I  There is ONE extra, unnecessary word in EACH line. Find the word and write it in the blank space on the right.

Example: Hi, I'm name Sara. I work for NET magazine.                         name 

A lot of people read our magazine. Teenagers are read it, of course.       1.______

I don't like to doing same things every day. I write                              2.______

to stories in the magazine. I also work on the horoscope and                3.______

the problem page is too. I usually work in my office                             4.______

but sometimes I interview about people. At the moment                       5.______

I'm never talking to children at Christmas parties.                                6.______

II  Fill in the blanks with the suitable possessive pronouns or adjectives.

   Tom and Peter attend the school which is not far from ______ homes.

 I go to same school with ______ but my home is not close to it as ______.

III  Put the verbs in brackets into the corect tense.

                                                                                                     2 November, 2001

              Dear Julie,

I can't believe it's already November. In July, Claire and Dan ______(get married). It _____(be) a lovely wedding in spite of the bad weather. As the waiter ____(carry) in the wedding cake, he ______ (drop) it. We ______(not know) whether to cry or laugh.

             Claire and Dan _____ (live) in Dan's old flat for a while, but now they ____(have) their own house near London. They _____(live) there for a few months now. We ______(not see) them since they ____(move), but they _____(come) here for Christmas.

                                                                                                           Love, Lucy 

 IV  Make comparisons, using the words in bold letters on the left.

EXPENSIVE   > The Ferrari is not as _____________ as the Jaguar.

WET            > Last Monday was _____________ day of the season.

FAR             > York is ________________ from London than Leeds.

LAZY           > Cats are _________________ than dogs.

BAD            > Yesterday's weather was ___________________ than today's. 

CLEVER        > Craig has excellent marks, he is __________________ in the classroom. 

SLOWLY       > You should drive _________________ in the city than on the motorway.

 V  Fill in the blanks with a/an, the or  /. 

 Most people in ____ Britain send cards. ____ British started sending cards in Victorian times. ___ first only rich people sent cards at Christmas but soon everybody was sending them. Now you can buy ___ card for every special day and holiday. You can buy cards to say "sorry" or "___ good luck". British people buy more than ___ hundred million Christmas cards every year.

VI Chose one of the verbs given below and fill the blanks with the correct form/tense of the verb.

 LIGHT       TAKE        CARE       LOOK       FLY       HELP        PUT        GET

a) The firemen _______ out the fire yet.

b) My grandmother __________ after me when I was a child.

c) A lot of planes ____________ off every day.

d) ________ yourself to some sandwiches.

VII   Complete the conversation. Make questions for the underlined words/phrases.

A:_______________________________________________________

B:On Sunday I went to a football match.

A:_______________________________________________________

B:They say there were about ten thousand spectators.

A:_______________________________________________________

B:You mean the ticket for the match?! Oh, I was lucky. I paid only 50 dinars for it.