ADVANCED ENGLISH INT 127
ENGLISH TEST
NAME Toktobek Kamchybekov. E-Mail:toktobek1996@gmail.com Group IR 1-A Section I
Directions: Underline the correct answer.
1) Water is to boil / is boiling / boils at a temperature of 100°C.
2) In some countries there is / is / it is very hot all the time.
3) In cold countries people wear thick clothes for keeping / to keep / for to keep warm.
4) In England people are always talking about a weather / the weather / weather.
5) In some places it rains / there rains / it raining almost every day.
6) In deserts there isn´t the / some / any grass.
7) Places near the Equator have a warm / the warm / warm weather even in the cold season.
8) In England coldest / the coldest / colder time of year is usually from December to February.
9) The most / Most of / Most people don´t know what it´s like in other countries.
10) Very few / little / few people can travel abroad.
11) Mohammed Ali has won / won / is winning his first world title fight in 1960.
12) After he had won / have won / was winning an Olympic gold medal he became a professional boxer.
13) His religious beliefs have made him / made him to / made him change his name when he became champion.
14) If he has / would have / had lost his first fight with Sonny Liston, no one would have been surprised.
15) He has travelled a lot both / and / or as a boxer and as a world-famous personality.
16) He is very well known all in / all over / in all the world.
17) Many people is believing / are believing / believe he was the greatest boxer of all time.
18) To be the best from / in / of the world is not easy.
19) Like any top sportsman Ali had to / must / should train very hard.
20) Even though he has now lost his title, people would / will / did always remember him as a champion.
21) It is said that Chinese is the world´s harder / hardest / more hard language to master.
22) English is quite difficult because of all the exceptions who / which / what have to be learnt.
23) You can learn the basic structures of a language quite quickly, but only if you
are wanting / will to / are willing to make an effort.
24) A lot of people aren´t used to the study / to study / to studying grammar in their own language.
25) Many adult students wish they would start / would have started / had started their language studies earlier.
26) In some countries students have to spend a lot of time working on / by / in their own.
27) There aren´t no / any / some easy ways of learning a foreign language in your own country.
28) Some people try to improve their English by hearing / listening / listening to the BBC World Service.
29) Live / Life / Living with a foreign family can be a good way to learn a language.
30) It´s no use to try / trying / in trying to learn a language just by studying a dictionary.
31) Many students would rather not / would rather prefer not / would rather not to take tests.
32) Some people think it´s time we all learn / should learn / learnt a single international language.
33) the staff of the school in 1988 and has been working / worked / works there ever since.
Section II
Directions: Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same. When you have finished, compare your answers with the answer key. You get 1 point for each correct answer.
I had expected this exercise to be more difficult.
This exercise had been expected to be more difficult__________________________________________________________
People say he has been married four times.
He is said to have been married four times _________________________________________________________________
3) It wasn’t necessary for you to come so early.
You didn’t have to come so early __________________________________________________________________
4) I don’t want to go to Paris next week.
I don’t feel like going to Paris next week ____________________________________________________________
She regretted not inviting them to her birthday party.
She wished she had invited them to her birthday party___________________________________________________________
They are building a new cinema in our town.
A new cinema is being built in our town _________________________________________________________
7) Ben didn’t recover from his illness for a few weeks.
It took a few weeks for ben to recover________________________________________________________________
She has been working here for ten days and next Friday will make it a fortnight.
By next Friday she will have been working here for two weeks __________________________________________________________
9) Don’t speak Polish.
The teacher told the students not to speak Polish_____________________________________________
