REVIEW TEST

GRAMMAR REVIEW

1. Complete the following conversation about a gold-medal winning swimmer for Great
Britain using the present simple or continuous.
1 Q: What ________________ (this championship/mean) to you?
A: Actually, I ________________ (not/think) too much about it.I ________________
(concentrate) on what I ________________ (do) now and the process of building up to
it.
2 Q: ________________ (what/influence) you during a race?
A: When you ________________ (hear) people cheering your name, it
________________ (make) it more exciting.
3 Q: ________________ (you/train) every day?
A: At the moment, I ________________ (do) a bit more than usual. I
________________ (get) Sundays off and I ________________ (have) gym work as
well.
4 Q: How ________________ (an important competition/affect) your training routine?
A: The routine ________________ (not/change) before a major championship. But
this time, we________________ (try) different stuff in the sessions.

2. Complete the text with the forms of present perfect or past simple.

Film maker George Richards ________________ (be) interested in the cinema since he
________________ (be) a small child. He ________________ (make) his first film when
he ________________ (be) just twelve years old. He is now almost forty and he
________________ (make) thirty films. George loves travelling. His work
________________ (take) him all over the world. He ________________ (be) to Africa,
India, Australia, China, the USA and South America. Last year, he ________________
(visit) Russia for the first time. George is married to the singer Kathy Burke. They
________________ (be) married for ten years. They live with their two children on the
Greek island of Kos. They ________________ (buy) a house on the island in 1987 and they
________________ (live) there since then.

3. Put the verb into either the gerund (-ing) or the infinitive (with 'to').

1) She avoided ________________ (tell) him about her plans.

2) I would like ________________ (come) to the party with you.
3) He enjoys ________________ (have) a bath in the evening.
4) She kept ________________ (talk) during the film.
5) I am learning ________________ (speak) English.
 6) Do you mind ________________ (give) me a hand?
7) She helped me ________________ (carry) my suitcases.
8) I've finished ________________ (cook) - come and eat!

9) He decided ________________ (study) biology.

4. Complete the news item with the past simple and past perfect simple form of these verbs.

be become can already/die manage try

Rescuers in Scotland ________________ to return twenty whales to the sea this weekend.
The whales ________________ from a larger group that ________________ stuck on the
beach. Several other whales ________________ before the rescuers ________________ to
help them. Earlier the rescue team ________________ unsuccessfully to stop the whales
from coming too close to the shore. The reason for the whales behavior is not clear.

5. Look at the time expressions and complete the sentences about Boyd Matson with the
present perfect and past simple form of the verbs.

1) Boyd Maton________________ (work) for National Geographic for years.

2) He ________________ (write) hundreds of articles in his career.

3) He ________________ (take) his kids to Machu Picchu a few years ago.

4) He ________________ (not/have) any life-threatening experiences so far.

5) He ________________ (have) an interesting time in Morocco last summer.

6) He ________________ (be) on a working trip to Egypt this month.

6. Tick the sentences where used to can replace the past simple.

1) This area didn’t have so many skyscrapers before.

2) The pollution here was much worse than it is now.

3) The local residents campaigned for better public transport.

4) The atmosphere wasn’t so relaxed in the past.

5) A new modern district replaced the neglected center.

6) There weren’t as many crowded neighborhoods.

Tick the sentences where would can replace used to.

 1) When I was young, we used to live next to my school.
2) My friends and I used to play in the street.
3) There used to be a lot of traffic along this road.
4) I didn’t use to like my neighbors.
5) A huge tree used to grow in front of our house.
6) We didn’t use to go out if it was raining.

7. Complete the conversations with the words.

can’t have been must have seen may have seen

A: This looks interesting. I like wildlife films.

B: Yes, it’s just started. It looks really familiar, though. I ________________ it before, I think.

A: Really? It says in the paper that it’s a brand new series, so it ________________ on before.

B: Oh? Well, I ________________ trailer, then. I know it was advertised a lot.

can’t have been might have been could have phoned must have been
might have been must have had

A: That’s weird. I’ve got four missed calls on my phone.

B: Same number each time? It ________________ important if they called four times.

A: No, different numbers. But they didn’t leave any messages, so it ________________ that
important. I wonder how I missed them?

B: You ________________ your phone switched off.

A: No, I didn’t.

B: Well, you ________________ busy or the volume ________________ down low or

something.

A: Yes, Maybe. Well, I don’t recognize the numbers, so I suppose they ________________ by
mistake.

VOCABULARY AND USE OF ENGLISH REVIEW

1. Match these words with their definitions in bold.

amazing arrived in emotional exciting full of people met some
friends sad starting went
1) We finally made it to Belfast:
2) Tragic story:
3) We bumped into some familiar faces:
 4) Packed:
5) We made our way to:
6) Spectacular:
7) Thrilling:
8) Moving:
9) Embarking on a new life:

2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of journey, travel or trip.
1) I’ve just got back from an amazing ________________ to Greece.
2) We ________________ right across Australia. It took a week.
3) I love going on long train ________________ .
4) We went on a few day ________________ from the resort.
5) How was your ________________ ? Was there much traffic on the motorway?
6) Air ________________ is fast, but usually it’s quite expensive.

3. Complete the sentences from a travel agent’s brochure with these words.
busy crowded exotic peaceful relaxing remote
safe tropical unspoilt vibrant
Explore the ________________ streets and ________________ markets of this
________________ city.
Get away from it all on a luxury break in ________________ surroundings.
Leave streets behind and recharge your batteries in the ________________ setting of a
________________ village high in the mountains.
Family-friendly holidays in ________________ resorts on the Mediterranean.
The holiday of a lifetime: ________________ beaches, ________________ scenery.
Unforgettable.
Take a trip along the ________________ coastline of southern Australia.

4. Write these words with the words (1-11) with the same meaning.
atmosphere built-up modern neighborhood
open spaces polluted public transport residents
run-down skyscraper traffic
1 new, contemporary:
2 area, district:
3 buses and trains:
4 character and feel:
5 with lots of buildings:
6 dirty:
7 high-rise building:
8 inhabitants:
9 movement of cars and other vehicles:
10 neglected:
11 parks:
12 VOCABULARY AND USE OF ENGLISH REVIEW
READING COMREHENSION REVIEW
1. Read about Mark and answer the questions.
a) Is synesthesia an illness?
b) What happens when people have synesthesia?
c) Does it affect Mark’s life at all?
d) How is Mark’s synesthesia different from Kandinksy’s?
e) What’s the most frequent example of synesthesia?
f) Which part of the body is involved in synesthesia?
2. Underline words in the text connected to the senses. Decide if they are nouns or
verbs. Then use some of the words to complete these sentences.
a) I don’t like the ________________ of bananas.
b) When my cat ________________ a bird singing, it gets very excited.
c) Most people’s ________________ gets worse as they get older.
d) Our sense of ________________ is most sensitive in our fingertips.
e) Animal noses have a highly developed sense of ________________ ,
compared with humans.