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1. Choose the correct answer.
Every time I .... a sandcastle, the waves came in
and washed it away.
A) finish B) finished C) am finishing
D) have finished
2.Choose the correct answer.
I ... the garden but I can’t find the spade.
A) am digging B) was going to dig C) dug
D) has dug
3. Choose the correct answer.
When he needed extra money, he . . . work
overtime.
A) would B) should C) must D) can
4. Choose the correct answer.
A vacancy for an office manager ... in the
newspaper last week.
A) advertised B) was advertised
C) advertise D) had been advertised
5. Choose the correct answer.
It takes a long time to write a novel even if you ...
hard. And then you have to get it ....
A) will work / publish B) work / published
C) worked / publish D) work / to publish
6. Choose the correct answer.
A: I wish I ... your gift for languages.
B: I ... it a gift. Where there's a will, there's a way,
you know.
A) have/shan't call B) would have/won't call
C) shall have/don't call D) had/shouldn't call
7. Choose the correct answer.
A: It’s almost dinner time, and you haven't eaten
since breakfast. Aren't you hungry?
B: .... I'm dying of hunger. Let's go to eat.
A) Yes, I was. B) Yes, I am. C) No, I won't.
D) No, I wasn't.
8.Choose the correct answer.
She says, "I'll be grateful if you come" She says . . .
A) she will be grateful if I come
B) she will be grateful if you come
C) she would be grateful if I come
D) he would be grateful if I come
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9.Choose the correct answer.
They want their ... to become a surgeon. They
don't even think that she can be against it.
A) sixteen years old girl B) sixteen-years girl
C) sixteen-year-old girl D) a sixteen-year-aged girl
10. Choose the correct answer.
You can clean your windows with wet newspaper .
. . them really shine.
A) to make B) be making C) made D) to be made
11. Choose the correct answer.
Victor felt sleepy and tired. 'All I need is . . . cup of
coffee', he said to himself, 'with sugar'.
A) a B) an C) the D) -
12.Choose the right answer.
Annie felt tired when she was coming home from
the store because the bag of groceries . . . too heavy
for her to carry.
A) was B) were C) are D) is
13. Choose the correct answer.
Most women live longer than men. … have an
average life expectancy of 77 years.
A) They B) Them C) She D) He
14.Choose the correct answer.
The day care center was established to take care of
children . . . parents work during the day.
A) who B) which C) what D) whose
15.Choose the correct answer.
They covered . . . three miles and came to a point
where they couldn't see any vegetation: . . . was
covered with snow.
A) other / each B) another / everything
C) another / each D) other / everything
16. Choose the correct answer.
Your car is the same make . . . mine.
A) than B) as C) then D) from
17.Choose the correct answer.
The president ... Uzbekistan pays great attention
... the education of the youth.
A) in/of B) of/to C) to/to D) to/of
18. Choose the correct answer.
There was complete silence ... the sound of the
birds.
A) besides B) except for C) beside D) apart
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Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for
each question below (19-22).
Good things are commonly divided into three
classes: (1) external goods, (2) goods of the soul,
and (3) goods of the body. Of these, we call the
goods pertaining to the soul goods in the highest
and fullest sense. But in speaking of “soul,” we
refer to our soul’s actions and activities. Thus, our
definition [of good] tallies with this opinion
which has been current for a long time and to
which philosophers subscribe.
We are also right in defining the end as
consisting of actions and activities; for in this way
the end is included among the goods of the soul
and not among external goods.
Also the view that a happy man lives well and
fares well fits in with our definition: for we have
all but defined happiness as a kind of good life and
well-being.
Moreover, the characteristics which one looks
for in happiness are all included in our definition.
For some people think that happiness is a virtue,
others that it is practical wisdom, others that it is
some kind of theoretical wisdom; others again
believe it to be all or some of these accompanied
by, or not devoid of, pleasure; and some people
also include external prosperity in its definition.
19. According to the passage, the greatest goods
are those that
A) are theoretical
B) are spiritual
C) are intellectual
D) create happiness
20. The word tallies in line 7 means
A) keeps count
B) records
C) labels
D) corresponds
21. The author’s definition of happiness in lines
14–17 is related to the definition of good in that
A) living a good life will bring you happiness.
B) happiness is the same as goodness.
C) happiness is often sacrificed to attain the good.
D) all things that create happiness are good
things.
e. happiness is a virtue.
22. In lines 18-25, the author’s main purpose is to
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A) show that different people have different
definitions of happiness.
B) define virtue.
C) prove that his definition of happiness is valid.
D) explain the relationship between happiness
and goodness.
Read the text. Then choose the correct answer
for each question below (23-25)
The seemingly simple question of “what defines
a sport?” has been the fodder for argument and
conversation for years, among professional and
armchair athletes alike. There seems to be no
doubt that vigorous and highly competitive
activities such as baseball, football, and soccer are
truly “sports,” but when the subject of other
activities such as darts, chess, and shuffleboard is
broached we find ourselves at the heart of a
controversy.
If say, billiards, is not a sport, then what exactly
is it? Those who would dispute it to be a sport
would respond that it is a simple leisure activity.
They would go on to claim a true sport first and
foremost requires some form of physical exertion.
More to the point, if a player does not break a
sweat, what he or she plays is not a sport. Beyond
that, more important criteria would be the need
for decent hand-eye coordination, and the ever-
present possibility of sustaining injury. Billiards
only fits one of those specifications (hand-eye
coordination), so according to the doubters, it is
not a real sport.
To help resolve this dispute, the first text to
consult would have to be the dictionary.
According to one dictionary, a sport is defined as
“a diversion” or a “recreation.” Assuming one
strictly adheres to the simple guidelines laid out in
that definition, it would seem that almost any
activity that provides enjoyment could be
classified as a sport. And if, according to the
dictionary, watching a sport on television is a
sport itself, I guess that would make a couch
potato an athlete. Play ball!
23. The author’s tone in this passage could be
described as
A) serious
B) light-hearted
C) confrontational
D) dark
24. The word vigorous in line 5 most nearly
means
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A) languorous 27. The passage suggests that the author goes to

B) boring. school
C) intricate. A) in shabby clothing.
D) strenuous. B) in a taxi cab.
C) in warm sweaters and shorts.
25. According to the criteria given in lines 14-23, D) on a bicycle.
all of the following would be considered a “true”
sport EXCEPT 28. The word pass as used in line 23 means to
A) cheerleading. A) move ahead of.
B) skiing. B) go by without stopping.
C) race car driving. C) be approved or adopted.
D) horseshoes D) utter

Read the text. Then choose the correct answer 29. The author quotes his school masters saying
for each question below (26-30) Ye have no right to raise your hands to a better
We go to school through lanes and back streets class of people so ye don’t (lines 27–28) in order
so that we won’t meet the respectable boys who go to
to the Christian Brothers’ School or the rich ones A) demonstrate how strict his school masters
who go to the Jesuit school, Crescent College. The were.
Christian Brothers’ boys wear tweed jackets, B) contrast his school to the Christian Brothers’
warm woolen sweaters, shirts, ties, and shiny new School and Crescent College.
boots. We know they’re the ones who will get jobs C) show how his teachers reinforced class lines.
in the civil service and help the people who run the D) prove that the author was meant for greater
world. The Crescent College boys wear blazers and things.
school scarves tossed around their necks and over
their shoulders to show they’re cock o’ the walk. 30. The passage implies that
They have long hair which falls across their A) the author was determined to go to England.
foreheads and over their eyes so that they can toss B) the author was determined to be someone who
their quaffs like Englishmen. We know they’re the will run the world.
ones who will go to university, take over the family C) the author often got into fights.
business, run the government, run the world. D) one’s class determined one’s future
We’ll be the messenger boys on bicycles who
deliver their groceries or we’ll go to England to
work on the building sites. Our sisters will mind
their children and scrub their floors unless they go
off to England, too. We know that. We’re
ashamed of the way we look and if boys from the
rich schools pass remarks we’ll get into a fight
and wind up with bloody noses or torn clothes.
Our masters will have no patience with us and our
fights because their sons go to the rich schools
and, Ye have no right to raise your hands to a
better class of people so ye don’t.

26. The “we” the author uses throughout the

passage refers to
A) his family.
B) the poor children in his neighborhood
C) the children who attend rich schools.
D) the author and his brother.

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