Solutions Upper-Intermediate short test 2

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I bought ____ book for him. ____ book is about space.

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___ John played ___ piano in ___ evening.

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___ Sun is ___ daily national newspaper published in ___ United Kingdom.

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___ River Severn is ___ longest river in ___ Great Britain.

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Jane speaks __German very well. She is___interpreter. She went to ____Germany by ___ train.

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I have two sisters, but ______ of them live at home. They have got married and moved away.

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___________ of my classmates went to the party. That’s why I didn’t recognise anybody there.

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There are only ___________ people in the cinema.

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I ___ with my boyfriend because we didn’t really get on very well anymore.

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Kerry should stop ___ . One day, she says she loves him, and the next she doesn’t. It’s not fair on Mick.

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Tom and Jo didn’t ___ to the party until midnight because they got lost on the way.      

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We agreed to be volunteers in an experiment because we felt the research was important.

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By passing on its chemical information in a cell, an animal is able to pass on its characteristics to the next generation. 

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The animal’s babies survived the winter by hiding underground.