Maturita Revision B

REVISION TEST – B 1. Supply articles where necessary: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

______information you need is at ______top of ______page. Peru is _______ country in ______ South America. _____ capital is Lima. I didn’t have_____ time to have _______breakfast. _______ River Volga flows into _______ Caspian Sea. I was in ______ hurry this morning. ______vegetarians don’t eat _____meat. He lived on _____ small island in _____ Atlantic. I always wanted to be ______ actor when I was small. 16 points

2. Put the words in the right order: 1. you / form / this / in / all / do / have / fill / to / _____________________________________________________________ 2. doing / you / what / came / school / were / you / this / to / before / ? _____________________________________________________________? 3. Prize / the / a / he / years / Nobel / ago / few / won / . ______________________________________________________________ 6 points 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3.

3. these sentences with modal verbs into the specified tense: A: In the past tense. You should speak aloud, because I can’t hear you. __________________________________________________________ I must move my car, I’m not allowed to park here. ___________________________________________________________ I don’t have to go to bed early. ___________________________________________________________ He may come in time. ___________________________________________________________ B. In the future: I must go home now ____________________________________________________________ Did you have to get up early? ____________________________________________________________ Children mustn’t watch TV. ________________________________________________ 9 points

4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Fill in the prepositions: Are you worried_________ this test? We went ______ Spain ______ Easter. Are you going to apply _______ the job? I was born _____ December, 19, 1951 ____5 o’clock ____the afternoon. She arrived _____ the station _____ midnight. Millions _____ people died _____ hunger and others suffered _____ terrible drought. I’m looking forward _____ seeing you again. Everyday I’m afraid _____ going to school. We’ve been watching the film __________ 12 o’clock. 15 points

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Write questions about the underlined words:

1. John sends flowers to his sister every week _____________________________________________________? 2. Yesterday my mother spoke with the manager. _____________________________________________________? 3. It takes me 10 minutes to wash and dress. _____________________________________________________? 4.

I’d like to speak to the director. __________________________________________________________? 5. Doctor Watson wants me to give up smoking. __________________________________________________________? 10 points 6. Put the verbs in the brackets in the correct form: 1. I was angry because I _________________________ (wait) for half an hour, when the bus finally ____________________ (come). 2. If he ____________(call), I ___________(tell) him more. 3. When we ___________(get) to the cinema, the film ________________(start) already. 4. What _______________________(you/do) next two weeks? 5. Last year the police only _______________(find) about one third of all the cars that the thieves __________________(steal). 6. What a nice doggie! How long ________________(you/have) it ? 7. I have never been to the Alps, but my friends ___________(be) there two weeks ago. 11 points 7. Put these sentences into passive>

1. How did they break the window? ___________________________________________________________ 2. They saw her yesterday morning when she was driving a car. ___________________________________________________________ 3. Millions of people speak English. ___________________________________________________________ 4. They will publish his first novel next year. ___________________________________________________________ 5. The Chinese have grown tea for centuries. ____________________________________________________________ 6. Bell didn’t invent the television. ____________________________________________________________

12 points 7. 1.

Test your English: circle the right answer: If I had a typewriter, I ______________ it myself. a) will type

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b) I would stay

c) I had stayed

We made Peter _______________ the matter. a) to explain

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c) typed

I wish _______________________ at home yesterday. a) I stayed

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b) would type

b) having explained

c) explain

Their books are not mine, they are _____________. a) theirs

b) of theirs

c) their 4 points

DISEASES Fill in the blank spaces in the text ; put one word into each gap: For thousands of years, smallpox was a terrifying __________________ which threatened people in every continent, and there were ________________ which killed millions of people. It is believed that the disease began in China and then ________________ slowly to the other continents. The first known _________________ was Rameses V, the pharaoh of Egypt, who showed all the main _______________ of the disease including the terrible rash, and who ________________ of it in 1157 BC. Many doctors, over the centuries, tried to find a ___________ for the disease, but none succeeded. However, in 1774, a doctor called Edward Jenner decided to investigate the belief that people who had cowpox could not be _______________ with smallpox. Cowpox was a much less _________________ disease and hardly ever caused any lasting problems. Jenner discovered that it was possible to ____________ people from smallpox by giving them cowpox, and he began to _____________ large numbers of people against the disease. It was soon clear that anyone who had a vaccination was _________________ to smallpox. This was because humans, when they are infected with cowpox, produce antibodies; these protect people by attacking and killing the smallpox _______________ if it enters the body. Vaccination became the standard ________________ for the disease although no cure was ever found. In 1958 the World Health Organization decided to try and vaccinate everyone in the world, and after a massive world-wide campaign, smallpox was ______________ .The last man in the world to catch it was Ali Maow Maalin, from Merka in Somalia - and fortunately he ______________ from the disease. Word Bank - victim, symptoms, spread, disease, died, epidemics, vaccinate, protect, serious, infected, cure, treatment, virus, immune, eradicated, recovered