The passengers couldn’t see the sun, as it was right the plane.

B) Over

C) By

D) Along

E) Behind

$$$005

“ She suffered a number of serious injuries _____ her career as a professional tennis player.”

A) During

B) Throughout

C) Over

D) Until

E) By

$$$006

“ You can’t go _____ saying nasty things like that about him.”

A) On

B) Round

C) By

D) Along

E) About

$$$007

“Jean cared _______ her disabled mother until her death last year

A) Of

B) For

C) About

D) At

E) With

$$$008

‘The old woman was annoyed ______ noisy children.”

A) On

B) At

C) By

D) With

E) Over

$$$009

“I looked again ______ her bag and, to my relieve, there were my keys:”

A) At

B) Over

C) For

D) In

E) Into

$$$010

“Let’s go to the football game and cheer ___ our team:”

A) For

B) Up

C) By

D) With

E) About

$$011

“ The team members gave three cheers ______ their captain.:”

A) On

B) Up

C) For

D) With

E) By

$$$012

“They went __________each other furiously.:”

A) On

B) At

C) To

D) Under

E) About

$$$013

“ Public schools are forced to deal _____ a large number of children from weakened families.”

A) For

B) About

C) At

D) On

E) With

$$$014

“ Americans have always shown a great concern _____ education.:”

A) For

B) In

C) On

D) Off

E) About

$$$015

“ She walked ____the forest to get to her grandmother’s house.:”

A) Across

B) Over

C) Through

D) Between

E) Along

$$$016

“I saw the helicopter fly out _____ The water near the fishing boat.:”

A) Under

B) Below

C) Over

D) On

E) Above

$$$017

“ He stood ______ all his friends in the room and felt very happy.”:

A) Beside

B) Among

C) By

D) Close to

E) Between

$$$018

“______ The time that I was in Paris, I only once saw the River Seine.”:

A) At

B) On

C) Over

D) During

E) By

$$$019

The passengers couldn’t see the sun, as it was right the plane.

A) Above

B) Below

C) Under

D) Up

E) Over

$$$020

“All my attempts to help him went _____ the drain”:

A) On

B) At

C) By

D) Along

E) Down

$$$021

Choose an appropriate word for the definition: It is a structural part of speech used with nouns.

A) Preposition

B) Adjective

C) Numeral

D) Article

E) Adverb

$$$022

Choose the word groups used with the definite article:

A) North America, London, MacDonald’s

B) Broadway

C) Everest, Wall Street

D) Lake Windermere, Lake Ontario

E) Central Asia, Madagascar

$$$023

Choose an appropriate variant to the sentence:

“ He was _______ courage and force of his father, ____ spirit and opportunity of his brothers, _______hope of his children:

A) The, The, A.

B) The, A, The.

C) The, The, The

D) A, A, The

E) A, An, The

$$$024

Choose the right answer:

A) When did you have a dinner?

B) Mr./ Dorrif was in a prison many years.

C) Two friends traveled together.

D) The dinner was a success

E) I want to go to town where I was born.

$$$025

Choose the right answer:

A) Pour water into the glass

B) A women has come.

C) The man is waiting for you downstairs

D) I spent a sleepless night

E) She is quite a child.

$$$026

Choose the right answer: _____ woman opened ____ gate and looked thoughtfully at _____ house:

 

A) The, ___, The

B) The, the, the

C) A, the, the.

D) The, ___, a.

E) A, ___, the.

$$$027

Choose the right answer:

 

A) Can you smell a gas?

B) There’s bus coming

C) Water is a valuable commodity. Don’t waste it

D) Each new word has different meaning

E) In middle of his speech he started to cough uncontrollably.

$$$028

Choose the right answers “ Dorothy took_____ cake and ____ apple pie to ___ party, but only ____ apple pie was eaten.»

A) An, an, __, an.

B) A, an, the, the.

C) ____, An, the, an.

D) ____, An, ___, the.

E) The, an, the., the.

$$$029

A) There is a cold wind Whistling through the trees outside.

B) What are your plans for the future?

C) Sri Lanka has the wonderful climate.

D) It’s most important issue and we need to discuss in detail

E) The USA is a country with the high level of immigration.

$$$030

“ He suddenly heard _________ sound like______ gunshot in ___ street.

 

A) A, the, the

B) A, __, the

C) ___, ____, The.

D) A, a, the.

E) The, the, the.

Test on Practical English of Oral and Written Speech

 

GRAMMAR

ВАРИАНТ №2

$$01

A) The sun had gone and night had come.

B) He will never forget a day when he met her

C) I was a spring. I like spring

D) – Spring was cold and rainy

E) I’ve never heard of such things

$$$02

A) Both stories were interesting

B) All stories were interesting

C) It’s easier to work by day than at night

D) Both the stories were interesting

E) He a student you wanted to speak

$$$03

A) Conan Doyle is a master of detective story

B) A detective story helps to while away the time

C) He knocked at the door of the very near house

D) A pleasure to give good wine to a young woman who looked so well.

E) The honey is wholesome.

$$$04

A) He fell in love with her at the first sight

B) My sister wants to be a doctor, and my brother wants to go to the sea

C) The whole story is a lie from beginning to end

D) We spent hours on a deck

E) Don’t take things too much to the heart.

$$$05

 

“ I saw – film last night. ___ Film was about __ soldier and ___ beautiful girl. ___Soldier was in love with ___ girl but___ girl was in love with ___teacher. So____ soldier shot ___teacher and married ____ girl.”

A) A, the, the, a, the, a, the, the, a, the, the

B) A, the, a, the, a, a, the, a, the, a, the, the,

C) The, the, a, the,-,a, the, the, a, the

D) A, the, a, a, the, the, the, a, the, the, the.

E) A, a, the, a, the, the, a, a, the, the, a.

$$$06

A) Having eaten the gruel, Oliver asked for the second portion.

B) The last word remained with George

C) We shall discuss this matter the next time

D) Gas Blast kills the woman

E) She knows the English.

$$$07

Answer the question “ What nouns are used without an article when they lose their concrete meaning and express the purpose for which the objects denoted by these nouns serve?

A) School, meal, day

B) Nurse, cook, baby

C) Bed, school, college, prison, jail

D) Period, distance, population, salary

E) Night, day, morning, evening.

$$$08

Choose the right answers:

A) Do you like the coffee we had with our meal last night?

B) Are the English people friendly?

C) Life has changed a lot since I was the girl

D) I love the flowers.

E) The most people like George Michael.

$$$09

Choose the right answer.

A) Life would be very difficult without the electricity

B) I hate the violence

C) They got married but marriage wasn’t successful

D) Apples is good for you

E)I like working with the people.

$$$010

Choose the wrong answer:

A) We’re going to barbecue with the Simpson’s

B) Are we talking, about the John Smith who led the Labour Party?

C) There is Linda Jones to see you

D) That surely can’t be Jenny Watson we knew in Zimbabwe

E) A special award was given to the film director Ingmar Bergman

$$$011

Choose an appropriate word to the following definition

________________ is a non finite form of the verb which has a verbal and an adjectival or an adverbial character:

A) The participle

B) The gerund

C) The Infinitive

D) The For-to-infinitive

E) The Prepositional Absolute Construction

$$$012

State the function of the Infinitive in the sentence “I had no time to examine this room yet.»

A) Predicative

B) Attribute

C) Object

D) Adverbial Modifier of Result

E) Adverbial Modifier of Attendant Circumstances.

$$$013

State the use of the infinitive without the particle “to”

A) After the verb “to bid”

B) After verbs denoting sense perception

C) After the verbs let, make, to have.

D) After auxiliary verbs

E) After all the verbs mentioned above

$$$014

Choose the right answers:

A) I cannot but I think so

B) I felt this to be very true

C) Why not to come and talk to her yourself?

D) I never saw you to act this way before.

E) He asked me to walk in.

$$$015

State the function of the Infinitive in the sentence:

The train was to leave at midnight

A) Subject

B) Object

C) Predicative

D) Part of a compound verbal predicate

E) Parenthesis

$$$016

Choose an appropriate sentence for the Objective. Infinitive Construction.

 

A) The book is believed to have written in the 15 th c.

B) He spoke loud enough for you to, hear.

C) I want have you spoken like it, Tess.

D) I was too busy to see anyone

E) He stepped aside for me to pass.

$$$017

Chose the wrong answer:

A) To put it mildly he was not up to the mark

B) He was rude, to say least of it.

C) I saw Brown enter the room

D) He saw fleur’s coming

E) Everyone expected her to marry Pete.

$$$018

Choose an appropriate sentence for the Subjective Infinitive Construction:

A) Loveday is said to resemble me

B) He ordered Anderson to perfect his plan

C) I won’t have you speak like it

D) For me to ask would be treason, and for me to be told would be treason

E) I’m glad to have seen you

$$$019

Choose the wrong answer

A) I’m very sorry to have done a man wrong particularly when it cant be undone

B) The best thing you to do is to be here

C) That was for him to

D) He waited for her speak

E) He waited for her to speak/

$$$020

Choose the wrong answer.

A) I rely on your coming in time

B) I rely on your coming on time

C) The rider was seen to disappear in the distance

D) The rider was seen to descent the hill

E) He was known to be a young man without fortune.

$$$021

State the function of the Gerund as an adverbial modifier “’I felt the better myself for having spent a good deal of my time abroad.

A) Adverbial Modifier of condition

B) //-//-// Concession

C)//-//-// cause

D)//-//-// purpose

E)//-//-// attendant circumstances

$$$03

E) To enlarge

$$$04

I detest ____ with my mouth full.

A) To talk

B) Saying

C) Talking

D) Telling

E) To chat

$$$05

We mustn’t risk ______ caught in a storm.

A) To get

B) To have

C) Having

D) To be

E) Getting

$$$06

I don’t relish _____ the doctor.

A) To confront

B) To visit

C) Confronting

D) To see

E) To cure

$$$07

Helen admitted ______ the horse.

A) To have stolen

B) To steal

C) To have taken away

D) To have robbed

E) Having stolen

$$$08

The student’s determined_____ English

A) Learning

B) Progressing

C) Mastering

D) To learn

E) To teach

$$$09

Every candidate seems______.

A) To get

B) To win

C) To gain

D) Being the winner

E) Winner

VOCABULARY

Match the right word to the given definition:

$$$10

A situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other.

A) paragon

B) abduction

C) dominance

D) amendment

E) violation

$$$11

E) Scramble

$$$12

E) dominance

$$$13

E) substitute

$$$16

C) to blame

D) to assembly

E) to bite

$$$17

E) abduction

$$$19

C) submissive

D) genius

E) outrageous

$$$20

E) counselor

$$$21

E) to execute

$$$22

C) expertise

D) genius

E) relevant

$$$23

A) Obsessive

B) submissive

C) successive

D) scramble

E) relevant

$$$24

E) to govern

$$$25

E) tutor

$$$27

E) to vote

$$$29

B) to dedicate

C) to vote

D) to execute

E) to pinch

Test on Practical English of Oral and Written Speech

 

GRAMMAR

ВАРИАНТ №5

$$$1

D) corporal punishment

E) legislature

$$$3

E) to defiance

$$$5

C) hybrid

D) relevant

E) implementation

$$$7

B) detention

C) completion

D) submission

E) argument

$$$10

Traps, unexpected dangers

A) retentive

B) pitfalls

C) steady

D) stunt

E) smart

$$$11

a situation in which people compete with to push each other in order to get what they want

A) goal

B) to exploit

C) stunt

D) scramble

E) steady

$$$12

Someone who is much more intelligent or skillful than other people

A) genius

B) smart

C) steady

D) retentive

E) pandemic

$$$13

A very young child

A) sibling

B) stunt

C) smart

D) infant

E) octogenarians

$$$14

Intelligent

A) retentive

B) smart

C) genius

D) steady

E) pandemic

$$$15

Something that you hope to achieve

A) pitfalls

B) goal

C) scramble

D) stunt

E) steady

$$$16

Staying at the same level

A) pitfalls

B) steady

C) smart

D) adolescence

E) beg

$$$17

A dangerous action is done to entertain people

A) to exploit

B) to safeguard

C) to cope with

D) stunt

E) pandemic

$$$18

Memory or mind is able to hold facts, to remember them

A) pandemic

B) stunt

C) smart

D) genius

E) retentive

$$$19

To treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself

A) to safeguard

B) to scramble

C) to exploit

D) to cope with

E) to blackmail

$$$20

Someone who is perfect

A) smart

B) mature

C) paragon

D) offspring

E) rod

$$$21

To ask something in way that shows you want it very much

A) to exploit

B) to ask

C) to beg

D) to expertise

E) to cope with

$$$22

Children

A) adolescence

B) octogenarian

C) mature

D) offspring

E) paragon

$$$23

To start behaving like an adult to become more sensible

A) offspring

B) mature

C) adolescence

D) octogenarian

E) paragon

$$$24

A long thin bar or stick

A) goal

B) rod

C) pledged

D) courtesy

E) equanimity

$$$25

The period of your life when you are changing from being a child to being an adult

A) mature

B) offspring

C) octogenarian

D) paragon

E) adolescence

$$$26

People between 80 to 89 years old

A) mature

B) offspring

C) octogenarian

D) adult

E) courtesy

$$$27

Ability to speak two languages

A) equanimity

B) courtesy

C) paragon

D) bilingualism

E) rod

$$$28

A school or place where very young children are looked after

A) community

B) school

C) nursery

D) house

E) endorse

$$$29

To recognize the difference between things

A) to appeal

B) to expertise

C) to distinguish

D) to blame

E) to endorse

$$$30

An action of taking someone away using force

A) to blame

B) to blackmail

C) to appeal

D) abduction

E) outright

Test on Practical English of Oral and Written Speech

 

GRAMMAR

ВАРИАНТ №6

$$$1

Unable to stop thinking about someone or something on a way that is extreme

A) estimate

B) appreciate

C) obsessive

D) neglect

E) abduction

$$$2

Special skill or knowledge that you get from experience

A) to blame

B) expertise

C) to appeal

D) to distinguish

E) neglect

$$$3

Community

A) the people who live in the same area or town #

B) a system by which the country’s money and goods are controlled

C) similar to something else in size

D) someone you spend a lot of time with

E) when a national government gives power to a group or organization

$$$11

Infant

A) a baby or very young child

B) someone who is specialist in something

C) the large scale of production of goods

D) the process of moving

E) someone who is between the age of 60 – 100

$$$12

Sub

A) someone who is specialist in something

B) the person to follow

C) someone who does someone else job for limited period of time

D) the person who services you at any public place

E) the official legal position or condition of a person

$$$13

To implement

A) to bring the object from country into another

B) to take action or make changes that you have officially decided should happen

C) to be at an important event or meeting

D) to decide to spend all you time on one particular thing

E) to choose someone to do a particular job

$$$14

Evaluation

A) the act of agreeing on some very important event

B) a mixture of different things

C) a judgment how useful, good or successful something is

D) the subject that students study at the university

E) a process of getting some useful data

$$$15

Assembly

A) a group of people who live in one area

B) a group of people who are elected to make decisions or laws

C) a group of people who are responsible for the elections

D) a group of people who take part in the elections

E) a group of people who make an analysis of the elections

$$$16

Outright

A) clear and direct

B) clear and strong

C) clear and straight

D) clear and long

E) clear and fluent

$$$17

Authority

A) someone who uses their strength and power to threaten people

B) someone whose job is to give advice

C) someone who is responsible for something

D) someone who has a power because of his official position

E) unable to stop thinking about something

$$$18

Visual aids

A) something such as a map, picture or the part of the film that helps people understand, learn and remember information

B) something such as painting, sculpture that you look at as opposed to literature or music

C) something that helps you in house keeping

D) something that helps you in weight loosing

E) something that helps you to relax

$$$19

Punishment

A) a small hole made in the tyre

B) the act of exploiting people

C) something that is done to punish someone

D) something that is done to teach students

E) something that is done for good remembering

Fill in the missing word in the given sentence

$$$20

She_________ all her life to her husband and children

A) gave

B) voted

C) dedicated

D) encouraged

E) tyred

$$$21

From the very first days of study Alex __________ to be a monitor of the group.

A) was appointed

B) was elected

C) was voted

D) was volted

E) was taken

$$$22

Governor is a person who _______ a province or a state.

A) elects

B) governs

C) pups

D) punches

E) votes

$$$23

There is always a huge _______ for the bathroom in our family.

A) fight

B) battle

C) scramble

D) argument

E) match

$$$24

He is still ______ but already abandoned by his parents.

A) a paragon

B) a genius

C) an infant

D) an octogenarian

E) an expert

$$$25

It was always hard _______ other people.

A) to vote

B) to evaluate

C) to give

D) to care

E) to abandon

$$$26

I took great pains to prepare_______ and it was not in vein.

A) materials

B) visual aids

C) program

D) information

E) submission

$$$27

I like his being ______, because he always tries to avoid all the conflicts.

 

A) permitted

B) offered

C) kind

D) submissive

E) substitute

$$$28

His parents were invited to school because of his _______ in class.

A) Genius ness

B) Submissiveness

C) Defiance

D) Detention

E) Execution

$$$29

Tom was always very ______ child.

A) sub

B) bad

C) bully

D) evaluation

E) authority

$$$30

Ann was assigned to _______ and had to stay two hours at school.

A) prize

B) detention

C) fairy tale

D) obligations

E) examination

$$$180

“ Oh, I’ve never tasted such a marvelous fruit, I think it is ______ of apple and orange!”

A) type

B) outright

C) relevant

D) scramble

E) hybrid

$$$181

A president should always fulfill his ____________.

A) detention

B) obligations

C) legislature

D) execution

E) government

$$$182

Effective teacher always has device ______ their students.

A) to encourage

B) to detain

C) to defiance

D) to withdraw

E) to govern

$$$183

In parliamentary republics a president is __________ by parliament.

A) taken

B) given

C) voted

D) elected

E) ruled

$$$184

The child may learn the “mixed” language as one _______ language.

A) native

B) target

C) local

D) hybrid

E) alone

$$$185

Advise the youngster to wait and save up his money to buy the article __________________

A) besides

B) outright

C) outrtgh

D) outrihgt

E) outline

$$$186

“That was really a ________ person who invented the telephone!”

A) infant

B) kid

C) genius

D) offspring

E) chuild

$$$187

My sister is a real _______ for me.

A) sibling

B) adolescence

C) infant

D) paragon

E) tutor

$$$188

There is no ______ in our family, so we all have equal rights.

A) detention

B) scramble

C) dominance

D) signification

E) bully

$$$189

Show the cards to your _________ 5 or 6 times a day and by the age of 3, your child will soon be learning hundreds of words

A. infant

B. hybrid

C. smart

D. genius

E. octogenarian

$$$190

The child may learn the “mixed” language as one _________ language.

A) hybrid

B) mixture

C) torture

D) borture

E) dorture

$$$191

Some parents prefer to use the ___________ in upbringing of their children

A) rod

B) rope

C) tricks

D) stunts

E) sticks

$$$192

She was so disappointed by the party and was _____________ the whole way home.

A) grumbling

B) gambling

C) googling

D) giggling

E) dodging

$$$193

It will be better if you all the given tasks _________________

A. outright

B. scramble

C. smart

D. genius

E. infant

$$$194

From recent times _____________ became the popular problems among the youngsters

A) equanimity

B) exploiting

C) drugging

D) addicting

E) pledging

$$$195

We live in an ever-expanding market for kid _____________.

A) trafficking

B) comunity

C) endorsment

D) infanting

E) hybriding

$$$196

At home some parents speak two languages, because they want their children to be _____________.

A) genius

B) paragon

C) bully

D) rod

E) bilingual

$$$197

From an early age we should teach our children how ____________ the problems

A) to care about

B) to cope with

C) to analyse

D) to expertise

E) to vote

$$$198

Never repeat the __________ shown in the circus!

A) shows

B) laughs

C) stunts

D) people

E) drawings

$$$199

In like manner he can learn to perform staggering mathematical____________.

A. stunts

B. beg

C. pitfalls

D. pandemic

E. goal

$$$200

She did all the possible things to get her _____________

A) goal

B) pitfall

C) exploit

D) beg

E) bed

$$$201

Our obligation _________ children does not end at our borders, nor does it end with American children.

A) to safeguard

B) to depend

C) to teach

D) to learn

E) to expoit

$$$202

Like most ___________ he thinks the world has gone to hell.

A) octogenarians

B) infants

C) children

D) people

E.)baby

$$$203

The language or languages other family members speak with the child, such as the language spoken between __________ or between children and grandparents.

A) sisters

B) siblings

C) professors

D) doctors

E) teachers

$$$204

Other kids _________: “Let me go this once, Mother”, so you are tempted to abandon your principles temporarily.

A) say

B) ask

C) note

D) beg

E) try

$$$205

And, though no critical age for bilingual language development has been found, kids to tend to develop more native- bike pronunciation when bilingualism begins before _________.

A) octogenarians

B) adolescence

C) adulthood

D) childhood

E) grandhood

$$$206

The youngsters are often not sufficiently mature or experienced ___________ personal relationships.

 

A) to cope with

B) to announce

C) to try

$$$207

In addition to reviewing achievements, the Special Session will also enable world leaders to explore the new and long- stating challenges that impact children’s lives, including HIV / AIDS ___________.

A) pandemic

B) terrible

C) marvelous

D) cathnig

E) catching

$$$208

Far better to explain the ____________ of buying the stereo gram on hire-purchase.

A. pitfalls

B. infants

C. stunts

D. octogenarians

E. teenagers

$$$209

How can parents create the kind of brain growth that leads __________ in reading, math, gymnastics and the like?

A. expertise

B. pitfalls

C. smart

D. genius

E. ability

$$$210

Parents must insist on punctuality, tidiness and ___________ from their children.

A. courtesy

B. pitfalls

C. teenagers

D. stunts

E. smart

$$$211

Having had their own way too often, youngsters are unable and unwilling to assent with ___________ the inevitable reverses in later life.

A) boals

B) goals

C) parents

D) children

E) rod

$$$212

Families who take the time to discuss their ________ for language development see their kids acquire higher levels of language skills in both languages.

A) plans

B) goals

C) parts

D) plays

E) performances

$$$213

We now turn to 2 aspects of the problem of missing and exploited children are global in their scope and effect international child ___________ and international abduction.

A) managing

B) trafficking

C) boiling

D) care taking

E) adiction

$$$213

The Professional Mothers turn out to be __________.

A) paragons

B) teachers

C) nurses

D) house keepers

E.) rods

$$$214

Though we spare the ____________ nowadays, don’t les us spoil the child.

A. rod

B. stick

C. arrow

D. pitfall

E. trick

$$$215

Ten years ago, world summit on children ____________ to ensure, protect and promote the rights of children and young people world-wide.

A) exploiting

B) bitting

C) hiding

D) kidnaping

E) boiling

$$$216

Unfortunately, those who ____________ children as forced labors or sex slaves are motivated by the ability to easy cross the borders and deceive unknown families.

A) teach

B) exploit

C) use

D) demand

E) offer

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A friend ___________ recently: “ My children will never come for meals when they’re called ”.

A) cried

B) said

C) offered

D) grumbled

E) annoyed

Fill in the synonyms of underlined words

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Show the cards to your infan t five or six times a day, simultaneously reciting the word written on each one.

A) stunt

B) peer

C) child

D) teenager

E) baby

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These Professional Mothers turn out to be paragons

A) note

B) sign

C) comment

D) pattern

E) slogan

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In like manner he can learn to perform mathematical stunts

A) whim

B) tasks

C) tricks

D) effort

E) capacity

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The youngsters are often not sufficiently mature or experienced to cope with personal relationships

A) to overcome

B) to control

C) to obey

D) to discipline

E) to blackmail

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Parents should teach their children to be well mannered from their early childhood

A) polite

B) obedient

C) disciplined

D) educated

E) communicative

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Parents must insist on punctuality, tidiness, and courtesy from their children

A) genius

B) discipline

C) harshness

D) accuracy

E) politeness

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Far better to explain pitfalls of the system, than advise the youngsters to wait and save money.

A) advantage

B) expensiveness

C) trap

D) harm

E) benefit

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Though we spare the rod nowadays, don’t let us spoil the child

A) punishment

B) burden

C) stunt

D) caprice

E) stick

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A person may listen and speak two languages and have reading and writing ability in only one

A) comprehension

B) disability

C) capacity

D) proficiency

E) help

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To plan a strategy for raising kids with ability to speak more than one language

A) parents

B) people

C) children

D) pets

E) teachers

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Families who take the time to discuss their goals for language development see their kids acquire higher levels of language skills in both languages.

A) task

B) control

C) aim

D) whim

E) paragon

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Justin Chapman was terribly smart child, he spoke at conferences about children’s voting rights act.

A) disciplined

B) clever

C) careful

D) polite

E) well mannered

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Nursery sometimes helps to mothers who are working

A) kindergarten

B) test

C) teacher

D) sibling

E) school

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Children should understand that requirements and restrictions are made impersonal and are not just the whims of the parent

A) discipline

B) obedience

C) caprice

D) genius

E) stunt

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In the United States the cost of living has been steadily rising for the past few decades.

A) regularly

B) candidly

C) kindly

D) unkindly

E) lastly

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Making such a significant role affects entire family, especially children.

A) unimportant

B) important

C) major

D) minor

E) responsible

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The consequences of staying alone at home when your mother works are of two sides

A) results

B) advantages

C) disadvantages

D) fulfillment

E) burden

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Working mother think that their working will benefit everyone in the long term.

A) discipline

B) help

C) develop

D) endorse

E) improve

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For some youngsters, to be alone at home is a period of private time, while for others it is a frightening, lonely void

A) gap, empty space

B) entertainment

C) pursuit

D) time

E) trafficking

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Some children stated that they used their unsupervised free time to develop their skills and ability

A) invalid

B) unofficial

C) uncontrolled

D) significant

E) approved

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Many latchkey children claimed that too much responsibility was placed on them at early age: it was an overwhelming burden

A) whim

B) stunt

C) goal

D) paragon

E) load

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Many of the latchkey children turned on the television; frequently they would doze off in front of it.

 

A) become interested

B) become disappointed

C) fall asleep

D) become isolated

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It is advisable for all members of the family to express their feelings and concerns about inevitable changes candidly

A) grimly

B) humbly

C) frankly

D) inevitably

E) compellingly

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We dedicate ourselves to protecting our children because they are the most vulnerable

A) youngest

B) cleverest

C) defenseless

D) helpful

E) responsible

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However, our obligation to safeguard children does not end at our borders, nor does it end with American children

A) to help

B) to bring up

C) to educate

D) to protect

E) to give up

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International child trafficking nowadays became the problem not only of one state, but the whole world.

A) exploit

B) abduction

C) neglect

D) abuse

E) to buy and sell illegally

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The state turned to two aspects of the problem of missing and exploit children.

A) waste

B) use selfishly for profit

C) trafficking

D) abuse

E) abduction

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Divorced parents commit abduction because they are too often able to hide their children in foreign countries where they will be outside the reach of the other parent or judicial process.

A) kidnapping

B) abuse

C) neglect

D) exploit

E) violence

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Though we spare the rod nowadays, don’t let us spoil the child

A) punishment

B) burden

C) stunt

D) caprice

E) stick

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Some children stated that they used their unsupervised free time to develop their skills and ability

A) invalid

B) unofficial

C) uncontrolled

D) significant

E) unimportant

Fill in the sentences with the missing word

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They were like sisters, though Elena looked to be more ___________

A) mature

B) serious

C) talented

D) advanced

E) pledge

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The Black Death was considered to be one of the _____________ deseases.

A) bad

B) terrible

C) pandemic

D) curable

E) awful

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To awaken ___________ in our children we should talk seriously with them.

A) courtesy

B) adult awareness C) equanimity D) maturreness E) Goals

B) Over

C) By

D) Along

E) Behind

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“ She suffered a number of serious injuries _____ her career as a professional tennis player.”

A) During

B) Throughout

C) Over

D) Until

E) By

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“ You can’t go _____ saying nasty things like that about him.”

A) On

B) Round

C) By

D) Along

E) About

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“Jean cared _______ her disabled mother until her death last year

A) Of

B) For

C) About

D) At

E) With

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‘The old woman was annoyed ______ noisy children.”

A) On

B) At

C) By

D) With

E) Over

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“I looked again ______ her bag and, to my relieve, there were my keys:”

A) At

B) Over

C) For

D) In

E) Into

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“Let’s go to the football game and cheer ___ our team:”

A) For

B) Up

C) By

D) With

E) About

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“ The team members gave three cheers ______ their captain.:”

A) On

B) Up

C) For

D) With

E) By

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“They went __________each other furiously.:”

A) On

B) At

C) To

D) Under

E) About

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“ Public schools are forced to deal _____ a large number of children from weakened families.”

A) For

B) About

C) At

D) On

E) With

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“ Americans have always shown a great concern _____ education.:”

A) For

B) In

C) On

D) Off

E) About

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“ She walked ____the forest to get to her grandmother’s house.:”

A) Across

B) Over

C) Through

D) Between

E) Along

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“I saw the helicopter fly out _____ The water near the fishing boat.:”

A) Under

B) Below

C) Over

D) On

E) Above

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“ He stood ______ all his friends in the room and felt very happy.”:

A) Beside

B) Among

C) By

D) Close to

E) Between

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“______ The time that I was in Paris, I only once saw the River Seine.”:

A) At

B) On

C) Over

D) During

E) By

$$$019

The passengers couldn’t see the sun, as it was right the plane.

A) Above

B) Below

C) Under

D) Up

E) Over

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“All my attempts to help him went _____ the drain”:

A) On

B) At

C) By

D) Along

E) Down

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Choose an appropriate word for the definition: It is a structural part of speech used with nouns.

A) Preposition

B) Adjective

C) Numeral

D) Article

E) Adverb

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Choose the word groups used with the definite article:

A) North America, London, MacDonald’s

B) Broadway

C) Everest, Wall Street

D) Lake Windermere, Lake Ontario

E) Central Asia, Madagascar

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Choose an appropriate variant to the sentence:

“ He was _______ courage and force of his father, ____ spirit and opportunity of his brothers, _______hope of his children:

A) The, The, A.

B) The, A, The.

C) The, The, The

D) A, A, The

E) A, An, The

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Choose the right answer:

A) When did you have a dinner?

B) Mr./ Dorrif was in a prison many years.

C) Two friends traveled together.

D) The dinner was a success

E) I want to go to town where I was born.

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Choose the right answer:

A) Pour water into the glass

B) A women has come.

C) The man is waiting for you downstairs

D) I spent a sleepless night

E) She is quite a child.

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Choose the right answer: _____ woman opened ____ gate and looked thoughtfully at _____ house:

 

A) The, ___, The

B) The, the, the

C) A, the, the.

D) The, ___, a.

E) A, ___, the.

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Choose the right answer:

 

A) Can you smell a gas?

B) There’s bus coming

C) Water is a valuable commodity. Don’t waste it

D) Each new word has different meaning

E) In middle of his speech he started to cough uncontrollably.

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Choose the right answers “ Dorothy took_____ cake and ____ apple pie to ___ party, but only ____ apple pie was eaten.»

A) An, an, __, an.

B) A, an, the, the.

C) ____, An, the, an.

D) ____, An, ___, the.

E) The, an, the., the.

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A) There is a cold wind Whistling through the trees outside.

B) What are your plans for the future?

C) Sri Lanka has the wonderful climate.

D) It’s most important issue and we need to discuss in detail

E) The USA is a country with the high level of immigration.

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“ He suddenly heard _________ sound like______ gunshot in ___ street.

 

A) A, the, the

B) A, __, the

C) ___, ____, The.

D) A, a, the.

E) The, the, the.

Test on Practical English of Oral and Written Speech

 

GRAMMAR

ВАРИАНТ №2

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A) The sun had gone and night had come.

B) He will never forget a day when he met her

C) I was a spring. I like spring

D) – Spring was cold and rainy

E) I’ve never heard of such things

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A) Both stories were interesting

B) All stories were interesting

C) It’s easier to work by day than at night

D) Both the stories were interesting

E) He a student you wanted to speak

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A) Conan Doyle is a master of detective story

B) A detective story helps to while away the time

C) He knocked at the door of the very near house

D) A pleasure to give good wine to a young woman who looked so well.

E) The honey is wholesome.

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A) He fell in love with her at the first sight

B) My sister wants to be a doctor, and my brother wants to go to the sea

C) The whole story is a lie from beginning to end

D) We spent hours on a deck

E) Don’t take things too much to the heart.

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“ I saw – film last night. ___ Film was about __ soldier and ___ beautiful girl. ___Soldier was in love with ___ girl but___ girl was in love with ___teacher. So____ soldier shot ___teacher and married ____ girl.”

A) A, the, the, a, the, a, the, the, a, the, the

B) A, the, a, the, a, a, the, a, the, a, the, the,

C) The, the, a, the,-,a, the, the, a, the

D) A, the, a, a, the, the, the, a, the, the, the.

E) A, a, the, a, the, the, a, a, the, the, a.

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A) Having eaten the gruel, Oliver asked for the second portion.

B) The last word remained with George

C) We shall discuss this matter the next time

D) Gas Blast kills the woman

E) She knows the English.

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