1. Complete the sentences with the correct “the…the…+comparatives”. The ______ about it, the ________ you’ll feel. (worry, bad)
a) more you worry/worse
b) worrier/the worst
c) worrying/be worst
d) will worry/will be worst
2. Complete the sentences with the correct “the…the…+comparatives”. The _________ we leave, the __________ we’ll get there. (early, soon)
a) the most earliest/the soonest
b) so early/very soon
c) earlier/sooner
d) more earlier/more sooner
3. Complete the sentences with the correct “the…the…+comparatives”. The ____ you are, the _______ he’ll be. (late, angry)
a) later-angrier
b) the latest/the most angry
c) will be late/will be angry
d) was late/was angry
4. Complete the sentences with the correct “the…the…+comparatives”. The ________ my English, the _________ I’ll speak. (practice, good)
a) more I practice/better
b) the most I practice/the best
c) I practiced a lot/was better
d) I didn’t practice/wasn’t better
5. Choose the correct answer. They _______ each other for 10 years
a) have known
b) has known
c) had known
d) will have known
6. Choose the correct answer. I have______ the exercise but I haven’t________ the text yet.
a) already done / read
b) already did / was reading
c) already doing / reading
d) already will do / will read
7. Choose the correct answer. _____ you ever ______ you credit card?
a) have / lost
b) had / losing
c) has / lost
d) having / losing
8. Choose the correct answer. I _____ bought a new computer.
a) have / bought
b) has / buy
c) had / buying
d) having / buy
9. Choose the right variant. Nationality adjective of the country Spain is _______.
a) Spanish
b) Spanian
c) Spainer
d) Ispanian
10. Choose the right variant. Nationality adjective of the country Thailand is _______.
a) the Thai
b) Thailandi
c) Thailandian
d) Thaier
11. Choose the right variant. Nationality adjective of the country Kazakhstan _______.
a) Kazakh
b) Kazahstny
c) Kazakhstans
d) Kazaky
12. Put the adjectives in brackets in the right place.
a) a tall thin woman
b) woman tall a thin
c) a thin woman tall
d) a woman thin tall
13. Choose the right variant. I suggested_________a taxi so we wouldn’t be late.
a) calling
b) call
c) to call
d) have calling
14. Choose the right variant. They can’t afford_____ a new car.
a) to buy
b) buying
c) to buying
d) have buying
15.Choose the right variant. I’ll never forget ______ the Taj Mahal.
a) seeing
b) to see
c) see
d) to seeing
16. Choose the right variant. I remember _____to Venice as a child.
a) going
b) go
c) to go
d) to going
17. Choose the right variant: Yesterday James ______from school crying.
a) came
b) had came
c) had come
d) was coming
18. Choose the right variant: What ____you _____for on the Internet last night?
a) were searching
b) was searching
c) searched
d) had searched
19. Choose the right variant: Ten minutes after she ______the sleeping pills, she fell asleep.
a) took
b) have taken
c) had taken
d) taken
20) Choose the right variant: In the middle of the motorway my car _____of petrol.
a) had run out
b) have run out
c) was run out
d) run put
21.Choose the right variant. avalanche means…
a) a mass of snow, ice and rock that falls down the side of a mountain
b) windstorm
c) flood
d) cyclone
22.Choose the right variant. Why is nature beginning to ________ us?
a) turn on
b) turn round
c) split up
d) take after
23.Choose the right variant.
a) Who lives in this house?
b) Who live in this house?
c) Who does live in this house?
d) Who living in this house?
24.Choose the right variant. __________ organizations do you know that provide aid after disasters?
a) What
b) Whose
c) Why
d) What kind
25. Choose the right variant. We’re going to be ……. late
a) unfortunately
b) sadly
c) just
d) luckily
26. Choose the right variant. …the ambulance arrived.
a) immediately
b) often
c) obviously
d) badly
27.Choose the right variant. She always eats …
a) accidently
b) rarely
c) unfortunately
d) clever
28. Choose the right variant. We… had taken an umbrella.
a) luckily
b) healthily
c) apparently
d) nearly
29. If you help me
a) I will do this work
b) they well do this work
c) I have been doing this work
d) I will be doing this work
30. If I knew his address
a) I would write to him
b) I wrote to him
c) I will be written to him
d) I will wrote to him
31. If I had known his address
a) I would have written to him
b) I had written to him
c) I will write to him
d) I will be written
32. If they had gone for a walk, they …
a) would have turned the lights off
b) would turn
c) will turn
d) had turned
33. Choose the correct variant: The King Arthur of the legend is very well-known ______nobody knows the real Arthur.
a) whereas
b)bot
c) same
d) due to
34. Choose the correct variant: Every novel she writes is different _____ the last.
a) from
b) than
c) as
d) to
35. Choose the correct variant: I don't think he's going to get very far. He's totally _____.
a) unambitious
b) big
c) serious
d) interesting
36. Choose the correct variant: She is so conscientious.
a) She always does her best in everything.
b) She is so immature.
c) She behaves like a child.
d) She is lazy.
37. Choose the right variant. I ____ my car______ once a month.
a) have serviced
b) will have serviced
c) are services
d) having serviced
38. Choose the right variant. I think you should _____that coat_____.
a) have cleaned
b) has cleaned
c) have been cleaned
d) cleaned
39. Give synonym of the following word “stylish”
a) modern
b) out-of-date
c) comfortable
d) airy
40. Choose the right variant. We are ____the house _____at the moment.
a) having painted
b) having painted
c) have painted
d) had painted
41. Choose the correct variant: Ann … Tom not to go out after dark.
b) warned b) threatened c) said d) promised
42. Change the following into indirect speech: He said, “My mother has been operated on”.
a) He said that his mother has been operated on.
b) He said if his mother had be operated on.
c) He said then his mother had being operated on.
d) He said that his mother had been operated on.
43. Choose the correct variant: I said to my friends that I bought a nice car______.
a) those
b) the year before
c) last month
d) here
44.Choose the correct variant: The small boy said that he _____a French lesson this evening and he _____his homework yet.
a) have …hadn't done
b) has …hadn't done
c) had …hadn't done
d) would have …hadn't done
45. Choose the correct variant: Our baby Jack _____ now. He is just twelve months old.
a) is walking
b) walks
c) has walked
d) had walked
46. Choose the correct variant:
I’m not sure I’ll recognize Eve. I haven’t seen her for ages. – She _____ a dark blue pullover and jeans.
a) wears
b) will wear
c) will be wearing
d) is wearing
47. Choose the correct variant: When I_____to the house I_____an old lady. She_____on the bench.
a) come, saw, was knitting
b) came, seen, knitting
c) came, saw, was knitting
d) came, see, was knitting
48. Choose the correct variant: I … in a mansion in Beverly Hills this time next year.
a) ’ll be living
b) ’ll lived
c) ’ll have live
d) is going to live
49. Choose the right variant. The sky’s very dark. It_____there’s going to be a storm.
a) looks as if
b) looks like if
c) looks
d) looked
50. Choose the right answer. What lovely material! It_____silk.
a) feels like
b) feels
c) feels as if
d) felt
51.Choose the right variant. Are you OK? You … you’ve caught a cold.
a) sound as if
b) sound as you
c) sound
d) sounds
52.Choose the right variant. We’d better take out the rubbish. The room smells … terrible.
a) –
b) as if
c) like
d)‘d like
53. Choose the right variant. We … to be polite and friendly to other people.
a) are taught
b) have taught
c) may taught
d) be taught
54. Choose the right variant. The exhibition … to the audience tomorrow morning.
a) will be opened b) open
c) will open d) is opened
55. Choose the right variant. My best friend … me about his wedding.
a) informed b) has been informing c) was informed d) is being informed
56. Choose the right variant. The Pyramids … long before the European civilization appeared.
a) had been constructed
b) are constructed
c) have been constructed
d) will be constructed
57. Choose the right variant. Our company is a small organization with only a few … .
a) employees
b) employers
c) employments
d) employs
58. Choose the right variant. _______a person who works in the same company as you
a) colleague
b) customer
c) head
d) client
59. Choose the right variant. ______ working for the company for six months now, he never seems to know what to do. 
a) despite
b) even though
c) in order to
d) though
60. Choose the right variant.____ his lack of experience, he became a successful businessman.
a) in spite of
b) in order to
c) even though
d) although
61. Choose the right variant. This company has forty____
a) employees
b) employers
c) boss
d) students
62. Choose the verb.
a) advertise
b) advertisement
c) advert
d) advertiser
63. Choose the right variant. _____ is a design or symbol which companies use to identify their product
a) logo
b) advertisement
c) advert
d) slogan
64. Choose the word which doesn’t concern to advertisement
a) student
b) cold-calling
c) pitch
d) junk emails
65. Choose the right variant. I don’t like stories… have unhappy endings.
a) that
b) they
c) which
d) who
66. Choose the right variant. What is the name of the man….?
a) whose car you borrowed
b) which car you borrowed
c) you borrowed his car
d) his car you borrowed
67. Choose the right variant. Colin told me about his new job, …very much
a) that he’s enjoying
b) which he’s enjoying
c) he’s enjoying
d) he’s enjoying it
68. Choose the right variant. I didn’t believe them at first but in fact everything …was true
a) they said
b) that they said
c) what they said
d) that said
69. Choose the right variant. I saw her… into the building.
a) come
b) coming
c) came
d) to come
70. Choose the right variant. I believed you… three mobile phones.
a) to have
b) haven’t been
c) having
d) have
71. Choose the right variant. He made me… the window.
a) close
b) to close
c) closing
d) have close
72. Choose the right variant. I felt someone… me on the shoulder.
a) touch
b) touching
c) to touch
d) to be touch
73. Choose the right variant. Why don't you buy her a book ____________ ?
a) token
b) card
c) voucher
d) bulletin
74. Choose the right variant. The estate ____________ in the High Street is selling my house.
a) agent
b) dealer
c) merchant
d) shop
75. Choose the right variant. The association has issued a news ____________ .
a) bulletin
b) announcement
c) statement
d) brief
76. Choose the right variant. I must fit a burglar ____________ to my house.
a) alarm
b) warning
c) stop
d) bell
77. Choose the right variant.
He doesn't like ________________ one of those bands.
a) either
b) neither
c) nor
d) either nor
78. Choose the right variant.
I hate that song, and my sister hates it ________________ .
a) neither
b) too
c) either
d) or
79. Choose the right variant.
Neither my brother ________________ my mother knows about this.
a) nor
b) neither
c) or
d) too
80. Choose the right variant.
He didn't come to the party, and his brother didn't come ________________.
a) neither
b) nor
c) either
d) so
81. I was ___ tired ___ I went to bed at 7 o’clock.
a) so…so
b) such… as
c) as…as
d) so….that
82. It was ___ a good book ___I couldn’t put it down.
a) as… such
b) such …that
c) such … ___
d) as…such
83. He speaks ___ quickly ___ I couldn`t catch him.
a) so …that
b) so… as
c) such .. as
d) such .. that
84. The end of this story is ___ long ___ you can't finish it.
a) as…as
b) So…so
c) so… that
d) such …such
85. Choose the right variant. …. Einstein speak English when he went to the USA?
a) could
b) must
c) should
d) ought
86. Choose the right variant. Mary …. swim when she was three.
a) could
b) should
c) may
d) ought to
87. Choose the right variant. …. you help me with the washing up, please?
a) could
b) might
c) should
d) must
88. Choose the right variant. I ….to go to my relatives last week.
a) had
b) has
c) must
d) have
89. Choose the right variant. While I_______football I ________my leg.
a) was playing hurt
b) played hurted
c) played was hurting
d) play hurt
90. Choose the right variant. Until I ______ a doctor I ________ that I _______ my leg.
a) saw/ didn't realize/ had broken
b) had seen/ didn't realize/ broke
c) saw/ doesn't realize/ had broken
d) seen/ didn't realize/ had broken
91. Choose the right variant.The police _______ to the bank after a neighbour ________ to tell them what _________.
a) went/ phoned/ was happening
b) went/ phoned/happened
c) went/was phoning/happening
d) had gone/ was phoning/happening
92. Choose the right variant. Suddenly they _________a strange noise and ________at each other in terror.
a) heard/ looked
b) were hearing/were looking
c) were hearing/looked
d) had heard/looked
93. Choose the correct variant. Say goodbye to Ann. By the time you return, she ____________ for New York.
A a)will leave
b)will have left
c)will be leaving
d)will have been leaving
94. Choose the correct variant. I __________at 11:30 tomorrow.
a) will be working
b) will work
c) will have worked
d) will have been working
95. Choose the correct variant. I'm sure that he _____________ you.
a) will have helped
b) will have been helping
c) will be helping
d) will help
96. Choose the correct variant. I think that we ______to Italy next summer.
a) will be going
b) will have gone
c) will go
d) will have been going
97. Choose the correct variant: I'd prefer _____ rather than walk home.
a) eat at home
b) to get a taxi
c) go alone
d) go for a swim
98. Choose the correct variant: I'd rather _____ my own business than work for somebody else.
a) start
b) to tart
c) starting
d) started
99. Choose the correct variant: ____ you prefer tea or coffee? Coffee, please.
a) would
b) do
c) will
d) have
100. Find the meaning of the highlighted word: You know, they have free guided tours of the area-a nice way to get an introduction to a place. Then you can stay and do some browsing on your own afterwards.
a) confined, looked up
b) looking around without a specific purpose, for enjoyment
c) haphazard, careless
d) to go across of land instead of going around the edge of it
101. Choose the correct variant: Match the compound adjectives: Thick
a) humoured
b) famous
c) skinned
d) made
102. Choose the correct variant: She lived in _____ house.
a) kind-hearted
b) open-minded
c) an old-fashioned
d) short-sighted
102. Choose the correct variant: When Brian got his promotion, he bought a _____car.
a) well-mannered
b) short sighted
c) deeply-rooted
d) brand-new
104. Choose the correct variant: Match the definition of the compound adjective: relaxed and casual in style or manner.
a) absent-minded
b) cold-blooded
c) well-known
d) easy-going
105. Choose the right variant: It … that a trained eagle is worth twelve horses (say).
a) is said
b) is saying
c) were said
d) are said
106. Choose the right variant: People say that one elephant is killed every minute of the day.
a) It is said ….
b) It was said…
c) It were said …
d) Its is says …
107. Choose the right variant: A lot of people nowadays consider fox-hunting to be very cruel.
a) Fox –hunting nowadays is considered…
b) Fox –hunting nowadays is believed…
c) Fox –hunting nowadays is said …
d) Fox –hunting nowadays is consider …
108. Choose the correct variant: The drill sergeant … the orders.
a) barked off
b) barked out
c) barked up
d) barked down
109. Choose the right variant. Well, I guess we should ________and start dancing.
a) spend money like water
b) breaktheice
c) fall in love with
d) sleep like a dog
110. Choose the right definition of the idiom
be at a loss for words
a) to fit very well
b) to be on friendly terms
c) to wish for good luck
d) to be so surprised that one does not know what to say
111.Choose the right variant. If I had locked up my bike, it … have been stolen.
a) can't
b) wouldn't
c) would
d) can
112.Choose the right variant. I ….you if I had known your number.
a) would call
b) will call
c) can call
d) would have called
113. Choose the right meaning of the following idiom “a cold fish”
a) supporting smb. friend
b) a great sense of humor
c) unfriendly
d) healthy
114. Choose the right meaning of the following idiom “have a hart of gold”
a) very kind
b) behave like a child
c) get angry very easily
d) very large
115. Choose the right meaning of the following idiom “as hard as nails”
a) act without thinking
b) shows no sympathy or fear
c) great sense of humor
d) talkative
116. Choose the right meaning of the following idiom “pain in the neck”
a) annoying, difficult
b) distant, unfriendly
c) supporting his friend
d) behave like an old man
117. Choose the right word to complete the proverbs “A … in the hand is worth two in the bush”
a) bird
b) bag
c) friend
d) baby
118. Choose the right meaning of the following proverb “A … in need is a friend indeed”
a) friend
b) mother
c) father
d) people
119. Choose the right meaning of the following proverb “Better be born … than rich”
a) happy
b) lucky
c) poor
d) poverty
120. Choose the right meaning of the following proverb “East or West — home is ….”
a) best
b) worth
c) good
d) better
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