8 = a9) Adjectives and adverbs ‘AD Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. 1 Im________a swimmer as my sister. abetter bgoodas cnotasgood dso good 2. Is St Paul's the oldest cathedral Britain? affom bin cof dto 3. When we heard the good news, we were adelight bdelighted delighting d delightful 4 mwaiting up here with Anthony, but Amberhas _____ gone. aalready bdownstairs conce dyet 5 left the book on the table._, someone else has borrowed it aPerfectly b Personally Presumably d Properly 'B) identify the one underlined expression (A, B, C or D) that must be changed in order to correct the sentence. 1 stared into the long rectangular black hole, six deep feet, and shuddered, 2 After the frst real attack started, some afaid solders didnt want to fight any more so theyust surrendered, 3 I get up gary, shower fist, then | drink usually some tea and get dressed as festas can. 4 Weall yery agree that some tests are not cifficult enough and others are just too hard, 5 The Butch are playing the talian frst, and then the Spanish and the Portuguese play '© Add one pair of adjectives/adverbs to each sentence in this text. already /neverblack/round easier /eventually further /just__longer/ reading short /suddenly 1 Tknowt'm in my 405, but | imagined that | would need lasses. Daa __ kept trying to read the newspaper by holding it a Ry. 3. Ireally had to decide whether to get aims or a pair of lasses. 4 - chose the ____ _ Solution, S _ with my new glasses, those ‘wiggly lines atthe top of the page turned into words. 6 Andthe uuu SPOtS that seemed to dance on the floor became ants. 17 Oxford Practice Grammar + Advanced + Test 9'D complete each sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the sentence above it. 1. Weall thought they organized the event well and we were all excited by it. Everyone thought the event. eer 2. You will get there quicker if you leave here earlier. Theesieg ee 3 Markis a good cook, but David is a better cook. Markis not as. = 4 Doyou have any scarves? Im looking for one that's woollen, green and fairly long. tim looking fora scarf. = = 'B) choose the most appropriate word from each pair for each space. acute/ acutely colour/coloured far further just/only pleased / pleasing certain /certainly early /eartier Japan /Japanese now/ yet young/ youngest. (One evening in the spring of 1936, when | was a boy of 14, my father took me to a dance ‘performance in Kyoto. | remember only two things about it The fists that he and | were the! _..Westerners in the audience; we had come from our home in the Netherlands only a few weeks 1 501 had not *_ adjusted to the cultural solation and sui felt it *__ _-The second Is how ____ las, after months of intensive study of the Japanese language, to find that | could now understand fragments of the conversations | overheard. As for the women dancing on the stage before me, | remember nothing of them except a vague impression of brightly © kimono. __... had no way of knowing that in a time and place as _.. away as New York City nearly 50 years in the future, one among them would become my good friend and would dictate her extraordinary memoirs to me. 18 Oxford Practice Grammar + Advanced *Test 9