деловой английский / Test 6. Adverbs

PROGRESS TEST (ADVERBS)

1. Choose the correct adverb to complete the sentences below.

1. This year the river is flowing wide / widely.

2. Professor Peyton is wide / widely known in scientific circles.

3. The wind is blowing hard / hardly now.

4. The wind is hardly / hard blowing today.

5. Why did you come so late / lately?

6. What have you been doing late / lately?

7. The birds are flying high / highly.

8. He is always high / highly spoken about.

9. I live close / closely to my school.

10. Why are you looking at me so close / closely?

11. The oil deposit is deep / deeply touched by his words.

12. The library is near / nearly the cathedral.

13. It’s near / nearly midnight. It’s time to go to bed.

2. Use the adverbs given in brackets in the comparative or superlative form.

1. Who can do it ____________ (fast) than you?

2. Hanry works on his English _________ (hard) of all.

3. Could you come a little bit __________ (early) tomorrow?

4. The sun is shining ____________ (brightly) today than yesterday.

5. I would be glad if you spoke _____________ (loudly).

6. Which of you lives __________ (far) from the office?

7. She did the translation __________ (well) of all.

8. I don’t understand you, speak ____________ (distinctly).

9. Claudia studies at the library __________ (often) of all

10. I know where to buy this laptop _____________ (cheaply).

3. Choose the correct word to complete the sentences below.

1. I like people who always look happy/happily.

2. The mother looked happy/happily at her newborn son.

3. The radiator feels warm/warmly.

4. The doctor was feeling the patient’s injured leg cautious/cautiously.

5. The dog smells the food suspicious/suspiciously.

6. I refuse to eat this meat, it smells suspicious/suspiciously.

7. Your remarks sound rude/rudely/

8. What are you listening to so careful/carefully?

9 .The cake tastes delicious/deliciously.

10. The kid tasted the porridge unwilling/unwillingly.

4. Choose the correct answer.

1. All the buses are ______ today. I wonder why.

1. late

2. lately

3. the latest

4. late

2. Sam ______ had any time to eat anything before they called him.

1. the hardest

2. hardly

3. harder

4. hard

3. Top footballers are usually ______ trained.

1. high

2. higher

3. the highest

4. highly

4. He drives ________ that’s why he had an accident yesterday.

1. carefully

2. carelessly

3. care

4. careless

5. I _______ fainted when I saw a snake on the floor.

1. nearer

2. near

3. nearly

4. the nearest

6. Andy was ________ upset when Sarah met him.

1. terribly

2. terror

3. more terribly

4. terrible

7. _________ we were at home when the accident happened.

1. Lucky

2. Luck

3. Luckier

4. Luckily

8. It was a _______ climb but the alpinists made it.

1. hardly

2. hard

3. the hardest

4. harder

9. Sheila walked _______ into the room.

1. more silently

2. silence

3. silencer

4. silently

10. The newspapers are delivered ________ at 9a.m.

1. hour

2. daily

3. date

4. day