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MID TERM EXAM-I02

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I. PAST TENSES.
A. PUT THE VERBS IN BRACKETS INTO THE CORRECT FORM OF THE PAST SIMPLE OR THE PAST CONTINUOUS.
Example While I was listening (listen) to the radio, the telephone rang (ring).
1 He __________ (break) his leg when he __________ (ski) in the Alps.
2 We __________ (see) an accident while we __________ (wait) for the bus.
3 While she __________ (prepare) lunch, she __________ (cut) herself.
4 Which countries _______ they _______ (visit) when they __________ (travel) round the world?
5 _______ you _______ (work) in the garden when I __________ (come) to the house?
6 They __________ (live) in Canada when they __________ (meet) each other.

B. CIRCLE THE CORRECT FORMS IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES.

Example I had enjoyed/ enjoyed the film even though I had seen /saw it before.

1 I got up late this morning so when I arrived/had arrived at the station, the train already left/had already left.
2 I couldn’t speak to them because when I had phoned/phoned, they went/had gone out.
3 He was very nervous when he drove/had driven across France last month because he didn’t drive/hadn’t driven on the right
before.
4 We realized that we had met/met before as soon as we saw/had seen each other.
5 She had spent/spent a lot of hours studying for her exam because she had already failed/already failed it twice.
6 They had lived/lived in their house for twenty years when they decided/had decided to sell it.

C. MAKE THE SENTENCES PASSIVE.

Example They built the bridge in 1926.
The bridge was built in 1926.

1 They stole my car when I was away on holiday.

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2 They were repairing the road when the accident happened.
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3 I didn’t receive the invitation because they had sent it to the wrong address.
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4 They had sold all the tickets by the time we got to the stadium.
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5 They interviewed the musician immediately after the concert.
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6 They sold the painting to an art gallery in New York.
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II. PRONUNCIATION. Put the verbs from the box into the correct column according to the pronunciation of -ed.

opened wanted cooked washed invited lived

worked started listened decided danced

/t/ /d/ /Id/

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III. READ THE TEXT. MARK THE STATEMENTS TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F).

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is possibly the world’s most famous detective story writer. She
wrote 79 novels and several plays. Her sales outnumber those of William Shakespeare. However,
behind her 4,680,000 words was a painfully shy woman whose life was often lonely and unhappy.
She was born in 1890 in Devon, the third child of Clarissa and Frederick Miller, and grew into a
beautiful and sensitive girl with waist-length golden hair. She didn’t go to school but was
educated at home by her mother. Her father died when she was 11 and both she and her mother
were grief-stricken.
During World War 1, while she was working in a hospital dispensary, she learned about chemicals
and poisons, which proved to be very useful to her in her later career. She wrote her first
detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920. In it she introduced Hercule Poirot, the
Belgian detective who appeared in many subsequent novels. Her other main detective was an
elderly spinster called Miss Marple.

1 Agatha Christie wrote a total of 4,680,000 words in 79 novels and several plays. ____

2 Agatha Christie’s writing sells better than William Shakespeare’s. ____

3 Agatha Christie was unhappy because she was often in pain. ____
4 Agatha Christie didn’t have any brothers or sisters. ____
5 Agatha Christie had long, blonde hair. ____
6 Agatha Christie was taught by her mother at home. ____

IV. TRANSLATE THESE SENTENCES INTO SPANISH.

1 When I was a teenager, I wrote poems.

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2 She was playing the piano while he was painting a picture.

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3 They were listening to the orchestra when the pianist became ill.
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4 My sister bought me a novel but I had already read it.

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5 The last chapter of the book was written by a different author.

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