B - Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in the brackets to complete each of the following sentences.
a. At the moment, they (1. stand) _______ in front of the timetable. Their train (2. depart) _______ at 15:12.
b. At 6 pm, the Smiths are meeting Ben’s aunt in Brighton. She (3. study) _______ law in a London university, but she (4. work) as a waitress in Brighton during the summer holiday.
c. He (5. often/ wear) _______ a hat but he (6. not wear) _______ a hat today.
d. We (7. have) _______ breakfast now although we (8.normally/ not have) ______ breakfast at this time.
e. I must hurry to the bus stop because I (9. meet) _______ Ian in an hour and the bus (10. leave) _______ in ten minutes.
f. Journalist: “What is your activity now?”
Jack: “Well, right now I (11. write) _______ a book on how (12. cook) _______ fried rice better.
g. Right now Martha (13. be) ______ in the science building at our school. The chemistry experiment that she (14. do) _______ is extremely dangerous so she is very careful.
h. I (15. work) _______ for a cosmetic company. This month I (16. work) _______ on our new line of nail polish.
i. We (17. consider) _______ buying a motorcycle … you (18. think) _______ we should?
j. He (19. have) _______ such a negative attitude. He (20. continually/ complain) _______ about his job, his wife, his kids, his car … everything.
C – Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete each of the following sentences.
1. Microbes ________ organic waste into a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide. (COMPOSE)
2. He thanked them for the extraordinary _______ they had shown. (GENEROUS)
3. Having no children of their own they decided to adopt an _______. (ORPHANAGE)
4. I have twenty novels and _______ magazine stories to my credit. (COUNT)
5. Classes are based on discussion rather than on the one-way _______ of knowledge. (TRANSMIT)
D – Identify one of the underlined parts that is not correct in each of the following sentences and get it right
1. I have been in the United States since a year.
A B C D
2. I am knowing all the grammar, but it's difficult to remember.
A B C D
3. The beach was too crowded that we decided to go somewhere else.
A B C D
4. Our friends suggested to spend the summer holiday on an island in the Pacific Ocean.
A B C D
5. For my mind, the whole affair is something of a mystery, isn’t it?
A B C D
Mr and Mrs Payne were in their car at 10.30. They parked the car in front of the shops, when they saw the water. It came down the hill towards the town. When they saw it, they got out of the car as fast as possible and ran into the nearest shop. A minute later the water picked up the car and threw it against a tree.
(1) parked
(2) saw
(3) came
(4) saw
(5) got
(6) ran
(7) picked up
(8) threw
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