REVISION TEST – B

1. Supply articles where necessary:

1. ______information you need is at ______top of ______page.

2. Peru is _______ country in ______ South America. _____ capital is Lima.
3. I didn’t have_____ time to have _______breakfast.
4. _______ River Volga flows into _______ Caspian Sea.
5. I was in ______ hurry this morning.
6. ______vegetarians don’t eat _____meat.
7. He lived on _____ small island in _____ Atlantic.
8. I always wanted to be ______ actor when I was small.
16 points
2. Put the words in the right order:

1. you / form / this / in / all / do / have / fill / to /

_____________________________________________________________

2. doing / you / what / came / school / were / you / this / to / before / ?

_____________________________________________________________?

3. Prize / the / a / he / years / Nobel / ago / few / won / .

______________________________________________________________

6 points
3. these sentences with modal verbs into the specified tense:
A: In the past tense.
1. You should speak aloud, because I can’t hear you.
__________________________________________________________
2. I must move my car, I’m not allowed to park here.
___________________________________________________________
3. I don’t have to go to bed early.
___________________________________________________________
4. He may come in time.
___________________________________________________________
B. In the future:
1. I must go home now
____________________________________________________________
2. Did you have to get up early?
____________________________________________________________
3. Children mustn’t watch TV.
________________________________________________
9 points
4. Fill in the prepositions:
1. Are you worried_________ this test?
2. We went ______ Spain ______ Easter.
3. Are you going to apply _______ the job?
4. I was born _____ December, 19, 1951 ____5 o’clock ____the afternoon.
5. She arrived _____ the station _____ midnight.
6. Millions _____ people died _____ hunger and others suffered _____ terrible drought.
7. I’m looking forward _____ seeing you again.
8. Everyday I’m afraid _____ going to school.
9. We’ve been watching the film __________ 12 o’clock.
15 points
5. Write questions about the underlined words:
1. John sends flowers to his sister every week
_____________________________________________________?
2. Yesterday my mother spoke with the manager.
_____________________________________________________?
3. It takes me 10 minutes to wash and dress.
_____________________________________________________?
4. I’d like to speak to the director.
__________________________________________________________?
5. Doctor Watson wants me to give up smoking.
__________________________________________________________?
10 points
6. Put the verbs in the brackets in the correct form:
1. I was angry because I _________________________ (wait) for half an hour, when the bus
finally ____________________ (come).
2. If he ____________(call), I ___________(tell) him more.
3. When we ___________(get) to the cinema, the film ________________(start) already.
4. What _______________________(you/do) next two weeks?
5. Last year the police only _______________(find) about one third of all the cars that the
thieves __________________(steal).
6. What a nice doggie! How long ________________(you/have) it ?
7. I have never been to the Alps, but my friends ___________(be) there two weeks ago.
11 points
7. Put these sentences into passive>
1. How did they break the window?
___________________________________________________________
2. They saw her yesterday morning when she was driving a car.
___________________________________________________________
3. Millions of people speak English.
___________________________________________________________
4. They will publish his first novel next year.
___________________________________________________________
5. The Chinese have grown tea for centuries.
____________________________________________________________
6. Bell didn’t invent the television.
____________________________________________________________

12 points
7. Test your English: circle the right answer:
1. If I had a typewriter, I ______________ it myself.
a) will type b) would type c) typed
2. I wish _______________________ at home yesterday.
a) I stayed b) I would stay c) I had stayed
3. We made Peter _______________ the matter.
a) to explain b) having explained c) explain
4. Their books are not mine, they are _____________.
a) theirs b) of theirs c) their
4 points
DISEASES

Fill in the blank spaces in the text ; put one word into each gap:

For thousands of years, smallpox was a terrifying __________________ which threatened people in

every continent, and there were ________________ which killed millions of people. It is believed that

the disease began in China and then ________________ slowly to the other continents. The first

known _________________ was Rameses V, the pharaoh of Egypt, who showed all the main

_______________ of the disease including the terrible rash, and who ________________ of it in 1157

BC. Many doctors, over the centuries, tried to find a ___________ for the disease, but none

succeeded. However, in 1774, a doctor called Edward Jenner decided to investigate the belief that

people who had cowpox could not be _______________ with smallpox. Cowpox was a much less

_________________ disease and hardly ever caused any lasting problems. Jenner discovered that it

was possible to ____________ people from smallpox by giving them cowpox, and he began to

_____________ large numbers of people against the disease. It was soon clear that anyone who had a

vaccination was _________________ to smallpox. This was because humans, when they are infected

with cowpox, produce antibodies; these protect people by attacking and killing the smallpox

_______________ if it enters the body. Vaccination became the standard ________________ for the

disease although no cure was ever found. In 1958 the World Health Organization decided to try and

vaccinate everyone in the world, and after a massive world-wide campaign, smallpox was

______________ .The last man in the world to catch it was Ali Maow Maalin, from Merka in Somalia

- and fortunately he ______________ from the disease.

Word Bank - victim, symptoms, spread, disease, died, epidemics, vaccinate, protect, serious,
infected, cure, treatment, virus, immune, eradicated, recovered