GRAMMAR TEST – MARCH 2019

Name: ____________________________________ Marks: ____/29

A. Change these sentences from active to passive: ____/10
1. People speak Portuguese in Brazil.
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2. The Government is planning a new road near my house.
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3. My grandfather built this house in 1943.
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4. Picasso was painting Guernica at that time.
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5. The cleaner has cleaned the office.
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6. He had written three books before 1867.
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7. John will tell you later.
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8. By this time tomorrow we will have signed the deal.
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9. Somebody should do the work.
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10. The traffic might have delayed Jimmy.
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B. Choose the past perfect, or the past simple: ____/7

1. We had already eaten when John ________________________________ (come) home.
2. Last year Juan ________________________________ (pass) all his exams.
3. When I ________________________________ (get) to the airport I discovered I had forgotten my
passport.
4. I went to the library, then I ________________________________ (buy) some milk and went home.
5. I opened my handbag to find that I ________________________________ (forgot) my credit card.
6. When we ________________________________ (arrive) at the station, the train had already left.
7. We got home to find that someone ________________________________ (break) into the house.

C. Make the past perfect continuous or the past simple: ____/12

1. I ________________________ (wait) for hours, so I was really glad when the bus finally
________________________ (arrive).
2. Why ________________________ (be) the baby’s face so dirty? He ________________________ (eat)
chocolate.
3. I ________________________ (see) John yesterday, but he ________________________ (run) so he was
too tired to chat.
4. It ________________________ (rain) and the pavement ________________________ (be) covered with
puddles.
5. When I ________________________ (arrive), it was clear that she ________________________ (work).
There were papers all over the floor and books everywhere.
6. They ________________________ (study) all day so, when we ________________________ (meet), they
were exhausted.
VOCABULARY TEST – MARCH 2019
Name: ____________________________________
A. Make nouns from these adjectives:
1. necessary ______________________
3. astonished ______________________
5. protected _______________________
Marks: ____/39
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2. furious ______________________
4. devestated ____________________
6. essential ______________________

B. Write described types of holidays: ____/4

1. When you do all the cooking for yourself. ___________________________________
2. When people live in each other's homes. ____________________________________
3. When you go to many different places by bus. ________________________________
4. When you do jobs, often to help local people. _________________________________

C. Write idioms that are described: ____/4

1. He's got a huge apetite. _____________________________________________________
2. They could shop for a very long time. _________________________________________________
3. My dad earns the money in our family. ________________________________________________
4. They have a very good relationship. __________________________________________________

D. Fill the text with missing words. ____/8

In the mid-1930s, hard times returned. America was s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ from the Great Depression and across
the country, millions of people were out of work. In the Midwest, severe d _ _ _ _ _ _ conditions and
d _ _ _ storms destroyed farmland and thousands of families were f _ _ _ _ _ to leave their homes. They
h _ _ _ _ _ to California, along Route 66, where they heard there were agricultural jobs.

S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, the largest soda in 1955 was much more smaller than today's child-size soda. Over the last
three decades the average teenager's calorie c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ has risen by 25% to 2,700 a day.
W _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, that's 700 calories more a day than they need.

E. Write the words that mean following: ____/3

1. A way of dealing with something – a _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
2. An area where people live which is outside the central part of a town or a city – s _ _ _ _ _.
3. A hard flat area at the side of the road for people to walk on – p _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

F. Write American-English words that have same meaning as these Britian-English words. ____/6
1. trousers ___________________ 2. holiday __________________
3. lift _______________________ 4. theatre ___________________
5. taxi _______________________ 6. fizzy drink __________________

G. Translate these feelings in English. ____/4

1. užasnut _____________________ 2. zapanjen ____________________
3. oduševljen ___________________ 4. zgrožen _____________________

H. Translate these idioms on English. ____/4

1. biti na sedmom nebu ____________________________________________
2. lud od sreće ___________________________________________________
3. osjećati se tužno _______________________________________________
4. biti depresivan _________________________________________________