Choose the best answer (present tense):

1. Look! The train (come)…………………
a. are coming          b. is coming          c. come            d. has come

2. I ……………… hot food before. It is quite strange to me.

a. haven’t try        b. haven’t tried        c. don’t try       d. didn’t try

3. While I (do)………….. my homework, my sister (read) ……………….. newspapers.
a. am doing/ is reading        b. are doing/ is reading     c. is doing/ are reading       

4. Plants …………… water and sunlight for making their food.

a. need            b. needs            c. is needing         d. has needed

5. My mother often ……….me English on Saturday evenings.

a. teach           b is teaching        c. are teach          d. teaches

Write the best answer:

1. When I got up this morning, my father ____________________. (leave/ already)

2. By the time I _____ (meet) you, I ___________ (work) in that company for five years.

3. When they __________ (arrive) at the airport, her flight _______________ (take) off.

4. She ____________ (do) her homework before her mother _______ (ask) her to do so

5. When we ________ (get) home last night. We __________ (find) that somebody ______________ (break) into the flat.

6. Karen _______________ (not want) to come to the cinema with us because she ______________________ (already/ see) the film

7. Last night, Peter __________ (go) to the supermarket before he ________________ (go) home.

8. He told me he ______________________ (not/wear) such kind of clothes before.

Hoa: Would you like to go to the _____________(1) this week?

Lan: That sounds good. What would you like to see?

Hoa: There is a _____________(2) movie on at the New Age Theater.

Lan: OK. Can you ___________ (3) it on Monday night?

Hoa: Sorry. I have to go to the drama club. How about ______________(4)?

Lan: No, sorry. I’m going to see a _______________(5) movie with my parents.

And I’m busy on Wednesday, too. Are you __________(6) on Thursday?

Hoa: No, I’m not. ____________(7) about Friday?

Lan: That’s OK.

Hoa: ___________(8). Let’s go on Friday

Using the given information, make passive voice sentences:

1. She has finished the report by noon

➔ The report ________________________________________

2. They may use this room for the classroom

➔ This room ________________________________________

3. The chef engineer was instructing all the workers of the plant

➔ All the workers of the plant ___________________________

4. The police easily captured the thief

➔ The thief _________________________________________

5. They will hold the meeting before May Day

➔ The meeting ______________________________________

II/  Read the passage, then decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false sentences.

          Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, when he was a young man of twenty-three he moved with his parents to Canada. Before the year was over, young Graham had left his family and gone to Boston. Though Bell was a dreamer, he was also a practical thinker and a man of action. In Boston, where he worked by day as a teacher of the deaf,  he worked far into the night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the sound. This led to the invention of the telephone.

…….. 1.  Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland.           

…….. 2.  He emigrated to Canada in 1860.  

…….. 3.  He went to Boston when he was twenty-three.  

…….. 4.  Graham Bell worked with the deaf in Boston.   

…….. 5.  He experimented with the electrical transmission of the sound by day.

EX2:

1. I hope_______

a. to see you there

b. seeing you there

c. you to see there

d. see you there

2. I taught_______

a. how mending a shirt

b. him how to mend a shirt

c. how mend a shirt

d. him how mend a shirt

3. I told_______

a. Nam to come

b. to come Nam

c. to Nam come

d. Nam come

4. My father has decided_______ a new house.

a. find

b. to find

c. finding

d. him find

5. Mother warned_______ the electric plug

a. here not to touch

b. her touching not

c. her not touch

d. not touch

6. Don't tell Tan because I don't want_______

a. him to know

b. know

c. him know

d. knowing

7. She explained_______

a. how to make it

b. me how to make it

c. me to make it

d. me make it

8. Miss Brown told Mary_______ down.

a. sit

b. to sit

c. sitting

d. sat

9. She told Mary_______ up hope.

a. not give

b. do not give

c. not to give

d. to give not

10. Michael Faraday wrote a litter to Sir Humphry Davy_______ for work.

a. asked

b. to ask

c. so to ask

d. in order to asking

11. Do you know_______ to play that game now?

a. way

b. what

c. if

d. how

12. She is very glad_______ see you again.

a. in

b. with

c. to

d. for

13. He noticed two thieves_______ out of a shop.

a. to come

b. are coming

c. in coming

d. come

14. When will he be allowed to go home? When will they_______?

a. let him go

b. let to go

c. leave him to go

d. leave him

15. The guide encouraged the tourists_______ the Prado Museum Madrid

a. visit

b. to visit

c. visiting

d. to visiting

16. Mow that were finished painting the house, there's nothing left_______

a. done

b. did

c. to do

d. for doing

17. The superintendent promised to tear down and_______ the fire damaged school building.

a. rebuild

b. to rebuild

c. rebuilding

d. to rebuilding

18. The mechanic needs_______ a new muffler on your car.

a. to put

b. putting

c. to be put

d. to putting

19. Our house needs_______

a. to paint

b. to be painting

c. to be paint

d. painting

20. Do you want _______ by the doctor?

a. to examine

b. to be examined

c. being examined

d. being to examine

EX3

1/ I’m worried _______ my final exam in statistics.
a. about falling 
b. to fall 
c. with falling 
d. to fallure

2/ ________ the scholarship really surprised me .
a. Mike got 
b. Mike getting 
c. Mike’s getting 
d. Mike gets

3/ Many northerners look forward _______ a garden in the spring .
a. to plant 
b. to planting 
c. with planting 
d. to planting of

4/ “May I have a word with you ,Mrs. Adam ? ” – “ Is this in regard ______ late yesterday ?”
a. of you coming 
b. to you coming 
c. to your coming 
d. of your coming

5/ Who is responsible _______ the garbage – the husband of the wife ?
a. to take out 
b. for take out 
c. for taking out 
d. with taking out

6/ I think ________ at the train station will surprise Aunt Kate .
a. your being 
b. you are 
c. you being 
d. you to be

7/ “ How do I turn on the T.V ? ” – “ _____ the button at the right .”
a. From pushing 
b. By pushing 
c. You pushing 
d. To push

8/ “It’s difficult to make money as an artist .”
– “ Have you considered _______ a course in business for artists ?” 
a. To take 
b. about taking
c. your taking 
d. taking

9/ “ Why have you decided to go back to school ” 
– “ I’m tired _______ as a secretary .” 
a. for work 
b. to work 
c. of working 
d. about working

10/ “ We were opponents of the political regime in our country.”
“ And that led to ____ to the United States thirty – five years ago .”
a. us coming 
b. our coming 
c. come 
d. us to come

11/ “Did you understand the solution to the calculus problem ?” – “ Not very well . Dr Baker’s ______ was complicated .”
a. explain 
b. explaining 
c. explanation 
d. explained

12/ “ How do you like American food ?”
– “ Well, it’s not bad . Now I _______ hamburgers .”
a. used to eat 
b. am used to eat
c. used to eating 
d. am used to eating

13/ We insisted ___________ by the manager .
a. to be seen 
b. to see 
c. on being seen 
d. on seeing

14/ _______ for director must have surprised you .
a. Your being nominated 
b. You nominated
c. Your nominating 
d. You’re being nominated

15/ “ What are you reading ?” 
– “ It’s a magazine article ______ your own furniture .”
a. to make it 
b. about make 
c. about making 
d. for make

16/ ______ a foreign language well is a long process.
a. Learn 
b. Learning 
c. To learning 
d. Having learned

17/ What do you enjoy _______ in your free time ?
a. doing 
b. do 
c. to do 
d. done

18/ You can’t go to England without _________ to Bucking ham Palace .
a. go 
b. being gone 
c. to go 
d. going

19/ Would you mind not ___________ ?
a. to be smoking 
b. to smoke 
c. smoking 
d. smoke

20/ She was worried about ________ by thieves.
a. being robbed 
b. robbing 
c. being rob 
d. be robbing

Choose the word that has main stress placed differently from the others:

1. A. artistic              B. heroic                C. botanic               D. classic

2. A. logical              B. physical              C. botanical              D. musical

3. A. national           B. politics               C. chemical              D. scientific

4. A. coffee              B. committee         C. dramatic           D. Chinese

5. A. trainee        B. guarantee            C. refugee            D. Cantonese

6. A. technology     B. interviewee        C. biology            D. geography

7. A. medical        B. zoology           C. historic            D. hospital

8. A. electric        B. specific            C. domestic          D. technical

9. A. arrival         B. technical           C. proposal          D. approval

10. A. refusal       B. astrology           C. conical           D. dynamic