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Progress Test 8th grade

4 points granted

1. Complete these sentences with the correct possessive form of the nouns in brackets.
Add any necessary words. (5 x 0.2p = 1p)
1. One ______________________________________(my sister/friends) has borrowed
my favourite CD!
2. __________________________________________(Mavis/dog) would never harm
anyone.
3. I was delighted with the _________________________________(success/trick).
4. You’ll have to discuss the trip with your
____________________________(friends/parents) first. It sounds expensive.
5. Are you going to their concert? I’m a great
____________________________(fan/their).

2. Make reported speech. Start all your answers with 'she', and use the past simple of
'ask', 'say' or 'tell'. It's the same day, so you don't need to change the time
expressions. (8 x 0.2p = 1.6p)

1) "Don't do it!"
______________________________________________________
2) "Please get me a cup of tea."
______________________________________________________
3) "She got married last year."
______________________________________________________
4) "I've never been to Wales."
______________________________________________________
5) "Have you ever seen The Lord of the Rings?"
______________________________________________________
6) "I don't like mushrooms."
______________________________________________________
7) "How often do you play sport?"
______________________________________________________
8) "She's coming to the party."
______________________________________________________
 3. Join the sentences by changing the second of each pair into a relative clause. (14 x
0.1p = 1.4p)

1. That’s the ship. We travelled on it.

_________________________________________
2. That’s the type of sport. I know nothing about it.
____________________________________________________________
3. Here is the address. You should write to this address.
____________________________________________________________
4. The book belongs to me. You were looking at it just now.
____________________________________________________________
5. I couldn’t recognise the house. He lived in it.
____________________________________________________________
6. A travel agency has booked the hotel. Jim is going to stay in it.
____________________________________________________________
7. Those are the boys. Michael is hiding from them.
____________________________________________________________
8. He didn’t get the job. He applied for it.
____________________________________________________________
9. I wasn’t interested in the things. They were talking about them.
____________________________________________________________
10. I don’t know the boy. They went with him.
____________________________________________________________
11. The people are very nice. I work with them.
____________________________________________________________
12. What’s the music? You are listening to it.
____________________________________________________________
13. I found the book. He has been looking for it.
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14. The yellow car is my car. Everybody is looking at it.
____________________________________________________________

4. Fill in the gaps in this passage with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets. Use
the Past Perfect Continuous or the Past Simple. (20 x 0.1p = 2p)

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 she ………………………..

(work). There were papers all over the floor and books everywhere.

6) They ……………………… (study) all day so when we ………………………. (meet)

they were exhausted.

7) The boss …………………….. (talk) to clients on Skype for hours so

she …………………… (want) a break.

8) I ………………………………. (drink) coffee all morning. By lunchtime,

I ………………………… (feel) really strange!

9) Lucy ………………………… (hope) for a new car, so she was really pleased when
she ……………………………. (get) one.

10) I ………………………………. (dream) about a holiday in Greece. I couldn't believe it

when my husband ……………………………….. (book) one as a surprise!

GOOD LUCK!!!