Tests
A Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
1 What's a miracle? Well, popcorn's a miracle if you__know how it's made
a didn't    b don't    c won't    d wouldn't
2 Some of you may have already completed section one. section two.
a [f so    bit you do    c If you may    d If not
3 In summer, if my dad finished work early, he_
a is    b was    c will    d would
, you can go on to
sometimes take us swimming
4 If you don't mind, I
finish mv coffee before we leave.
a would    b would have    c would like    d would rather
5 If thev'd .
Justin more time, he'd have been able to do a better job.
a give    b giving    c given    d gave
B Identify the one underlined expression (A, B, C or D) that must be changed in order to correct the sentence.
1 If I were late, thev usually made me stav after school and I had to do extra homework.
A B        XT D
2 We must maintain a system of law, and support a police force. If we don't, the criminals would
A B C D
soon be in charge.
3 I'm not the kind of person who goes around thinking if only 1 have done this or that. I just feel
ABC D
lucky.
4 Things will be better if I will get a job and earn some monev so I don't have to live with mv
A B C D
parents.
5 The Czech Republic's top genera! has warned staff officers thev will lose their jobs if only thev
A B C
don't learn English, according to a story in the Daily Telegraph.
C Complete this paragraph, adapted from a novel, with one suitable word in each space.
I looked at the pie sitting right there in front of me. in_I throw this pie at him,
I thought to myself, he (j)_never love me. And then it hit me: he doesn't love
me. It hit me with a shimmering clarity: that was all there was to it. It 13i_
matter i4i_he was crazy. It didn't matter if I IS)_ innocent
or guilty. Nothing mattered except that he didn't love me. If I (61
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pie at him, he will never love me. But he doesn't love me anyway. So I can throw the pie
(7)_1 want to. [ picked up the pie, thanked God for the linoleum tloor, and
threw it.
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D Complete each of the sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the sentence above it.
1 The party is not likely to happen because no one is willing to help. Unless .
2 She didn't escape injury: she wasn't wearing a crash helmet. If only___.____--
3 I still loved her despite the fact that she could be very difficult. Even though___-
4 We're leaving tomorrow if you like the idea or if you don't like the idea. Whether__
5 I arrived late; the traffic was so bad. I'm sorrv, but if .
E Complete this text with the following clauses.
if he loses    if anyone asked me        if he doesn't ratify fight    unless he's an idiot if he wins    if he does that if that is the result if that happens to him
[ would
Boxing, men and women don't make a good combination. (D — sav that there are three reasons why a man should never get into a boxing match with a woman.
The first is that, 12)_, people will say that he beat up a woman.
(3,_, he must be a bully. The second is that,
(41__, they will say he was beaten up by a woman.
(5)___, he must be very weak. The only other possible outcome is a draw.
(6)___, they will say that he must have been only pretending to fight and
not really using his physical strength, (7).
, he must be a cheat and
someone who cannot be trusted. Given these three good reasons, a man,
(81_____, must realize that he should never get into a boxing match with a
woman. A woman already knows that boxing is a stupid, primitive activity. She doesn't need other
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