Yu Yuan Secondary School

Writing & Grammar

Senior One
Test 3
Name: _______________________ (
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Class: Senior One A / B

Mark:

SECTION A: ADJECTIVES (16%)

Instruction: Complete this text with these sets of adjectives in the best order. Add and if necessary.
English older
European southern

Italian Greek
Spanish cheap

big plastic square

carefree crazy happy

great little outdoor

sour twisted

Some people like to talk a lot about food and restaurants they go to. I have a friend called Lee
who lectures on (1) _______________________ history at the university. He gets very excited when he
describes a (2) _______________________ caf in Rome and all the (3) _______________________
people who work there. I also remember listening to an (4) _______________________ woman, who is
a professor of (5) _______________________ literature, complaining about how Spanish dishes are
served in some places with (6) _______________________ wine from (7) _______________________
boxes. When she speaks about it, her mouth becomes (8) _______________________, as if she were
reliving the terrible experience.

SECTION B: COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS (12%)

Instruction: Fill the gaps with appropriate comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives and
adverbs in the box. Add than and the if necessary.
dry

good
well

loose
carefully

scared
quietly

wrong
bad

far
real
keen
early
efficiently

1. I did well in this months test. I am pleased because I had expected to do _____________________
last time.
2. I dont mind the Mediterranean summer because it is a ____________________ heat than you find
in the tropics.
3. I know all murder is wrong, but dont you agree that it ____________________ to murder a child
than to murder an adult?
4. I thought the team played badly today. I have often seen them play ____________________ that.
5. In medieval times people rarely travelled long distances. For most peasants ___________________
they would ever travel would be to the local market town.
6. Must you talk so loud? Please talk __________________, could you?
7. Now we come to the award for ____________________ actor in a leading role.
8. The authenticity of dialogue and setting often makes low budget films seem ___________________
the somewhat artificial version of reality in Hollywood movies.
9. The company is operating in a very unproductive manner. It should take immediate measures to
operate ____________________.
10. The skirt is much too tight on the hips. I need something with a ____________________ fit.
11. Try not to be so careless in your work. You should try to work ____________________.
12. You get up too late. Why dont you get up _____________________?

SECTION C: ACTIVE PASSIVE (10%)

Instruction: rewrite these sentences with verbs in the passive, where possible.
1. People have claimed it that they cannot use tasks successfully with beginner level students. I
designed the following study so that I could investigate that claim. I created two groups of students,
each with different proficiency levels. I gave them a task in which I showed them a set of pictures
and I asked them to tell a story. I recorded them as they spoke and then I examined their stories.
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SECTION D: TENSES (15%)

Instruction: Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb.
1. Broken bones in adults __________________ (not heal) as fast as they ___________________ (do)
in children.
2. Caesars troops ___________________ (fail) to defeat the indigenous tribes in 55 BC.
3. Darkness ___________________ (descend) over the hushed city as James ___________________
(stag) back to college.
4. He ____________________ (work) for over an hour before the auditors _____________________
(turn) up prvious night.
5. I __________________ (feed) the neighbours cat until she is discharged from hospital.
6. I _____________________ (look) into the possibility of early retirement since the reorganisation.
7. I am sorry, I cant come to your weeding as I ____________________ (work) on that day.
8. She ___________________ (sack) him before he ___________________ (have) a chance to explain
his behaviour.
9. Shelly ______________________ (fly) to Morocco this time tomorrow.
10. The centre of the island ______________________ (inhibit) since the earthquake of 1952.
11. We _____________________ (live) in this house for twenty years by December.

SECTION E: SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT (7%)

Instruction: Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

A number of problems _______________ (have) arisen.

Each setback just _______________ (make) us even more determined to succeed.
Last nights news _____________ (be) not too bad.
Romeo and Juliet ______________ (be) written by Shakespeare.
The party which won the election ________________ (intend) to increase welfare benefits.
The police _____________ (be) trying to stop speeding in the city previously but failed.
7. Twenty five kilos ______________ (be) a lot to carry by yourself, dont you think?