I Read the whole text first.

Then fill in each blank with one suitable word:

In the morning I saw that one part _________ (1) our ship was in the water, not ________ (2)
from the beach, I swam out to __________ (3) and climbed on board. There was _________ (4)
one there, but I found guns, gunpowder, some bread, flour, rum _________ (5) sugar. I made
_________ (6) small raft from broken pieces of wood __________ (7) bring these things back to
the island, but I ___________(8) to go and come back many times.

II Write three WH questions for the following sentence:

(make sure that this sentence is the answer to all of them)

Simba took Nala to the Pride Lands.

1.
2.
3.

III There is ONE extra, unnecessary word in each line. Find the word and write it in the
blank space on the right:
EXAMPLE: Hi, I’m name Sara. I work for the NET magazine.

1. A lot of people read our magazine. Teenagers are read it of course.

_____________
2. I don’t like to doing the same things every day.
_____________
3. I write to stories in the magazine.
_____________
4. I also work on the horoscope and the problem page is too.
_____________
5. I usually work in my office but sometimes I interview about people.
_____________
6. At the moment I’m never talking to children at Christmas parties.
_____________

IV Fill in the blanks with the suitable possessive pronouns or adjectives:

Tom and Peter attend the school which is not far from __________ homes. I go to the same
school with ___________ but my home is not so close to it as __________.

III Put the verbs

2 November, 2001

Dear Julie,

I can’t believe it’s already November. In July, Claire and Dan ___________________ (get
married). It ________ (be) a lovely wedding in spite of the bad weather. As the waiter
______________ (carry) in the wedding cake, he ______________ (drop) it. We ___________ (not
know) whether to cry or laugh.
Claire and Dan ____________ (live) in Dan’s old flat for a while but now they _________ (have)
their own house near London. They __________________ (live) there for a few months now. We
____________ (not see) them since they (move), but they _____________ (come) here for
Christmas.

V Make comparisons, using the words in bold letters on the left.

EXPENSIVE The Ferrari is not as _________________ as the Jaguar.

WET Last Monday was ______________ day of the season.

FAR York is ________________ from London then Leeds.

LAZY Cats are _________________ than dogs.

BAD Yesterday’s weather was _______________ than today’s.

CLEVER Craig has excellent marks, he is _____________ in the

classroom.

SLOWLY You should drive ________________ in the city than in the

motorway.

VI Fill in the blanks with a/an, the, or ( / )

Most people in ____ Britain send cards. _____ British started sending cards
in Victorian times. ______ first only rich people sent cards at Christmas but
soon everybody was sending them. Now you can buy ____ card for every
special day and holiday. You can buy cards to say “sorry” or “____ good
luck”. British people buy more than _____ hundred million Christmas cards
every year.

VII Choose one of the verbs given below and fill in the blanks with the
correct form/ tense of the verb.

LIGHT TAKE CARE LOOK FLY

HELP PUT GET

a) The firemen ________________ out the fire yet.

b) My grandmother ___________ after me when I was a child.

c) A lot of planes _______________ off every day.

 d) _________ yourself to some sandwiches.

VIII Complete the conversation. Make questions for the underlined

words/phrases.

A: _______________________________________________________________________

B: On Sunday I went to a football match.

A: _______________________________________________________________________

B: They say there were about ten thousand spectators.

A: _______________________________________________________________________

B: You mean the ticket for the match? Oh, I was lucky. I paid only 50 dinars
for it.