DIAGNOSTIC TEST

NAME:

Look at these examples. The correct answers are underlined.

a) In warm climates people like / likes / are liking sitting outside in the sun.
b) If it is very hot, they sit at / in / under the shade.

Now the test will begin. Underline the correct answer. (For each correct answer 1 point)

1) Water is to boil / is boiling / boils at a temperature of 100°C. 1

2) In some countries there is / is / it is very hot all the time. 2

3) In cold countries people wear thick clothes for keeping / to keep / for to keep warm. 3

4) In England people are always talking about a weather / the weather / weather. 4

5) In some places it rains / there rains / it raining almost every day. 5

6) In deserts there isn´t the / some / any grass. 6

7) Places near the Equator have a warm / the warm / warm weather even in the cold season. 7

8) In England coldest / the coldest / colder time of year is usually from December to February. 8

9) The most / Most of / Most people don´t know what it´s like in other countries. 9

10) Very less / little / few people can travel abroad. 10

11) Mohammed Ali has won / won / is winning his first world title fight in 1960. 11

12) After he had won / have won / was winning an Olympic gold medal he became a professional boxer. 12

13) His religious beliefs have made him / made him to / made him change his name when he became
champion. 13

14) If he has / would have / had lost his first fight with Sonny Liston, no one would have been surprised. 14

15) He has travelled a lot both / and / or as a boxer and as a world-famous personality. 15

16) He is very well known all in / all over / in all the world. 16

17) Many people is believing / are believing / believe he was the greatest boxer of all time. 17

18) To be the best from / in / of the world is not easy. 18

19) Like any top sportsman Ali had to / must / should train very hard. 19

20) Even tough he has now lost his title, people would / will / did always remember him as a champion. 20

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21) The history of aeroplane / the aeroplane / an aeroplane is 21

22) quite a / a quite / quite short one. For many centuries men 22

23) are trying / try / had tried to fly, but with 23

25) succeeded to fly / in flying / into flying in balloons. But it wasn´t until 25

26) the beginning of this / next / that century that anybody 26

27) were / is / was able to fly in a machine 27

28) who / which / what was heavier than air, in other words, in 28

29) who / which / what we now call a „plane‟. The first people to achieve 29

30) „powered flight‟ were the Wright brothers. His / Their / Theirs was the machine which was the 30

31) forerunner of the Jumbo jets and supersonic airliners that are such / such a / so common 31

32) sight today. They could / should / couldn´t hardly have imagined that in 1969 32

33) not much / not many / no much more than half a century later, 33

34) a man will be / had been / would be landed on the moon. 34

35) Already a man / man / the man is taking the first steps towards the stars. 35

36) Although space satellites have existed since / during / for less 36

37) than forty years, we are now dependent from / of / on them for all 37

38) kinds of informations / information / an information. Not only 38

39) are they / they are / there are being used for scientific research in 39

40) space, but also to see what kind of weather is coming / comes / coming. 40

41) By 1998 there would / must / will have been satellites in space for forty 41

42) years and the „space superpowers‟ are planning to have / make / let 42

43) massive space stations built. When these will be / are / will have been 43

44) completed it will be the first time when / where / that astronauts will be 44

45) able to work in space in large numbers. Apart / For / Except all that, 45

46) in many ways the most remarkable flight of / above / at all was 46

47) it / that / that one of the flying bicycle, which the world saw on television, 47

48) flying / to fly / fly across the Channel from England to France, with nothing 48

49) apart / but / than a man to power it. As the bicycle-flyer said, 49

50) “It´s the first time I realize / I´ve realized / I am realizing what hard work it is to be a bird!” 50

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