1 she said i ........................ an angel a am b was c were d have been 2 i have ever told you he ................................. unreliable a is b were c had been d would be 3 john asked me .............................. in english a what does this word mean b what that word means c what did this word mean d what that word meant 4 laura said she had worked on the assignment since .............................. a yesterday b two days ago c the day before d the next day 5 john asked me ............................ that film the night before a that i saw b had i seen c if i had seen d if had i seen 6 she asked me........................................... a where was her umbrella b where her umbrella was c where where her umbrella d where her umbrella were 7 nancy asked me why i had not gone to new york the summer.................................. a before b ago c last d previous 8 andrew told me that they ........................... fish two previous days a have not eaten b had not eaten c did not eat d would not eat 9 jason told me that he ............................ his best in the exam the following day a had done b will do c would do d was doing

1 she said i ........................ an angel a am b was c were d have been 2 i have ever told you he ................................. unreliable a is b were c had been d would be 3 john asked me .............................. in english a what does this word mean b what that word means c what did this word mean d what that word meant 4 laura said she had worked on the assignment since .............................. a yesterday b two days ago c the day before d the next day 5 john asked me ............................ that film the night before a that i saw b had i seen c if i had seen d if had i seen 6 she asked me........................................... a where was her umbrella b where her umbrella was c where where her umbrella d where her umbrella were 7 nancy asked me why i had not gone to new york the summer.................................. a before b ago c last d previous 8 andrew told me that they ........................... fish two previous days a have not eaten b had not eaten c did not eat d would not eat 9 jason told me that he ............................ his best in the exam the following day a had done b will do c would do d was doing

Question I: Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences. (10points)

1. Alex didn't come to see the film last night because he _______ it before.

A.  saw                       B. had seen                C.  has seen               D. was seen

2. Astronauts_______ the earth in space capsules are weightless.

            A. orbit                       B. to orbit                  C. orbiting                D. orbited

3. Even though he didn’t have much _______, he still became a great scientist.

A. scholar                  B. study                      C. trial                        D. schooling

4. Without engineers there  _______ on television, no radio, no telephone, no telegraph lines and no cables.

A. is                            B. are                         C. will be                   D. would be

5. I think in the future many people will prefer ____________ by using social media.

A. to communicate                                       B. will communicate

C. communicate                                            D. to be communicated

6. A holiday in America can be ________ cheap.

A. surprise                 B. surprisingly          C. surprised               D. surprised  

7. ____ from Bill, all the students said they would go.

A. Except                   B. Only                       C. Apart                     D. Separate

8. If only he _______ told us the truth in the first place, things wouldn't have gone so wrong.

A.  had                        B. has                                     C. would have           D. should have

9. Our visit to the beach made the holiday more _______ everyone was __________ by the story about our holiday.

A. amuse/amusing    B. amused/amusing  C. amusing/amused  D. amused/amuse

10. Would you be _______ my letters while I am away ?

A. too good as to forward                           C. as good as forward

B.  so good as to forward                            D. so good as forwarding

Question II: The word in capital letters at the end of each of the following sentences can be used to form a word that fits suitably in the blank space. Fill in the blank in this way. (20 points)

     Some recent research into (1) ____________ (CONVERSE) between men and women has produced results which will surprise few women. Men are always interrupting women when they talk. One (2) ____________ (RESEARCH) feels that men regard female talk as a kind of conversational (3) ____________ (HOUSE). They expect women to play a (4) ____________ (SUPPORT) role. So a man interrupts in a display of dominance or control. Men also have a much more (5) ____________ (PLEASANT) listening style. Whereas a woman uses gestures or say: "mm", a man will say such thing as "right" or "okay" thus settle the stage for an (6) ____________ (INTERRUPT). Conversation of this kind, then, hardly has (7) ____________ (MEAN) communication. Male talk is often (8) ___________ (ARGUE) while women are more tentative, asking more questions and tending to build up their replies on what the other person had said. The research would indicate that women are better (9) ____________ (LISTEN) than men. Yet, listening secretly to conversation between groups of women, one has the (10) ____________ (IMPRESS) of several simultaneous monologues into which no man would be able to get a chance to speak.

Question I: Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences. (10points)

1. Alex didn't come to see the film last night because he _______ it before.

A.  saw                       B. had seen                C.  has seen               D. was seen

2. Astronauts_______ the earth in space capsules are weightless.

            A. orbit                       B. to orbit                  C. orbiting                D. orbited

3. Even though he didn’t have much _______, he still became a great scientist.

A. scholar                  B. study                      C. trial                        D. schooling

4. Without engineers there  _______ on television, no radio, no telephone, no telegraph lines and no cables.

A. is                            B. are                         C. will be                   D. would be

5. I think in the future many people will prefer ____________ by using social media.

A. to communicate                                       B. will communicate

C. communicate                                            D. to be communicated

6. A holiday in America can be ________ cheap.

A. surprise                 B. surprisingly          C. surprised               D. surprised  

7. ____ from Bill, all the students said they would go.

A. Except                   B. Only                       C. Apart                     D. Separate

8. If only he _______ told us the truth in the first place, things wouldn't have gone so wrong.

A.  had                        B. has                                     C. would have           D. should have

9. Our visit to the beach made the holiday more _______ everyone was __________ by the story about our holiday.

A. amuse/amusing    B. amused/amusing  C. amusing/amused  D. amused/amuse

10. Would you be _______ my letters while I am away?

A. too good as to forward                           C. as good as forward

B.  so good as to forward                            D. so good as forwarding

 Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.

1. I _____________ Paul today, but I saw him last Sunday.

A. will not see                                                 B. will not be seeing 

C. have not seen                                                          D. has not seen

2. We have never _____________ another country before.

A. visit                         B. visited                     C. visiting                   D. visitor

3. At present, he _____________ a piece of music.

A. is composing          B. has composed       C. will compose         D. composed

4. I have never _____________ such a good novel before

A. to read                    B. reads                     C. reading                       C. reading

5. Nowadays, viewers can watch a variety of local and international programs _____________ TV.

A. on                                       B. in                            C. at                            D. of

6. We _____________ a party tomorrow.

A. have                            B. are having   C. have had                 D. were having

7. Danish _____________ to Japan next month.

A. go                             B. goes                        C. are going               D. is going

8. The train _____________ at 7.30 tomorrow morning.

A. leave                                   B. leaving                    C. leaves              D. leave

9. I have got tour details here. We _____________ 4 days in Beijing.

A. to spend                    B. spends                 C. spending                     D. spend

10. The capital city of Canada is _____________.

A. Ottawa                           B. Montreal                C. Vancouver       D. Hamilton

11. The match takes place _____________ Saturday afternoon this week.   

A. at                                        B. on                           C. in                            D. of

12. He's living in Hanoi. He   _____________ there since 2010.

A. lives                                 B. is living                  C. has lived                D. lived

13. They have been an English teacher _____________ many years.

A. for                                      B. since                       C. in                            D. on

14. It rain a lot _____________ July.

A. at                                       B. of                            C. in                            D. on

C. will receive D. am receiving

14. They for nearly 50 years.

A. marry B. have been married

C. married D. will marry

15. How many times there so far? A few times.

A. have you been B. would you be

C. were you D. had you been

16. It’s at least a month since Tom.

A. I last seen B. I last see C. I have last seen D. I last saw

17. We almost every lesson in this book so far.

A. study B. studies C. has studied D. have studied

18. We that television program.

A. never watch B. not never watch

C. have never watched D. has never watched

19. Up to then, I such a big fire.

A. have never seen B. had never seen

C. never seen D. never see

20. I her since I a student.

A. know/ am B. knew/ was

C. have known/ am D. have known/ was

1. we do not visit the museum because we have no time

A. If we have time, we will visit the museum B. if we had time, we would visit the museum

C. if we had time, we would have visited the museum D. if we had time, we will have visited the museum

2. ..........i have time, I will go with you

a. if B. unless C. so D. so that

3. If i .........who took your umberella, I would tell you

A. know B. knew C . known D. had know

4. If the automobile had not been in invented years ago,.......for basic transporttation now

a. what we would use b,what would we use c, what we will have used d, what we will be using

5, if the police had not saved me, i ..........at that time

a. will die b. would die c, will have died d, would have died

6. if i had time, i........and help you

a. will come b, would come c, will have come d, would have come

7, if I ......the truth, i would tell you

a, will know b, know c, hvae known d, knew

8, I'll return Bob' pen to him the next time if I .....him

a, will see b, see c, will have see d, have seen

9. I' d have told you if I .......the book

a, would have been b, should have seen c, had seen d,saw

10, If I..............more time , I would not have said such nonsense

a, am b, have been c, will be d,had been

24. I __________ Casablanca for the first time last night. I ___________ it before.

A. saw / had never seen

B. have seen / had never seen

C. see / have never seen

D. was seeing / has never seen

25. Did you _____________ anywhere interesting last weekend?

A. go

B. went

C. was going

D. gone

27. When I came, they ____________ chess.

A. are playing

B. was playing

C. were playing

D. has played

28. They were planting potatoes in the garden when it suddenly ______________.

A. rain

B. rained

C. has rained

D. had rained

29. Yesterday Ann introduced me to her husband. As I saw him, I _____________ that I __________ him before. We went to primary school together.

A. knew / met

B. had known / had met

C. knew / had met

D. known / had met

30. Yesterday when I __________ a bath, the phone _______________.

A. is having / rings

B. were having / rang

C. was having / rang

D. was having / was ringing