ENGLISH 10 TEST FOR 1 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
I. Write the word so that /I/ becomes /i:/ and vice versa.
/i/ /i:/
1. rich reach
2 peak
3. hit
3. beat
3. rid
6. sheep
7. live
8 seek
9. sin
9. chip
II. Match the italicized verbs in column A with their meanings in column B.
A B
1. When did the plane take off? a. building
2. The thieves ran away when the burglar alarm went off. b. move downward
3. Let's take a break. We'll goon when you are ready c. made stop burning
4. Could you get me up early tomorrow? d. leave the ground
5. She laughed and chatted happily with other women e. talked in a friendly way
6. Did anyone see Sue getting on the bus? f. stopped
7. Suddenly the plane seemed to dip. g. getting into
8. I've given up trying to understand her. h. get out of bed
9. We had trouble putting up the tent in the dark. i. continue
10. Fire fighters soon put out the fire. j. rang,
III. Complete the passage with the correct form of the verb in the brackets.
There (1) (be) three adults and two children in the Bartons. The children are
Ben, aged twelve, and little Stella, who is four. Their parents are Andrew and Marion. The other
adult is Leslie, who is Andrew's brother. He is twenty-four. They (2) (live) in Newcastle, a
large city in the north east of England.
On weekday mornings, everyone (3) (get up) early. Andrew Barton 4)

5. She at Kennedy Airport at 2 o'clock this morning. (arrive)
6. I refuse to believe that he the car was stolen. (not know)
7. ‘How are you getting on with the book?' At the moment I chapter four. (read)
8. My mother all the doors and windows before she goes to bed. (lock)
9. I away most of my old books when 1 moved house. (throw)
8. Scientists some fundamental discoveries in the 18th century. (make)
10. Alice her mother in London most weekends. (see)
11. 'What's that terrible noise?' `The neighbors a party.' (have)
12. At the start of his career, Cousteau the aqualung, opening the oceans to explorers,
scientists, and leisure divers. (invent)
8. durian when you lived in Malaysia? (ever/ eat)
9. Both ancient and recent records show that farmers long hours.(work)
VI. Choose the correct verb form.
1. I'd like to borrow this book. it yet?
a. Did you read b. Had you read c. Have you read d. Do you read
2. We in this town for a long time. We here sixteen years ago.
a. had been/ come b. have been/ came c. were/ came d. are! came
3. No breakfast for Mark, thanks. He breakfast.
a. hasn't eaten b. didn't eat c. isn't eating d. doesn't eat
4. The news came as no surprise to me. I for some time that the
factory was likely to close.
a. knew b. had known c. have known d. know
5. Fish were among the earliest forms of life. Fish on earth for ages and ages.
a. existed b. are existing c. have existed d. exist
6. Glenda extremely hard when she was a student.
a. worked b. has worked c. was working d. had been worked
7. The World War II in 1939 and in 1945.
a. begins/ ends b. had begun/ ended
c. has begun/ had ended d. began/ ended
8. I at the checkout when I a strange-looking man.

VIII. Are the adverbs in the right position or not? If they are correct, put a tick. If they are
not, write the correct answer.
1. He sings always when he's having a shower.
2. I just have bought a new car.
3. Normally, we don't worry if the children are
late home from school.
4. He speaks fluently five languages.
5. Jenny has been appointed recently Professor of Nursing.
6. I was totally unprepared for the news.
7. The traffic isn't usually as bad as it was this morning.
8. He had been to London never before.
9. Susan became soon bored with the new toys.
10. John frequently was away from home in his new job.
11. They are at home these days hardly ever.
12. I could never understand why he got so annoyed.
13. We had been already given three leaving presents.
14. Being alone brought her usually a sense of peace.
15. Jim never phones me. I have always to phone him.
IX. Read the passage, then choose the correct completion.
Last year 1 went to Nepal for three months to York in a hospital. When the hospital let me
have a few days' holiday, 1 decided to go into the jungle and I asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal
Rai, to go with me. In the jungle there was a lot of wildlife, but we were trying to find big cats,
especially tigers. We climbed onto the elephants' backs to get better view, but it is unusual to find
tigers in the afternoon because they sleep in the heat o the day. Then, in the distance, we saw a
tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet. We crept nearer and found a dead deer. still bleeding.
This was the tiger's lunch! Suddenly. I started to feel very frightened.
We heard the tiger a second before we saw it. It jumped out like a flash of lightning, five
hundred kilos plus and four. meters long. I looked into its eyes and face, and saw right down the
animal's throat. It grabbed Kornal's between its teeth, but I managed to pull Kamal away. One of
our elephants ran at the tiger and made it go back into the grass, so we quickly escaped to let the