10-minute test

use of English

Name: Class: No.: Date:

A Choose the most appropriate option.

1. English slang and colloquialisms a lot over the centuries.

a. had been changing b. have changed c. are changing d. changed

2. People different varieties of English in different parts of the world.

a. had spoken b. spoke c. are speaking d. speak

3. English completely in two hundred years’ time.

a. will be changing b. is changing c. changes d. will have changed

4. How long English?

a. has he been
b. he has been c. has he learnt d. does he learn
learning
learning
5. Which character in the school’s production of Hamlet?
a. was Ann playing b. did Ann played c. did Ann play d. Ann played

6. Do you think Portuguese a lingua franca in the near future?

a. has been coming b. has become c. will become d. is becoming

7. This time tomorrow I my English test.

a. am doing b. will do c. am going to do d. will be doing

8. Sam in the UK when he finishes school.

a. is going to live b. will live c. will have lived d. will lives

9. Jane her Cambridge exams when she applied for the job.
a. has already passed b. had already passed c. was passing d. already had passed

10.Where when he met his wife?

a. was he living b. he was living c. were he living d. he lived

11.I can’t play video games now because I my homework.

a. doing b. am doing c. do d. will do

12.Jill about moving to Canada but then she changed her mind.
a. thinks b. had thought c. had been thinking d. thought

13.When to your new house?

a. you will be moving b. you are going to
c. you move d. will you be moving
move
14. university by the time he’s 23?
a. Will Joe have
Joe finishes c. Does Joe finish d. Joe’ll have finished
finished
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