Exercises on Unit 5 - Agatha Christie

Exercises on Unit 5
A- Vocabulary and Language Notes
Choose the correct answer:
1. Working as a secret (doctor – guide – engineer – agent) in a foreign country can be a very dangerous job.
2. In many countries, people have to carry an identity (card – letter – message – postcard) to prove who they are.
3. In Britain in the 1940s, people were afraid of an (innovation - invasion – invention – inflation) by the enemy.
4. The Romans (faded – deviated – applied – invaded) Britain in 43 BCE.
5. We saw a lot of photographs, but we couldn't (qualify – solidify – liquefy – identify) the man we'd met.
6. How did the man (deprive – improve - prove – devote) his innocence?
7. The enemy used radios to (transmit – spend – try – develop) messages to their ships.
8. They (inspected – respected - suspected – exerted) that the driver had been going very fast at the time of the accident.
9. A (suspect – detective – survivor - surgeon) is a person you think may have done a crime.
10. Someone who is not guilty is (adolescent –innocent – crescent - accomplice).
11. A (counter – interpreter – thermomter - transmitter) is equipment that sends radio signals.
12. (Deviation – Confusion – Aviation - Invasion) means entering another country to take control.
13. (Headquarters – Headbands – Headlights - Headmasters) is the place from which a company is controlled.
14. A (director – producer – consumer - spy) is a person who finds out information about another country or organisation.
15. (Depression – Amnesia – Fever - Anaemia) is being unable to remember things.

16. A (trap – trick – truck - mousetrap) is equipment for catching and killing mice.
17. (Poison – Poisonous – Poisoning - Poisoned) is something that may kill you if you eat or drink it.
18. (Cooperative – Shy – Patient - Cheerful) means nervous and embarrassed about talking to other people.
19. The crime of killing someone is called (blender – border – murder - boiler).
20. In his later life, he suffered from (paralysis – amnesia – cancer - rheumatism). He was unable to remember things.
21. She has taken part in several (excavations – exercises – exceptions - extensions) of Roman settlements across Europe.
22. The three men were convicted of (murdered – murdering – being murdered - murder).
23. He tried to kill himself by taking (vegetable – fruit – poison - protein).
24. The company decided to move its (home – house – flat - headquarters) to another city.
25. When the children met the queen, they were too (active – shy – lazy - helpful) to speak.
26. He had lost his (honesty – enmity – identity - legality) card and was being questioned by the police.
27. The police found out that the man was (innocent – guilty – criminal - shy) of the crime, so they released him.
28. She never went to school. (Included  – Instead – Installed – Indebted) she was taught at home.
29. The man's strange behaviour made the police (envious – jealous – suspicious - fabulous) of him.
30. There was something wrong with the (chapter – disaster – fighter –transmitter), but the technician managed to fix it.
31. If you (do – make – have – act) a crime, you must expect to be punished.
32. (Geology – Biology – Archaeology- Meteorology) is the study of the buried remains of ancient times.
33. He was seriously (wounded – buried – handed - rammed) by an enemy bullet.
34. She took the (impress – depress – reckless - express) train to London.
35. The police have (evident – evidence – affluence - challenge) that the killer was a woman.
36. The marks of the prisoner's fingers on the gun (believed – disbelieved – proved - bored) that he was the guilty man.
37. The prisoner will be (stay – set – sit - slip) free next week.
38. She's always (trying – dying – crying - spying) on her neighbours.
39. The police found the radio transmitter (hide – hiding – hidden to hide) in the bathroom.
40. He stayed in a small hotel (on – of – with - in) the coast.
Find the mistakes in each of the following sentences and write them correctly:
1- The government employed two secret accountants to get information about other countries.
2-  The police are trying to discover the density of a baby found by the side of a road.
3- She lives in a big house over locking the sea.
4- Finding the spies will help to save the country from indication.
5- In the way back to his hotel, he was arrested by the police.
6- All the hostages were finally split free.
7- With everyone's surprise, the young girl won the competition.
8- This new evidence will prove the old man's innocent.
9-  He fell in the river but his friend deceived him from drowning.
10- She was too spy to ask anyone for help.
11-  The site has been executed by archaeologists.
12- The room was 3 metres width.
13- He travelled by his brothers' car.
14- He consisted milk and butter on his shopping list.
15- Since tiring from the company, she has done voluntary work for a charity.
B- Exercises on Grammar
Choose the correct answer:
1- Houses (design – have designed – are designed – are designing) to be warm in winter and cool in summer.
2- Our car (is being repaired – is repairing – has repaired – will repair) this week.
3- They (were built – will be built – have been built – built) these flats in 1965.
4- The car (drives – was driving – was being driven – will drive) too fast.
5- We (have invited – will invite – has invited – have been invited) to a party at the weekend.
6- The headmaster (had been warned – had warned – is warned – will be warned) the students about being late for school.
7- I expect we (will be told – will tell – have told – had told) where to go.
8- Charles Dickens (writes – is written – was written – wrote) Gullivers' Travels a long time ago.
9- He (has sold – will sell – was selling – sold) the car for 10,000 pounds last week.
10- The bus (was broken – broke – breaks – has been broken) down yesterday.
11- They turned and (were run – have been run – ran – running) when they saw us coming.
12- This picture (painted – was painted – is painted – has been painted) by my friend last week.
13- Before roads (were building – built – were built – have been built) across the desert, few visitors came to this town.
14- She (was accused – has accused – had accused – was accusing) of forging money.
15- It is (saying – says – said – say) that the building was started in 237 BC.
16- It (has believed – is believed – is believing – had believed) that wolves and foxes were hunted in Sinai 3,000 years ago.
17- The newspaper (reports – is reported – has been reported – is being reported) that food prices increased by ten percent last year.
18- It (is fearing – has feared – will fear – is feared) that there are no survivors of the crash.
19- She is thought to (be suffered – being suffered – have suffered – suffers) from amnesia.
20- Some of her stories (base – is based – are based – are basing) on her travels to some countries.
Find the mistakes in each of the following sentences then write them correctly:
1- Her best books have published in over a hundred countries.
2- Since then, the play performs without a break.
3- She was teaching at home by her mother.
4- They were arresting by the police last night.
5- Since then, the actors have been changing several times.
6- The night will spend in a hotel because of heavy snow.
7- The crime has solved.
8- The story is about a group of people who are not knowing to each other.
9- It has known that smoking causes serious diseases.
10- It is now being known that last month was the hottest for two years.
11- The same characters were playing by the same actors.
12- It has been reporting that foreign tourism increased by 20% last year.
13- Many of Agatha Christie's stories have made into films and TV programmes.
14- A 78-year old man has been won this year's prize for crime fiction.
15- A terrible thing was happened yesterday.
16- The sun is risen in the east.
17- A famous tennis player is believed to be hurting after a city centre road accident.
18- It is believed that young children can be teaching languages at school.
19- A new pyramid at Saqqara has found by archaeologists.
20- Nobody saw near the crime scene.