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Unit Test 9A (Pre-Intermediate -2)

1 Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verb.

do get meet play sleep watch

1 I went to see Maria yesterday evening, but she was sleeping.

2 They married and went to live in Ecuador.

3 She her husband while she was working in Africa.

4 He twisted his ankle while he football.

5 I TV when Gladys came round to see me.

6 What were you when you saw the bear?

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2 Find one mistake in each sentence and correct it.

1 When I was getting there, the door was locked.

When I got there, the door was locked.

2 The driver arrived and we had set off immediately.

3 Did it started to rain while you were having your picnic?

4 You didn’t tell me that you seen the film already.

5 As soon as he was seeing the monster, he ran off screaming.

6 What did you doing last night when I called?

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3 Choose the correct options.

1 She explained that she ______ from the monster.

a escaped

b had escaped

c escaping

2 I’m tired because I ______ to bed after midnight.

had gone

was going

went

3 They were hungry because they ______ anything all day.

had eaten

hadn’t eaten

are eating

4 What ______ at ten o’clock yesterday morning?

have you done

had you done

were you doing

5 ______ a nice time at the party last night?

Did she have

She was having

She had had

6 We got to the concert after the music ______ .

started

had started

was starting

7 We ______ when the doorbell rang.

were sleeping

sleep

had slept

8 I looked for the cat for ages, but she ______ .

disappearing

had disappeared

was disappearing

9 There was a troll that ______ under the bridge.

has lived

lived

is living

10 He cleaned his teeth, brushed his hair and then ______ the house.

left

was leaving

had left

11 He ______ many novels during his lifetime.

was writing

had written

wrote

3 out of 11

4 Complete the sentences with although, so or because.

1 She didn’t answer my question, although I asked her three times.

2 They forgot to bring any lunch, they were very hungry by the time they got home.

3 the train was late, I still got to the village hall on time.

4 He looked awful this morning he hadn’t slept all night.

5 She was best-known for her novels, she wrote beautiful poetry too.

6 No-one answered the door when I called, I had to go home again.

4 out of 11

5 Join the sentences using the conjunction. Use one verb in the Past Perfect.

1 We didn’t swim. We forgot to take the towels.

BECAUSE

We didn’t swim because we had forgotten to take the towels.

2 The train finally arrived. We got on it.

SO

3 She felt homesick. She wasn’t away from home for long.

ALTHOUGH

4 Everyone said the autobiography was amazing. Nobody read it.

BUT

5 We published the book. It became a best-seller.

AS SOON AS

6 He spoke. I didn’t realize he wasn’t English.

UNTIL

7 I just fell sleep. The phone rang.

WHEN

8 I whispered my secret to her. She swore not to tell anyone.

AFTER

5 out of 11

6 Choose the correct options.

As a man and his son (1) were going / had gone with their donkey to market, they (2) were meeting / met a man who said: ‘Why (3) aren’t you riding / didn’t you ride your donkey?’ So the man (4) was putting / put the boy on the donkey and they (5) continued / were continuing to walk.

But soon they passed a group of men, and one said: ‘Look at that lazy boy, who (6) rides / rode while his father has to (7) walking / walk.’ So the man ordered his boy to (8) get / got off, and got on the donkey himself.

But they (9) didn’t go / hadn’t gone far when they passed two women. One said to the other, ‘What a terrible father – he makes his poor little son walk.’ So this time the man (10) was putting / put the boy in front of him on the donkey.

But people in the town said, ‘How awful for the poor donkey to carry both of them!’ So as they (11) had walked / were walking across the market bridge, the man (12) decided / had decided they should carry the donkey. But the donkey (13) was kicking / kicked the boy, who (14) was dropping / dropped the donkey, and it (15) fell / had fallen over the bridge and (16) had drowned / drowned. Moral: Try and please everybody and you please nobody.

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7 Match the adjectives in the box with the definitions.

homesick angry nervous disappointed scared delighted amazed proud lonely

1 feeling anxious or afraid about something nervous

2 missing home

3 not enjoying being on your own

4 having strong feelings about something you dislike

5 upset because something you hoped for hasn’t happened

6 frightened of something

7 very surprised

8 pleased and satisfied with something you have done

9 really pleased

8 Complete the sentences with appropriate adjectives.

1 At first, I was homesick at university – I missed everyone so much.

2 ‘Are you happy?’ ‘Yes, I’m absolutely !’

3 She was very because she had failed all her exams.

4 Is your little girl of monsters?

5 I spent a lot of nights at home watching TV before I met you!

6 ‘Why are you so ?’ ‘You lied to me!’

7 We are very of our grandchildren. They have all grown up to be good people.

8 I’m you haven’t heard about the murder. Everyone is talking about it.

9 ‘Are you about your interview?’ ‘Yes, I am. I haven’t done much preparation for it.’

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9 Match the questions and answers.

1 What did the monster look like? g

2 How were you feeling?

3 Did he drink the potion?

4 What had he done?

5 What did the policemen suspect?

6 Did the murderer show any regret?

7 Where did she hide?

8 Why was she crying?

a He had created a monster.

b Because she was very scared.

c No, never.

d Yes, he drank it all.

e She locked herself in the laboratory.

f That the villain had escaped.

g Ugly, cruel and evil.

h Worried and confused.

8 out of 11

10 Find one mistake in each sentence and correct it.

1 That was so good film. I loved it!

That was such a good film. I loved it!

2 Dickens has such a good characters in his books!

3 I didn’t know you had such well-known author in the family.

4 I visited Deepak at the weekend. He was such surprised to see me!

5 We had so good weather on holiday. We were so lucky!

6 His behaviour was absolutely awful. I was so much upset!

7 London was very busy today. There were so much people there!

9 out of 11

11 Complete the conversation with words in the box.

such a (x2) so many (x2) so (x3) such

A I’ve had (1) such a busy week!

B Me too. I’ve had (2) things to do.

A Did you go to the work party on Thursday evening?

B No, I was (3) tired, I had to have an early night.

A What are you doing this weekend?

B We’re going cycling if the weather’s good. But we’ve had (4) bad weather lately …

A Well, you should go and see Horror Story at the cinema if it rains. We saw it last night – it was
(5) terrifying but (6) good film!

B I’ve seen (7) horror films on TV, they don’t scare me anymore. I think I’d rather read my novel. It’s (8) well-written, I can’t stop reading it!

10 out of 11

12 Translate the sentences.

1 Suddenly we saw the man fall to the ground.

2 I was travelling to the country to see some friends.

3 My wife was delighted because I had remembered our anniversary.

4 Were you nervous about meeting me for the first time?

5 While he was having a shower, he heard someone knock at the door.

6 We enjoyed the film, although I didn’t like the ending much.

7 Charles Dickens wrote novels about ordinary people.

8 One of the villagers witnessed the crime and recognized the killer.

9 Did you manage to talk to everyone at the party?

10 Didn’t the psychologist suspect she had had a nervous breakdown?

11 out of 11