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CONTENTS PART I : English Tenses TEST 1………………………………………….……………………………………………….1 TEST 2 ………………………………………….………………………………………………6 TEST 3 ………………………………………….………………………………………………11 TEST 4 ………………………………………….………………………………………………16 PART II : Modality TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………19 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………26 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………31 PART III : Passive Voice TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………36 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………40 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………44 PART IV : Gerunds & Infinitives TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………49 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………53 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………57 PART V : Adjectives & Adverbs TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………61 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………65 PART VI : Adjective (Relative) Clauses TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………69 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………76 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………82 PART VII : Noun Clauses & Auxiliaries TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………87 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………92 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..………………………………………97 PART VIII : Conditionals & Wish Clauses TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………102 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………107 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………113 PART IX : Conjunctions & Adverbial Clauses TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………117 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………123 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………126 PART X : Determiners-Quantifiers-Articles TEST 1 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………129 TEST 2 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………134 TEST 3 ……………………………….………..………..……………………………………138 PART XI : Answer Keys………………………………………….………………………...144 English Tenses / Test-1 6. I ____ glasses when I was younger, but now I 01.-50. sorularda, cümlede boş bırakılan yere ____ contact lenses. uygun düşen sözcük ya da ifadeyi bulunuz. A) was wearing / have had B) have worn / am having 1. Last Saturday, my father ____ that his dinner C) have been wearing / had suit was too small, so now he ____ a strict D) wear / was having diet. E) wore / have A) has discovered / followed B) discovers / was following C) discovered / is following 7. About a month ago, I ____ a brochure about D) was discovering / has followed E) has been discovering / will follow your hotel, but I ____ it yet. R E A) request / didn't receive 2. Helen ____ her driving test five times so far T B) have requested / am not receiving N without success, but she ____, yet. E C) was requesting / wasn't receiving C D) requested / haven't received A) takes / isn't giving up M E) have been requested / don't receive B) has taken / hasn't given up A C) was taking / didn't give up X D) is taking / doesn't give up E E) took / wasn't giving up H 8. The conditions in our office ____ more and S more unbearable, so quite often recently I IL ____ quitting it and looking for a new job. G 3. Most of the time, John and his friends ____ N football matches at their local coffee, but this E A) have got / was considering B) was getting / am considering Saturday, they ____ to the stadium, and so C) are getting / have considered they're all very excited. D) have been getting / consider A) watch / are going E) get / considered B) have been watching / go C) are watching / have gone D) were watching / went E) have watched / were going 9. Because I ____ a long way from my work, I ____ lots of time going to and from work. A) live / waste 4. Kate ____ a vegetarian for eleven years now, B) lived / have wasted and she ____ meat at all during this time. C) have been living / wasted D) am living / have been wasting A) is / isn't eating R E) was living / am wasting B) has been / wasn't eating E T C) is / doesn't eat N D) has been / hasn't eaten E E) was / didn't eat C M 10. In the USA, the twenty largest newspaper chains ____ for almost half of the circulation, A reflecting a trend that ____ in the 1970s. X 5. Last year, Richard ____ his bicycle to work E everyday, but he ____ the bus since the H A) account / started accident. S B) were accounting / start IL C) has accounted / was starting A) rides / takes G D) accounted / is starting B) has ridden / is taking N E) accounts / has started E C) rode / has been taking D) was riding / took E) is riding / has taken 1 ENGLISH EXAM CENTER – (312) 417 69 10 11. Clean snow ____ as much as 87 percent of 16. He ____ to unlock the door to his flat because the sunlight that ____ on it. the telephone ________ . A) is reflecting / shone A) was hurrying / rang B) has reflected / was shining B) hurries / has been ringing C) reflected / is shining C) hurried / was ringing D) was reflected / has shone D) is hurrying / rings E) reflects / shines E) has hurried / has rung 12. More than two hundred people ____ the tower when the bomb ____ in one of the dustbins. 17. There ____ economies since the dawn of civilisation, but as a field of study, economics A) have visited / was exploding ____ only recently. B) were visiting / exploded C) visited / has exploded R A) were / was developing D) are visiting / is exploding E B) have been / has developed T E) visit / has exploded C) are / has been developing N E D) were / is developing C E) have been / develops M 13. Because you ____ half of the ingredients as I A X ____ dinner, you probably aren't hungry at all E now. H 18. John Deere ____ his farm machinery business, which ____ tractors today, in the S A) were eating / have prepared I 19th century. L B) have eaten / prepared G C) have been eating / prepare N A) founds / still produced E D) ate / was preparing B) has founded / is still producing E) eat / have been preparing C) was founding / was still producing D) founded / still produces E) is founding / is still produced 14. She ____ strictly since Christmas and so far she ____ eight kilos. 19. I ____ my French lately; consequently, I ____ A) was dieting / was losing more and more of it. B) dieted / loses C) diets / is losing A) am not practising / forget D) is dieting / lost B) haven't been practising / am forgetting E) has been dieting / has lost C) don't practice / have forgotten R D) wasn't practising / forgot E T E) didn't practice / was forgetting N 15. Cindy's family ____ chains in this area for E over three centuries and now her father ____ C this traditional craft at the county museum M twice a day as well. A 20. The old lady's health ____ day by day until X she ____ smoking. E A) are making / is demonstrating H B) have made / has demonstrated S A) was deteriorating / gave up C) made / was demonstrating IL B) is deteriorating / gives up D) were making / demonstrated G C) deteriorated / has given up E) have been making / demonstrates N E D) deteriorates / is giving up E) has deteriorated / was giving up 2 Compiled ELS Questions 21. The managing director ____ Sid to sales 26. Somebody ____ three times this morning manager and ever since, he ____ everybody asking for Pete, but nobody called Pete ____ around. here. A) promoted / has been bossing A) has phoned / has ever lived B) promotes / bosses B) is phoning / was ever living C) has promoted / is bossing C) phones / ever lived D) is promoting / was bossing D) phoned / is ever living E) was promoting / has bossed E) has been phoning / ever lived 22. Problems with the hotel, coupled with this awful weather, ____ our holiday miserable, so 27. Joey ____ just ____stubborn when he refused we ____ before the scheduled time. to go to the cinema today and he only did so because we ____ to go bowling yesterday. A) have made / have left B) were making / leave R A) is / being / haven't wanted C) make / left E B) has / been / didn't want D) are making / are leaving T C) is / being / don't want N E) made / were leaving E D) was / being / haven't been wanting C E) was / being / didn't want M 23. The fact that more people ____ ozone-friendly A products nowadays ____ that the media can X 28. My mother ____ her optician tomorrow E positively increase public awareness. H because her eyesight ____ worse since she got this computing job. S A) have used / was showing I L B) used / has shown G A) has visited / is becoming C) use / has been showing N B) visited / was becoming E D) were using / showed C) visits / becomes E) are using / shows D) is visiting / has become E) was visiting / became 24. My sister ____ from severe back aches lately and I think it's because, last month, she ____ 29. As the President ____the hall, all the guests to work in a shop where she has to pick up ____ to their feet to welcome him. heavy things. A) was entering / have risen A) is suffering / has started B) entered / rose B) suffers / was starting C) is entering / rise C) has been suffering / started D) enters / have been rising D) suffered / is starting E) has entered / were rising E) was suffering / start R E T N 30. She ____ interested in health ever since she 25. Though she ____ dancing, Sonia ____ to the E was a young girl and now that the medical C disco with her friends the previous night just college ____ her as a student, it seems that in order to be with them in a different M she will be able to work in the medical field. atmosphere. A X E A) was / accepted A) hasn't like / has gone H B) has been / has accepted B) doesn't like / went S C) is / is accepting C) didn't like / is going IL D) is being / accepts D) doesn't like / goes G E) was / was accepting N E) didn't like / is going E 3 ENGLISH EXAM CENTER – (312) 417 69 10 31- Bob ____ with us tonight as he ____ an 36- The petrol warning light ____ for half an hour appointment with the dentist. before we ____ a petrol station. A) won't have trained / is making A) had been flashing / reached B) hasn't trained / was making B) is going to flash / will reach C) hadn't trained / made C) flashed / have reached D) doesn't train / makes D) flashes / will be reaching E) isn't going to train / has made E) was flashing / were reaching 32- We ____ football for two hours and ____ to a restaurant for a meal, afterwards. 37- Up until the tap water ____ back on yesterday evening, we ____ water back and forth for A) are playing / go three days. B) play / are going C) played / went D) have played / were going R A) came / had been carrying E) have been playing / had gone E B) has come / have been carrying T N C) had come / were carrying E D) was coming / will have carried C 33- Epenovpirloen m__e_n_ta l to pocloluntgioreng a_te_ __in etovewrn ss ianncde M E ) is coming / will have carried cities. A X E 38- The neighbours ____ so loudly last night that A) will have existed / are beginning H they ____ us all awake until after midnight. B) exist / have begun S C) had existed / were beginning I L A) are shouting / are keeping D) has existed / began G E) will exist / begin N B) have been shouting / were keeping E C) shouted / have been keeping D) have shouted / had kept 34- I heard that you ____ about the boys all day, E) were shouting / kept so I just rang to tell you that Matthew ____ from a pay phone a couple of hours ago and they are both fine. The weather is fine and 39- Man's use of pictures to tell stories and to they will be home on Sunday evening. record experiences ____ prehistoric times, when he ____ the walls of caves. A) had been worrying / will phone B) have been worrying / phoned A) was beginning / has drawn C) will be worrying / had phoned D) are worrying / is going to phone B) began / drew E) were worrying / phones C) begins / will have drawn D) has begun / was drawing R E) had begun / draw 35- Although he ____ the first round in record E T time , he ____ in the second, and so finished N tenth overall. E 40- My team ____ a match for a month, so C A) finishes / is slipping M currently the manager ____ resigning if they lose one more match. B) had been finishing / was slipping A C) will have finished / slips X E DE)) whaads ffiinniisshheindg // shlaipsp seldip p ed H AB)) disone'ts wn'itn wniinng / /c ownassid ceorends id ering S I C) hasn't won / is considering LG D) hadn't won / will have considered N E) wasn't winning / will consider E 4 Compiled ELS Questions 41- My brother ____ past the post office every 46- Modern exploration of the undersea world morning and I ____ him all week to post a had its beginning in June 1943, when letter for me, but he keeps forgetting, so I'm Jacgues Cousteau ____ his first dive with a going to post it myself tomorrow. revolutionary breathing device which he ____ with Emile Gagnan, a French engineer. A) will be going / ask B) will go / am asking A) was making / has developed C) goes / have been asking B) had made / will have developed D) is going / will ask C) has made / was developing E) has been going / had ask D) will have made / develops E) made / had developed 42- The football team that ____ last year's championship ____ little chance of winning it again this year. 47- She says that she ____ the eight o'clock train tomorrow, but I'm sure she ____ it, as usual. A) was winning / stood R B) was going to win / stand ET A) is catching / is missing C) has won / has stood N B) has caught / misses D) had won / was standing E C) will have caught / has missed C E ) won / stands M D) is going to catch / will miss E) was catching / missed A X 43- Freedom of the press ____ an issue between E people and their governments since the time H 48- The fisherman ____ more fish in one night individuals ____ newspapers independent of S government control for the first time. I than ever before, so when they anchored in L G the harbour, they ____ with joy at the thought A) is / are publishing N of their reward. B) will have been / publish E C) had been / were publishing A) had been catching / will sing D) has been / published B) will have caught / sang E) was / have published C) had caught / were singing D) caught / have been singing E) have caught / will be singing 44- The hikers ____ so tired by the time they ____ the top of the hill that I'm sure they'll first want to sit down for a rest. 49- On my friend's farm they ____ an alarm clock because the cockerel ____ at five o'clock A) will have got / reach every morning without fail. B) are getting / will have reached C) had got / reached A) don't need / crows D) have got / are reaching R B) haven't needed / was crowing E) were getting / had reached E T C) won't have needed / has crowed N D) wont need / is crowing E C E) didn't need / will crow 45- When the young scouts ____ the top of the hill, they ____ for more than an hour. M A A) reached / have been walking XE 50- The Continental Congress ____ the US Postal B) reach / will have been walking H Service in 1775 and the first federal C) will have reached / are walking S government ____ the service in the D) had reached / were walking IL Constitution. E) have reached / will be walking G N A) was founding / has included E B) had founded / includes C) has founded / is including D) was going to found / will include E) founded / included 5 English Tenses / Test-2 05- Decoupage, an art form that ____ in France 01.-50. sorularda, cümlede boş bırakılan yere during the 17th century, ____ cutting out uygun düşen sözcük ya da ifadeyi bulunuz. designs and patterned materials and fastening them permanently to surface. 01- Look, the conservation volunteers A) has originated / will involve ____cheerfully in the sunshine all morning, B) originated / involves unlike yesterday , when they ____ to work in C) was originating / is involving the rain. D) will have originated / involved E) is originating / was involving A) worked / are refusing B) are working / were refusing C) will be working / have refused 06. They ____ so many hotels in the region in D) have been working / refused R recent years that gradually they ____ the E) will have worked / had refused ET natural beauty of the area. N E A) were building / destroy C B) will built / have been destroying 02- A: Is that your pure wool pullover in the M C) have built / are destroying washing machine? It ____ you know! A D) are building / have destroyed B: No, I ____it several times in the machine X E) have been building / destroyed E already. I use the wool cycle and it's fine. H S A) was shrinking / wash I 07. After she ____ to me for the fifth time, I ____ L B) has shrunk / had washed G another word she said, and put an end to our C) will shrink / washed N friendship. E D) is going to shrink / have washed A) has lied / don't believe E) is shrinking / have been washing B) has been lying / won't believe C) was lying / haven't believed D) is lying / hadn't believed 03- The weather conditions ____throughout the E) had lied / didn't believe day and now the ground officials are confident that the championship game ____ ahead. 08. Since they ____ part in their first conversation volunteer week, they ____ on A) have been improving / will go several projects with great pleasure. B) will be improving / will go A) are taking / worked C) have improved / was going R B) take / will have worked D) are improving / has gone E C) are going to take / are working E) improved / went T N D) took / have worked E E) have been taking / work C 04- Some of us will be needed tomorrow to finish M the fence because, at this rate , two sections A 09. Asia ____ the world's largest land mass and X ____ unfinished when we ____work tonight. E ____ just over half of the world's people. H A) have remained / stopped S A) has had / held B) will have remained / were stopping IL B) is having / is holding C) are going to remain / will stop G C) has / holds D) are remaining / are stopping N D) was having / was holding E E) will remain / stop E) has been having / will hold 6 Compiled ELS Questions 10. I ____ to the bank during my lunch-break 15. When Chilean separatist forces ____ an today, but an old colleague ____ to visit us, independent Chile in 1818, the vice-royalty of so, naturally, I wanted to hear all the news. Peru ____ over Chile for almost three centuries. A) was going / came B) went / is coming A) declared / had been ruling C) have gone / was coming B) has declared / was ruling D) had gone / has come C) was declaring / has been ruling E) am going / comes D) is declaring / ruled E) had declared / will have ruled 11. Suddenly it ____ very foggy, so we ____ 16. I ____ some chicken curry earlier and ____ compass bearings to find the right route Richard and Kate to stay for dinner, but just down the mountain. then I remembered that they were both R vegetarian. A) will become / use E T B) had become / used N A) was going to cook / have asked C) became / are using E B) had been cooking / will ask D) becomes / will use C E) has become / had used M C) cooked / will have asked D) had cooked / was going to ask A X E) have cooked / had asked E 12. We're looking after our neighbour's dog as H well as our own and it ____ two kilos of meat S 17. I expect you ____ from school by this time I a day, so I ____ dog meat in bulk these days. L next year and ____ for a job. G N A) is eating / bought E A) have graduated / will have looked B) ate / have bought B) are graduating / have been looking C) was eating / have been buying C) will have graduated / will be looking D) eats / am buying D) graduate / will have been looking E) will have eaten / had bought E) were graduating / are going to look 18. Our Spanish teacher ____ very slowly and 13. By the end of this court session the jury ____ clearly to us at the moment because we ____ all the witnesses and they ____ the courtroom to decide on a verdict. very far in the language yet. A) have been hearing / have left A) talks / aren't progressing B) have heard / are leaving B) is talking / haven't progressed C) are hearing / leave R C) was talking / didn't progress E D) hear / left D) has been talking / weren't progressing T E) will have heard / will leave N E) will be talking / don't progress E C M 19. Before the potato blight ____ Ireland in the 14. I feel certain that her new travel agency ____ A X 1840s, most Irish people ____ on a because she ____ a thorough market survey. E subsistence diet of potatoes. H A) is succeeding / will do S A) was striking / relied I B) has succeeded / will have done L B) has struck / relies G C) will succeed / has done N C) had struck / has relied D) was succeeding / is doing E D) strikes / will rely E) succeeded / has been doing E) struck / had relied 7 ENGLISH EXAM CENTER – (312) 417 69 10 20. Between the years 1846 and 1851, one million 25. Between 1607 and 1733 Englishmen ____ Irish men and women ____ to death and 1.6 thirteen colonies along the east cost of North million ____ to the USA. America and by 1750 nearly two million men, women and children ____ in these colonies. A) had been starving / have emigrated A) were establishing / will be living B) have been starving / emigrate B) have been establishing / lived C) were starving / were emigrated C) established / were living D) starved / emigrated D) had established / will have lived E) had starved / will have emigrated E) have established / had lived 21. Bangladesh ____ independence from Pakistan in 1971 and ever since the assassination of the first prime minister in 26. I ____ some wood for the fire while you ____ 1974, the military ____ the country's the salad. government. R E T A) will fetch / prepare A) has gained / were dominating N B) fetch / are preparing E B) had gained / are dominating C C) am fetching / will prepare C) gained / have dominated M D) have fetched / prepared D) was gaining / dominate A E) was fetching / have prepared E) gains / have been dominating X E H S 22. Over the recent years alcoholism ____ a IL 27. By the 16th century, Austria ____ so large that leading cause death of the young adult G its emperor ____ all of modern Austria, population in the USA. This statistics ____ N Belgium, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, E deaths from drunken driving and fires started Hungary and Spain as well as parts of Italy by carelessly dropped cigarettes. and Yugoslavia. A) became / was including A) has become / ruled B) becomes / included B) was becoming / has ruled C) was becoming / will include C) was going to become / rule D) is becoming / is including D) had become / was ruling E) has become / includes E) becomes / has been ruling 23. Some of the workers ____ the peaches while the others ____ them in wooden boxes. 28. The earthworm, which ____ neither lungs nor gills, ____ through its skin. A) are picking / will place R E B) were picking / were placing T A) is having / has breath C) have been picking / placed N B) has had / is breathing E D) picked / have been placing C C) was having / breathed E) had been picking / have placed M D) will have / was breathing A E) has / breathes X 24. Although manufacturers ____electric cars as E H prototypes for a number of years now, it will SI 29. The athletes ____ for exactly three months by be a long time before they ____ common. LG the time the races ____ due to start. N A) produced / are becoming E A) have been training / will be B) have been producing / become B) will have been training / are C) produce / will become C) are going to train / will have been D) are producing / became D) are training / were E) were producing / will have become E) had trained / have been 8