Time: 45 minutes

Total number of questions: 27

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Question 1 – 5: Are these sentences correct or incorrect? If they are incorrect, correct them.
Q1. Have you any suggestions to make about how to celebrate the school’s anniversary?
➔ ____________________________________________________________
Q2. We are planning to have a party next Saturday.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
Q3. The company director gave a formal apology for his earlier comments.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
Q4. The manager had to make a number of changes to office procedures in order to do all the
improvements he had planned for the company.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
Q5. My sister did all the arrangements for the party.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
Question 6 – 15: Complete each sentence using a word from the following box:

Q6. Try to make a ______________of noticing good collocations in any text you read.
Q7. A railway official asked us to move our luggage to make ______for the boy’s bike.
Q8. The new CEO has made a lot of _______________________by being so autocratic.
Q9. If Pauline makes a _________________of this project, she’ll probably get promoted.
Q10. The old gentleman said he was delighted to make my ________________.
Q11. Do you think you’ll make an ______________on the flat you viewed yesterday.
Q12. Every young scientist dreams of making a ___________that will change the world.
Q13. Rachel made no _______________to contact me when she was over here last year.
Q14 We tried to make a __________ against the new housing development but to no
avail: the contractors started work this morning.
Q15. The ________________________that you made contained a few inaccuracies.
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Question 16 – 21: Replace “make” in each sentence with an alternative word. Then say
whether you have made the sentence more or less formal.
Q16. The Green Party plans to make a major protest against the government’s new farming
policy.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
➔ MORE FORMAL || LESS FORMAL
Q17. Tessa helped me to make some lovely cushion covers for my new flat.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
➔ MORE FORMAL || LESS FORMAL
Q18. I regret to inform you that several clients have made complaints about your conduct.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
➔ MORE FORMAL || LESS FORMAL
Q19. You won’t make a good first impression if you arrive late for your interview.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
➔ MORE FORMAL || LESS FORMAL
Q20. It won’t take me long to make a meal for the children.
➔ ____________________________________________________________
➔ MORE FORMAL || LESS FORMAL
Q21. Do you expect your business to make a profit this year?
➔ ____________________________________________________________
➔ MORE FORMAL || LESS FORMAL

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Total number of questions: 27

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Question 22 – 27 are based on the following article:

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Question 22 – 27: Decide if the following information about the text if True, False, or Not
Given

True False NG
Q22. The quality of newspaper and TV reports is sub - standard
Q23. Politicians are borrowing words from other languages for
their speeches
Q24. Native English speaker are less polite than they used to be
Q25. People often fail to understand the use of euphemism in
the media
Q26. The use of euphemism has made people indifferent to
other people’s suffering
Q27. Military leaders do not admit that their soldiers need to
hide from the enemy