SEMESTRIAL TEST PAPER

I. Underline the correct tense, present simple or present continuous, in the following sentences: (5x3p=15p)

1. I’m sleeping/sleep on Niko’s sofa until I find a place of my own.

2. If you aren’t listening/don’t listen to the radio, why don’t you switch it off?
3. His only bad habit is that he talks/is talking too loudly.
4. I never do anything I feel/am feeling is against my principles.
5. There’s nobody at the door; you just hear/are just hearing things.

II. Complete with the correct modal verb: CAN/CAN’T, MUST/MUSTN’T, SHOULD/SHOULDN’T:
(10x3=30p)

a)……………….. you help me please?

b)You……………………do more sport if you want to lose weight.
c)You……………………do your homework first if you want me to let you go out with your friends.
d) He has just broken his leg so he…………………………..play football.
e) Drivers………………………drive over the speed limit.
f)I…………………………speak Chinese: it's too difficult!
g) You look pale! You…………………….sit down and have a glass of water.
h) We……………………..stop when the traffic light is red.
i)You…………………..take the blue one: it suits you!
j)You…………………..smoke so much: it's bad for health.

III. Write the appropriate form of the adjective in the brackets: (10x3=30p)

  1.     The town is just as  (large) as my native one.

2.    The road was  (long) than we had expected.

3.    The girl is very  (intelligent).

4.    As soon as they understood that the second book was  (boring) than the first one, they
changed their mind.

5.    The shop is  (far) than the school.

6.    Ventspils is  (far) town in Latvia I have been to.

7.    Tim is  (intelligent) than Pat.

8.    The heat is less  (harmful) than the cold.

9.    This song is  (beautiful) one in the world!

10. They are as  (stubborn) as donkeys!

IV. Do you have a favorite book? Has this book changed you—broadened your perspective? Have you
learned something new or been exposed to different ideas about people or a certain part of the world? 1,5 p