TESTS

Five-Minute Tests

1

Complete these questions.
1. _____ are your friends like?
2. _____ you often ask your friend for advice?
3. _____ you ever lost friends?
4. _____ are your qualities as a person?
5. _____ your friends influence your life?
6. _____ friendship important for you?
7. _____ you balance your life between friends, school, family and hobbies?
8. _____ is the line between an acquaintance and a friend?
9. _____ it hard for you to maintain friendships?
10. _____ the communication be difficult at times?

Key: 1. what; 2. do; 3. have; 4. what; 5. do; 6. is; 7. do; 8. what; 9. is; 10. may/can

2

Choose the verbs in the correct form.
1. I _________ bridge tonight with my friends.
A. am playing
B. play
C. will play
D. will have played
2. It _____ since early morning.
A. rained
B. had rained
C. has been raining
D. is raining
3. What ____ you _______ at 4.30 tomorrow afternoon?
A. would… do
B. were… do
C. will… be doing
D. will… have done
4. Dinosaurs… millions of years ago.
A. died out
B. had died out
C. were died out
D. had been died out
5. The main ideas were set forth in the statement which… in the press the day before.
A. appeared
B. had appeared
C. has appeared
D. would appear

Key: 1. A; 2. C; 3. C; 4. A; 5. B

3

Match the sentence beginning in list A with the correct ending in list B. Give the meaning of the words in bold print.
A.
1. A routine means
2. Revision means
3. If you maintain something at a level, it means
4. If you write something then rub it out,
5. If something, (e.g. a way of learning), is effective,
B.
a. looking through a unit a second or third time.
b. you keep it at the same level.
c. doing certain things regularly in the same way.
d. it works very well.
e. you remove it from the page.
1 (routine) __________ 2 (revision) ___________ 3 (maintain) ________ 4 (rub out) ______ 5 (effective) ______

Key: 1. c; 2. a; 3. b; 4. e; 5. d

4

What abbreviations in written English are often used for these words or phrases?
0 Doctor Dr
1. for example __________
2. in other words __________
3. and so on __________
4. Mister __________
5. Street __________

Key: 1. e.g. (exempli gratia, Latin); 2. i.e. (id est, Latin); 3. etc. (et cetera, Latin); 4. Mr.; 5. St.

By Youdif Boyarskaya,
School No. 814, Moscow