Five-Minute Tests
Put in prepositions.
According (1)____ Dale Carnegie, author (2)____ the all-time best
selling people skills book How to Win Friends and Influence People, “You can make
more friends (3)_____ two months by becoming interested (4)____ other people than you can
(5)____ two years by trying to get people interested in you.”
Key: 1. to; 2. of; 3. in; 4. in; 5. in
Put in the or a/an where necessary.
Bill Gates started in (1)_______ computer industry when he was at
(2)_____ school and was (3)____ billionaire by (4)______ age of 31. (5)______combination
of (6)______technical brilliance and fiercely competitive business tactics quickly made
him (7)_____ most powerful man in (8)______ Silicon Valley, but he wanted his company
Microsoft to be more than just (9)_____ software house and in recent years it has
diversified into (10)_____ many new fields.
Key: 1. the; 2. –; 3. a; 4. the; 5. A; 6. –; 7. the; 8. –;
9. a; 10. –
Put in prepositions where necessary.
I’m Mike. I’m twelve. I’m (1)____ the first form (2)_____ Green
Hill State School in Chester. It’s a town in England. I have a lot (3)____ new subjects
(4)____ school (5)_____ this year. Look (6)_____ my timetable. (7)____ IT classes we learn
how to use computers. (8)____ science lessons we do experiments and learn (9)______
Nature. I play (10) _____ the school tennis team.
Key: 1. in; 2. at; 3. of; 4. at; 5 –; 6. at; 7. In; 8. At; 9.
about; 10. for
Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word
that fits in the space in the same line.
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is the
largest (1)________ INHABIT
castle in the world.
William the Conqueror
built a (2)____ fort on WOOD
the site and over the
centuries almost every
other monarch has made
some (3)_________ ADD
to the structure.
(4)______ alterations EXTENSION
were made during the
reigns of Charles II and
George IV. The State
Rooms contain many
fine examples of
furnishings and
(5)__________, PAINT
including works by Van
Dyck and Rembrandt.
alteration изменение, переделка
Key: 1. inhabited; 2. wooden; 3. addition; 4. extensive; 5. paintings
By Youdif Boyarskaya,
School No. 814, Moscow
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