Grammar
Vocabulary
Reading
Tenses and Conditionals
TRIVIA
100
Complete the sentences with so, such, so much/ many, or such a.
1 There were _____ people at the airport that we couldn't see my cousin.
2 It was ____ awful weather that we couldn't leave the hotel.
3 I ate _____ food at the barbecue that I had to lie down.
4 The staff at the first hotel were ______ unfriendly that we decided not to stay there.
5 They were _____ cheap tickets that we decided to buy them.
1 so many
2 such an
3 so much
4 so
5 such
100
Complete the sentences with the correct adverb or adverbial phrase.
1 Have you e___ failed an exam?
2 This pen has been s____ designed to write on a tablet. It doesn't work on normal paper.
3 Jake's son is so rude. He didn't e____ say thank you for the birthday present.
4 Sally hasn't been feeling very well l____, so she's going to make an appointment to see her doctor.
5 I'll pay you back a__ ____ ____ of the month.
1 ever
2 specially
3 even
4 lately
5 at the end
100
"Questions and answers"
Who said they were the happiest on their wedding day?
a. Florence Welsh
b. Dan Stevens
b
100
Translate into Russian.
1 I'm not going to work overtime this weekend unless I get paid for it.
2 If the photos are good, I'll send them to you.
3 If people are wearing headphones in the street, they often don't notice other people.
4 If you want to be fit, you need to do some exercise every day.
5 If you're not feeling better tomorrow, you should go to the doctor's.
100
You have $200 in a savings account. The bank gives you 2 per cent interest each year. How much interest do you have after one year?
$4
200
Write the adjectives in brackets in the right place. Change a to an where necessary.
1 a man (young/ attractive)
2 shoes (old/ dirty)
3 a velvet jacket (black/ beautiful)
4 a woman (fat/ short / American)
5 a beach (sandy / long)
1 an attractive young man
2 dirty old shoes
3 a beautiful black velvet jacket
4 a short fat American woman
5 a long sandy beach
200
Complete the gaps.
1 The ____ is the 'passage' in the middle of a plane.
2 You can get a ____ ____ when you travel between several time zones and feel very tired.
3 A ___-___ flight which goes across continents is usually called a flight.
4 You take a _____ flight if you're flying in your country.
5 You need a ____ ____ before you can get on a plane.
1 aisle
2 jet lag
3 long-haul
4 domestic
5 boarding pass
200
"I'm a survivor"
What do you have to do if you were skiing off-piste and were buried in an avalanche?
a. Curl into a ball and cover the head and wait to be rescued.
b. Push the ski poles up through the snow to attract attention.
c. Use swimming movements to try to get to the surface.
c
200
Translate into English:
1 Ты когда-нибудь вел блог?
2 Я знаю Мириам с детства.
3 Я учу французский последние 3 года.
4 Весь день идет дождь.
5 Я покрасил кухню.
1 Have you ever written a blog?
2 I've known Miriam since I was a child.
3 I've been learning French for the last three years.
4 It's been raining all day.
5 I've painted the kitchen.
200
Supposedly home to a “monster,” Loch Ness is one of many inland seas—or “lochs”—in which country?
a. England
b. Ireland
c. Scotland
d. Wales
c
300
Order the words to make questions.
1 at don't weekend you What doing the like ?
2 music to does What Jane kind like listening of ?
3 you time film know finishes Do what the ?
4 class students yesterday to many came How ?
5 you remember is where Do the restaurant ?
1 What don't you like doing at the weekend?
2 What kind of music does Jane like listening to?
3 Do you know what time the film finishes?
4 How many students came to class yesterday?
5 Do you remember where the restaurant is?
300
Guess the words.
1 Something that can be high, often because of stress or bad diet.
2 A verb and a phrasal verb that mean to become unconscious, and a phrasal verb that means to become conscious again.
3 Two ways of describing an injury that can happen to your ankle.
4 Adjective to describe a part of your body that has got bigger because of an injury.
5 Two verbs that mean to be sick.
1 blood pressure
2 faint, pass out, come over
3 twisted, sprained
4 swollen
5 vomit, throw up
300
a pig in a poke
free 300 points!
300
Complete the sentences using the future perfect or future continuous.
1 The flight to Geneva takes off at 9.00 and lands at 10.30.
At 10.00 they _____ to Geneva. (fly)
2 I usually save €200 a month.
By the end of the year, I _____ €2,400. (save)
3 Rebecca leaves at 6.30. It takes her an hour get to work.
At 7.00 tomorrow she _____ to work. (drive)
4 The meeting starts at 2.00 and finishes at 3.30.
Don't call me at 2.30 because we ______ a meeting. (have)
5 Sam is paying for his car. The last payment is in May.
By June he ______ for his car. (pay)
1 'll I will be flying
2 'll I will have saved
3 'll I will be driving
4 'll I will be having
5 'll I will have paid
300
Young Man Holding a Roundel, which sold at auction for $92.2 million, was painted by which artist (who is also known for The Birth of Venus)?
a. Leonardo DaVinci
b. Paolo Veronese
c. Andrea del Verrocchio
d. Sandro Botticelli
d
400
Put the adverbs in brackets in the normal position in these sentences.
1 Their house was damaged in the fire. (badly, last week)
2 Ben is at his friend's house. (often, in the evening)
3 My father has a nap. (usually, in the afternoon)
4 Julia left and she didn't say goodbye. (early, even)
5 Martin talks fast. (always, incredibly)
1 Their house was badly damaged in the fire last week.
2 Ben is often at his friend's house in the evening.
3 My father usually has a nap in the afternoon.
4 Julia left early and she didn't even say goodbye.
5 Martin always talks incredibly fast.
400
below zero boiling breeze chilly cool damp drizzling freezing humid mild pouring (with rain) showers warm
1 It's ____ . (quite cold)
2 It's ____. (unpleasantly cold)
3 It's . (very cold)
4 It's . (-20)
5 It's _____ . (pleasant and not cold)
6 It's . (a pleasantly high temperature)
7 It's _____./It's scorching .(unpleasantly hot)
8 It's ____ . (a bit wet but not raining)
9 It's _____ . (raining lightly)
10 It's . (short period of rain)
11 There are ____ . (raining intermittently)
12 It 's ____ . (raining a lot)
13 There's a ____. (a light wind)
1 It's cool.
2 It's chilly.
3 It's freezing.
4 It's below zero.
5 It's mild.
6 It's warm.
7 It's boiling. It's scorching.
8 It's humid.
9 It's damp.
10 It's drizzling.
11 There are showers.
12 It's pouring.
13 There's a breeze.
400
"How to get the best seat"
Look at the picture and say which place you should choose if you want to sleep.
a. 4L
b. 10L
c. 16J
d. 21B
4L
400
Complete using a second or third conditional.
1 Matt doesn't treat Sue well. She won't stay with him.
If Matt ___ his girlfriend better, she ___ with him.
2 You don't do any exercise. You don't feel healthy.
You ___ a lot healthier if you ___ some exercise.
3 The taxi driver had satnav. He found the street easily.
The driver ___ the street if he ___ satnav.
4 Jim bought the wrong size. I had to change the sweater.
If Jim ___ the right size, I ___ the sweater.
5 You get up late. You waste half the morning.
If you ___ earlier, you ___ half the morning.
1 If Matt treated his girlfriend better, she'd stay with him.
2 You'd feel I You would feel better if you did some exercise.
3 The driver wouldn't have found the street if he hadn't had satnav.
4 If Jim had bought the right size, I wouldn't have had to change the sweater.
5 If you got up earlier, you wouldn't waste half the morning.
400
Which fruit-bearing tree gets its English name from the the Algonquian (Native American)?
a. persimmon
b. apple
c. peach
d. apricot
a
500
Complete the conversation with a suitable auxiliary verb.
A You're Tom's sister, 1 ___ you?
B Yes, I'm Carla.
A It's a great club, 2 __ it?
B Well, it's OK. But I don't like the music much.
A 3 __ you? I love it! I've never been here
before.
B Neither 4 __ . I don't go clubbing very often.
A Oh 5 __ ? I 6 __ . In fact, I usually go most
weekends.
B 7 __ you? I can't afford to go out every
weekend.
A I didn't see you at Tom's birthday party last
Saturday. Why 8 __ you go?
B I 9 __ go but I arrived really late because my
car broke down.
A Oh, that's why I didn't see you. I left early.
B I fancy a drink. I'm really thirsty after all that
dancing.
A So 10 __ I. Let's go to the bar.
1 aren't
2 isn't
3 Don't
4 have I
5 don't you
6 do
7 Do
8 didn't
9 did
10 am
500
1 extremely upset
2 incredibly pleased
3 very excited
4 very surprised
5 with little hope, and ready to do anything to improve the situation
6 feeling such strong emotions that you don't know how to react
7 extremely confused
8 extremely shocked or disgusted
1 devastated
2 delighted
3 thrilled
4 astonished
5 desperate
6 overwhelmed
7 bewildered
8 horrified
500
"The mystery of the lighthouse keepers"
What was the mystery around the lighthouse?
When the new crew came to relieve the men who had been working there for 3 months, they discovered there was nobody at the lighthouse and the circumstances were odd.
500
Complete with the correct verb form of the verb in the narrative tenses.
Meg and Liam McGowan got a nasty surprise when they 1 ___ (check) in at Heathrow airport yesterday with their baby Shaun. They 2 ___ (win) three free plane tickets to Rome in a competition, and they 3 ___ (look) forward to their trip for months. But, unfortunately, they 4 ___ (forget) to get a passport for their son, so Shaun couldn't fly. Luckily, they 5 ___ (arrive) very early for their flight, so they still had time to do something about it. They 6 ___ (run) to the police station in the airport to apply for an emergency passport. Meg 7 ___ (go) with Shaun to the photo machine while Liam 8 ___ (fill) in the forms. The passport was ready in an hour, so they 9 ___ (hurry) to the gate and 10 ___ (get) on the plane.
1 were checking in
2 had won
3 had been looking forward to
4 had forgotten
5 had arrived
6 ran
7 went
8 was filling in
9 hurried
10 got
500
Taken into written English from French, which word describes “a group of soldiers”?
a. horde
b. battalion
c. troop
d. gang
c