ENGLISH TEST

SUBJECT 1
GRAMMAR
1 Put into the plural form 21
1 a star -
2 a mountain -
3 a king -
4 a sun -
5 a man -
6 a tree -
7 a book -
8 this is a tea-cup -
9 this is an egg -
10 this is a man -
11 this is a piano -
12 this is a mouse -
13 this is a door -
14 this is a beach -
15 that is a sheep -
16 that is a aeroplane -
17 that is a window -
18 that is a train -
19 that is a ruler -
20 that is a car -
21 that is a woman -
2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of there is(n’t)/are(n’t). 10
A: (1)____________________ an art gallery in your town?
B: No, (2)____________________ but (3)____________________ a big museum.
(4)____________________also a very interesting old castle.
A: (5)____________________ a lot of old buildings in your town?
B: Yes, (6)____________________.
A: What about shops?
B: (7)____________________ a fantastic modern shopping centre and (8)
____________________ lots of clothes shop.
A: (9)____________________ good clubs?
B: No, (10)____________________!
3 Complete the table with the Past Simple and Past Participle form of the 10
verbs.
Verb Past Simple form Past Pastciple form
1 build
2 lose
3 draw
4 write
5 have
6 sing
7 read
 8 give
9 meet
10 do
4 Complete the dialogue with some, any or a lot of. 11
A: I’m hungry. I’d like (1)____________________ sandwiches. Have you got (2)
____________________ bread?
B: I don’t know. There’s (3)____________________ food in the kitchen. Let’s go and
see… Oh look! there’s (4)____________________ fruit – apples, bananas, pears,
oranges.
A: But there isn’t (5)____________________ bread, so we can’t have (6)
____________________ sandwiches.
B: Well, are there (7)____________________ eggs?
A: Well, are there (8)____________________ in the fridge – about four – and there’s
(9)____________________ butter, so we can make an omelette.
B: Are there (10)____________________ tomatoes?
A: No, there aren’t, but there’s (11)____________________ cheese. We can have a
cheese omelette!
5 Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative form of the 10
adjective in the brackets.
1 You look ____________________ (happy) today than yesterday.
2 He brought me ____________________ (expensive) jacket in the shop.
3 What film do you think is the ____________________ (good) film ever?
4 Her hat is ____________________ (big) than yours.
5 Is your sister ____________________ (thin) than you?
6 My uncle Jim is the ____________________ (funny) person I know.
7 John isn’t a ____________________ (good) driver than his brother.
8 The coffee in this café is ____________________ (bad) than the tea.
9 Who is the ____________________ (popular) person in your class?
10 Jeans are ____________________ (casual) than trousers.
6 Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or the Present 11
Continuous.
Interviewer: Today, I’m in London and I (1)____________________ (interview) John
Ellis. John (2)____________________ (come) from Wales. What
(3)____________________ (you/do), John?
John: Well, I’m a student. This term we (4)____________________ (study)
modern music. I (5)____________________ (play) the guitar and
saxophone quite well and I (6)____________________ (learn) to play
the trumpet.
Interviewer: (7)____________________ (you/belong) to a band?
John: Yes. There are five of us. We usually (8)____________________
(practise) at the weekend. At the moment we
(9)____________________ (make) a recording of our own songs and
we (10)____________________ (organise) a tour to Germany and
France.
Interviewer: So life is busy for you?
John: Well, yes. In fact, life (11)____________________ (get) quite stressful
right now because of the college exams next week!
7 Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple or the Past Continuous. 11
 We (1)____________________ (have) our end-of-year party last Saturday in the big hall
at college. In the afternoon, Pete and I (2)____________________ (get) the hall ready.
But while we (3)____________________ (put) up the decorations, Pete
(4)____________________ (fall off) the ladder. Fortunately he (5)____________________
(hurt).
That evening, when I (6)____________________ (arrive) at the party, the band
(7)____________________ (play) and some of the students (8)____________________
(dance). We (9)____________________ (want) to have a barbecue outside, but it
(10)____________________ (rain) so we (11)____________________ (eat) inside.
8 Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Past Simple. 11
Anna: I (1)____________________ (get) an email from my English penfriend, Julie,
yesterday.
Maria: That’s nice. (2)____________________ (you/ever/meet) her?
Anna: No, but we (3)____________________ (speak) on the phone. She
(4)____________________ (never/visit) our country and I
(5)____________________ (never/go) to England.
Maria: My French penfriend (6)____________________ (come) here last year and he
(7)____________________ (stay) with us for a month. I
(8)____________________ (not visit) him yet. His parents
(9)____________________ (invite) me to stay with them next summer.
Anna: That’s great. I (10)____________________ (go) to France two years ago with
my family and we (11)____________________ (like) it very much.
9 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct Passive tense. 10
1 In recent years, a lot of rubbish ____________________ (leave) on the Everest by
amateur moutaineers.
2 Everest ____________________ (cover) with glaciers.
3 The oldest skis ____________________ (find) in Sweden and are around 5,000
years old.
4 The first Winter Olympic Games ____________________ (organise) in 1924.
5 The Winter Olympics ____________________ (not hold) in Nagano in 1994.
6 The highest mountain in the British Isles ____________________ (call) Ben Nevis.
7 Ben Nevis ____________________ (locate) in Scotland.
8 The Descent into the Maelstrom ____________________ (write) in 1841.
9 Since she has started sailing, Ellen MacArthur ____________________ (help) a lot
of people.
10 Janica Kostelic ____________________ (injure) many times so far.
SUBJECT 2
READING
SURVIVAL HOLIDAYS IN ALASKA – a personal story
On May 6 I set up a base camp on the ice cap and waited for the plane to bring food. For the next
four days it snowed and the plane didn’t come. Sometimes I went out for a short ski, but most of
the time I lay silently in my tent, alone with my thoughts.
As the days passed, I grew very anxious. I had no radio and no other means of communication. I
was almost out of stove fuel, so I couldn’t cook anything. I had some cheese and three packets of
crisps. This, I hoped, would be enough for three or four more days. But what next?
When I woke up on May 10 it was still snowing and it was very windy. I didn’t know what to do:
to start walking to the coast in the morning or stay here, on the ice cap. Suddenly I heard something.
I couldn’t believe my luck: it was a panel I ran out of the tent. I waved my arms and shouted, and
then I took my sleeping bag and waved in the air. When the plane began to fly in my direction, I felt
tears of joy in my eyes. The pilot came and went three times and he dropped two boxes of food
every time. Then the plane disappeared and there was silence all around me again. I felt sad,
depressed, lost.
On May 11 the weather was good and I knew it was time for me to do something. I packed my
rucksack and began skiing. After 2 days that also involved walking through deep snow and climbing
high rocks, I came to the coast. My adventure was over.
1 On May 6 4
a the plane came with food.
b the weather wasn’t good.
c he finally left his tent.
d he didn’t eat anything.
2 The author was worried because 4
a he couldn’t contact anybody.
b he didn’t know.
c he had enough food for one day.
d he couldn’t sleep at all.
3 When the author heard the plane 4
a he was on his way to the coast.
b he was shocked.
c he tried to show where he was.
d he started packing.
4 The author got … boxes of food. 4
a two
b three
c four
d six
5 All in all, the author’s adventure 4
a made him very ill.
b lasted seven days.
c finished on May 13.
d was rather relaxing.
SUBJECT 3
WRITING
Write the dictation down in the paragraph below: 30