Unit 4 OUR PAST test 1

unit 4

OUR PAST
TEST 1

I. Fill in each gap with missing letters to make meaningful words, based
on the definitions on the right.
1. C— U —L

- Showing a desire to cause pain and
suffering

2. G-------Z —

- to eat growing grass.

3 . F — L — T --------E

- a story passed on in spoken form from
one generation to the next.

4.
5.

— T R -------T--------

- the cut and dried stems of grain plants.
- to fasten sth with rope or string, etc.

II. Odd one out.
1. a. read

2. a. died

b. listen
b. looked

c. stay
c. laughed

d. live
d. danced

3. a. stopped
4. a. wanted

b. desired
b. listened

c. washed
c. played

d. watched
d. grazed

5. a. wished

b. stopped

c. needed

d. laughed

III. Use the cues to answer these questions.
E.g.: Where did you go this weekend?
/ went to a party.

(to a party)

1.

Who did you meet at the party?

(someone very interesting)

2.

What time did you and Eva get home? (a little after 1:00)

3.

How did you and Bob like the art exhibition? (a lot)

4.

What did you buy?

5.

Where did Jeff and Joyce go on vacation? (to the country)

(the new Madonna CD)

IV. Write these sentences, putting one verb into the correct form of
used to and the other into the past simple.
E.g.:
I (smoke), but I (give it up) last year.
/ used to smoke, but I gave it up last year.
1. He (live) in London before he (go) abroad.
2.

I (earn) a lot of money, but then I (lose) my job.

3.

I'm surprised that they (join) the tennis club. They (not like) tennis.

4.

(you travel) a lot before you (get) this job?

6.

That old radio (work) before I (drop) it.

7.

We (see) them every week, but then we (have) an argument.

8.

She (play) tennis a lot before she (break) her leg.

9.

She (drive) a lot before she (have) the accident.

10. We (have) a garden, but then we (move) to a different house.

V. Read the following story and put the verbs into the correct forms.
A grasshopper 0 spent the summer singing and dancing in the sun.
One day, he (see).......1...........an ant hurrying by. She looked very tired and
hot.
"Why are you working on such a lovely day?" asked the grasshopper.
"I'm collecting food for the winter," (say)............2.......the ant and (gc>
.........3...........on her way.
She (join) ...........4.......all the other ants carrying food to their store.
The grasshopper (sing) ...........5.......another song and (earn)
..............6.......on dancing.


When winter came and there (be) ............7........ snow on the gronn
the grasshopper (have) ........8...........nothing to eat. He (be) ..........".........
very hungry, so he (go) ........10............ and (ask) .........11..............t h e a n t l "
give him some food. "We (work) ........12............all summer to collect our
food. What........13............you (do)?" said one of ants .
"I was
grasshopper.

busy

singing and dancing,"

(reply)

........14.............the

"Well, if you sing and dance all summer and do no work," said the ant
"then you must starve in the winter."
VI. Fill in each blank with a suitable word.
1.

I usually go swimming on Tuesday.

2.

I got up.....................7 o'clock this morning.

3.

Jim came round...................the afternoon.

4.

The children get too many presents....................Christmas

5.

We usually take our holiday....................September.

6.

She was born in Australia....................1952.

7.

We left school 20 years....................

8.1 couldn't sleep....................night.
9. We moved here....................20th October.
10. We all came to Ann's birthday party................Sunday.
VII. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning.
1.1 gave up smoking 10 years ago.
-.(used)...........................................................................................
2. John used to go on bare foot when he was a little boy.
- John often went.............................................................................
3. He doesn't play tennis as well as he used to.
- He used........................................................................................
4.1 walked to school in 20 minutes.
- It took...........................................................................................


5. During dinner, the phone rang.
- While I....................................................................................
VIII. How have you changed in the last five years? Write your answers
to these questions.
1. What hobbies did you use to have five years ago? What hobbies do
you have now?
-1 used to.........................................................................
-Now,.............................................................................
2. What kind of music did you use to like then? Who were your favorite

singers?
What kind of music do you like now?
3. What kind of clothes did you use to like to wear? What kind of clothes
do you like to wear now?