Lexical-Grammar Test (Page 2 of 5) in pdf

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IV. Choose the correct word.

1. He was born in a poverty/poor family.

2. The woman laid/ lay the sleeping child on the sofa.

3. The person who travels with you is a company/companion.

4. Go and reply/answer.

5. He arrangement/ arranged his books in the bookcase.

6. Spring usually delivers/brings sunshine and flowers.

7. This announce/ announcement surprised us very much.

8. We were astonished/ surprised to hear that he had passed his exam.

9. We were awful/awfully glad to meet him.

10. The message was brought/ delivered by hand.

V. Rewrite the sentences using the word in brackets.

1. It’s really important you don’t arrive late. (better)

You ___________________________late.

2. They crossed the Atlantic in three days. (them)

It __________________cross the Atlantic.

3. Learning new words isn’t easy for me. (find)

I ________________________new words.

4. Could I borrow your bike this week? (me)

Would _________your bike this week?

5. “Let’s go out for a meal”, Jane said to me. (suggested)

Jane _________________________a meal.

6. He lived in London once, but he doesn’t any more. (used)

He ______________________________in London.

Reading Test

The Turkey

1 Can you imagine a turkey instead of the eagle on a dollar bill, at the top of the flag pole,

and on the presidential seal? That’s exactly what the popular Early American statesman

Benjamin Franklin had in mind when he declared that the turkey should be made the symbol

of the USA. That may seem absurd today when all we see are supermarket turkeys that end

up roasted on our Thanksgiving dinner tables. But the wild turkey of Ben Franklin’s day was

a truly American bird that played a big part in the history of the New World.

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