Exam: Past simple and linking words

30 minutes

1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the box.

buy hear know read teach spend
  1. I bought some clothes last weekend.
  2. I ______my little brother to swim last year.
  3. I ______a good book last week.
  4. I ______a lot of money yesterday.
  5. I ______him a long time ago.
  6. I ______a lot of noise last night. 2.5 points

2. Complete the sentences with the past form of the verb in brackets.

  1. When I was in England, I broke (break) a bone.
  2. I ______(can not) walk.
  3. A friend ______(take) me to hospital.
  4. We ______(not know) much English.
  5. The doctor ______(not speak) my language.
  6. The people at the hospital ______(be) nice.
  7. But I ______(not enoy) the experience!
  8. I ______(not need) to stay in the hospital.
  9. I ______(go) home the same day. 8 points

3. Choose the best word or phrase, a), b) or c) to complete the sentences.

1. When did ______acupuncture?

a) they invent b) they invented c) invented

2. When ______first go abroad?

a) you did b) youc) did you

3. Did you ______?

a) enjoyed itb) it enoyc) enjoy it

4)Yes, I ______.

a) enjoyedb) didc) enjoy it

5) What ______at the weekend?

a) you didb) did youc) did you do

6) I ______well yesterday.

a) not feelb) didn’t feel c) feel not

7) ______to the doctor?

a) Did you gob) Did youc) You go

8) No, ______,

a) I didn’t b) I goc) I went

9) ______Thomas Edison invent?

a) What b) What did hec) What did

10) Who ______at the hospital?

a) you sawb) see youc) did you see5 points

4. Complete the texts about women inventors with the words in the box

after at that time before during earlier later then

A)Windscreen wipers

(1) Before 1903, cars did not have any windscreen wipers. (2) ______bad weather, drivers could not see through their windscreens. (3) ______in 1903, an American woman, Mary Anderson, invented windscreen wipers. A short time (4) ______, all American cars had wipers. (5) ______that, another woman, Charlotte Bridgwood, invented electric wipers in 1917.

B)Gertrude Elion

Gertrud Elion was an important 20th century scientist who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988. She was born 70 years (6) ______in 1918 in the United States. When she was 15, her grandfather died of cancer. (7) ______, there were not many cancer-fighting drugs. Gertrude wanted to change that so she studied Chemistry at Hunter College and got her Master of Science (MS) degree at New York University. (8) ______university, she got a job with a medical company. (9) ______her working life, she invented an important cancer-fighting drug and many other life-saving drugs. She died in 1999.

4 points

5. Use the information below to write a short biography about the inventor James Watt. Make use of linking words!

James Watt

1736 – born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland

1748 – attended grammar school / learned Latin and Greek / showed great interest in mathematics

1754 - mother died / father’s health begun to fail

1755 - went to Glasgow to set up his own instrument-making business

1764 – married his cousin Margaret Miller

1780s – invented the steam engine

1819 – died 25 August 1819 at his home in Handsworth, Birmingham15 points