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Q/ Sertifikasiya sınaq- 2023

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1. In which option is the word ending "-ing" a
noun?
1. You need a pair of running shoes.
2. We sat beside a running stream.
3. I like a smell of frying potatoes.
4. This water is near the boiling point.
4. In which option is the quantity word
misused?
A. We don’t see each other very often – about
every six months.
B. These oranges are 40 pence each.
C. He spoke a little English, so we were able
to communicate with him.
D. We’ve lived here for many years.
E. Some of people I work with are very
strange.

5. Where are my walking shoes?

A. 1 4 5 B. 2 4 C. 3 5 5. Which option is wrong?

D. 1 2 5 E. 3 4 5 A. The peoples of the Arab World have a

common language.
B. The public want to know how they are
2. In which option is the noun incorrect? governed.
A. He ate a whole chicken. C. Statistics is a branch of economics.
B. I had a boiled egg for breakfast. D. Your statistics is unreliable.
C. Glass is made from sand and lime. E. The government is bringing in a new bill.
D. He used a stone to build our walls.
E. Would you like some chicken? 6. How many variants are correct?
1. Sheep's wool
3. In which option is the plurality of the noun 2. St.James's Park
used correctly?
3. Yeats' poetry
1. Have you met the Kennedys?
4. Journey's end
2. The last four Januarys have been very cold.
5. The ship's company
3. If the horses' hoofs were marked, would
not that put an end to the practice? A. 5 B. 4 C. 3 D. 2 E. 1

4. Surely one day a week the grass should be

allowed to grow and not have horses' hooves 7. Which variant is wrong?
pounding it to death.
A. Two hours' journey
A. Only 3 B.1 2 C. 3 4
B. A two-hour journey
D. All of them E. Only 4
C. A journey of two hours
D. Two two hours' journeys
E. Two two-hours journeys
8. In which variant is the quantifier misused?
B. There was little which we could do to help
her.
C. It may be the most important decision
which you will ever take.
D. There's this dream which I have every
night about falling downstairs.

A. I was unable to eat any of the food.
B. The theatre is unlikely to have any tickets
left for tonight's performance.
C. I always get to work before anyone else.
D. Anybody isn't telling the truth.
E. Despite rowing as hard as we could, we
had gone barely any distance from the shore.
9. Which variant is wrong?
1. A good deal of opposition
2. A good deal of sympathy
3. A good deal of confusion
4. A great deal of interest
5. A great deal of the exhibition
A. 2 5 B. 1 4 C. 2 3 4
D. None of them E. Only 5
E. So long as he's happy - that's all which
matters.
12. Analyse the given sentence and opt for the
correct variant.
They were trapped in the cave for a couple of
days but they were none the worse for their
experience.
A. Experience is used in the meaning of
"something that happens to you that affects
how you feel''
B. A couple of is used with the uncountable
nouns.
C. After ''none'' the positive degree of the
adjective is used.
D. Their is demonstrative pronoun.
E. There is no mistake in the given sentence.

13. Opt for the correct variant.

10. Which variant is correct? ......... problems still have to be solved.
In the last ten years, we have learned a great 1. A large number of
deal ... about this interplay.
2. Most of
A. much B. most C. more
3. A large amount of
D. many E. too much
4. The number of
5. A lot of
11. In which variant is the relative pronoun
used correctly? A. Except 4 B. 1 2 5 C. 3 5

A. Yesterday was the hottest day which I can D. 1 5 E. 3 4 5

remember.
14. In which option is the noun used as a 17. In which option is the degree of the
modifier? adjective misused?
1. A big city A. He runs rather more quickly than his
friend.
2. The car door
B. This is easily the worst party I've been to
3. The oil industry
this year.
4. An enormous skyscraper
C. She's twice as beautiful as her mother.
5. Blue ink D. Her accident made it all the most
A. 1 4 5 B. 2 3 C. 1 2 5 important to get home fast.

D. 2 5 E. 1 3 E. It was six times more difficult than I

expected.

15. Which word modifies the noun in the

given sentence? 18. In which option is the substantivized
adjective misused?
The dream to pass the exam successfully was
impossible for her. A. She's interested in the supernatural.

A. A prepositional phrase B. The difficult we do immediately; the

impossible takes a little longer .
B. A relative clause
C. The fabulous is always interesting.
C. To-infinitive
D. Wash the reds and blues separately.
D. An adverb of place
E. The government doesn't care the poor's
E. An adverb of time problems.

16. Which variant is wrong? 19. Which variant is incorrect?

1. a second’s hesitation A. She has as good a voice as her mother.
2. an hour’s delay B. They are too kind girls to make friends
3. the delay of an hour with them.

4. the determination of the C. How wonderful a picture is it?

company D. I couldn't afford that expensive a house.

5. the company’s determination E. She is too polite a person to refuse.

A. 1 B. 2 5 C. 1 5 D. 3 4
E. None
20. Which option is wrong?
A. The deceased was a very important person
in the city.
B. After the accident, the injured were taken
to hospital.
C. The unemployed are protesting against the
government.
D. The unknown aren't the same as the
impossible.
E. The Turks are very proud of their customs
and traditions.
23. In which option is the generic pronoun
not used?
A. You can learn a language faster if you go
to live in a country where it is spoken.
B. One should never criticize without being
sure of the facts.
C. One can use the Internet without
understanding cookies.
D. They waited for their father impatiently.
E. We tend to avoid talking about money.

24. In which option is the adjective degree

21. Opt for the correct variant. misused?
1. He helped them to get ... the border. A. It was by far the nicest of all the hotels we
stayed at.
2. The train crosses the border ... France and
Spain. B. She's much the prettiest of the three
children.
3. Thousands of troops have massed ... the
border in preparation for an invasion. C. That was easily the better fish I've had for
ages.
a) along b) across c) between
D. I'm nearly the oldest in my class.
A. 1b 2c 3a B. 1c 2b 3a C. 1a 2b 3c.
D. 1b 2a 3c E. 1a 2c 3b E. The holiday cost three times more than l'd
expected.

22. Which preposition is appropriate in the

given sentences? 25. In which option is the word ''such" used
incorrectly?
1. The students must turn in their reports ...
Friday. A. It was such an exciting match that I didn't
want it to end.
2.We need to submit this ... 5 pm.
B. It was such awful weather that the match
3.He must finish this ... next week.
had to be cancelled.
A. 1-by 2-until 3-by C. They were both such great players that
B. 1-by, 2-by, 3-by everyone wanted to see the final.

C. 1-until, 2-by, 3-by D. I had such a lot of work that I had to stay
at the office late.
D.1-until, 2-until, 3-by
E. There were such many people outside the
E. 1-by, 2-until, 3-until stadium that we couldn't find each other.
26. Opt for the correct variant.
A. The blonde girl is Alex and Maria's
daughter.
B. The blonde girl is Alex's and Maria's
daughter.
C. The blonde girl is Alex's and Maria's
daughters.
D. The blonde girl are Alex and Maria's
daughters.
E. The blonde girl are Alex and Maria's
daughter.
27. Choose the incorrect variant.
A. A women's clinic
B. The charity's aim
C. Next year's field trip
D. The reinforest's destruction
E. An old jacket of Mike's
28. Analyse the underlined word
''diplomatic'' and opt for the correct variant.
He worked as the diplomatic correspondent
of a national news paper.
1. It is a gradable adjective.
2. It is a classifying adjective.
3. It is always used before the noun as a
qualitative adjective.
4. It is a non- gradable adjective.
5. It is a qualitative adjective.
6. It's a predicative adjective.
A. 1 3 4 B. 2 4 C. 2 4 5
D. 1 2 5 E. 1 5
29. In which option is the numeral misused?
A. We spent nine-tenths of our time on the
trip arguing about the map.
B. Surveys show that something like a third
of all citizens are trying to conserve water.
C. Sometime after October 10th, we’re going
camping in them mountains.
D. The wind chill makes it feel like minus 20
degrees outside.
E. My phone’s battery lasts only two-third of
the day.
30. In which option is the indefinite article
misused?
A. an FBI investigation
B. a European hotel
C. an heiress
D. a unicycle
E. a XTC concert
31. Opt for the correct variant.
The book consists of nine chapters and two
extensive "appendices".
1. The word '' appendices'' is the plural form
of the word '' appendix".
2. It means "a separate part at the end of a
book or magazine that gives extra
information''.
3. The word '' appendices'' is wrong, instead,
the word '' appendixes'' must be used.
4. It means "a small tube-shaped part that is
joined to the intestines on the right side of the
body and has no use in humans".
5. "Appendix" is a countable noun and can 34. In which option is the preposition
be used both as ''appendices" and misused?
"appendixes" depending on the meaning.
A. We may be late - it depends on the traffic.
A. 1 2 5 B. 2 3 5 C. 1 5
B. We may be late- it depends on how much
D. 2 4 E. 1 3 4
traffic there is.
C. There's the question of who's going to pay.
32. Which variant is wrong?
D. I think we should apologize for the Smiths.
1. The director’s salary is higher than his
E. My hands were blue with cold when I got
secretary.
home.
2. The director’s salary is higher than his
secretary’s.
35. Opt for the correct variant.
3. The director's salary is higher than his
secretary's salary. 1. Everyone tells me that I take ... my
grandmother. But, I don’t think we are that
4. The director's salary is higher that that of
much alike.
his secretary.
2. Be sure your seat belts are fastened. We
5. The director's salary is higher than the
will be taking ... in a few minutes.
secretary's one.
3. She took ... John’s number so she could call
6. The director's salary is higher than those of
him back.
the secretary.
4. She lied! I can’t believe I was taken ... by
A. 1 2 5 6 B. 2 3 4 5 C. Except 2 3
her.
D. 1 5 6 E. Only 6
A. 1-off 2-in 3-down 4- after
B. 1-in 2- down 3-after 4-off
33. Which variant is wrong?
C. 1-after 2- off 3-down 4-in
1. A lot of my friends want to leave the
country. D. 1-after 2-in 3-down 4-off
2. Plenty of the shops close at six o'clock in E. 1-down 2-in 3-after 4-off
this city.
3. There's not much of meat left.
36. Analyse the given sentence and opt for the
4. How much money did it cost? - A lot. correct variant.
5. A large majority of the population is I never really understood the nature of my
demanding the restoration of the former father's work.
government.
A. Work - a countable abstract noun.
A. 1 3 4 B. 2 5 C. 1 2 3 4
B. I - an object pronoun.
D. 2 3 E. 1 2 3
C. Nature- a countable noun.
D. The noun ''nature'' can't be used with the
article ''the".
E. The is no mistake in the usage of ''nature",
as it means main characteristic of something,
it have to be used with "the''.
37. In which option is the article misused?
A. All the three brothers were arrested.
B. I haven't seen her all the day.
C. Have you got a cheaper sort of radio?
D. The Queen had dinner with the President.
E. Do you sell the eggs by the kilo?
E. We're going to treat ourselves to a special
holiday next year.
40. Which option is wrong?
A. The virus caused thousands of deaths
throughout the whole of the United States.
B. The virus caused thousands of deaths
throughout the whole United States.
C. The whole of London was put on alert.
D. The whole London was our on alert.
E. The whole of the English team was
welcomed by the Queen.

38. Opt for the wrong variant.

A. A perch lives in lakes and rivers and is
eaten as food.
B. Perches live in lakes and rivers and are
eaten as food.
C. Perch live in lakes and rivers and are eaten
as food.
D. Meanwhile, a grouse landed in an apple
tree beside me, then flew down to the ground
and walked away.
E. This recipe works well with any of the
small birds-quail, squab, grouse.

39. Choose the correct variant of the

emphatic pronoun.
A. He convinced himself that the exam would
be too difficult.
B. Since I work for myself, I can give myself a
pay rise.
C. Have you hurt yourself badly?
D. I couldn't find the book itself , so I bought
a similar title.
ANSWERS:

1A 2D 3D 4E 5D 6A 7E 8D 9D 10C
11D 12E 13D 14B 15C 16E 17D 18E 19B 20D
21A 22B 23D 24C 25E 26A 27D 28B 29E 30E
31A 32D 33D 34D 35C 36E 37B 38B 39D 40D