Level: 3rd Year Literary Streams Diagnostic Test / 2021-2022 Full Name: ……………………………………..

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GRAMMAR 1. Google has made us stupid.

A. Complete the text with the words / phrases in the box.
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changing – might – the – forget – always – better – changed – on …..
– it’s been suggested – much 2. It changed the way we remember things.
HAS GOOGLE MADE US STUPID? ……………………………………………………
The rise of the most popular search engine Google -and other ……………………………………………………
search engines- has ……………………………… the way …..
we remember information, according to research. Because we 3. The brain changes according to our circumstances.
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now have access to all ………………………………
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information we could possibly want at the touch of a button,
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we no longer need to store so ………………………………
4. Our brains store a lot of information.
information in our heads. ……………………………… that
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this is actually ……………………………… the way our ……………………………………………………
brains store and recall information. We’re quite likely to …..
……………………………… information which we believe D. Ask questions which the underlined words in task ‘C’
we can find online and more likely to remember something answer.
which we ……………………………… not be able to 1. ……………………………………………………
access on the internet. We are now ……………………………………………………
……………………………… at remembering where we …..
can get hold of the information than we are at the information ……………………………………………………
itself. Interestingly, the brain is a soft organ, which changes ……………………………………………………
according to our circumstances. So, it’s not just Google that …..
can change the way we remember things. We have 2. ……………………………………………………
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remember things for us. And even in more informal ways,
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long-term couples also learn to
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rely ……………………………… each other for …..
remembering information. Now, where did I put my keys? 4. ……………………………………………………
B. Read the text again and find examples of… ……………………………………………………
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1 infinitive …………………………… 5. ……………………………………………………
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2 present simple …………………………… …..
………………… WORD DIVISION
3 present perfect ……………………………
Divide the following words into roots and affixes.
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4 present continuous …………………………… words prefix root suffix
………………… information
5 modal verb …………………………… research
possibly
………………… informal
6 passive ……………………………
………………… PRONUNCIATION
7 definite article …………………………… A. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation
………………… of the final ‘ed’:
8 adverb …………………………… changed – suggested – looked – stored
………………… /t/ /d/ /id/
9 quantifier ……………………………
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10 preposition …………………………… B. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation
of the final ‘s’:
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11 comparative …………………………… circumstances – keys – changes – experts
………………… /s/ /z/ /iz/
12 superlative ……………………………
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C. Turn the following sentences into the negative form.
C. The letters have been taken out of the words in the list below.
They are all silent letters. Put back one of the silent letters, or
pair of silent letters in each word so that it is spelt correctly.

Example: clim climb

rein ……… haf ……… scult ………
nown ……….. alin ……….. sientist ………..
onesty . caos . pharao .
campain ……… sycology ……… heit ………
soverein ……….. forein ……….. scolar ………..
drout . det . casle .
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COMMON ERRORS
A. Correct the mistakes. There is a mistake in each sentence.
1. Have you prepared yourself.
2. John work a lot.
3. Where I can meet you?
4. We live in batna.
5. She shouldn’t leaves.
6. Where you go yesterday?
7. They stoped the loaded truck.
B. Which mistakes are connected with…
a. modal verb + bare infinitive (the base form of the verb) 5
b. word order
c. missing auxiliary verb
d. subject-verb agreement
e. capitalisation
f. spelling
g. punctuation