PLEASE NOTE: This assessment will be marked negatively. You will be awarded 2 points for each correct answer, but one point will be deducted for every incorrect answer. Please consider this before taking a guess.
1. The rate of ............ has been fluctuating wildly this week
2. The snow was ......... heavily when I left the house
3. I can't find my keys anywhere - I ...... have left them at work
4. The scheme will be ......... into the school curriculum at the beginning of next academic year
5. Today the Government is ......... plans for a new scheme to help society
6. The question must always be in the mind of the writer whether what is being written is likely to ......... a threat to the safety of the community at large
7. We often hear that such and such a piece of information cannot be released into the public ......... in the interest of national security
8. The government has to show that its actions are in everybody's interest and that it is ......... of all its citizens
9. Banks currently find themselves in a ......... situation because they try to please the savers and also the borrowers and yet one group is always going to lose
10. I am proud to say that I taught my wife and my two sons to drive and they all ......... the test the first time
11. I could say that we are having a wonderful time but that would be ......... from the truth
12. I am sure I could very easily ......... all the requirements of the job
13. Dear Sir, having read your advertisement, I should like to ......... this letter as my application for the post of marketing manager
14. I can ......... you that the duties are not in any way complicated
15. I wish that I............all those sweets before dinner. I don't feel hungry now
16. There's a wonderful smell in the kitchen. Somebody must ............ food for my party
17. You come from France, ................. ?
18. When she got to hospital they found that she............her leg
19. The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity ............
20. Marianne seemed to take ...... at my comments on her work
21. This meat is beautifully ……… - what recipe did you use?
22. Please don’t forget to ring me when you ……… home
23. If you .......... get a move on, we'll miss our connection
24. Not only ........... a car, you've also won free petrol for a year
25. This area of town is beginning to look very ……… and impoverished
26. _________, I still was able to get to the top of the mountain
27. The main argument in the report is _________ correct
28. There was a problem with the cellphone, but I _________ it now
28. By the time they _________ at the concert, the tickets were sold out
29. I am one hundred per cent certain that everything _________ all right in the end
30. _________, I don't want to spend the weekend with her
31. Choose the sentence with the meaning below.James is always lazy. He failed a test last week
32. If he ___ you an invoice, you should pay him
33. Which sentence is correct?
34. Choose the sentence with the meaning below.Paul drove too fast. Now he’s in trouble with the police.
35. If you _________ the photocopier on and off again, it sometimes works
36. If ____ late, can you turn everything off before you go?
37. Which sentence has the same meaning as the one below?
I don’t have a degree, so I didn’t get the job
38. Choose the sentence with the meaning below.You didn’t fix the roof. Now it’s leaking
39. You can't find your purse. You think someone has taken it. What do you say?If someone ____ my purse, I’ll be furious!
40. Which word goes in the space?The mountain ____ we climbed yesterday was the highest mountain in Britain!
41. Rewrite these sentences:Greg bought a camera yesterday. The camera doesn’t work.
42. Rewrite these sentences.I met a man at a meeting last week. The man was at the party
43. Which sentence means: This time next week, Joyce will no longer behere?
44. Which sentence has the same meaning as the one below?
By the time we get to the venue, the presentation will have started
45. Which sentence is correct?I bet the shop ____ of ice cream by the time we get there
46. Choose the correct tense.By November, we’ll ____ here for five years
47. I expect Anna will be tired when she arrives. She ____ for over 20 hours
48. Which sentence is best?
49. My granddad _______ us stories about his life as a policeman
50. Which sentence is correct?
51. Which word completes the sentence?When I got home, the children had already ___ to bed
52. Which word completes the sentence?When I turned on the television, my favourite program _______.
53. Which sentence has a similar meaning? The film started. Then we arrived at the cinema
54. Which sentence has a similar meaning? Someone stole my phone. Then I found my bag and the phone was not there
55. Complete the question.What time ____ for the party?