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Advanced Language Practice: Grammar Progress Test 1a (Units 1-4)

This document contains a grammar progress test with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about parts of speech, tenses, and grammar concepts covered in units 1-4 of an advanced English language course. The test includes sections on underlining correct words, completing sentences, rewriting sentences to contain a bolded word, identifying extra words in passages, and filling gaps in a text about mature students.

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Advanced Language Practice: Grammar Progress Test 1a (Units 1-4)

This document contains a grammar progress test with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about parts of speech, tenses, and grammar concepts covered in units 1-4 of an advanced English language course. The test includes sections on underlining correct words, completing sentences, rewriting sentences to contain a bolded word, identifying extra words in passages, and filling gaps in a text about mature students.

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Name: ____Molchanova Daria______________ Date: ______07.02.

2022_______

Advanced Language Practice


Grammar Progress Test 1a (Units 1–4)

1 Underline the correct word or phrase in each sentence.

0 Whether this new pay deal will satisfy the unions remains/will remain/is
remaining to be seen.
1 According to the Publications Department, it will be two years before the new
Handbook completes/is completed/will be completed.
2 The President’s plane touched down in Mexico City on Wednesday, two days
after he would have arrived/had been to arrive/was due to arrive.
3 By the end of this month, I’ll be/be being/have been a member of this club for
ten years.
4 Helena’s not really a party animal, so I doubt whether she comes/’ll come/’ll
have come.
5 I was wondering if you wanted/had wanted/would want to go running with me.
6 I didn’t realise I’d left my file at home until the meeting will start/has
started/started.
7 I was going to ask her for a date, but I don’t/didn’t/couldn’t bring myself to do
it.
8 The noise stopped as soon as the Head Teacher walks/walked/was walking into
the room.
9 I’ve been getting stabbing pains in my back so far/for a while now/up to now.
10 How long did you say you take/are taking/have been taking these pills?

2 Complete each sentence with an appropriate word.

0 I have never seen such a mess in all my born days!


1 I have had my doubts about this place ever ___since_________ I got here.
2 So where exactly were you at the ____time________ of the robbery?
3 It’s ______ages______ since I last saw my cousin.
4 Our books still haven’t arrived; for the time ______being______ we’ll have to
use photocopies.
5 Sue _____was_______ to have played in goal, but she hurt her leg and had to
miss the big match.
6 Doing this course is going to __mean__________ you really have to knuckle
down and change your ways.

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7 Every ___so_________ often we have a barbecue in our garden.
8 I’m ____finding________ it really difficult to keep up on my computer course.
9 Do I like pop music? It ______depends______ on what you regard as ‘pop’.
10 Simon Webster! Does this crisp packet ____belong________ to you, by any
chance?

3 Rewrite each sentence so that it contains the word in bold, and so that the
meaning stays the same.

0 In my country all adults are obliged to vote.


obligatory
In my country voting is obligatory for all adults.
1 Whose shoe is this?
belong
Who does this shoe belong to?
2 I’ve been too ill to do any work since Monday.
day
Monday was the last day I was well enough to work.
3 After a good sleep Tim started to feel better.
once
Tim started to feel better once he’d had a good sleep.
4 We haven’t eaten out for ages.
last
It’s been ages since we last ate out.
5 I’ve never lived in any other house.
all
I’ve lived in that house all my life.
6 He used to spend the whole of Saturday morning washing his car.
would
Every Saturday he would spend the whole morning washing his car.
7 My new working hours enable me to be with my children for longer in the
evening.
mean
My new working hours mean that I can spend more time with my children in the
evening.
8 Until then I’d never seen Richard get angry.
first
That is the first time I’ve ever seen Richard get angry.
9 Luca was my first experience of true love.
never
Until I met Luca I had never been truly in love.

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10 Try the new system a few times and you’ll become familiar with it.
used
You’ll get used to the new system when you’ve tried it a few times.

4 In most lines of this text there is one extra word. Write the extra word, or
put a tick if the line is correct.

Labyrinths and Mazes


Walking labyrinths and mazes is right back in fashion; but their rich history, which dates 0       
back since 4,000 years is not often realised. A labyrinth is an ancient mystical pattern, 00  since
containing a meandering path to the centre, which it symbolises the journey through life. 1 it
The first labyrinths were being for ritual walking and processions. They became an 2 being
important feature of the Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations, but they are also found in 3
northern Europe: in Sweden many are said to would have been built by fishermen, who 4 would
walked through them in the hope of a good catch and a safe return. Though making secular 5 making
in origin, labyrinths were adopted by various religions; in Christianity, for example, the 6
tradition of walking the labyrinth in a church came up to represent the route to salvation. 7 up

Mazes are a much later invention, probably no more than for 500 years old. Initially the 8 for
preserve of kings and princes, they spread to public parks and gardens. They do consist 9 do
of tall hedges which act as walls. The hedges are arranged in intricate geometrical 10 
patterns that present a circuitous path to the centre, including many paths which are 11 
dead-ends designed to be confuse and puzzle the walker. The challenge lies in getting 12 be
to the centre and back out again. But mazes now go to much deeper than just puzzles 13 to
for walkers. A whole science has been grown up around them, applying the complicated 14 been
theory of how to solve them or to computer design and even to the world of business. 15 or

5 Complete the article by writing one word in each gap.

Mature Students
The British government recently made £20 million available to mature students,
(0) that is students who have already begun their working life, and (1)
_____did_______ not take the normal route of university immediately after school.
The mature students’ ‘gap’ (2) ____between________ leaving school and
matriculating into university can be
(3) _____anything_______ from three to 50 years – time spent working, having
children, travelling (4) ______or______ whatever. Among (5) ____these________
are those whose teenage rebellions took them too (6) ____far________ away from a
life of study, and equally those whose mid-life crises (7) ____have________ led them
to contemplate a return to the world of academia. In (8) ___spite_________ of the
new grants, returning to education remains a huge strain on the finances, all the (9)
___more_________ so for those with dependants. Many are obliged to take out loans,
adding to a burden of debt already accumulating steadily from their busy adult lives.

Certain institutions are more welcoming than others, but even Oxford and
Cambridge have now (10) __opened__________ their doors to mature entrants.
Indeed, these (11) _most___________ traditional of universities, with their one-to-
one supervisions,
(12) _____are_______ ideal for mature students. The criteria for entrance also suit

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mature students; other universities require high grades in A levels from school, a point
(13) _____which_______ disadvantages most mature students, whereas Oxford and
Cambridge have their (14) ____own________ entrance exams. Cambridge actually
boasts the only university college in Europe which takes only female mature students,
Lucy Cavendish College. The lecturers there say (15) ____they________ prefer
teaching mature students because they have made great personal sacrifices just to be
there, and so tend to bring a real passion to their work.

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