Тест по английскому языку (предлоги и частицы)

1. Choose the best answer.
A professor recently came ... an unknown poem by Shakespeare while he was looking through an old book.

1. up
2. across
3. off
4. round
5. with

2. Choose the best answer.
He has had a bad day - in addition ... being late for school he forgot his homework.

1. by
2. with
3. to
4. for
5. that

3. Choose the best answer.
Do you know anyone who is interested ... having a kitten?

1. in
2. to
3. at
4. for
5. on

4. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
... Rome ... Paris they travelled ... plane.

1. till/from/on
2. from/till/by
3. at/by/by
4. from/to/by
5. at/to/by

5. Choose the best answer.
One of the main disadvantages ... the old machine was that it used up so much electricity.

1. of
2. to
3. for
4. from
5. at

6. Choose the best answer.
I really need your help, so don`t let me ... , please.

1. down
2. in
3. off
4. through
5. up

7. Choose the best answer.
School begins ... Monday.

1. -
2. on
3. in
4. at
5. till

8. Choose the best answer.
People are angry ... the state council.

1. with
2. in
3. on
4. of
5. by

9. Choose the best answer.
Larry needs a new case ... his camera.

1. for
2. to
3. of
4. with
5. after

10. Choose the best answer.
The Captain stopped and for some time they looked ... each other ... silence.

1. at/on
2. at/in
3. to/in
4. in/to
5. at/at

11. Choose the best answer.
He showed me ... a small room with a desk ... it.

1. to/in
2. to/at
3. in/with
4. with/in
5. at/on

12. Choose the best answer.
"Don`t make fun ... me, - she pleaded, - don`t laugh ... me".

1. of/at
2. at/to
3. to/on
4. of/with
5. to/in

13. Choose the best answer.
He shook hands ... me and thanked me heartily for being frank ... him.

1. with/to
2. for/with
3. on/with
4. in/in
5. with/with

14. Choose the best answer.
May I ask a favour ... you?

1. of
2. from
3. for
4. to
5. on

15. Choose the best answer.
We stepped out ... the house ... the garden.

1. of/into
2. from/to
3. of/for
4. to/into
5. in/to

16. Choose the best answer.
Life was hard in English villages in the nineteenth century. Most of the men worked on farms and had to be up ... sunrise because they often began work ... about 7 o`clock, milking, ploughing or harvesting. They generally worked from 7 o`clock until 12 o`clock without stopping.

1. since/from
2. by/at
3. by/from
4. until/by
5. by/since

17. Choose the best answer.
I worked ... early morning till late ... night.

1. from/in
2. by/at
3. from/at
4. on/on
5. until/at

18. Choose the best answer.
The common people of England had to struggle ... their rights.

1. over
2. against
3. on
4. about
5. for

19. Choose the best answer.
Their friendship ended ... the quarrel they had last month.

1. with
2. under
3. at
4. by
5. on

20. Choose the best answer.
The Prime Minister has left ... the conference in Paris.

1. for
2. to
3. at
4. on
5. in

21. Choose the best answer.
Now that he is old, he is very apt ... forget.

1. to
2. on
3. from
4. in
5. by

22. Choose the best answer.
He wrote his answer ... ink.

1. in
2. with
3. on
4. of
5. by

23. Choose the best answer.
He couldn`t call himself a friend of the Minister but he was at least acquainted ... him.

1. with
2. from
3. on
4. in
5. to

24. Choose the best answer.
The boy who got good marks was suspected ... cheating.

1. about
2. of
3. for
4. by
5. with

25. Choose the best answer.
... the absence of better tools, we used the broken ones.

1. In
2. Over
3. By
4. At
5. For

26. Choose the best answer.
The director hinted ... the possibility of a holiday next week.

1. of
2. to
3. at
4. over
5. up

27. Choose the best answer.
After trying hard several times, he met ... success.

1. with
2. about
3. for
4. up
5. in

28. Choose the best answer.
This boy is unable to distinguish a verb ... a noun.

1. by
2. with
3. against
4. from
5. to

29. Choose the best answer.
Telephone her and tell her she has left her glasses ... the table.

1. behind
2. about
3. over
4. up
5. on

30. Choose the best answer.
The plane took ... at six o`clock.

1. down
2. under
3. on
4. off
5. in

31. Choose the best answer.
That criminal was convicted ... a crime when he was seventeen.

1. of
2. on
3. for
4. with
5. by

32. Choose the best answer.
He is very slow ... arithmetic.

1. in
2. at
3. with
4. on
5. of

33. Choose the best answer.
He glories ... his past success.

1. about
2. in
3. of
4. on
5. for

34. Choose the best answer.
We mistook him ... the gardener.

1. on
2. with
3. of
4. for
5. as

35. Choose the best answer.
He always leaves ... work at 5:30 and goes ... home.

1. -/-
2. -/to
3. from/to
4. from/-
5. at/to

36. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
We are ready ... the lesson.

1. of
2. in
3. at
4. for
5. on

37. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
I checked a book ... the library yesterday.

1. at
2. out of
3. in
4. of
5. for

38. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
My friend went ... Moscow a month ago.

1. in
2. on
3. to
4. at
5. for

39. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
This street is named ... General Rakhimov, who gave his life during the Great Patriotic War.

1. at
2. around
3. of
4. after
5. on

40. Choose the best answer.
We waited ... anxiety ... the doctor to come.

1. in/for
2. with/for
3. at/to
4. with/on
5. for/with

41. Choose the best answer.
If you jump ... a plane, you are moving horizontally ... the same speed as the aircraft.

1. in/with
2. from/at
3. into/at
4. on/with
5. from/with

42. Choose the best answer.
I may not be an expert ... art, but I understand something ... painting.

1. in/in
2. on/in
3. at/about
4. on/with
5. with/in

43. Choose the best answer.
John could hardly keep his voice ... control and he was shaking ... a rage.

1. under/with
2. in/in
3. with/in
4. on/with
5. at/in

44. Choose the best answer.
Jane used to keep her room heaped ... all sorts of things and my remarks meant nothing ... her.

1. with/for
2. on/to
3. with/to
4. in/for
5. at/for

45. Choose the best answer.
If you cheat you`ll never get ... with it.

1. away
2. up
3. on
4. off
5. in

46. Choose the best answer.
I wanted to go but I`ve gone ... the idea.

1. off
2. away
3. on
4. of
5. up

47. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
John`s poverty brought him ... contact ... the homes of the very poor.

1. into/with
2. to/without
3. for/with
4. on/with
5. into/to

48. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
Mary is very good ... English. She always helps her friends ... their homework.

1. in/with
2. on/for
3. at/with
4. in/on
5. for/with

49. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
If you are interested ... research work, you may join ... some scientific society.

1. with/-
2. in/with
3. with/on
4. in/-
5. with/for

50. Choose the appropriate prepositions.
You must take these tablets ... your cough to be ... the safe side.

1. for/in
2. for/on
3. against/on
4. against/in
5. from/on