Grade 12 English Mock Exam: Grammar Exam (Mock-1): By Million Abebe (MA in English/in TEFL): 2023

Overview

• Mock exam is a practice exam that students do before official exam so that they will be able to check their performance before the real exam!
• The questions in this mock exam are more challenging than Grade 12 Entrance Exam questions!
• They are categorized (7 categories, see picture below) based on topics in order that students will be able to see in which areas they have strength and weaknesses!

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Instructions: 

• Choose the best answer!
• Do the questions on a paper and get correction by cross-checking your answers with the given answers (click the answer link at the end)!     

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1. Your Internet browser doesn't work properly. Please, again, try ______ some applications. But you have to try ______ each application carefully.

A. to close/ to close 

B. closing/closing 

C. to close/ closing 

D. closing/ to close

2. I can't remember _____ you all these last week. Did I tell you all these? Sorry, I forget ____ you all these that why I repeated, now.

A. to tell/tell             B. telling/telling
C. telling/to tell       D. to tell/to tell

3. Sorry, didn't I tell you about your tutorial? Oh, I forgot _____ you about it; I should have told you last time.

A. telling    B  tell     C. to tell   D. having told

4. I don't want ______ you talking while I am teaching; you have to stop ______!

A. to see/talk         B seeing/talking
C. to see/to talk    D. to see/talking

5. _____ about our test 2 weeks ago, our teacher gave us our first test yesterday. ____ about their test 2 weeks ago, all the students began their study for the test.

A. Having been told/ Telling 
B. Telling /Having been told
C. Having told /Having been told
D. Being told/Being told

6. Our teacher said, "You have to close all your exercise books on this exam!"
One of the following is the correct form of reported speech of the above direct speech.

A. Our teacher said that we had to close all our exercise books on that exam.
B. Our teacher ordered us to close all our exercise books on that exam.
C. Our teacher made them to close all your exercise books on that exam.
D. Our teacher wanted us to close all your exercise books on that exam.

7. Which one of the following sentences could be the correct form of reported speech of the the next direct speech?
My friend Urago said, "Please, you, my dear friends, come with me tonight for dinner."

A. My friend Urago invited us for dinner last night.
B. My friend Urago said to us that we, his dear friends came for dinner last night.
C. My friend Urago asked us if we came with him for dinner  tonight.
D. My friend Urago said that we should go with tonight for dinner.

8. Which one is the correct reported speech form of “I took it home with me” she said?

A. She said I had taken it home with her.    
B. She said she had taken it home with me.
C. She said that she took it home with me.   
D. She said that she had taken it home with her.

9. The indefinite reported speech of the sentence Hussein said, "I am going to Addis next week.":

A. Hussein says he is going to Addis next week.
B. Hussein said he is going to Addis this week.
C. Hussein said he was going to Addis the following week.
D. Hussein said he was going to Addis last week.

10. She said to me “I have got no money." The reported form of this statement is:

A. She said to me that I had got no money.
B. She said to me that she got no money.
C. She said to me that she had got no money.
D. She said to me that she have got no money.

11. You are going to ____ about gerund, infinitive and participle in the next section.

A. learn                       B. be learning
C. will be learning     D. be learnt

12. The next explanation _____ you how adverbs ___ in a given sentence. I hope, you will get more information about adverbs.

A. will shows/use   

B. will be shown/are used

C. shows/have used  

D. will show/are used

13. We ______ anything about our father's health condition ____ last Friday. Now, we are getting calm down.

A. have not told/since            
B. have not been told/since 
C. have not been told/until     
D. have not told/until

14. We ______ anything about our father's health condition ____ last Friday. Now, we are getting tensioned.

A. have not told/since            
B. have not been told/since 
C. have not been told/until     
D. have not told/until

15. I and my x-boyfriend _____ together for 5 years but I _____ with my current boyfriend for more than 10 years.

A. have lived/ have lived 
B. lived/lived 
C. lived/have been lived 
D. lived/  have lived

16. None of us _____ what _____ when we reached the university.

A. informed/should do 
B. has informed/should have been done
C. informed/should have been done 
D. was informed/should have been done

17. Gadisa _______ to Mekelle more than 5 times; I hope he _____ the city more than anyone of us.

A. has been/knows  
B. has gone /has been known
C. was /is known   
D. has gone /knows

18. I am sure you have neither _____ about her from anyone nor ____ by yourself; you are talking about her blindly.

A. heard/have seen        B. heard/seen      
C. heard/saw                 D. heard/been seen 

19. Now, I am grade 12 student; I _____ romantic relationship with any boy.

A. have not yet started  
B. have ever started 
C. have never started     
D. have still started

20. _____ is expected to try his/her best; _____ will help you on your Entrance Exam anymore.

A. Everyone/nobody person  
B. Everyone student/nobody
C. Every student/nobody       
D. No one/everybody  

21. I can't understand the thing ____ you are talking about. The guy ___ you had sent me told me something completely different from this.

A. who/to whom      B. whose/to whom
C. that/to whom      D. that/whose

22. The tourist was ___ disappointed with the food service _____ unhappy with the high prices. He made his complaint to the manager about these.

A. either/ or       B. neither /nor
C. not only/ and but also  
D. not only/but also

23. Our school has arranged tutorial programs for grade 12 students on all subjects paying for teachers _____ only a few students have attended the programs.

A. but                 B. although     

C. in spite of     D. no matter how

24. Almost all the students are attending tutorial programs ____ our school has arranged tutorial programs for grade 12 students on all subjects paying for teachers.

A. Although                            B. As      
C. In spite of the fact that   D. that

25. Almost all the students are spending their afternoon time in the school _____ they will be able to attend the tutorial programs for grade 12 students.

A. because    B. so that    C. so as to    D. in case

26. In reported speech, if the reporting verb ____ in the present tense, only a few change ____ to change from direct speech to indirect speech.

A. is/will be made  

B. was/was made
C. had been/would have been made  

D. is/is made

27. If you _____ the tutorial programs, you _____ able to cover all grades 9 and 10 subjects in short time.

A. attended/would have been              
B. had attended/would be
C. had not attended/would have been  
D. had attended/would have been

28. But for the fact that I ____ the tutorial programs, I _____ able to cover all grades 9 and 10 subjects in short time.

A. didn't attend/would have been              
B. attended/would have been
C. hadn't attended/would not have been    
D. attend/would not be

29. You have missed a lot of important information about all grades 9 and 10 subjects in short time. You _____ the tutorial programs.

A. should have to attended 
B. needn't have attended
C. must have attended        
D. ought to have attended

30. Eleni has told me nothing about your illness. She _______.

A. might not have forgotten
B. mustn't have forgotten
C. may have forgotten
D. might forget

31. Which one of the following sentences wrong concerning comparison?

A. I always score better marks than my sisters do.
B. My exam result is always better than my sisters'
C. My sister's exam result is always better than mine.
D. My sisters always score better marks than me.

32. In our next discussion, you are given _____ detail explanation about comparison; read them carefully.

A. a little much   B. a bit many more
C. a little more    D. very more

33. America's economic development is _______.

A. as fast as China        
B. not as faster as China's
C. as fast as China's     
D. faster than any other country

34. The school has assigned Sartu _____ monitor of the class but in the class Ketema is making every decision ________ monitor of the class.

A. like/as    B. as/as  

C. as/like   D. as/look like

35. Our new monitor, Ketema is making every decision ____ Sartu did.

A. like    B. as  C. as if  D. look

36. These questions are _____; I did them _____.

A. easy / easy            B. easily / easily
C. easily / easy          D. easy / easily

37. Urji is ______ girl and also she plays football _____.

A. beauty / beautiful
B. beautiful/beautifully
C. beautifully /beautiful
D. beautifully/beautifully

38. Listen! She is the one sitting ______ Ali. Go and get her.

A. by front of      B. behind to 
C. next of            D. next to

39. Inflation is not subsiding at all in this country. Is it? ______

A. No, it is.                 B. Yes, it isn’t. 
C. I think, it does.      D. I don’t think it is.

40. It is now generally accepted that in the future robots will take over many of our tasks, especially the more __________ type of jobs.

A. repetitive       B. repeating     

C. repetition      D. repeated

41. Visually impaired people usually use ________ watches. That makes life easy for them.

A. speaking  B. talking  C. feeling     D. touching

42. Aren’t we so blessed that we have this beautiful country? _______

A. Yes, we are.          C. No, we don’t.
B. Yes, we did.          D. No, we were not.

43. This exam includes 45 questions; I found that all _____ questions are very difficult.

A. the   B. _____ C. these    D. those

44. Her brother is ____ medical doctor; he is also ___ author of the book called 'Philosophy of my Life'.

A. a/an     B  the/the   C. a/the   D. a/___

45. Dechatu doesn't talk about ____ boyfriend but _____ always does.

A. hers/my      B. her/I   
C. her/mine     D. him/mine

ANSWERS

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