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PRETEST 2
I. Use the verbs in parentheses in their correct tense forms:
I really enjoyed the rock concert last night. I (1.go, never) to a rock concert before, so I (2.
not know) what to expect. I (3.be) to symphony concerts lots of times, but never a rock concert. Ten
minutes before the concert (4.suppose) to start, hundreds of teenagers (5.try, still) to find their
seats. The place was a madhouse. I thought that things (6.settle) down once the concert began. Boy,
was I wrong! As soon as the lead singer (7.appear) on the stage, everyone (8.start) screaming at
the top of their lungs. I couldn't hear myself (9.think). All in all, the concert (10.be) a lot of fun, but
very noisy.

II. Read the passage and choose the best answer:
Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospitals, still less
the content or quality of that education. Proper records are just not kept.
We know that more than 850,000 children go through hospital each year, and that every child
of school age has a legal right to continue to receive education while in hospital. We also know
there is only one hospital teacher to every 1,000 children in hospital.
Little wonder the latest survey concludes that the extent and type of hospital teaching available
differ a great deal across the country. It found that half the hospitals in England which admit
children have no teacher. A further quarter have only a part-time teacher. The special children's
hospitals in major cities do best; general hospitals in the country and holiday areas are worst off.
From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than 1 in 5 children have some contact with a
hospital teacher - and that contact may be as little as 2 hours a day. Most children interviewed were
surprised to find a teacher in hospital at all. If there was a teacher they were much more likely to read
books and do maths or number work: without a teacher they would only play games.
Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind to keeping a child busy,
and the latter is often all the teacher can do. The position and influence of many teachers was
summed up when parents spoke of them as "the library lady" or just "the helper".
Children tend to rely on school friends to keep in touch with school work. Several
parents spoke of requests for work being ignored of refused by the school. Once back at school,
children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best they can.

Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly. But schools do very little to ease the
anxiety about falling behind expressed by many of the children interviewed.
1. The writer of this article points out that
A. every child in hospital receives some teaching. B .not enough is known about hospital teaching.
C. hospital teaching is of poor quality. D many children pass through hospital each year.
2. Hospital teaching is provided
A. for the whole of the usual school day. B. in every children's hospital in the country.
C. for a small proportion of children. D. by full time teachers.
3. Most children interviewed in hospital
A. liked having maths lessons regularly. B. wanted to play games most of the time.
C. did not expect to receive any teaching. D. did not want any contact with their school.
4. Most teachers of children in hospitals were
A. successful in getting the co-operation of parents.
B. unable to get help from other hospital staff
C. unable to provide a proper teaching program.
D. in a position of great influence in the hospital.
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5. Some children in hospitals are able to keep up with their school work because
A. the nurses try to teach them. B. their friends help them to do so.
C. teachers from school come to the hospital. D. their parents bring them books from the library.
III. Read the passage and answer following questions:
Mozart, who was born on January 27, 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg, was neither
the first nor the last child prodigy, but he was certainly the greatest. He was born into a moderately
prosperous family where his unmatched musical genius made itself known extremely early.
Mozart began learning to play the harpsichord at three and his earliest known work was composed
in 1761 when he was five, the age at which he also first appeared in public. From the age of six,
when his father took him on the first foreign tour, Mozart toured the courts and musical centres of
Austria, German., France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. It has been calculated that
Mozart spent almost a third of his short life - he died at the age of 35 - travelling. As Mozart
matured, he continued to tour and give concerts. Mozart also wrote a lot of operas. His first

opera, Mitridate, RE di Ponto, was performed in Milan when he was 14, and it was the first of many
successes in the theatre.
1. How rich was Mozart's family ?
2. When did he take the first step into the world of music as a composer ?
3. What did he do on his first tour to some major European countries ?
4. Why is it possible to name Mozart "A travelling composer" ?
5. What expression in the passage means "an exceptionally clever child" ?
IV. Use correct forms of the words in parentheses:
The site of the town of Winchester was a (0)..... place for a NATURE
(1)....., at the point where a river cut through the chalk of the SETTLE
(2)..... hillsides. A simple camp at St Catherine's Hill was the SOUTH
(3).....known use of the site. This was followed by an Iron Age EARLY
hill-fort, but this was left (4)..... by 100 BC. It was the Romans who INHABIT
finally established the town and (5)..... it with a defensive wall for ROUND
the protection of their people and trade.
With the (6)..... of its first cathedral in the seventh century, the BUILD
town became an important (7)..... centre. Later, King Alfred, who RELIGION
had (8).....pushed back the invading Danes, moved his palace SUCCESS
to Winchester. The town then experienced rapid (9)..... , and DEVELOP
its (10)..... role in English history was underlined in 1066 when the CENTRE
conquering Normans, like Alfred, made Winchester their capital.
V. Fill in each blank with one suitable word:
People have recycled materials throughout history. Metal tools (1)....... weapons have been
melted. reformed, and reused since they came in use thousands of years (2)...... .The iron, steel, and
paper industries have almost always (3)........recycled materials.
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Recycling saves (4).......by reducing the need to process new material. The amount of
energy saved in (5)......one aluminum can is equal to the energy in the gasoline that would fill
half of that same (6)..... . To make an aluminum can from recycled metal takes only 5 percent of
the total energy needed to produce the same aluminum can (7.)..... un-recycled materials.

Recy cled p ap er a n d p a p er b o a r d r equi r e 7 5 p e rc ent ( 8) . . . . . . . . energy to produce
than new products. Significant energy savings result in the recycling of steel and glass, as well.
Recycling also (9).......pollution because recycling a product creates less pollution (10).....producing a
new one.
VI. Rewrite the following sentences:
1. The teacher is watching them work.
They.................................................................................................................................
2."When we've finished this game we'll have supper." They said to Jane.
They said...............................................................................................................................
3. You should review all your lessons before taking your exam although you have any kind
of difficulties.
In spite of......................................................................................................................
4.This pen is too expensive for me to buy.
This pen isn’t......................................................................................................................
This pen is ......................................................................................................................... .
It is..................................................................................................................................... .
This pen is......................................................................................................................... .
5. I couldn’t do the test because it was difficult.
Because of........................................................................................................................ .
6. You are too lazy. The teacher wants you to be more studious.
The teacher wished............................................................................................................ .
7. I'm afraid he won't get over his illness soon.
I wish................................................................................................................................. .
8. I couldn’t read the letter because it was dark.
Due to.................................................................................................................
9. This chair is too heavy for him to move.
This chair isn’t................................................................................................................. .
This chair....................................................................................................................... .
So................................................................................................................................... .
This chair....................................................................................................................... .

It is................................................................................................................................. .
10. He has a flu because he went out in the rain last night.
If...............................................................................................................................
11. Bill is too foolish to understand what I say.
So........................................................................................................................................ .
Bill isn’t.............................................................................................................................. .
Bill is.................................................................................................................................... .
Bill is.................................................................................................................................... .
12. Although he had taken any kinds of exercises, he got fatter and fatter.
Despite................................................................................................................................... .
13. "Have you got any shampoo, Alice. I must wash my hair." Mary asked.
Mary asked Alice........................................................................................................................ .
14.People don’t make the children work hard.
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The children............................................................................................................................. .
VII. Write complete sentences from words/phrases given:
1. She usually / 6:30 / today / up / 7:30.
2. teacher / divide / class / four groups.
3. She insist / talk / director / person.
4. He / leave home / early / might get / school / time
5. She / make / such / good meal / we all eat/ far / much.
6. have / rain / enough / hard /flood / low-lying areas.
7. There/ not any/ pear/ left / are?
8. These/ trees/ same/ those.
9. I have/ few job offers/ not difficult/ choose one.
10. Tom / say / happen / my fault.