II. Choose the right article.

1. She was . . . most beautiful girl I had ever seen.

2.1 like ... coffee for ... breakfast.

3.... mistake I made in my dictation was very silly.

4. That's ... good idea. Let's arrange it like that.

5. It was ... fine day, early in June, and ... air was bright.

6. She thinks she will stay in ... bed.

7.... town of Windsor is ... typical English town.

///. Circle the suitable preposition.

1. The film started (in, at, on) seven and ended (in, at, on) nine.

2. Sorry, I haven't written (to, for) you (for, since, over) such a longtime.

3. The police are looking (after, at, for) the boy who disappeared from his home last week.

4. A football team consists (from, of, for) eleven players.

5. Some words are difficult to translate (for, to, from) one language (for, from, into) another.

IV. Circle the suitable pronoun.

1. My father didn't read (much, many) books on economics.

2. She was glad to see me because I was English and she knew (little, few, a little) English people.

3. (Their, theirs) car is faster than (our, ours).

4.1 haven't (much, many) time for watching TV.

5. What book shall I bring? - (Some, something, any) you like.

6. Has (somebody, anybody) seen Bob today?

7. The accident looked serious but fortunately (somebody, anybody, nobody) was injured.

V. Circle the appropriate word.

It is a dark night. A young man (is going, goes) home from the railway station. (It, there) is very late and (it, there) isn't (somebody, nobody, anybody) in the street. The young man (walks, is walking) as fast as he can, when suddenly he (is seeing, sees) that (somebody, nobody, anybody) is following him. (At last, at least) the young man turns round and says, "What do you want?" "I (go, am going) up to Mr. Brown's", (tells, says) the man, "and the porter at the station told me to follow you as Mr. Brown lives next door to you".

Test 21

/. Use the correct tense-forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. The new production of our local theatre (to criticize) in one of the newspapers last week.

2. Will you ask him if he (to take part) in the excursion?

3. If you (to promise) not to be late, I shall let you go for a walk.

4. He wants to know if the performance (to end).

5. You (to read) today's issue of "The Times?" -Not yet, I am afraid. I'd like to take a look at it.

6. Let's go and see "Cabaret" at our local cinema. - It's an old film, isn't it? - Yes, it (to have) a long run, but it still (to draw) a full house.

7. What you (think) about now?

//. Choose the right article.

1. New York,... largest city in ... USA, is ... city of great contrasts. 2.... Statue of Liberty, standing on ... island in the harbour, greets

everyone who comes to New York by ... sea. 3. Every year ... great number of big ships from all over... world come

up to ... docks of New York. 4.... Children lost their way in ... forest and did not know whether to go

on or to turn back.

III. Circle the suitable preposition.

1. New agricultural machines will go (to, in, into, overproduction nextyear.

2. Is was a rainy day (on, in, at) November, 1891.

3. An instructor (of, in, at) Springfield college (of, in, at) Massachusetts climbed (on, up, at) a ladder and nailed a fruit basket (on, up, at, to) the wall of the gymnasium.

4. The bird flew (in, through, at) the open window.