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Test - 2

- Present Simple and Continuous
- Present Passive
- Prepositions

Sue and Geoff _____ a shop.
- A) work
- B) study
- C) run
- D) runs
This kind of shop _____ a milk bar.
- A) is called
- B) called
- C) is calling
- D) is being called
Most days the shop _____ at 10.00 p.m.
- A) sells
- B) opened
- C) closes
- D) run
They _____ camping any more.
- A) go
- B) doesn’t go
- C) don’t go
- D) have gone
Ursula _____ four brothers and sisters.
- A) have
- B) has
- C) haven’t
- D) having
It _____ her fifteen minutes _____ to school.
- A) took / go
- B) has taken / walk
- C) takes / walk
- D) takes / to walk
She _____ school at 7:45 a.m.
- A) go
- B) begin
- C) starts
- D) goes
I _____ lunch in the university canteen.
- A) eats
- B) have
- C) drink
- D) has
I _____ extra money teaching computer studies.
- A) earn
- B) earns
- C) win
- D) buy
I _____ the traffic in Bangkok.
- A) play
- B) have
- C) hate
- D) has
English is _____ here.
- A) speak
- B) spoke
- C) is speaking
- D) spoken
Volvos are _____ in Sweden.
- A) produced
- B) produce
- C) produces
- D) producing
Is service _____ in the bill?
- A) including
- B) include
- C) to include
- D) included
Our kitchen _____ decorated at the moment.
- A) is
- B) is being
- C) being
- D) was being
Our factory is being _____ over by an American company.
- A) taken
- B) bought
- C) sold
- D) run
About one thousand people are _____ in the factory.
- A) taken
- B) cleaned
- C) employed
- D) worked
Lots of tulips are _____ in Holland.
- A) grown
- B) growing
- C) grow
- D) grew
That block of flats is being _____ because it is unsafe.
- A) pulled down
- B) pulled
- C) pulled up
- D) pulling down
In Britain milk is _____ to your doorstep.
- A) shown
- B) sold
- C) bought
- D) delivered

When you __(20)__ at an airport, you should go straight to the checkin desk where your ticket and luggage __(21)__. You __(22)__ your hand luggage with you but your suitcases __(23)__ to the plane on a conveyor belt. You can now go to the departure lounge. If you are on an international flight, your passport __(24)__, and then you and your bags __(25)__ by security cameras; sometimes you __(26)__ a body search and your luggage __(27)__ by a security officer. You __(28)__ in the departure lounge until your flight __(29)__ and you __(30)__ which gate number to go. Finally you __(31)__ your plane and you __(32)__ your seat by a flight attendant.

- A) start
- B) started
- C) arrive
- D) are arrived
- A) are checked
- B) control
- C) check
- D) is changed
- A) kept
- B) keeping
- C) wait
- D) keep
- A) take
- B) took
- C) are taken
- D) taking
- A) check
- B) checked
- C) is checking
- D) is checked
- A) are x-rayed
- B) x-rayed
- C) control
- D) check
- A) give
- B) are given
- C) gave
- D) giving
- A) is searched
- B) searching
- C) searched
- D) search
- A) waiting
- B) waits
- C) wait
- D) waited
- A) calling
- B) call
- C) is called
- D) called
- A) are told
- B) telling
- C) told
- D) tell
- A) boarded
- B) boarding
- C) sit
- D) board
- A) show
- B) are shown
- C) showing
- D) come
“Hello. Can I speak to Mr. James, please?”
“I’m sorry. He isn’t _____ at the moment. Can I take a message?”
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) off
“Hello. Can I speak to Mr. James, please?”
“I’m sorry. He is _____ on holiday at the moment. Can I help you?”
- A) in
- B) on
- C) away
- D) off
“I feel like going to the cinema tonight.”
“Good idea! What’s _____ at the moment?”
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) off
I think this milk’s _____ . It smells horrid.
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) off
“Where shall we go for a meal?”
“It’s _____ you. It’s your birthday. You choose.”
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) up to
Come on, kids! Aren’t you _____ yet? Breakfast’s on the table.
- A) in
- B) on
- C) up
- D) off
I wonder why they aren’t answering the door. There must be someone _____ .
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) off
All the lights are _____ . I can see nothing.
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) off
I must be _____ soon. I want to get to the shops before they close.
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) off
“Why isn’t there any hot water?”
“The central heating is _____ . That’s why.”
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) off
“You’re crying. What’s _____ ?”
“I’m just a bit sad. That’s all.”
- A) in
- B) on
- C) up
- D) off

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