Universidad del Valle – Sede Pacifico

Reading of Academic Texts in English II - Technology in Port Management

Grammar Quiz – on Comparatives and Superlatives Adjectives
Name: Jennifer liseth Estupiñan ibarra Code: 2057509 Date: January, 20th, 2021
1. Write the comparative and the superlative forms of the following adjectives.

POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

old older oldest
big bigger biggest
heavy heavier heaviest
exciting more exciting More exciting
good better best
hot hotter hottest
bad worse worst
nice nicer nicest
easy easier easist
small smaller smallest
difficult more difficult more difficult
2. Fill in the gaps with the comparative form of the adjectives in brackets
a) My bag is .........................bigger.......................(big) yours
b) Studying is ..................more important.........................(important) playing
computer games.
c) A kilo of rocks isn’t .................heavier.......................(heavy) a kilo of sugar.
d) Cristiano Ronaldo is .............more famous..............................(famous) Bill
Gates
e) I think that cats are ................better...................(good) pets
......than..........dogs
f) Killing is a ..........................more.....................
(crime)........than.............stealing.
g) A Fiat car is ...................cheaper...........................(cheap) a Ferrari.
3. Use the superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.
a) Wall- Mart is …………the richest…………. (rich) group of shops in the world.
It sells $ 82.5 billion every year.
b) Toys ’R’ Us has got ………largest…………...(large) toys shop in the world.
It’s 6,038.5m.
c) The BiC Crystal pen is ………most popular……………. (popular) pen in the
world: people buy 15 million every day.
d) ………………most expensive……………….. (expensive) shoes that you can
buy in a shop cost $ 13,600
e) At 338 km/h, the Lamborghini Diablo GT is ………fasttest…………. (fast)
road car that you can buy.
f) Casa Botín in Madrid is ………the oldest…………… (old) restaurant in the
world. It opened in 1725.
4. Fill in the gaps with the comparative forms of or the superlative forms of
the adjectives given.
In a survey of 2,000 British kids in a teenage magazine, the kids voted that
science teachers are the ................most boring....................(boring) of all.
The .............most popular.................(popular) subjects in the survey are art, PE
and English. English is ............more popular.....................(popular) than maths.
That’s possibly because many students find maths ...............more

Good Luck!
Universidad del Valle – Sede Pacifico
Reading of Academic Texts in English II - Technology in Port Management
Grammar Quiz – on Comparatives and Superlatives Adjectives
Name: Jennifer liseth Estupiñan ibarra Code: 2057509 Date: January, 20th, 2021
difficult......................(difficult) than English and their maths marks are ..............
wrost................(bad) than their English marks. For the majority of students PE
is the .........the easiest.............. (easy) subject of all, and the ..........most
funny.............(funny)! 16% of the kids love school and 70% think it’s OK-
it’s ...........more best...............(good) than staying at home all day. Perhaps
the ..............most wrost...............(bad) thing of all about school is homework.
Most 15-year-old students spend 1 hour 28 minutes on homework each week.

5. Take two Port Companies from Buenaventura and compare them using
Comparatives and Superlatives. Write a paragraph where you compare
these two companies.

buenaventura's container terminal is one of the few maritime terminals in the

world offering its customers an export stop with a full technological
infrastructure to prevent pollution of the export cargo, as well as reducing port
operating costs by 50%. for inspections of containers by customs and anti-
narcotics authorities,It also has a dock of 440 meters long that allows to
accommodate two container ships of reduced size simultaneously or a Panamax
type ship that have specific dimensions for transit through the Panama Canal. It
has a docking depth of 14 meters and has a capacity to store up to 8000 units
equivalent to twenty feet a day (TEUS) Simultaneously and can manage up to
260,000 (TEUS) a year, which means a 30% share of the container market in
Buenaventura. While THE REGIONAL PORT COMPANY OF
BUENAVENTURA S.A.offers container handling, loading and unloading of
ships, pilot services, vehicles, customs agency, port operators, catering service to
support ships, security and inspection of goods.

The REGIONAL PORTUARIA SOCIETY OF BUENAVENTURA S.A. in my

opinion is better because of its wide catalog of services and the security
provided in this.

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