英语语法与语言运用（入学考试）练习卷（附答案）

Choose the correct past tense: “The boy ___ to the door when the bell rang.”

1. Arunned
2. Bruns
3. Crun
4. Dran

What type of sentence is this? “What a beautiful day it is!”

1. AImperative
2. BDeclarative
3. CInterrogative
4. DExclamatory

Choose the correct word: “Please ___ my apology.”

1. Aexcept
2. Bexcerpt
3. Caccept
4. Dexpect

Which sentence uses a pronoun that agrees with its antecedent?

1. AEach of the boxes has their own label.
2. BEach of the boxes have its own label.
3. CEach of the boxes has it’s own label.
4. DEach of the boxes has its own label.

Choose the correct word: “It was ___ a long shift that everyone was exhausted.”

1. Atoo
2. Bvery
3. Csuch
4. Dso

Choose the correct word: “From her smile, I ___ that the news was good.”

1. Aimposed
2. Binflicted
3. Cimplied
4. Dinferred

Which sentence would work best as a thesis statement for an essay?

1. ANurses work in hospitals and in many other places.
2. BThis essay is going to be about nurses and their shifts.
3. CHospitals should limit nurses’ shifts to twelve hours to reduce fatigue-related errors.
4. DMany people have different opinions about nursing.

Which revision makes it clear that the nurse, not the boy, was smiling? “The nurse gave a sticker to the boy with a smile.”

1. AWith a smile, the nurse gave a sticker to the boy.
2. BThe boy with a smile was given a sticker by the nurse.
3. CThe nurse gave, with a smile a sticker to the boy.
4. DThe nurse gave a sticker with a smile to the boy.