PRE INTERMEDIATE TEST

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I Verb forms:Past Simple/Present Perfect Simple/Present Perfect Continuous(circle the correct verb form in the following sentences) 1. I played/have played football since I was 5 years old. 2. The police haven`t found/haven`t been finding the murderer yet. 3. Don`t be ridiculous! It has been raining/has rained all day. 4. At 4 p.m. my neighbour rang/has rung up and frightened us all. 5. What happened? I have been waiting/waited for you all morning. 6. What did you do/have you been doing between 9.00 and 10.00 yesterday? ____/6 II Active or passive?Put the verbs in the correct active or passive form:make sure that you use the correct tense(present simple,past simple or future simple with will) 1. The milk _______________(bring)to my door every morning at 7 o`clock. 2. Last night the ambulance_________________(take) the sick man to the hospital. 3. Electricity__________________(use)as fuel for cars in future. 4. Normally,things from supermarkets________________(steal) every day. 5. The bridge on the Drina____________(write) by Ivo Andric. 6. Our mayor____________(build) a new car park in the next few months. 7. The bat_________________(compose) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 8. Radium__________________(discover) by Marie Curie at the beginning of the 20th century. _______/8 III Reported speech 1.We are late. They said that_______________________________. 2.The shops close at 8 tonight. He said that_________________________________. 3.I have typed those letters. She said that________________________________.

4.I can speak French. He said that_________________________________. 5.I don`t want to go. He said that_________________________________. 6.He missed the bus. She said that________________________________.

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IV Prepositions(circle the right preposition) 1. The World Health Organisation spent 20 million dollars on/for AIDS research last year. 2. Don`t ask me!I am not very good in/with numbers. 3. Mary often borrows things from/to me,but she never gives them back! 4. It took our grandparents 20 years to save up with/for an apartment. 5. The Titanic was found at the bottom/at the top of the sea. 6. You shouldn`t leave your dog in/on the car on a very hot day. 7. In Switzerland,there`s snow on top of/below some mountains in summer. 8. In the alphabet,B is between/in front of A and C. _____/8 V Match Start Get Change Keep Take Spend Have Tell Win Lose a degree warm tablets my mind money a business a good time a competition a wallet a story ________/10

VI Vocabulary 1. You can use a t___________to dry yourself after a shower. 2. Robin finished law at the university.She is a l________in Chicago now. 3. If the room is quiet and pleasant,then it`s very p_____________. 4. If you want to drive a car you need to have a d___________ __________. 5. It`s advisable and polite to leave waiter a t__________. 6. When you go to another country you go a_______________. 7. If you don`t live in the centre then you live in the s_____________. 8. If you don`t live in the house then you live in a f________. _______/8 VII Put the appropriate relative pronoun(who/which) and match the parts of sentences: 1. Medicine is stuff 2. A souvenir is something 3. A tip is extra money 4. A rude person is someone you give to waiters and taxi drivers. is not polite. you take when you are ill. you buy from another country to help you remember it. 1.____________________________________________________________. 2.____________________________________________________________. 3.____________________________________________________________. 4.____________________________________________________________. _______/4

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