test on modal verbs
материал для подготовки к егэ (гиа) по английскому языку (10 класс) на тему

Questions for the test

1. The modal verb … expresses possibility due to circumstances.

1. can
2. may
3. to have to

2. The modal verb … expresses physical ability.

1. can

b) may

c) to have to

3. The modal verb … expresses supposition implying doubt.

a) can

b) may

c) to have to

4.The modal verb … expresses an urgent request, command.

a) can

b) must

c) to have to

5.The modal verb … expresses obligation arising out of a nature of a man.

a) can

b) may

c) must

6.The modal verb … expresses moral obligation.

a) ought

b) may

c) to have to

7.The modal verb … expresses supposition bordering on assurance.

a) must

b) may

c) to have to

8. The modal verb … expresses an arrangement, part of a plan.

a) must

b) may

c) to be to

9.The modal verb … expresses an arrangement made by one person for another.

a) to be to

b) may

c) have to

10. The modal verb … expresses prohibition.

a) cannot

b) may not

c) must not

11. The modal verb … expresses permission.

a) can

b) may

c) have to

12. The modal verb … expresses incredulity, surprise, astonishment.

a) can

b) may

c) have to

13. The modal verb … expresses advisability.

a) should

b) may

c) have to

14. The modal verb … expresses necessity.

a) must

b) need

c) have to

15. The modal verb … expresses volition.

a) will

b) may

c) have to

16. The modal verb … expresses reproach.

a) can

b) must

c) might

17. The modal verb … expresses absence of necessity.

a) cannot

b) must not

c) need not

18. The modal verb … expresses promise.

a) should

b) must

c) shall

19. Он, вероятно, все еще спит.

a) He must be still sleeping.

b) He may be still sleeping.

c) He may still sleep.

20. Она, должно быть, ушла.

a) She must have gone.

b) She may have gone.

c) She might have gone.

21. She cannot have done so.

a) Она не сделала этого.

b) Она не может сделать этого.

c) Не может быть, чтобы она сделала это.

22. You must not play with matches.

a) Вы не можете играть со спичками.

b) Вы не должны играть со спичками.

c) Вам не следует играть со спичками.

23. Ты можешь войти.

a) You are to come in.

b) You may come in.

c) You must come in.

24. Вам следует навестить врача.

a) You should consult the doctor.

b) You must consult the doctor.

c) You have to consult the doctor.

25. Дверь не открывается.

a) The door can’t open.

b) The door won’t open.

c) The door mustn’t open.

26. Вы должны перевести текст дома.

a) You are to translate the text at home.

b) You must translate the text at home.

c) You should translate the text at home.

27. It would be natural if you … to bed now.

a) go

b) went

c) gone

28. If I … you I would ring her.

a) was

b) be

c) were

29. If she …… yesterday I would have asked her.

a) have come

b) came

c) had come

30. I wish she … with me now.

a) be

b) were

c) had been

31. If they … …  us, we would have gone on a picnic on Sunday.

a) would ring

b) had rung

c) rang

32. If you were more careful, you … so many mistakes in the last test.

a) wouldn’t have made

b) wouldn’t make

c) didn’t make

33. It is necessary that she … this work by Friday.

a) done

b) will do

c) do

34. If you … your home work yesterday, you wouldn’t get a bad mark now.

a) had done

b) did

c) would have done

35. To doubt is to insult.

a) a predicative

b) an attribute

c) an object

36. It is easy to deal with her.

a) an object

b) a predicative

c) a subject

37. She is too small to reach the shelf.

a) adverbial modifier of purpose

b) adverbial modifier of result

c) predicative

38. She wants me to meet her at the station.

a) Subjective –with-the- Infinitive Construction

b) Objective –with-the- Infinitive Construction

c) For-to-Infinitive Construction

39. He is known to be the best doctor.

a) Subjective –with-the- Infinitive Construction

b) Objective –with-the- Infinitive Construction

c) For-to-Infinitive Construction

40. It is difficult for her to sing this song.

a) For-to-Infinitive Construction

b) Objective –with-the- Infinitive Construction

c) Subjective –with-the- Infinitive Construction

41. The English for «Берегись!» is ... .

a) Look around!

b) Look ahead!

c) Look through!

42. The English for «Как сказать!» is … .

a) It all depends!

b) How to say!

c) Nobody knows!

43. The synonym for ‘relax’ is … .

a) Have a break!

b) Don’t do it!

c) Take it easy!

44. The English for «причинять боль» is … .

a) to ache

b) to be ill

c) to hurt

45. The English for «приемная доктора» is … .

a) a surgery

b) a syringe

c) a surgeon

46. To live … bad conditions

a) on

b) under

c) in

47. She depends … her parents.

a) from

b) for

c) on

48. He was operated … … appendicitis.

a) on for

b) on from

c) for on

49. She can’t keep … .

a) to laugh

b) from laughing

c) laughing

50. Он выписал мне рецепт.

a) He wrote a prescription to me.

b) He wrote out a prescription for me.

c) He wrote me a prescription out.

51. Some medicine … my headache

a) for

b) from

c) to

52. The English for «при условии, что» is … .

a) in condition that

b) under condition that

c) on condition that

53. The English for «страдать от бессонницы» is … .

a) to suffer from constipation

b) to suffer from indigestion

c) to suffer from insomnia

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