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Analyse the following sentences:
_____ Earth goes round ______ sun.
There’s ______ lift on his building, so he doesn’t mind living on _______ tenth floor.
There are millions of stars in ________ space.
Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fills the blancks:
Consider the situation below and analyze the following sentences:
Sarah has a daughter. Her name is Martha, and she is ten years old. Every day she goes to school. She stays there from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. She’s at school now. Today Martha’s mother wants to speak to her daughter’s teacher. So she has gone to the school to see her. She’s at the school now.
I. We say Martha “goes to school” and “is at school” because we are not thinking of a specific school.
II. We say Martha’s mother “has gone to the school” and “is at the school” because we refer to a specific building (Martha’s school).
III. We say Martha’s mother “has gone to the school” and “is at the school” because we refer to one of many schools (Martha’s school).
Which ones are correct?
Analyze the following sentences:
I. They’re in the kitchen making coffee.
II. Having found a hotel, we looked for somewhere to eat.
III. Feeling tired, I went to bed early.
Which of the following alternatives is correct?
Consider the following situation:
Last week I saw a friend of mine at the bus stop on my way home. She was waiting for the bus. So, I can say:
Consider the following situation and mark the correct alternative.
This morning my father got up at 7 a.m., had a shower, had breakfast and afterwards went to work. More precisely at 8:30 a.m. he got into the car and drove off. I saw it. So, I can say:
Analyze the following sentences:
Please, be ______ time. Don’t be late.
I intend to be home _____ time for dinner.
They’re going away _____ the end of January.
The 8:00 train arrived ______ time.
At first we didn’t get along, but ____ the end we became good friends.
Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fills the blancks:
In which of the following sentences is the bold word “traveling” the object of the verb?
Consider the following situation:
“Last summer Paul and Sarah went on vacation to the beach. It rained a lot, but they had a good time.”
Choose the alternative that CAN’T be replaced with “... but they had a good time”:
Analyze the following sentences:
I. If I have time I will visit my parents next weekend.
II. If I had time I would visit my parents every weekend.
III. If I had had time I would have visited my parentes last weekend.
Which of the following alternatives is correct?
In which of the sentences “have to” isn’t usually replaced with “must”? Choose the correct option.
In the sentence “I was so tired I could sleep for twenty hours” what the speaker infers is that:
Analyze the following statements about the sentence “I _______ come and see you tomorrow”:
I. If we fill in the gap with “can” it means something is possible or somebody has the ability to do it.
II. If we fill in the gap with “may” it means there’s a probability of something to happen.
III. If we fill in the gap with “should” it means it is a good or the right thing to do.
Which one are correct?
In which statement “to be afraid” IS NOT a synomim of “to have fear”?
Analyze the following statements about the sentence “The fire spread quickly, but fortunately everyone was able to escape”:
I. We can replace “was able to escape” with “managed to escape”.
II. We can replace “was able to escape” with “could escape”.
III. We can replace “was able” with “succeded in” followed by “escaping”.
Which ones are correct?
In which question the use of the relative pronoun is INCORRECT?
In which of the following sentences the bold word is used as the subject?
Analyze the following statements about the sentence “They have lived in London for twenty years”:
I. They moved to London twenty years ago.
II. They moved to London in 2003.
III. They moved to London twenty years ago, but now they live in Cambridge.
Which ones are correct?
Analyze the following sentence: “Yesterday evening I left work at 6 p.m. and went straight home. When I arrived home last night my parents had had dinner and were watching a movie”. Choose the alternative that IS NOT correct.
Analyze the following sentence and choose the correct alternative: “Ann has lost her cell phone”.
Instruction: answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.
Carnival
- ______ Carnival is ____ festival celebrated in _____countries of Catholic tradition, often
- with public parades of playful, imaginative wagons typically called "floats, masking, jokes and
- feasts”.
- Etymology
- The word carnival comes from the Latin "carnem levare" (=eliminate meat) and
- originally indicated the banquet that was held on the last day of Carnival (Mardi Gras),
- immediately before Lent, the period of fasting and abstinence when Christians would abstain
- _____ meat. The first evidence of the use of the word "carnevale" (or "carnevalo") are the texts
- of minstrel Matazone da Caligano of the late 13th century and writer Giovanni Sercambi around
- 1400.
- Carnival period
- In Catholic countries, traditionally Carnival begins on the Septuagesima Sunday (70
- days to Easter, it was the first of the nine Sundays before the Holy Week in the Gregorian
- calendar), and in the Roman rite ends on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the
- beginning of Lent. The climax is usually from Thursday until Tuesday, the last day of Carnival.
- Being connected with Easter which is a moveable feast, the final dates of Carnival vary each
- year, though in some places it may begin already on 17th January. Since Catholic Easter is on
- the Sunday after the 17first full moon of spring, therefore from 22 March to 25 April, and since
- there are 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, then in non-leap years the last day of
- Carnival, Mardi Gras, can fall any time within February 3 to March 9.
- In the Ambrosian rite, which is followed in the Archdiocese of Milan and in some
- neighboring dioceses, Lent begins with the first Sunday of Lent, therefore the last day of
- Carnival is on Saturday, four days later than the Mardi Gras in other areas of Italy.
- Carnival in antiquity
- Although present in the Catholic tradition, Carnival has its origins in much older
- celebrations, such as the Greek Dionysian festivals ("Anthesteria") or the Roman "Saturnalia".
- During these ancient rites a temporary dissolution of the social obligations and hierarchies took
- place in favor of chaos, jokes and even debauchery. From a historical and religious point of
- view Carnival represented, therefore, a period of renewal, when chaos replaced the established
- order, but once festive period was over, a new or the old order re-emerged for another cycle
- until the next carnival.
- In Babylon, shortly after the vernal equinox the process of the foundation of the cosmos
- was re-enacted, described with the myth of the struggle of Marduk, the savior-god with Tiamat
- the dragon, which ended with the victory of the former. During these ceremonies a procession
- was held in which the forces of chaos were allegorically represented fighting the recreation of
- the universe, that is the myth of the death and resurrection of Marduk, the savior. In the parade
- there was a ship on wheels where the deities Moon and Sun were carried along a large avenue
- - a symbol of the Zodiac - to the sanctuary of Babylon, symbol of the earth. This period was
- accompanied by an unbridled freedom and a reversal of social order and morality.
- In the Roman world the feast in honor of the Egyptian goddess Isis involved the presence
- of masked groups, as told by Lucius Apuleius in the Metamorphoses (Book XI). Among the
- Romans the end of the old year was represented by a man covered with goat skins, carried in
- procession, hit with sticks and called Mamurius Veturius.
- Carnival is therefore a moment in a mythic cycle, it is the movement of spirits between
- heaven, earth and the underworld. In the spring, when the earth begins to show its power,
- Carnival opens a passage between the earth and the underworld, whose souls must be honored
- and for a short period the living lend them their bodies wearing masks. Masks therefore have
- often an apotropaic meaning, as the wearer takes on the features of the spirit represented.
- In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Medici in Florence organized large masked carts
- called "Trionfi" accompanied by carnival songs and dances one, the "Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna"
- also written by Lorenzo the Magnificent. In Rome under the Popes horse races took place and
- a called the "race of moccoletti" where runners bearing lit candles tried to blow out each other's
- candles.
(Available at: http://www.italyheritage.com/traditions/carnival/2023/04/14/ – text especially adapted for this test).
The underlined and highlighted words in the text are all adverbs, EXCEPT for:
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