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ENGLISH TEST

11TH GRADE

STUDENT’S NAME: _______________________________________ GRADE: ___________
ENGLISH TEACHER: JULLIETH DIAZ DATE: ___________

Read and select the best option to complete sentences in present perfect tense and taqquestions:
1. Jack _____ (live) in Boston for the past 15 years.
a) has lived
b) lives
c) lived

2. I would love to visit Prague sometime. Unfortunately, I ____ (be/never) there.
a) have never been
b) was never
c) will never be

3. I _____ (work) in Italy for 5 years. I ____ (begin) work as soon as I arrived.
a) work – began
b) have worked - have begun
c) have worked – began

4.I'm afraid I'm not hungry. I _____ (eat/already).
a) didn't eat already
b) have already eaten
c) haven't already eaten

5. When Jack was at school, he _____ (learn) to play the saxophone. He _____ (play) it ever since.
a) has learned - has played
b) learned - has played
c) learned - played

6. Peter ____ (go) to Paris last year. That means that he ____ (be) to Paris 3 times!
a) went -has been
b) went – was
c) has gone – was

7. She _____ (write) the email but doesn't know how to send it.
a) has written
b) writes
c) written

8. I ____ (just/have) something done to my hair. Do you like it?
a) have just had
b) just have had
c) just have

9. Madonna _____ (record) many albums and will probably make many more.
a) Records

b) has recorded
c) recorded

10.How many books ____ (read) this year?
a) did you read
b) do you read
c) have you read

11. ____ (newspaper/arrive)? Yes, Ken is reading it at the moment.
a) Did the newspaper arrived
b) Does the newspaper arrive
c) Has the newspaper arrived

12. Teresa is an accountant,___?
a) aren't she?  
b) doesn't she?  
c) isn't she?   
d) She isn't?

13. Jacques and Alicia are students,___?

a) aren't they?
b) are they?  
c) isn't he?
d) isn't they?  

14. They were late,_____________?
a) was they?
b) were they?
c) they weren’t
d) weren’t they?

15. Kathy won’t travel to Miami next weekend,________?
a) was she?
b) will she?
c) weren’t she?
d) won’t she?

16. Hillary loves to bike,__________?
a) does she?
b) isn’t she?
c) doesn’t she?
d) did he?

17.Jhonny wrote 5 new books,____________?
a) was she?
b) wasn’t he?
c) didn’t he?
d) did he?
READING COMPREHENSION

Two sisters and the cat
Read the text on the left and answer the questions.
Two sisters and the cat
Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Smith are sisters. Mrs. Wilson lives in a house in Duncan and Mrs. Smith lives in a condominium in Victoria. One day Mrs. Wilson visited her sister.
Whenher sister answered the door, Mrs. Wilson saw tears in her eyes. "What's the matter?" she asked. Mrs. Smith said "My cat Sammy died last night and I have no place to bury him".

She began to cry again. Mrs. Wilson was very sad because she knew her sister loved the cat very much. Suddenly Mrs.. Wilson said "I can bury your cat in my garden in Duncan and you can come and visit him sometimes."Mrs.. Smith stopped crying and the two sisters had tea together and a nice visit.

It was now five o'clock and Mrs. Wilson said it was time for her to go home. She put on her hat, coat and gloves and Mrs. Smith put the dead Sammy into a shopping bag. Mrs. Wilson took the shopping bag and walked to the bus stop. She waited a long time for the bus so she bought a newspaper. When the bus arrived, shegot on the bus, sat down and put the shopping bag on the floor beside her feet. She then began to read the newspaper. When the bus arrived at her bus stop, she got off the bus and walked for about two minutes. Suddenly she remembered she had left the shopping bag on the bus.

[Story by Laurie Buchanan]

18. Where does Mrs. Smith live?
a) in a condominium in Duncan
b) in a condominium in...