GRAMMAR REVIEW



GRAMMAR :
I/ Put the verbs into the correct form :
1/ On the first of next month, he …………… (be) in prison for five years.
2/ I’d rather you ……………. (not be) absent form class yesterday.
3/ Tom was pleased ……………… (admit) to the college.
4/ Where do you think Ba is today ? I have no idea. He ……………. (sleep) late.
5/ He suggested that a petition ………………. (draw) up.
6/ I must take this watch ……………… (repair).
7/ He is walking ……………… (hurry) to the place where his ex – wife, a famous na furalist now ………………. (lie) ………………. (bury) among the animals she …………….. (love) so well.

II/ Fill each gap in the passage with one suitable preposition :
When Edition was a boy ……….(1)………. fifteen, he worked ……….(2)………. a telegraph oprerator. He had to be ……….(3)………. duty from 7pm to 7am and give a signal every hour to prove that he did not sleep. This signal was made ……….(4)………. astonishing exactnees. One night an inspector arrived and saw Edition sleeping ……….(5)………. a chair.
He was ……….(6)………. to shke him when he caught sight of a mechanism on a table ……….(7)………. the telegraph instrument. He waited to see what would happen. When the hand of the clock pointed ……….(8)………. the hour , the instrument got busy and one lever trew open the key while the other sent the signal ……….(9)………. the wire.
The inspector seized the sleeping boy, roused him anh fired him. That is why the first ………..(10)………. Edition’s numerous inventions was never patened.

VOCABULARY :
I/ Supply the correct forms of the world in the parenthese :
1/ The boy was very violent and his parents found him ………………. (manage).
2/ We regret that the present economic difficulties will ………………. a reduction in our work force (necessary).
3/ Politeness is one thing. Real kindness is another. You must learn to …………… between the two (different).
4/ The ………………. of his argument was obvious to everyone (false).
5/ She is ……………… the finest pianist in the world (argue).
6/ She is very efficient, and ………………… polite to the customers (fail).
7/ Be careful ! That’s a ………………. poison (dead).
8/ I’m afraid the talks were totally …………………..We didn’t reach agreement on anything (produce).
9/ His disappearance is very strange in fact quite …………………. (explain).
10/ They fought ………………… in the war (hero).

Choose the correct answer :
1/ Picasso was a well – known cubist painter.
a- artistic b- celebrated c- colouful d- knowledgeable
2/ The director’s spacious new office overlooked the City
a- quite b- colourful c- rommy d- comfortable
3/ The Protesting crowd disersed after the rally
a- sattered b- became violent c- fought d- danced
4/ Therw was no trace of poison in the coffee the chemist analized
a- indication b- taste c- colour d- smell
5/ We have to seek and develop a new method
a- work out b- set on c- set out d- catch on
6/ Nobody except Helen understood the joke
a- caught on b- got lost c- caught up d- was up to
7/ His tastes coincide with those of his wife
a- are different b- is in harmony c- are similar d- are in argeement
8/ The question was discarded because it was ambiguous
a- incorrect b- vague c- dull d- excellent
9/ Your mood seems very meditative this evening
a- gleeful b- thoughtful c- desperate d- stern
10/ I have only the time to tell you the gist
a- reference b- main idea c- first point d- few details

Fill each gap in the passage with a suitable word :
Best known ……….(1)………. his Theory of Relativity. Abert Eintein has been acknowledged ……….(2)………. one of the greatest scientists ……….(3)………. human history.
Born in Geraman in 1879, Einstein did ……….(4)………. in all his school subject, with the ……….(5)………. of mathematics, which was his favourite subject. While ……….(6)………. as a clerk in Switzerland. Einstein produced the special Theory of Relativity. This theory states that mass, length and time changes ……….(7)………. on how a person looks at it. In 1915, Einstein publised his General Theory of