Grade 10
2014 – 2015
I Choose the correct form of the verb
1.
I am very sorry you are feeling/feel that we have not been dealing with your complaint
properly.
2. I assure you that I have definitely not avoided/been avoiding you since then.
3. Your assistant said that you have/had already left the office.
4. Before I started my current job as a company training manager, I would/used to be a teacher.
5. We would/were going to have a barbecue on Saturday, but I think I'll have to cancel it.
6.
Actually, I ‘m helping/’ll help my husband with the decorating tomorrow.
7. So this time next week, Carole and I will be celebrating/are going to celebrate twenty-five years
of marriage!
8. As soon as we ‘ll finish/finish dinner, the waiters are to bring in a cake and sing 'Happy
Anniversary to You'.
9. Next Tuesday my father is going to/will be 45.
10. I’m sure we will take/will be taking lots of photos.
11. No, the train does stop/is stopping at Cirenster on Saturdays.
II Choose the right word
1. Here’s a/the/- DVD you asked to borrow.
2. There’s a/the/- good chance we’ll be late for the meeting.
3. It helps to have few/a few close friends who you can trust.
4. There’s a little/a few sugar left.
5. If you did/’d done your homework last night you‘d know the answer to this question!
6. We wouldn’t be standing by the side of the road now trying to get a lift if we brought/would
bring/had brought a spare tyre with us.
7. If Cody hadn’t lived/didn’t live so far away, he wouldn’t have been so late to the barbecue
yesterday.
8. John is as/so/more tall that he can see over the wall.
9. When you received a delivery of fifty boxes of photocopier paper instead of the fifteen you
actually ordered, this may have been/must have been/should have been extremely annoying.
10. I was only able to/could/can/couldn’t finish the race in 5 hours 47 minutes.
11. I’m glad I remembered to do/doing my homework.
12. Jamie Oliver is being/is thought to be a great chef!
13. It is/was/has estimated that his restaurant was worth over $10 million.
14. Everyone expected his business falling/to fall within the first few months.
15. I refuse accepting/to accept that there’s no alternative.
III Read the text and choose the correct answer to questions.
1.
When Vanessa thinks “Typical Helen!” she implies that
1) she feels sorry for Helen.
2) Helena is often late.
3) Helena will be in a hurry
4) they will be late for work.
2. Vanessa mentions Helen emptying her ashtray to show
1) how much Helen’s views on the environment have changed.
2) how their arrangement makes a big difference to pollution.
3) that she thinks their arrangement is a bad idea.
4) that she doubts that Helena really cares about the environment.
3. Vanessa waits before leaving the house to join Helen
1) to show that she won’t allow Helen to hurry her.
2) to check that she has everything she needs.
3) because she knows they have plenty of time.
4) because she has to check that the door is locked.
4. Vanessa thinks that Carl
1) is jealous of Helen’s success
2) wants Helen to do his job for him
3) is very good at his job
4) gives everyone too much work to do.
5. In the final paragraph, Helena realises that
1) she and Vanessa will be late for work
2) she is lucky to be alive
3) the boy is badly injured
4) she has made her situation worse.