Form 9
Grammar and Lexical Test
1. Choose the right word.
1. When did the new law come into ( force, strength, power )?
2. Be careful! Playing with matches may ( destroy, cause, make ) a great fire.
3. We must be patient for the ( sake, safe, save ) of peace.
4. They all appreciate a holiday after a year of ( hard, hardly, hardest ) work.
5. ( Carelessness, carefulness, careful ) may lead to misfortune.
6. At night the lady ( lied, laid, lay ) awake.
7. Walter Scott’s novels are called ( history, historic, historical ), because they deal with real
events of the past.
8. You are treating me ( as, like, alike ) a child.
9. My father ( taught, learned, studied ) me how to drive.
10. We ( did, made, performed ) such a big mess preparing for our journey.
2. Fill in the correct article.
1. I consider … management as … career.
2. … Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912.
3. … violence on … TV is … well-established fact.
4. My uncle is … great specialist in … biology.
5. … cotton is grown in … Ukraine now.
3. Fill in the correct preposition.
1. School education in our country is free … charge.
2. What did you have … lunch … school … Monday?
3. My mother was born … May, 10th.
4. You can’t be tired … sightseeing in London.
5. They fell … love and soon became engaged … each other.
6. Our people are anxious … the future of their children after the Chernobyl catastrophe.
7. The sweater goes well … jeans.
4. Open the brackets using the proper tense-forms.
1. In 1901 the first dramatic film “The Story of a Crime” ( to produce ).
2. We are sure that by 2010 the festival ( to attract ) a lot of celebrities and really talented people.
3. Sugar ( to melt ) in tea.
4. My friend thought that if he ( to visit ) England he would see Morris dancers first of all.
5. James just ( to order ) a bottle of apple juice.
6. –What did he do?
- He ( to leave ) the hotel, ( to take ) a taxi and ( to drive ) to the theatre.
7. He ( to fix ) his car the whole day yesterday.
5. Correct one mistake in each sentence.
1. I don’t know nothing about your town.
2.Your hair are long, boy, you should have your hair cut.
3. The weather during the last few days has been perfectly.
4. The English is thought to be great individualists.
5. It’s important to be sensitive to other peoples’ feelings.
6. The journey was twice so long as we had expected.
7. Nancy’s broken finger has become more worse.
8. Unfortunately, we found only a little mushrooms in the wood.
9. Here’s my car. Where’s their?
10. Would you mind to wait a moment?