FINAL TEST PRACTICE

   Hello Guys!!! I would like you to work on the following exercises in order to practice for the final test. We'll check them this saturday before taking the exam.

1    Circle the correct words.

0    My uncle was sent to – / the prison for three months.

1    I’ll be going / have gone into town as usual tonight.

2    He’s been / He is up in his room for ages. It’s time he came downstairs.

3    Having finished / Finishing my work earlier in the day, I decided to go out for a walk.

4    I could / was able to pass the test because I worked so hard.

5    I think you forgot inviting / to invite Jane to the party.

6    I’d prefer to not / not to get wet today.

7    I never used to / would understand my language lessons.

8    Do you ever feel like get / getting away from it all?

9    I’m still not used to living / live in a caravan.

10  I’d rather you wrote / write your essay in pen, not on a computer.

2    Five of these sentences have mistakes. Find and correct them. Tick (ü) those sentences that are correct.

0    I have never ridden a motorbike before I met Jane.                                                ___had____

1    Life in our town has never been easy.                                                                     __________

2    By the time we get there, everything will have been done.                                     __________

3    Tom would rather to do his work alone.                                                                 __________

4    She’d prefer being with her other friends.                                                               __________

5    I’ve been trying to telephone you all morning.                                                      __________

6    Having seen John’s holiday photos, I wanted to go there myself.                           __________

7    I’ve never prevented you from do what you want.                                                 __________

8    I dream about moving away from here.                                                                  __________

9    I’m starting to get used to drive on the left.                                                           __________

10  They made us to wait for three hours.                                                                    __________

3    Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

0    They couldn’t manage to find (find) their way out.

1    This time tomorrow, we ______________________________ (win) the match and already gone home.

2    They ______________________________ (not understand) you now and they never will.

3    As soon as you ______________________________ (hear) anything, please tell me.

4    They ______________________________ (work) on the project for two years before they made any progress.

5    ______________________________ (hear) the news of the hurricane, I rang my uncle to make sure he was OK.

6    ______________________________ (clean) out the attic, I came across an old box of my grandfather’s.

7    I’d rather they ______________________________ (wait) outside.

8    Do you remember ______________________________ (meet) me for the first time?

9    They ______________________________ (not be) able to find the answer for another two years.

10  Would you prefer ______________________________ (come) with us tomorrow?

4    Complete the text with the correct forms of the words in brackets.

Class Power is not a very ⁰__convincing___ (convince) tale of one man’s fight to turn a bunch of troublemakers into model students. One reason that people are praising the book is that the author is supposed to be very ¹_______________ (know) about the topic, having taught in an inner-city school himself. However, I think it would be more ²_______________ (assure) if I knew that he had actually been a good teacher and had ³_______________ (success) in controlling his own students. Apparently, though, he left teaching because he was no good at it. That may be explained by the ⁴_______________ (infant) methods used by Jed, the hero of the book, to gain the trust of his students. Other, more traditional, teachers are shown as being a ⁵_______________ (heart), uncaring bunch who won’t accept any new ideas. The most ⁶_______________ (believe) thing about the book is that a 25-year-old with no experience, assumes he knows more than anyone else.

This is a common feeling amongst our poorly educated, almost ⁷_______________ (literate) younger generation. The teachers in the book, just as in real life, are ⁸_______________ (forbid) from giving their opinions. This book is ⁹_______________ (indicate) of the trendy, politically correct views being given all over the country. The ¹⁰_______________ (tragic) is that people still listen to them.

5    Rewrite the sentences. Use the words in capital letters. Do not change the meaning of the original sentences.

0    We set off two hours ago and we’re still driving. FOR

      We’ve _been driving for two hours.

1    The first time anyone heard English on this island was in 1792. BEFORE

      No one __________________________________________.

2    The council are going to make their decision at sometime before nine o’clock. HAVE

      By nine o’clock ___________________________________.

3    I’d rather you didn’t tell anyone yet. TO

      I’d ______________________________________________.

4    When we were young, our parents always checked our homework. TO

      When we were young _______________________________.

5    Jenny was sailing alone when she got lost. GOT

      Sailing ___________________________________________.

6    I called the police after I saw the mess in the bedroom. SEEN

      Having ___________________________________________.

7    They have been unable to stop the fighting. MANAGED

      They _____________________________________________.

8    Women can’t become members. PERMITTED

      Women ___________________________________________.

9    We might go out later. WILL

      It ________________________________________________.

10  You are not required to do anything else. HAVE

      You ______________________________________________.

6    Complete the text with one word in each gap.

Stella Jackson, aged 15, ⁰____had___  always been confident and outgoing. Her parents noticed that she ¹_______________ often argue with adults, even at an early age. At her first school, she ²_______________ to be a member of a discussion club which was actually meant for the top class. She was allowed ³_______________ join because she was so much more mature than other children her age.

By the time she went to high school at the age of eleven, she ⁴_______________ already joined ⁵_______________ acting school and she soon joined the school drama club. She had a few problems here. Some of her fellow students accused her of ⁶_______________ over confident and insensitive and, for a while, she had problems fitting in.

In her third year, she succeeded ⁷_______________ changing her personality and was ⁸_______________ to become more understanding and less dominant. It was at this time that she joined the local Young Conservative Party. By the end of this year, she will ⁹_______________ made two speeches at local political meetings and, by this time next year, she will ¹⁰_______________ joining the national party and giving a speech there.