GRADE 10 - MINI TEST

Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

• newspaper

• understand

• volunteer

• interact

Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

• contestant

• fan

• collapse

• balance

Choose the correct answer that best completes each of the following questions.

The teacher turned up after we ______ for him for over 30 minutes.

• waited

• was waiting

• have waited

• had waiting

Tom said that he ______ with a friend at 9 o'clock the night before.

• is staying

• had been staying

• was staying

• has been staying

Now, everybody, stop ______ and listen to me, please.

• talk

• to talk

• talking

• talked

Rewrite the following sentences using the words given without changing the original meaning.

Keeping the environment clean is very important.

-> It's ...

We read the book, then we wrote the assignment.

-> Before ...

A temporary manager is running the shop at the moment.

-> The shop ...

In the middle of our lunch, there was a knock at the door.

-> While ...

“ I gave you these flowers yesterday in your wedding anniversary,” Marry said to me.

(Change into "reported speech" )

-> Mary told me ...