Name: ………………………………

15 - minute Test
Exercise 1. Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined
1. A. conclusion     B. ensure     C. rush     D. mission

2. A. student     B. study     C. dust     D. must

3. A. father     B. date     C. hard     D. last

4. A. chapter     B. rich     C. cheese     D. chemist

5. A. watches     B. boxes     C. buses     D. tables

Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense form.

1. His life (be)_________so boring. He just (watch)____________TV every night.

2. I__________late for school yesterday (be).

3. My father (be/ not)____________at the office the day before yesterday.

4. _________Mr. and Mrs. James (come)____________back home and have lunch

late last night?

5. How_________you (get)__________there?

Exercise 3. Read the passage, and then answer the questions.

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest
Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last
major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of
his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who
struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it
was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel
Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

1. Where was The Old Man and the Sea written?

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2. When was The Old Man and the Sea published?

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3. What genre does The Old Man and the Sea belong to?

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4. What is the content of The Old Man and the Sea?

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5. When did Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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