Five-Minute Tests

I. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D.

About two years (1)________, I decided to give Russian a try, so I (2)_______ to evening classes, and it all seemed very exciting, but then I realised a few things I (3)_____________ about, and first of all that’s Cyrilic, the Russian alphabet – it’s like, you feel like a (4)_____________ again, because you can’t read, it takes you ages to read one word, and secondly in the Russian language, the words are (5)__________. So it’s actually quite hard to learn the vocabulary.

1. A. since

B. ago

C. past

D. before

2. A. went

B. was going

C. have gone

D. had gone

3. A. haven’t ever thought

B. never think

C. wasn’t thinking

D. hadn’t ever thought

4. A. five year old

B. five years old

C. five-year-old

D. five-years-old

5. A. so much longer

B. so more longer

C. much more longer

D. so very longer

Key: 1. B; 2. A; 3. D; 4. C; 5. A

II. Read the text and choose the best answer A or B.

I gave up my evening Spanish classes because we made very slow progress. Sometimes not everybody came to class, and the next lesson a week later, we started again at zero, because those other people hadn’t learnt what we had learnt, and in fact I got discouraged because I thought, ‘Maybe it’s no use’. But now I wish I had practised a little.

The speaker gave up his evening classes. Now he is sorry that...

A. he didn’t practise a bit.

B. he practised, but it was no use.

Key: A

III. For each word below, think of another word pronounced in the same way, but spelt differently.

1. mail	male
2. wear
3. through
4. weight
5. stare
6. flower
7. weather
8. sight
9. dye
10. bear
11. pair
12. mist
13. board
14. way
15. higher
16. war
17. hole
18. reign
19. peace
20. court
21. sore
22. sea

Key: 2. where; 3. threw; 4. wait; 5. stair; 6. flour; 7. whether; 8. site; 9. die; 10. bare; 11. pear; 12. missed; 13. bored; 14. weigh; 15. hire; 16. wore; 17. whole; 18. rain; 19. piece; 20. cought; 21. saw; 22. see

to be continued