- 1. Choose the most appropriate to complete the sentence. You have to be very good at a language before you can _______ it.
A) interpit
B) interpret
C) interprete
D) intaprete
- 2. Choose the word that has the same consonant sound. Crunch
A) chef
B) chart
C) champagne
D) chemist
- 3. Choose the word that has the same vowel sound. bIRth
A) path
B) tour
C) berth
D) sort
- 4. Choose the correct stress pattern for the word: pronounce
A) PROnounce
B) proNOUNCE
C) pronounCE
D) PRONOUNce
- 5. Choose the correct stress pattern for the word: computer
A) comPUter
B) coMPUter
C) COMputer
D) compuTER
- 6. Where is the stress? PRODUCTION
A) 1st
B) 3rd
C) 2nd
- 7. Where is the stress? REVOLUTIONARY
A) 4th
B) 5th
C) 1st
D) 3rd
- 8. Choose the correct stress pattern for the word: AUTHORIZATION
A) AUthorization
B) authorizaTION
C) authoriZAtion
D) authoRIzation
- 9. Which word has the sound represented . /tʃ/
A) Cheer
B) Jeer
C) Share
D) Just
- 10. Which word is transcribed /treid/? Type the word.
- 11. Which word is transcribed /sto:/?
- 12. Which word is transcribed /tʃeə/ ?
- 13. Which word is transcribed /trænskrɪpʃən/ ?
- 14. Which word is transcribed /hæpi/
- 15. Which of the following is an adjective phrase?
A) As the cat watched
B) She wants to be a dancer
C) Under the sea
D) A girl smarter than me
- 16. Which of the following is an adverb phrase?
A) Her eyes were mesmerizing
B) He loves to walk in the park
C) The exams were extremely tough
D) After the sunset
- 17. Which of the following is a noun phrase?
A) You should go right now
B) Near the ocean
C) The big bug
- 18. The word in a sentence that conveys action is the
A) conjunction
B) adverb
C) noun
D) verb
- 19. The words “that” and “which” are called
A) relative pronouns
B) adjectives
C) conjunctions
D) confusing
- 20. Which of the following is NOT an adverb?
A) backward
B) heavy
C) quickly
D) fully
- 21. The rule for when to use “who” and when to use “whom” is that
A) “whom” refers to the subject of a clause and “who” refers to the object of a verb or preposition
B) “who” is acceptable in spoken language but “whom” is preferred in written language
C) “whom” is used only in scholarly writing and “who” is used in more informal writing
D) “who” refers to the subject of a clause and “whom” refers to the object of a verb or preposition
- 22. Which is the correct complex sentence structure?
A) A simple sentence with a subject and verb
B) An independent clause and a dependent clause
C) One dependent clause
D) One independent sentence
- 23. When a subordinating conjunction starts a sentence, a comma is required.
A) True
B) False
- 24. Which word is not a subordinating conjunction?
A) When
B) If
C) While
D) Some
- 25. Which sentence is an independent clause?
A) If you read The Outsiders
B) Before you eat breakfast.
C) Whenever you finish. .
D) Jill likes to go to the beach.
- 26. Which of the following are dependent clauses?
A) All of the above
B) While you were outside
C) When you get to the goal.
D) If you don't study.
- 27. Unless you are going to graduate you will not need to apply for your diploma. Where does the comma belong?
A) Between graduate and you
B) Between unless and you
C) This complex sentence does not need a comma
D) Between not and need
- 28. Complete the sentence with a phrasal verb. I don't know where my book is. I have to __________ it
A) found for
B) find for
C) looked for
D) look for
- 29. Quick! ________ the bus. It's ready to leave.
A) get on
B) get at
C) get to
D) get away
- 30. It's dark inside. Can you ________ the light, please?
A) switch on
B) switched on
C) on
D) onning
- 31. ________ the form, please.
A) Fill on
B) Fill in
C) Filled
D) Filled on
- 32. I need some new clothes. Why don't you _______ these old jeans.
A) get away
B) dump away
C) throw away
D) have away
- 33. Use the correct personal pronouns using the words in bracket. ______ are watching TV. (my mother and I)
- 34. Use the correct personal pronouns using the words in bracket. ______ are in the garden. (the flowers)
- 35. Use the correct personal pronouns using the words in bracket. Have ______ got a computer, Mandy?
- 36. Put in the correct relative pronoun. Yesterday I saw a car ________ was really old.
- 37. Put in the correct relative pronoun. Mandy is the girl _________ I met on Friday.
- 38. Put in the correct relative pronoun. The robber stole the car ______ the lady parked in front of the supermarket.
- 39. Put in the correct relative pronoun. Bill Clinton, ______ was President of the USA, has only one daughter.
- 40. Put in the correct relative pronoun. I haven't seen Frank, _______ brother lives next door, for a long time now.
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