INGLÉS IV 1407 GU4 P2 1/6

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1 INGLÉS IV 1407 I.Fill in the correct form of the words in brackets (comparative or superlative). 1. My house is (big) than yours. 2. This flower is (beautiful) than that one. 3. This is the (interesting) book I have ever read. 4. Non-smokers usually live (long) than smokers. 5. Which is the (dangerous) animal in the world? 6. A holiday by the sea is (good) than a holiday in the mountains. 7. It is strange but often a coke is (expensive) than a beer. 8. Who is the (rich) woman on earth? 9. The weather this summer is even (bad) than last summer. 10. He was the (clever) thief of all. II. Choose the correct time expression 1.Do not forget to phone John... 'I have phoned him'. (yet, already, ever) 2. Have you seen him anywhere? 'I have seen him in the kitchen'. (just, already, never) 3. I have been to Japan... What about you? (yet, never, ever) 4. Has Ann just phoned? 'Yes, she has phoned'. (ever, yet, just) 5.Why don't you read that paper? 'I have read it'. (yet, already, just) 6. Has it stopped snowing? 'No, it hasn't stopped snowing. (just, yet, already) 7. Have you travelled to space? 'Of course not' (never, already, ever) 8. Poor lady...she has had a boyfriend in her life! (ever, never, yet) 9. I haven't told my parents about my failure. (ever, just, yet) 10.Would you like a sandwich? 'No, thanks. I have had lunch.' (just, yet, ever) GU4 P2 1/6

2 III. Present Perfect Simple and Continuous For each sentence, choose the best form, either Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous. 1. I've been cleaning/cleaned this room all morning and now I'm exhausted! 2. Hurry up Jane! You've only finished/been finishing two questions and we have to write the answers to five. 3. Tony has lived/been living with his uncle recently while he looks for a new apartment. 4. I've been learning/learnt English for over twelve years now. 5. That's a really nice watch you have Greg. How long have you had it/been having it? 6. My local hockey team are an embarrassment to everyone. The season finishes in two weeks and they haven't won/haven't been winning a single game!! 7. Ouch! I've cut/been cutting my finger with that terrible knife again! 8. Sorry to arrive looking so untidy. I've been running/run as I missed the bus. 9. You know your dinner is in half an hour. How many of those chocolates have you eaten/been eating? 10. I've been finishing/finished writing my first novel at last. It should be published in the summer. 11. John has been phoning/phoned all morning. He really must need to speak to you! 12. I've visited/been visiting Russia every year since I was six. It's such a beautiful country. GU4 P2 2/6

3 PRESENT SIMPLE IV. Correct mistakes. (There are two correct) 1. David never take the bus to work. 2. Go you to the Office everyday? 3. My car don t work when it s cold. 4. What time the film starts? 5. Ben s sister don t speak French but Ben do. 6. How many eggs you want for breakfast? 7. Does the 9.30 train stop at every station? 8. What does do your father? 9. I not write many letters. I usually have for lunch? 10. How much do these apples cost? 11. Charlie plays basketball but he doesn t enjoys it. PAST SIMPLE V. Complete the following sentences. 1. Where? (she / go) 2. How many days? (he /wait) 3. I very hard (work) 4. They about the problem (not think) 5. She with her family (not go) 6. my new car? (you / see) 7. with you? (they / study) 8. What? (you / say) 9. They cars (rent) 10. He all his friends (invite) 11. We the letter (write) GU4 P2 3/6

4 VI. ARTICLES (A, AN, THE OR NO ARTICLE) Choose the correct article 1. Denver is located at the foot of Rocky Mountains. 2. Toronto is located on Lake Ontario. 3. San Diego is located near Mexican border. 4. Let s go to Mexico. 5. Nile is the longest river in the world. a) A b) The c) no article 6. Sahara is the world s biggest desert. a) A b) The c) no article 7. I spoke with Chinese film director that I told you about. 8. Do you speak Chinese? 9. I need bottle of water. 10. Spain is one of largest European countries. VII. VOCABULARY (NEGATIVE PREFIXES) (UN, IN, IM, MIS,IL, DIS, IR) Happy patient polite legal Correct regular visible possible Legible friendly employed honest Pack lock agree like VIII. ADJECTIVES OF FEELING ( -ED, -ING) Underline the correct form of the adjective in these opinions. a) I ve just read a very amusing amused book b) The basketball game was very excited exciting because both teams played well. c) I couldn t find the way to your house because your map was very confused confusing. d) I was amazed amazing that your daughter did so well in her exam. e) Please go away. You are very annoyed annoying. f) I was shocked shocking when I saw the bill! It was 54.25! g) Are you interested interesting in politics? h) I was very embarrassed embarrassing because I didn t understand Spanish. i) Everybody was amused amusing by her imitations of her teachers. j) The walk to the top of the hill was exhausted exhausting. GU4 P2 4/6

5 Correct mistakes a) I didn t enjoy the party. It was very bored. b) The ghost story was very frightening. c) I was shocking by what she told me. d) The children were over-excited and noisy. e) Your holiday in South America sounds very exciting. f) I was embarrassing when they asked me to sing. g) It was very depressing to hear about your problems. h) I thought the story was very confusing. i) I was very tiring so I went to bed. IX. READING. Multiple choice You are going to read a magazine article about people who collect things. For questions 1 to 15, choose from the people (A D). The people may be chosen more than once. A. Ron Barton shares his home with about 200 sewing machines. His passion began when he was searching for bits of second-hand furniture and kept seeing beautiful old sewing machines that were next to nothing to buy. He couldn t resist them. Then a friend had a machine that wouldn t work, so she asked Barton to look at it for her. At that stage he was not an authority on the subject, but he worked on it for three days and eventually got it going. Later he opened up a small stand in a London market. Most people seemed uninterested. Then a dealer came and bought everything I d taken along. I thought, Great! This is my future life. But after that I never sold another one there and ended up with a stall in another market which was only moderately successful. Nowadays, he concentrates on domestic machines in their original box containers with their handbooks. He is often asked if he does any sewing with them. The answer is that, apart from making sure that they work, he rarely touches them. B. As a boy, Chris Peters collected hundreds of vintage cameras, mostly from jumble sales and dustbins. Later, when the time came to buy his first house, he had to sell his valuable collection in order to put down a deposit. A few years after, he took up the interest again and now has over a thousand cameras, the earliest dating from Now Peters just cannot stop collecting and hopes to open his own photographic museum where members of the public will be able to touch and fiddle around with the cameras. Whilst acknowledging that the Royal Camera Collection in Bath is probably more extensive than his own, he points out that so few of the items are on show there at the same time that I think my own personal collection will easily rival it. C. Sylvia King is one of the foremost authorities on plastics in Britain. She has, in every corner of her house, a striking collection of plastic objects of every kind, dating from the middle of the last century and illustrating the complex uses of plastic over the years. King s interest started when she was commissioned to write her first book. In order to do this, she had to start from scratch; so she attended a course on work machinery, maintaining that if she didn t understand plastics manufacture then nobody else would. As she gathered information for her book, she also began to collect pieces of plastic from every imaginable source: junk shops, arcades, and the cupboards of friends. She also collects because it is vital to keep examples. We live in an age of throw-away items: tape recorders, cassettes, hair dryers they are all replaced so quickly. King s second book, Classic Plastics: from Bakelite to High Tech, is the first published guide to plastics collecting. It describes collections that can be visited and gives simple and safe home tests for identification. King admits that plastic is a mysterious substance and many people are frightened of it. Even so, the band of collectors is constantly expanding. GU4 P2 5/6

6 D. Janet Pontin already had twenty years of collecting one thing or another behind her when she started collecting art deco fans in It happened when she went to an auction sale and saw a shoe-box filled with them. Someone else got them by offering a higher price and she was very cross. Later, to her astonishment, he went round to her flat and presented them to her. That was how it all started. There were about five fans in the shoe-box and since then they ve been exhibited in the first really big exhibition of art deco in America. The fans are not normally on show, however, but are kept behind glass. They are extremely fragile and people are tempted to handle them. The idea is to have, one day, a black-lacquered room where they can be more easily seen. Pontin doesn t restrict herself to fans of a particular period, but she will only buy a fan if it is in excellent condition. The same rule applies to everything in her house. 1.- had to re-start their collection? 2.- has provided useful advice on their subject? 3.- received an unexpected gift? 4.- admits to making little practical use of their collection? 5.- regrets the rapid disappearance of certain items? 6.- is aware that a fuller collection of items exists elsewhere? 7.- has a history of collecting different items? 8.- performed a favour for someone they knew? 9.- is a national expert on their subject? 10.- is aware that they form part of growing group? 11.- insists on purchasing top-quality items? 12.- noticed items while looking for something else? 13.- has to protect their collection from damage? 14.- would like to create a hands-on display of their collection? GU4 P2 6/6