ENGLISH 12 YEAR 2008- 2009
ENGLISH WRITTEN TEST
(Time allowed: 45 minutes)
Full name: ……………………………………. Test date: …………………..
PHONETICS (1 POINT)
Questions 1-4. Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. A. opponent B. post C. foul D. goal
2. A. ball B. crossbar C. shark D. garden
3. A. personally B. swallow C. terrorist D. sure
4. A. awarded B. scored C. ejected D. digested
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (3 POINTS)
Questions 5-12. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form. Write your answers in the spaces provided.
5. Yesterday they _______________ (penalize) for showing up late for class.
6. John was the last man _______________ (reach) the top of the mountain.
7. If I _______________ (realize) that Greg wanted to get up early, I would have woken him up.
8. When I came to see her yesterday, she _______________ (read) a magazine.
9. When my father was young, he used ______________ (get) up early to do the gardening.
10. The television should _______________ (repair). It’s not working now.
11. What _______________ (you often/ do) in the evening?
12. If the company offers me the job, I think I _______________ (take) it.
Questions 13-16. Complete the following sentences with the right form of the words in brackets. Write
your answers in the spaces provided.
13. Water polo is played in a pool that is 1.8 metres in _______________. DEEP
14. Books in the home are a wonderful source of _______________ and pleasure. KNOW
15. Television brings you all the _______________ and stories with colour,
picture and action. INFORM
16. Gases from factories are extremely _______________. HARM
READING (1.25 POINT)
Questions 17-21. Read and circle the correct answer to best complete the following passage.
It is difficult to know how many elephants once lived in the continent, but there (17) _______ at least 3-5
million elephants in Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. People have always hunted elephants for

LANGUAGE FOCUS (2.5 POINTS)
Questions 31-40. Choose the option that best completes the sentence.
31. The movie itself was not very good, _______ I like the music.
A. and B. therefore C. so D. but
32. Who was Tom with when you saw him?
- Nobody. He was _______ his own.
A. in B. on C. with D. at
33. Are you _______ in soccer?
A. interested B. keen C. fond D. excited
34. It is too noisy here. Can we go somewhere _______?
A. more quietly B. quietly C. quieter D. quite
35. It was _______ weather that we spent the whole day at the beach.
A. such nice a B. such nice C. so nice a D. so nice
36. Work hard _______ you will not get enough money for the family.
A. if B. unless C. but D. or
37. Florida, _______ the sunshine State, attracts many tourists every year.
A. that is known as B. that is C. known as D. is
38. The grass is wet. It _______ last night.
A. used to rain B. rains C. would rain D. must have rained
39. Tomatoes can be used _______ as a salad green or as a cooking vegetable.
A. such B. both C. either D. neither
40. Did you read _______ book I lent you _______ last week?
A. a __ Ø B. the __ Ø C. Ø _ the D. the __ the
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