60-minute English test

Marks: Name:
Class:
(Basic level, Advanced level)
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the
other: (2 marks)
1. A. comment B. solar C. ecologist D. fossil
2. A. pesticide B. city C. centre D. campaign
3. A. equipped B. delivered C. transferred D. received
4. A. helps B. provides C. documents D. texts
5. A. answer B. sweater C. swallow D. swan
6. A. heat B. nuclear C. feat D. clean
7. A. power B. slow C. snow D. show
8. A. host B. honour C. honest D. hour
9. A. device B. service C. price D. advice
10. A. church B. child C. search D. character
II. Choose the best option: (4 marks)
1) He stops _____ a newspaper.
A. buying B. buying C. bought D. to buy
2) People are destroying the environment by adding ___ to it.
A. pollute B. pollutions C. polluter D. pollutants
3) Many animals are _____ for their fur and other valuable parts of their bodies.
A. ran after B. died C. hunted D. followed
4) That’s the girl to _____ my brother got engaged.
A. whose B. who C. whom D. that
5) The boy _____ the piano is my son.
A. who is playing B. that is playing C. playing D. All are correct
6) We have an apartment _____ the park.
A. overlooking B. overlooks C. to overlook D. overlooked
7) She married a man _____ she had met on a bus.
A. whom B. whose C. he D. which
8) A lot of the people _____ to the party cannot come.

A. inviting B. to be invited C. invited D. to invite
9) I came from a city _____ on the southern part of the country.
A. locating B. to be located C. located D. to locate
10) Linda was the last student _____ at the oral exam.
A. to be asked B. asking C. asked D. to ask
11) Human beings are responsible _____ the changes in the environment.
A. to B. with C. of D. for
12) The judge demanded _____ the original documents, not the photocopies.
A. to see B. see C. seeing D. saw
13) I’m looking forward to having the film _____.
A. development B. developing C. developed D. to be developed
14) Can you look _____ the children for me while I’m away?
A. up B. after C. for D. at
15) The police _____ the accident at the moment.
A. witnesses B. witnessed C. is witnessing D. are witnessing
16) The man walked _____ the hotel and asked the receptionist ___ a room.
A. to/ for B. into/ for C. into/ about D. along/ about
III. Rewrite these sentences with their meanings unchanged: (1 mark)
1) He is the first person who saw the fire.
 He is the first person ___________________.
2) The student who spoke English fluently is my brother.
 The student ___________________________________.
3) She is playing a piece of music that was composed by Beethoven.
 She is playing a piece of music _________________________.
4) Here are some ties that you can choose.
 Here are some ties ____________________.
IV. Combine the sentences by using relative pronouns: (1 mark)
1) A bomb went off this morning. It caused a lot of damage.
 ____________________________________________________.
2) A footballer has been banned from playing. He took drugs.

 ____________________________________________________.
3) On Easter Island, there were only 1000 inhabitants. The Dutch had gone out of there in search
of supplies.
 On Easter Island __________________________________________________________
_________________.
4) We’re waiting for a woman. She didn’t seem to turn up.
 We _______________________________________________.
V. Sentences transformation (2 marks)
1) “Will you help me moving this piano, won’t you?” said Jimmy.
 Jimmy asked me _________________________________________.
2) She didn’t take my advice, so she made such a serious mistake.
 Had __________________________________________________.
3) Someone might find a solution to the problem soon.
 A solution ____________________________________.
4) Walking along the street carelessly, the girl felt over the obstacle.
 If _______________________________________________________________.
5) “Do whatever you like or go whatever you want!” I said to him.
 I advised _________________________________________________.
6) “Would you like to come to my house this weekend?” said Barbie.
 Barbie suggested _____________________________.
7) “If you don’t refund the money, I won’t have the service again”.
 I made it clear that If ____________________________________________________.
8) “You didn’t pay attention to what I said” the teacher said to the boy.
 The teacher accused ____________________________________________.
VI. Answer the questions: (bonus)
1) What do you often do in your free time?
 __________________________________________________.
2) What do you think “WD U LK 2 GO 4 A COFY” mean?
 ___________________________________________________________________.
Good luck!