English Skills Tester

For Practice

1. Which of the following are amphibians?
(a) frogs (b) salamanders (c) toads (d) lizards

2. Which of the following are not reptiles?
(a) lizards (b) snakes (c) frogs (d) crocodiles

3. Which of the following do not conduct electricity?
(a) wood (b) glass (c) air (d) all of these

4. Which of the following is not a synonym of orbit?
(a) rotation (b) circuit (c) revolution (d) all are synonyms

5. By studying prehistoric animals scientists can tell us about________ they looked like.
(a) that (b) what (c) whether (d) who

6. Tuition has increased greatly.
(a) hardly at all (b) by leaps and bounds
(c) rather steadily (d) little by little

7. Last year the amount of oil produced _______ dropped.
(a) increasingly (b) gradually (c) weakly (d) a bit

8. The enrolment for the course is almost _________.
(a) increased (b) full (c) less (d) empty