This document contains a pre-test with multiple choice questions about grammar, vocabulary, and short passages. It tests understanding of parts of speech, tenses, plural/singular forms, and comprehending short texts. The pre-test prepares students for an English skills assessment by covering a range of fundamental grammar and language concepts.

1. PRE-TEST

2. TEST 1 – MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Complete the five conversations.
Choose the letter of your answer from the choices.
1. Why didn’t you come to the pool yesterday?
a. I didn’t see them there.
b. It was a great time.
c. I was doing something else.

3. 2. I have to go home now.
a. Have you been before?
b. It’s still quite early.
c. How long was it for?
3. Whose phone is that?
a. It’s not there.
b. Wasn’t it?
c. I’m not sure.

4. 4. There weren’t anymore tickets for the match.
a. That’s a pity.
b. It isn’t enough.
c. I hope so.
5. Shall we play that new computer game?
a. It’s all right.
b. Yes, it is.
c. If you’d like to.

5. Directions: Complete the following sentences.
Choose the letter of your answer from the choices.
6. The internet café quickly became ______ with
Ivan and his friends.
a. favourite
b. popular
c. excellent

6. 7. It only ______ Ivan five minutes to get to
the café.
a. takes
b. has
c. gets
8. Ivan often ______ his friends there after school.
a. waits
b. meets
c. goes

7. 9. The cafe has different ______ of computer
games that they can play.
a. things
b. ways
c. kinds
10. Ivan thinks there is a lot of ______ information
on the internet.
a. certain
b. sure
c. useful

8. Directions: Look at the text in each item. What does it
say? Choose the letter of your answer from the choices.
#11

9. #12

10. #13

11. #14

12. #15

13. #16

14. Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer
from the choices.
17. The man in the mirror looks ______.
a. strange
b. strangely
c. stranger
18. Your boss isn’t working anymore, ______?
a. is he
b. isn’t he
c. has he

15. 19. A number of endangered species living under
water ______ now extinct because of
illegal hunting and dynamite fishing.
a. are
b. were
c. is
20. Because the moon rotates on its axis at the same
time as it ______ around the earth, we see the
same side.
a. revolve
b. revolves
c. is revolving

16. 21. I suggest that he ______ in the room for
one week.
a. stay
b. stays
c. stayed
22. We arranged the flowers and placed ______
in the center of the table.
a. it
b. those
c. them

17. 23. The volunteers from the fire department ______
quickly and extinguished a fire on North Country
Road.
a. have responded
b. had responded
c. responded
24. The person ______ made this delicious
cheesecake has my vote.
a. that
b. who
c. which

18. 25. What correction should be made to this sentence?
First-borns often pattern their behaviour after
they’re parents and other adults.
a. replace their with they’re
b. change pattern to patterned
c. replace they’re with their
26. Had they, my partners for this highly classified
investigative work, ______ the instructions
before they kept the mobile phone?
a. write
b. wrote
c. written

19. 27. I ______ to mom before dad came home.
a. talked
b. had talked
c. have talked
28. Listening to classical music _____ one of his
preferred leisure activities.
a. is
b. was
c. were

20. 29. Only 35% of the total number of students ______
able to pass the comprehensive exam last year.
a. are
b. was
c. were
30. A person with a negative outlook in life cannot
______ with depression.
a. cope in
b. cope
c. cope up

21. TEST 2 – MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Your English teacher has asked you to
write a story. Your story must begin with this
sentence:
Elijah felt angry as he got out the bus.
Write the beginning of your story consisting of
five sentences.