1. But for the rain we…..our destination ages ago.

A. reached                              B. would reach                       C. would have reached                         D. had reached

2. I was offered lamb or chicken,…..I like.

A. neither of that                    B. neither of which                C. of that neither                    D. of which neither

3. David: "You really have a nice dress, Kathy. I’ve never seen such a perfect thing on you". - Kathy: "….. I bought it yesterday".

A. I’m sure you like it             B. I suppose it is not bad      C. I’m glad you like it                             D. I myself like it very much

4. My son didn’t feel well;….., he didn’t go to work yesterday.

A. However                             B. Therefore                           C. So                                       D. But

5. Don’t let me disturb you; please get…..your writing.

A. on with                               B. in with                C. across to                           D. through to

6. I don’t like this chocolate. I like…..chocolate.

A. some others                      B. another             C. some other                        D. one other

7. Her blouse didn’t fit her well and…..

A. so her skirt didn’t              B. so didn’t her skirt              C. but her skirt didn’t             D. but her skirt did

8. Physics and mathematics interest him almost…..

A. alike                                    B. the same                            C. similarly                             D. equally

9. I admit I suffer from a…..of patience with such people.

A. shortage                            B. lack                                     C. emptiness                          D. limit

10. Don’t start the next page…..you have finished the last test question.

A. until                                    B. while                                   C. when                                  D. since

11. They turned…..at the party, despite the awful weather.

A. round                                 B. in                                        C. back                                   D. up

12. Kim: "Do you like frog’s legs?" - Dave: "…..them, I don’t really know".

A. Never try                            B. Not to have try   C. Never having tried            D. Never had tried

13. My grandmother takes better photographs than…..

A. my                                       B. I take                                   C. me                                      D. me take

14. There were many big trees, between me and the river and now they all fell down…..into the water.

A. one another                       B. one after another              C. each other                         D. a lot

15. Just keep…..on the baby while I cook the dinner, will you?

A. a look                                 B. a glance             C. an eye                                D. a care

16. There…..lots of furniture…..in the furniture department.

A. are / to display                   B. are / displaying                C. is / displaying                   D. is / on display

17. I want to keep…..

A. the room tidy                     B. the room tidily                   C. the tidy room                     D. the tidily room

18. Although most car can travel much faster, the…..speed limit in the UK is 70 mph (110 kph).

A. maximum                            B. greatest              C. highest              D. biggest

19. Before the meeting finished, they had arranged when…..next.

A. they met                             B. they to meet                       C. to meet               D. should they meet

20. Make…..sure you end each sentence with a full stop. 

A. strongly                             B. doubly               C. clearly                D. apparently

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

By the time a baby has reached his first birthday, he should _________sit up or even stand up.

A. to be able to

B. able to

C. to be able

D. be able to

Read the news report, choose the correct verb form and write it in the box.

1. Millions of dollars' worth of damage has been caused by a storm which (swept/was swept) across the north of the United States last night.

2. The River Reiner (burst/was burst) its banks after heavy rain.

3. Many people (rescued/were rescued) from the floods by fire-fighters.

4. Firefighters (received/were received) hundreds of calls for help.

5. Wind speeds (reached/were reached) ninety miles an hour in some places.

6. Roads (blocked/were blocked) by fallen trees.

7. Electricity lines (brought/were brought) down, leaving thousands of homes without electricity.

8. "Everything possible (is doing/is being done) to get things back to normal," a spokesman said.

9. One young girl (took/was taken) to hospital after she broke her leg.

10. She has now (sent/been sent) home.

Rewrite the sentence using relative pronouns :
1 . The girl is sitting by Jack . She is Mary .
2 . Can you understand the question ? He asked you the question last time
3 . Is that the girl ? We saw her on TV last night .
4 . The farm produces milk . We visited it last Sunday .
5 . At last he married the girl . He loved her .
6 . The man is an engineer . We play with his daughter every day
7 . He didn ' t receive the letter . I sent him the letter last January .
8. He often tells me something about his village . He was born there .

Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word by the number

ADVENTURE IN PERU

0. I've just been to see a film is called Touching the Void. It's 0. .....is.....

00. about two climbers who decided to go climbing in the mountains 00....√.....

1.in Peru. It took them two days to reach the mountain they 1........

2.had been decided to clims because it was in such a remote place 2.......

3. They left a companion and the most of their supplies at a base camp, 3........

4.optimistically thinking about they would be back in a couple of 4........

5.days. After a difficult climb, they reached at the top of 5....

6.the mountain. It was then that everything started to go wrong 6.......

7. Because of one climber had broken his leg, he had to be 7.....

8.lowered down the mountain by means of a rope. His leg it was so 8.........

9.much painful that he couldn't stand on it. After a very exciting bit 9.......

10.of the film, which I won't describe, he found by himself alone 10.......

11.at the bottom of a crevasse. He manged to climb out and eventually 11........

12.crawl to safety. The cold was so intense that he got frostbite in his hands, 12......

13.but he was carried on, dragging himself down a glacier and across rocks 13....

14. When he arrived at the base camp, his friends were too amazed to see him 14.....

15. They couldn't believe that in despite his broken leg, he had managrd to reach the camp 15.........

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

__________the storm, the ship couldn't reach its destination on time.

A. Because of 

B. In case of 

C. In spite of 

D. But for