REVISION TEST 2

Time allowed: 90 minutes

Marks (/120) Remark

Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Present Continuous (10 pts)
1. Listen! My mother (sing) _____ a song.
2. Every night, we (go) _____ to bed at 10 p.m.
3. Giang (like) _____ Music but I (like) _____ Math.
4. Now, they (stay) _____ in Hue.
5. My father (read) _____ a newspaper in the morning.
6. Look! Ha (run) _____.
7. Trang usually (listen) _____ to the teacher in the class, but she (not listen) _____ now.
8. Where (be) _____ your father?
- He (be) _____ living room. He (watch) _____ TV.
9. _____ they (go) to school by bus today?
10. There (be) _____ many flowers in our garden.

Exercise 2: Read the text and choose the correct verb form (8 pts)
Mrs Hang is a housewife. Every day, she (1) does / is doing most of the housework. She (2)
cooks / is cooking, washes the clothes and (3) cleans / is cleaning the house. But today is
Mother’s Day and Mrs Hang isn’t doing any housework. Her husband and children are doing it
all for her. At the moment, she (4) watches / is watching her favourite programme on TV. Her
daughter, Lan, (5) does / is doing the cooking; her son, Minh, (6) does / is doing the laundry; and
her husband, Mr Long, (7) tidies up / is tidying up the house. Everybody in the family (8) tries /
is trying hard to make it a special day for Mrs Hang.

Exercise 3: Write the past tense of the following verbs (10 pts)

be → become → begin → break → bring →

build → buy → choose → come → cost →
eat → feel → find → forget → forgive →
know → make → mean → send → teach →

Exercise 4: Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or Past Continuous Tense (10 pts)
1. I (sit) _____ in a cafe when you (call) _____.
2. When you (arrive) _____ at the party, who (be) _____ there?
3. Susie (watch) _____ a film when she (hear) _____ the noise.
4. Yesterday I (go) _____ to the library, next I (have) _____ a swim, later I (meet) _____ Julie
for coffee.
5. We (play) _____ tennis when John (hurt) _____ his ankle.
6. What (they/do) _____ at 10 pm last night – it was really noisy.
7. He (take) _____ a shower when the telephone (ring) _____.
8. He (be) _____ in the shower when the telephone (ring) _____.
9. When I (walk) _____ into the room, everyone (work) _____.
10. It (be) _____ a day last September. The sun (shine) _____ and the birds (sing) _____. I
(walk) _____ along the street when I (meet) _____ an old friend.

Exercise 5: Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D to complete the sentences (10 pts)
1. When ____ to HCM city?
A. did you move
B. have you moved
C. you moved
D. had you moved
2. I really want to meet him again because I last (see) him 2 months ago.
A. seen
B. have seen
C. saw
D. see
3. I (not eat) spicy food before. It is quite strange to me.
A. haven’t eat
B. haven’t eaten
C. don’t eat
D. didn’t eat
4. Maybe she won’t come this afternoon. How long you (wait) for her?
A. have you wait
B. has you waited
C. have you waited
D. did you wait
5. He (start) (drive) to work 2 months ago because he (buy) a car.
A. starts – driving – will buy
B. started – driven – buys
C. has started – driving – bought
D. started – to drive – has bought
6. You are the most patient one I (know).
A. have known
B. have know
C. know
D. knew
7. When you (finish) the entrance exam?
A. did you finish
B. have you finished
C. did you finishes
D. did you finished
8. I (know) his mother since I (be) 5 years old because she was my neighbour.
A. have known – be
B. have known – was
C. knew – was
D. knew – were
9. I (read) her post three times but I still don’t understand what she means.
A. read
B. have read
C. reads
D. did read
10. Linh (marry) Hung 10 months ago.
A. married
B. marries
C. had married
D. will marry

Exercise 6: Rewrite the following sentences using Present Perfect Tense (10 pts)
1. It’s two years since I last saw Tim.
→ I haven’t
2. It’s two months since he earned money.
→ He hasn’t
3. It’s several years since we were last in Rome.
→ We haven’t
4. It years since Mary last spoke French.
→ Mary hasn’t
5. I last ate raw fish (cá sống) when I was in Japan.
→ I haven’t
6. We’ve never flown before.
→ This is
7. She’s never arrived late before.
→ This is
8. It’s the first time they’ve ever invited us to lunch.
→ They’ve never
9. It’s the first time I’ve ever asked you for money.
→ I’ve never
10. He’s never complained about it before.
→ It’s the first time

Exercise 7: Choose the correct option to complete the following sentences (10 pts)
1. The robbers left/ had left the bank when the policemen finally arrived/ had arrived.
2. When the rain started/ had started, the Atkinsons finished/ had finished planting trees.
3. By the time Rebecca went/ had gone into the store, she got/ had got soaked.
4. Darcey saw/ had seen this castle before she came/ had come again last Sunday.
5. [Link] didn’t speak/ hadn’t spoken any Chinese before he moved/ had moved to
Peking.
6. Sonny got/ had got fainted by the time the ambulance reached/ had reached the hospital.
7. When my mother brought/ had brought me an apple, I finished/ had finished my
homework.
8. [Link] refused/ had refused to drive the car because she had/ had had a terrible
accident on the highway about a year ago.
9. I didn’t think/ hadn’t thought of having a new house before I saw/ had seen that ad on
TV.
10. My uncle didn’t try/ hadn’t tried Italian food before he went/ had gone to that restaurant.

Exercise 8: Complete the sentences with the words in the word list below (8 pts)

her hers his His my our ours their

Last month, we had a party at _________ house. Many people came, and there were lots of cars
parked outside. At the end of the party, only three people were left: myself, Eric, and Cathy.
However, there were four cars. One of them was a Volkswagen. I didn't remember seeing it
before, so I asked whose it was.
Eric said it wasn't __________ car. _______ is a Chevrolet pickup. When I asked Cathy if it was
_______, she said no - _____ car is a Ford Explorer. I knew it wasn't _______ car, of course.
Finally, I called the police, and they came and examined it. They said it belonged to a family on
the next street. Someone stole it from _________ street and left it on _________.

Exercise 9: Write the appropriate tag questions (24 pts)

1. I am a doctor, ________?
2. Susan caught the bus, _______?
3. They drew an elephant, _______?
4. The student didn’t do the homework, ________?
5. Let’s have a drink, ________?
6. Your car is not cheap, _______?
7. Lisa has lost her ID, _______?
8. You couldn’t help me, _______?
9. We are friends, ________?
10. You weren’t at the party last night, _______?
11. Shout up, _______?
12. There is a museum in this city, _______?
13. Good idea, _______?
14. You have never been to Peking, ________?
15. You must give up smoking, ________?
16. I didn’t do anything wrong, ________?
17. No one can help you, ________?
18. They helped us a lot, _______?
19. Don’t do it, _______?
20. Get out of my sight, _______?
21. Dave is your cousin, ________?
22. Kiki doesn’t write a letter before bed?
23. Jenny and Natalie are the members of the Photography Club, _______?
24. You can swim very well, _______?
Exercise 10: Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences (10 pts)
1. If the train is late, we ………………….. to the office.
A. walk
B. will walk
C. would walk
D. walks
2. She …………………….. if she has time.
A. calls
B. would call
C. will call
D. calling
3. If it ……………………… too much, I will buy the smaller one.
A. costs
B. will cost
C. would cost
D. cost
4. If the class. ………………………. full, we will find another one.
A. are
B. will be
C. were
D. is
5. What will we do if the taxi ………………………..?
A. don’t come
B. didn’t come
C. doesn’t come
D. had not come
6. If it snowed this summer, we …………………… skiing.
A. goes
B. will go
C. would go
D. go
7. If you drove more carefully, you ………………….so many accidents.
A. would not have
B. will not have
C. wouldn’t have had
D. has
8. If he ……………………….. up earlier, he’d get to work on time.
A. gets
B. will get
C. got
D. had got
9. I would tell you more about it if we ……………………………… more time.
A. has
B. will have
C. have
D. had
10. If I ……………………..you, I wouldn’t worry about going to university.
A. am
B. be
C. were
D. had been

Exercise 11: Rewrite the following sentences using Conditional Sentences (10 pts)
1. Keep silent or you’ll wake the baby up.
→ If
2. Stop talking or you won’t understand the lesson.
→ If
3. I don’t know her number, so I don’t ring her up.
→If
4. I don’t know the answer, so I can’t tell you.
→ If
5. We got lost because we didn’t have a map.
→ If
6. Susan felt sick because she ate four cream cakes.
→ If
7. Without this treatment, the patient would have died.
→ If
8. He lost his job because he was late every day.
→ If
9. Peter is fat because he eats so many chips.
→ If
10. Robert got a bad cough because he started smoking cigarettes.
→ If