Reading, Vocabulary, and Grammar Exercises for English Learners

Reading

1. 1) b 2) a 3) a 4) b 5) a

2. 1) He was 29 years old.

2) People believed that he had traveled through time.

3) It claimed that the people and events of the story were fictional; they were based on a science fiction story.

4) Because the writer (of the story, Jack Finne) is dead.

Vocabulary

1. 1) anxious 2) smoke 3) relief 4) roar 5) whisper

6) occurrence 7) corpse

2. 1) attempt 2) assumed 3) haunted 4) waves 5) source

3. 1) developed a theory 2) turned out 3) missing 4) flashing 5) research 6) vanished 9) get to the bottom of 8) dust

Grammar

1. 1) The bus has already left the station.

2) Have you had dinner yet?

3) We didn't speak to her an hour ago.

4) What car did your brother buy yesterday?

5) We haven't eaten anything since 10.00.

6) I didn't see a film last night.

2. 1) called 2) had found 3) didn't know 4) took 5) showed 6) had crashed 7) didn't believe 8) had seen 9) revealed 10) had invented 11) had happened

3. 1) used to watch 2) used to read 3) didn't use to work out 4) did use to travel 5) used to own 6) didn't use to eat

7) did use to play