Midterm test Questions

A.    Choose right answer to fill the blank!

1.      I like to go for a walk when I'm ……

A.    Bored

B.     Boring

C.     Had boring

2.      That was the most….. Project I have ever worked on.

A.    Boring

B.     Bored

C.     Having bored

3.      I don't like to watch the evening news; it's too…..

A.    Depressing

B.     Depressed

C.     Have depressed

4.      I like John, but he can be very ….. At times.

A.    Annoyed

B.     Annoying

C.     Had annoyed

5.      My friend Greg thought Vanilla Sky was an extremely ……movie.

A.    Confused

B.     Having confuse

C.     Confusing

6.      We met a boy. He was…..  A heavy bag.

A.    Carrying

B.     Carried

C.     Have carried

7.      The house was….with lights. It looked beautiful.

A.    Decoration

B.     Decoring

C.     Decorated

8.       I…. the door open. I went inside.

A.    Founding

B.     Founded

C.     Having founded

9.       His handwriting…..illegible. I couldn’t figure out what he had written.

A.    Be

B.     Was

C.     Being

10.  The police saw the body. It was……down the river.

A.    Floating

B.     Floated

C.     Have floating

B.     Choose the correct adjective!

11.  This lesson is so . . . . . (confused / confusing)! Can you help me?

12.  My friend is so . . . . .   (excited / exciting) because she is going on holiday tomorrow.

13.  Johan was . . . . . . . . .   (Fascinated / fascinating) by Mandarin when he first started learning languages. He decided to study more and now he can speak it fluently.

14.  I'm feeling . . . . . . . . . . (depressed / depressing), so I'm going to go home, eat some chocolate, and go to bed early with a good book.

15.  The teacher was really. . . (Amused / amusing), so the lesson passed quickly.

C.     Combine the following pairs of sentences by using participles!

16.  They had worked for several hours. They came out of the office.

17.  I walked along the road. I saw a snake.

18.  He didn’t realize the implication of his words. He went on speaking.

19.  I took a cue from his words. I solved the riddle.

20.  It was a fine day. Everybody was out on the roads.