She has been working here for ten days and next Friday will make it a fortnight

ADVANCED ENGLISH INT 127

ENGLISH TEST

NAME Toktobek Kamchybekov . E-Mail:[email protected] 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 / anygrass.

7) Places near the Equator have a warm / the warm / warmweather 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_____________________________________________