Test 17.

I. Choose the best variant.

1. Are you interested --------- working for him?

a) at b) in c) with d) of

2. I’m not very good ---------- learning languages.

a) in b) of c) from d) at

3. I was afraid ---------- getting burnt.

a) at b) of c) in d) from

4. I felt I was an -------- visitor.

a) unexpecting b) unexpected

5. He felt ---------- when he heard the news.

a) excited b) exciting

6. Do you easily get ---------- ?

a) embarrasing b) embarrassed

7. She made a mistake ---------- she was careless.

a) because b) because of c) as

8. There is no bus ----------- we’ll have to walk.

a) so b) as c) because

II. Make complete sentences by joining one half in Column A with the other half in Column B using an appropriate relative pronoun. If the pronoun can be left out, write it in brackets. Write the complete sentences out.

Example: Mrs.Win-a-lot is the name (that) Mrs.Smallburn’s neighbours call her.

Column A

1. ‘Mrs. Win-a-lot’ is the name*

2. Mrs. Smallburn is one of the rare people *

3. That is the compact disc system

4. There is hardly anything in Mrs. Smallburns house

5. The blue Renault is the fifth car

6. The dog has to eat a brand of pet food

7. The $ 50.000 house is not the one

8. Mrs. Smallburns tries to win the things.

9 . Mrs. Smallburns expects to win between twenty and forty percent of the competition.

Column B

1. Mrs. Smallburn’s neigbours call her. *

2. was a prize.

3. she has won in a competition.

4. she hasn’t won in a competition.

5. Mrs. Smallburns and her family live.

6. earnings are tax-free.

7. she enters.

8. her family needs.

9. he doesn’t like very much.

III . Combine each of these pairs of sentences so that the second becomes a non-defining relative clause. Pay attention to punctuation.

Example: The Bristol Hotel is comfortable and cheap. I stayed there last summer.

The Bristol Hotel, at which I stayed last summer, is comfortable and cheap

. 1. This mousetrap cost me a shilling. I have never caught anything in it.

2. Tom Slater is a farm laborer. I bought this old bicycle from him.

3. My brother won’t lend me any more money. I have often borrowed money from him.

4. These photographs will show you what my village looks like. I took them last summer.

IV. Do the following sentences contain defining or non-defining relative clauses? Mark the sentences d (defining) or n (non-defining). Add commas where necessary.

1. .She lent me a book. I lost the book that she lent me.

2. My uncle who was very shy when he was a child is now a multimillionaire.

3. Several groups played at the festival. The first group who played was Dire Straits.

4. Pink Floyd who wrote the song “ Money’’ live in London.