restaurant
in the use there are many types of b. fast food restaurant d. coffee
restaurant. Fast food restaurants are shop
very famous, with mcdonalds and
Kentucky fried chicken in many 18. in a top class restaurant you
countries around the world. You look cant _____
at a menu and say what youd like to a. tell the waiter your name
eat. You pay the person who serves
you. you take your food and sit down b. leave a trip
or take it away. When you finish your
c. refuse the wine you are given
meal, you put the empty container
and paper in the garbage can. grammar and vocabulary
Theres no need to leave a tip. In a
19. our father _____catch the bus at 7
coffee shop you sit at a counter or a
table. You dont wair for the waitress a. dont b. doesnt c. isnt d. is
to show you where to sit. She usually
brings you coffee when you sit down. 20. ______a new language never very
You tell her what you d like to eat easy
and she brings it to you . you pay the a. learn b. learned c. learning d.
cashier as you leave. In a family to learning
restaurant the atmosphere is casual,
but the waitress shoes you where to 21. ______fruit do you eat daily
sit. Often the waitress tells you her a. how much b. how long c. how
name , but you dont need to tell her many
yours. If you dont eat everything,
ypur waitress gives you a doggy bag d. which one
 a. doesnt understand b. dont
understand
22. the food_____ very delicious
c. are not understand d. are
a. is smelling b. smells c. smell d.
understand
is smells
32: have you ever _______ Turkish
23. hes not _____ engaged this year
food?
a. going get b. doing to get c.
a. eaten b. ate c. eating d. aten
going to c. is going
33. the students _____ the map
24. where______ you and you family
carefully before they drive downtown
in 2007?
a. look at b. will look at c. looked
a. are b. were c. was d. did
at d. are looked at
25. my daughter got 89 on the exam.
34. I expected my exam results to be
My son got 98. Rita got 65
better. My exam results were _____
My son got ______ score on the exam than I expected

a. the higher c. the most high a. worse b. the worst c. worser

d. badder
b. the highest d. higher
35. ________you ever______ a play ?
26. the students ______have another
opportunity to take their final exam a. have-seen

a. should to b. ought to c. many b. did-watched

having d. could to
c.do-look
27. how ______ do you speak
d. will-take
English ?
36. chiko_____ to another country
a. well b. many c. old d. is
before
28. i__________ the correct answer yet
a. is never travelling c. hasnt
a. havent found c. havent traveled
founded
b. doesnt travel d. wasn`t
b. havent find d. done travelling

29. last summer, I ______ to the use 37. i________ to the museum next
for pleasure weekend .

a. have gone c. have been Do you want to came?

b. went d. been a like to go c . d like to go

30. I will travel to hawai if I ____ a lot b. like going d. d like going
of money in the lottery
38. it _______ when my plane ______in
a. will b. get c. won d. san Francisco
winning
a. is raining- arrives
31. scientists _____ everything about
b. was raining- arrived
the universe
c. will be raining- has arrived
d .has rained- is arriving yes, momma, I say. I know
39. janet left early _____to the doctor What do I know?
a. going c. and do I know momma has always told me
not to touch the bo, she has said it
b. for going d. to go
since I was a little girl. You are not
40. i_______ spinach. I just _____-how old enough to wear my jewelry
it _______ momma says.

a. haven`t eaten- don`t like taste I am almost eleven years old. What is
the big dead?
b. didn`t-use to eat- hated- tasted
I know that when momma puts on
c. wont be eating dont like taste the rings and bracelets from the box,
d. wasnt eating- didnt like- tasted she looks different. She seems to
glow. Here is one necklace with a
41. _________looking at how much we yellow stone like a tigers eye. When
spend last year? momma put this one, she seems to
a. lets b. why dont c. how float instead of walk. Her heels do
about d .why not not seem to touch the ground. She
moves lightly and gracefully. She
42. if my neighbor _______loud music. moves without effort.
I _____ get my work
Momma kisses me goodnight, she
a. was playing- couldn`t c. plays- leaves for the party. I run to the
cant window to wave to her, but she is
b. willplay- cant d. already gone. Tonight I am very
played-couldnt curious just one touch. I sit on the
edge of mommas bed. I place my
hand on the nighstand I pause . I
reading 3 think.

read the article. Then answer the 43. is the girl anxious of touching the
question from 43 to 45 box?

I am sitting in a chair next to a. yes b. no c. no information

mommas bed. I am watching her get d. sometines
ready for a party. She opens the 44. which word best describes how
beautiful jewelry box on her the girl feels about the jewelry box?
nigtstand it is the size of a shoebox.
It is wooden, it has colorful stones on a. angry b. curious c. in love d.
top. They are magical, it looks like it beautiful
has special powers. 45. how old is the girl?
now, you know you must never a. 11 b. 15 c. 10 d.20
touch this box, right? momma says
I feel like she knows exactly what I grammar and vocabulary
am thinking. I just want to touch it. I 46.geraldine ______for a house near
just want to open ot. her job
I just want to try on all the jewelry She_____fours hours commuting
inside and dance around the room. every day
a. look-spend c. looks-is b. will be able d. be
spending able
b.looks-spends d. is 54. rose ____________anyone else
looking-spends
a. wont marry with c. wont
47.cynthias handwriting is marry
_______than her brothers
b. ll marry to d. ll
a. very better c. a marry
lot of better
55. my fathers car stopped working
b. not as good d. again and now I have to cancel our
more worse trip
48. A:_________? B: the bank a. broke up c. broke
down
a. who pays davis
b. broke off d.
b. who does the bank pay
broke away
c. what pay david
56. Yesenia needs davids book to
d. who pays the bank study . she should say to
david:_______
49. ______on the coast when he was
a child a.would c. did

a. he lives c. hes b. had d. may

live
57. that sport is ok, but I prefer
b. he lived d. hes taking ________ in team sports like
lived basketball or softball

50.there_______ in the dessert menu a.easy b. part c. a break

d. a look
a. is variety enough c. is too
variety reading 4
b. isnt variety enough d. read the article. Then answer the
isnt enough variety question from 58 to 60

51. what did you play ______your old sometimes the aurora over Alaska
car? and other auroral zones is barely
visible or apperars colorries and
a. of b. for c.by d. to unmoving. But at other times, the
52. they have been in peru ______ auroras can be incredibly bright,
June multi-hued and fast moving. Tall
green curtains of lights red tipped at
A .until b. before c. since d. their bottoms, stretch from horizon
after to horizon. They ripple and sway, fold
53. if I travel to Australia, I _______ to and unfold, then suddenly disappear,
use English only to reform a new shape minutes
later.
a. would be able to c.
would have to be Auroral light is produced by a high-
vacuum electrical discharge, and is
powered by interactions between the
sun and earth. The rare great
auroral display follow one or two
days streams of violents solar flares
in the vicinity of the suns major
sunspots. These solar flares cast out
vast streams of electrically charged
particles, mostly electroms and
protons, which stream into the
earths atmosphere. The earths
magnetic field steers them away
from tropical regions, towars the
poles. When the particles strike the
gases, the atoms and molecules of
the earths upper atmosphere glow.
Although much known about the
aurora, this fascinating phenomenon
still withhold some of its musteries.
Scientists, for example, do not yet
understand why the aurora is so
highly structured. The most beautiful
aurora is composed of thin sheets
that stretch upward a hundred miles
or more and extend across the sky
from horizon to horizon. These arcs
and bands whip and weave the sky
from horizon to horizon, and bright
rays ripple along them at fantastic
speed. Some of these intricate
multicolored froms have a thickness
of only 100 meters, yet may be
several hundred kilometers tall and
well over 1,000 kilometers in length
58. what do the great auroral
displays follow ?
a. big streams of electrical charged
atoms which fall into the earths
atmosphere
b.solar flares full of electrons and
protnons
c. a short period of powerful cosmic
flares near important sunsport
d.an interval of solar flares in the
earths magnetic field
59. what, according to the passage,
makes the charged particles glow?
a. hitting the gases of the
atmosphere high above the planet
b. the fact that they are highly
structured
c. the power of the sun
d. molecules found in the electrically
discharged atmosphere
60. which of the following is not true
about the northern lights?
a. sometines they seem to be
stationary
b. they are long vertical lines of
green lights, colored red at the
bottom
c. the solar flares give out extensive
amounts of particies full of electricity
d. the light is the result of energy
emitted from the sun and moon
grammar and vocabulary
61.if you heat air, it_______
a. is rising c. rises
b. rise d. rose
62. if you_______ told us about the
film, we wouldnt have gone to see it
a. dont c. hadnt
b. wouldnt have d. havent
63.ill call you if I ______ from luis
a. hear c. m going to
hear
b. m hearing d. will hear
64. A: Im sorry I had to cancel our
date
B: oh, couldnt have ____ I caught the
flu
a. been gone c. gone 71. we ought to have looked at more
apartments before we rent this one
b. go d. went
a. ought to have c.
65.susans friends all asked her why
before
_____ that proposal
b. looked d. rent
a. did she accept c. she
had accepted
b. did you accept d. reading 5
she accepts
read the article. Then answer the
66. thats impossible! Cesar_____ question from 72 to 75
have known about the meeting
by the 1950s many American
a. couldnt c. might families owned television sets.
not During televisions first 20 years,
dead people misses most of the sun.
b. ought not to d.
they could not hear what was being
shouldnt
sald and has to guess. Deaf people
67. A: does she cut her own hair? who watched television liked sports
and action shows, but they were
B: no, she _______? disappointed with ___ 1 ___
a. cut it b. has it cut programs. If there was a lot of
dialogue, deaf viewers c ouldnt
c. hasnt d. shouldnt skilled lipreaders could only catch
68. circle the letter of the incorrect part of the talking.
answer ( 68, 69, 70, 71 ) This frustrated many bdeaf people
Im not sure, but jenny could of found In the late 1960s, a man started
out about the surprise party experimenting Malcolm norwood
a sure c. of thought that deaf people could ____
2_____ televisionprogram too. He
b. could d. found wanted to develop captions for the
69. before a final decision is reached, programs. Norwood worked for the
the various possibilities should federal governments media services
probably discussed by the whole and captioned films division at the
team bureau norwood of education of the
handicapped.
a. is reached c. discussed
Norwood surveyed many hearing
b. should d. by americans. He wanted to see how
70. I used to do my own taxes, but they felt about seeing captions on
now I have done them by an the television screen. Too many
accountant people were against the idea.
Norwood realized he had to develop
a. used c. have done another way of captioning-one that
them would not _____ 3 _____ hearing
people.
b. but d. by
In October of 1971, norwoods office
signed a contract with WG3H-TV, a
public television station in boston. 75. captions that_____ a decoder are
aptions WGBH was hired to called closed captions
experiment with captions. They
a. describe b. confuse c. require
agreed to make a captioned
d. block
television program for norwood. That
program was made. It was shown on grammar and vocabulary
television and at a special
convention. The type of captions 76. this country _____ several
made by WGBH could be seen on hundred refugees from Syria in last
any television. No special equipment few weeks
was needed. These were called open a. has welcomed c. had
captions weolcomed
Later, a new machine was invented. b. has been welcoming d. had
This device was made to send been welcoming
signals on a special part of the
television picture. The signals could 77. they_____for an hour when the
be captions. If a family has another water finally brought their food
kind of machine in their home or in a. waited c. had
their tv set, then the captions ( or been waiting
signals ) would appear on their telev
ision screen. Without the machine, b. were wating d. had
no captions would be seen. That waited
special machine is called a decoder. 78. I wouldnt go fishing if I ______
It receives the signals transmitted you
from the television station. Captions
that ____ 4 ____ a decoder are called a. was c. had been
closed captions b. were d. have been
72. deaf people who watched 79. my cousin was really busy these
television liked sports and action days, but finally i______ her to help
show, but theyl were disappointed with homework
with_______ programs
a. had b. got c. made d. let
a. other b. racing c.local d. cable
80. this wag going to be the vacation
73. in the late 1960s, a man started of a lifetime. We _____it for years
experimenting, Malcolm norwood
thought that deaf people could a.planned c. had been
_______ television programs, too planning

a. sponsor b. writ c. recommend b. were planning d. have

d.enjoy been planning

74. norwood realized he had to 81. Id rather he________come

develop another way of captioning- because he always gets irritated at
one that would not________ hearing this kind of social events and it
people makes my clients feel uncomfortable

a. interest b. help d. injure d. a. does not b. did not c. had not

brother d. would not
82. its high time they ______ this b. to do
motorcycle. Im afraid of a possible
c. studied
accident
d. to study
a. have fixed b. fix c. fixed d.
to fix 90. the test was ___ difficult she had
problems finishing it on time
83. its time they ______ all this
garbage because its smells awfully a. such
a. get hold of c. burn out b. a
b. get rid og d. turn around c. as
84. ___ my grandma was 82 and d. so
suffered from different diseases, he
took care of 5 children when our 91. by the time she arrives, we _____
mother had died having our last our homework
brother a. finish
a.is spite of c. althought b. will have finished
b. because of d. contrary to c. will finish
85. people_______ less milk recently d. were finished
because of the crisis
92. she_____ lunch by time we
a. have been drinking c. had arrived
been drinking
a. had finished
b. have drunk d. had
drunk b. finished

86. when my brother was c. have finished

young, my mother ___ sing him d. finishing
every night
reading 6
a. used to b. would c. use to
d. had read the article. Then answer the
question from 93 to 96
87. if she _____ about his financial
situation, she would have helped him a few minutes ago, walking back
out from lunch. I started to cross the
street when I heard the sound of a
88. Ill ________ their car while they coin dropping. It wasnt much but, as
were away on holiday I turned, my eyes caught he heads of
a. be looking into several other people turning too. A
women had dropped what appeared
b. be looking at to be time.
c. be looking after The tinklingsound of a coin dropping
d. be looking over on pavement is an attention-getter. It
can be nothing more than a penny.
89. he made his children ____ their Whatever the coin is, no one ignores
homework every afternoon the sound of it. It got me thinking
about sound again.
a. do
We are besieged by so many sounds
that attract the most attention.
People in new York city seldom turn
to look when a fire engine, a police
car or an ambulance comes
screaming along the street. When
Im in new York, Im a new Yorker. I
dont tum either. Like the natives. I
hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in
Connecticut, its different. The
distant wall of a polce car an
emergency vehicle or a fire siren
brings me to my feet if Im seated
and brings me to the window if Im in
bed.
c. are attracted by sounds
d. dont hear loud noises
94. the writer _____
a. sleeps next to the windows
b. has lived in Connecticut for a long
time
c. believes in ghost
d. is interested in fire engines
95. how does the author relate to
sound at night?
a. he imagines sounds that do not
exist

Its the quietest sounds that nave b. he exaggerates quiet sounds

most effect on us, not the loudest. In c. he thinks taps should be turned off
the middle of the night, I can hear a
dripping tap a hundred yards away d. he believes its rather quiet at
through three closed doors. Ive been night
hearing little creaking noises and 96. how does the writer feel about
sounds which my imagination turns sounds in general?
into footsteps in the middle of the
night for twenty-five years in our a. they make him feel at home
house. How come I never hear those
b. he thinks the should be ignored
sounds in the daytime Im quite
clear in my mind what the good c. he believes they are part of our
sounds are and what the bad sounds lives
are.
d. he prefers silence to loud noises
Ive turned against whistling, for
instance. Used to think of it as the
mark of a happy worker but lately
Ive been associating the whistler
with a nervous person marking
compulsive noises.
The tapping, tapping of my
typewriter as the keys hit the paper
is a lovely sound to me. I often like
the sound of what I write better than
it looks of it.
93. people in new York _____
a. dont care about emergencies
b. are used to sirens