PLENITUD IDIOMAS

ENGLISH TEST AMERICAN HEADWAY 4 UNITS 11 AND 12

Name: ____________________________________________________ Class:________________

Teacher: _____________________ Date: ___/___/___ Grade: _______________

1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first, using the word in
capitals. Don't change this word. Write between two and five words.
a. I think you should stay at home. RATHER
I ____________________________________ at home.
b. You ought to give up smoking. TIME
It____________________________________ smoking.
c. It's tragic that Kim arrived too late. ONLY
If ____________________________________ too late.
d. Unfortunately, he didn't pay attention. SHOULD
He ____________________________________ attention.
e. I wasn't there, which I regret. WISH
I ____________________________________ there.
f. We could have lost. Imagine that. SUPPOSING
We didn't lose, but ____________________________________?

2. Choose the best answer: a, b, c or d.

a. I'm late for school. _______________, no one will notice.
i. Hopefully
ii. Personally
iii. Basically
iv. Generally speaking
b. I thought that was Sue over there. _______________, it's Ann.
i. After all
ii. Ideally
iii. Certainly
iv. Actually
c. Vicki's not very popular. _______________, I really like her.
i. Definitely
ii. Personally
iii. Surely
iv. Apparently
d. Thomas lost his job. _______________, he'd been rude to the boss.
i. Still
ii. However
iii. Apparently
iv. Absolutely
e. David and Anna went home separately. _______________ , they had a fight.
i. Anyway
ii. All the same
iii. Hopefully
iv. Presumably

3. Complete the second sentence so that it means the same at the first
a. It's a shame you can't come with us. I wish you _________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
b. It's a shame there are some rocks on the beach. I wish there ______________________
_______________________________________________________________________
 c. Sadly, they didn't see the warning sign. If only they ______________________________
________________________________________________________________________
d. Those people are shouting. I wish those people ______________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
e. I'm sorry I went to bed so late last night. I wish I ______________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

4. Make past conditional sentences.

a. I _________________ (buy) those shoes if I ____________________ (have) the money.
b. If the lifeboat ___________________ (not rescue) the sailors, they ________________
(drown).
c. We _____________________ (set out) earlier if we ____________________ (know)
how far it was.
d. If you _____________________ (ask) me to keep it secret, I _____________________
(say) a word.
e. He _________________________ (not fail) his driving test if he ____________________
(not crash) the car.

5. Check the correct sentences. Correct the wrong sentences by adding an, a, the one or of where
necessary.
a. We live next to health clinic on Victoria Street.
b. Some patients have to stay in the hospital for months.
c. Neither of her brothers I very tall.
d. I want to work as chemical engineer.
e. Its starting to rain. Lets get on bus.
f. Theres plenty food for everyone.
g. I usually have cereal with milk for breakfast.
h. Fortunately, there are few attractive places in this town.
i. Weve checked every one of the cables.
j. Laura is very intelligent girl.

6. Make word pairs from the words in the box to produce the meanings in brackets.

Ins sooner now nothing give downs surely ups

Less then take peace all outs tired quiet
By ends more sick slowly large later

a. ____________ and __________ (generally)

b. ____________ and __________ (details)
c. ____________ and __________ (small items)
d. ____________ and __________ (exchange of ideas, compromise)
e. ____________ and __________ (fed up)
f. ____________ and __________ (occasionally)
g. ____________ and __________ (good and bad times)
h. ____________ and __________ (relaxation)
i. ____________ but __________ (gradually)
j. ____________ or __________ (eventually)
k. ____________ or __________ (completely or not at all)
l. ____________ or __________ ( approximately)
7. Fill in the correct determiner.
a. Could you bring me l. ____________ books I left in the garden?
b. There aren't ____________ students in the library.
 c. I haven't got ____________ pictures in my bedroom.
d. She gave a cookie to ____________ child.
e. I've got to solve ____________ math problems before I go to sleep.
f. (With a bowl of cherries on your lap) ____________ cherries are delicious!
g. My mother doesn't drink ____________ coffee.
h. I always keep ____________ money in my wallet for emergencies.

8. Complete the expressions using time or life:

a. Not on your ____________
b. Third ____________s the charm
c. Live ____________
d. On ____________
e. A cushy ____________
f. Make good ____________
g. For the ____________ being
h. Get a ____________
i. Its high ____________
j. Stand the test of ____________

9. Complete the text using the words below:

Larry was a truck driver, but his lifelong dream was to fly airplanes.
(1) ____________ he would watch the fighter jets criss-crossing the skies above his
backyard and dream about the magic of flying. (2) ____________, he had an idea. He drove to the
nearest hardware store and bought 20 large balloons and five tanks of helium. (3)
____________, they were not normal brightly colored party balloons but heavy three-feet
weather balloons used by meteorologists.
Back in his yard, (4) , Larry used a rope to tie a chair to his car door. (5) ____________ he
tied the balloons to the chair and inflated them, one by one. (6) ____________, he packed a few
sandwiches and a bottle of Coke, loaded a BB gun, and climbed on to the chair. His plan was to float
up lazily into the sky to about 200 feet and then to pop a few balloons with the BB gun
(7) ____________ descend to earth again.
His preparations complete, Larry cut the rope. (8) ____________ , he didn't float up, he
shot up, as if he had been fired from a cannon! Not to 200 feet, but up and up and up, (9)
____________ about 11,000 feet. If he had popped any balloons at this height, he would have
plummeted to earth, (10) ____________ he just had to stay up there, floating around and
wondering what to do.
(11) ____________, night was falling and things were getting serious. Winds were blowing
Larry out to sea. (12) ____________ an amazed airline pilot spotted him and radioed the airport
saying he'd just seen a man with a gun, sitting on a lawn chair at 11,000 feet. (13) ____________ a
helicopter was sent to rescue him, but it wasn't easy (14) ____________ the wind from their
rotor blades kept pushing the homemade airship further away. (15) ____________ , they managed
to drop a line down from above and pulled him to safety.
(16) ____________ he was on the ground he was arrested. A TV reporter shouted, "Hey
man, why did you do it?" Larry looked him in the eye and said, "A man's got to follow his
dreams."