Situational Expression Advanced Level Test - Quiz (Online Exercise With Answers)
This third situational expression test contains 25 multiple
choice questions on the topic of situational expression 3. 3. You have a student who is in her last year of high
of English language. Both English learners and ESL school education. This year she’s going to graduate
teachers can use this online exercise as a revision to check and she wanted some help from you regarding her
the knowledge of situational expression. future job choice. She likes to work on her own and
she’s interested in ideas. She likes to be free and also
she’s fond of reading. While leading her you say:
1. 1. When you are in a hurry, preparing to leave for
work, a nice university student knocks at your door A) If I were you I would be a model. You're beautiful
and asks you to participate in his social research for enough
his graduation thesis. You check the time and notice
that you are about to miss the train to be at work on B) I see you want to be the centre of attention.
time. You don’t want to offend him but reject his C) In my opinion, a stage job-like being a film star-
request by saying: would suit best to you.
D) Why do you ask such superficial questions and
A) Oh, please come in. I am always glad to be a part
waste my time?
of such studies
E) I think you have the capacity to be a prominent
B) I can answer your questions if it’s only a few
writer one day.
minutes
C) Oh, I’ve already missed the train anyway. How can
I help you?
D) Can’t you see I’m in a hurry? I don’t want to be
late for work. Piss off! 4. 4. Your friend has some problems with her boy friend.
She consistently complains that her boyfriend always
E) I’m afraid. I cannot help you. I’m late for work. brings his best friend with him and so they can never
Come some other time go out on their own. And she feels sad about this. You
want to assist her and you say:
A) How jealous you are! Why do you make him so
sad?
2. 2. Your son has just moved to a new school which he B) Give him up and find another boyfriend!
must attend to at least for a semestre and on the first
day of the school he telephoned you to say that he is C) Take revenge from him by taking your own friends
very lonely since he hasn’t got any friends. You’re on dates
trying to comfort him and you say: D) Is his best friend a girl or a boy?
E) In my opinion, you must talk to him and explain
A) I can’t bear your nonsense complaints anymore.
that you want to be alone with him
B) Boys don’t cry, my courageous son. Be strong and
stay still.
C) Have you tried talking to anyone yet?
D) The first days are all the same. Don’t worry; you
will make friends as time passes. I trust you. 5. 5. Your cousin thinks he’s got a terrible problem. He’s
got some spots on his face and because of this, he
E) If you didn’t like that school, we could change it doesn’t want to go out. You want to tell him that it’s a
immediately, my dear? minor problem and he shouldn’t care about that
much. You say:
A) If I were you, I would kill myself!
B) Everyone laughs at you when you go to school.
C) It’s just acne and it’s normal, so try to be calm.
D) I’ve got spots, too and l just ignore them.
E) I had better see a doctor at once. Most probably
you have a contagious disease.
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6. 6. Your nephew has been seeing a girl for a long time. 8. 8.Your brother has been listening to music loudly in
But your aunt doesn’t like her and thus she doesn’t his room for at least three hours. You can’t bear the
approve this relationship. Now, your nephew and his noise anymore and you are worried about the
girlfriend meet each other in secret. Your nephew possible bad reactions of the neighbours. So you
wants some useful advice from you concerning their come in his room and say to him in an ironic way:
situation. You want to show him the right way and
you say: A) Our music taste is totally different from each
other, isn’t it?
A) Meeting in secret will only make the problem
B) If you go on listening like that our neighbours will
worse, so go and ask your mum why she doesn’t like
be thankful to us for this free disco party.
your girlfriend.
C) I can’t really understand the way you are having
B) Go on like this former and I appreciate your
fun on your own listening to this terrible music.
success in keeping your love as a secret.
D) Volume the music down or our mother will come
C) She’s too young to flirt with you.
and shout at you in a minute.
D) You care too much. Try to relax and rest for a few
E) Keep listening to music loudly when you get in a
days.
bad mood. It helps you relax.
E) Why don’t you go for a holiday to have some
peace?
9. 9. You are a teacher of English and you have
observed that one of your students has fallen asleep
7. 7. One of your friends wants you to give him a in your lessons lately. You know that he is a
suggestion about where to go for his summer holiday. hardworking and attentive student. You don’t know
You spent your last summer enjoying yourself in what has been going wrong about him but you have
Alanya. So you said to him: an idea that there can be a problem about his sleep
at nights. You want to be sure before doing
A) Would you like to go somewhere crowded or something and ask him in the break time:
peaceful?
A) If you continue sleeping in your s lessons on not
B) I think you are going to have a marvellous time in
studying enough. I’m sure that you will fail most of
Alanya
your lessons. Do you agree with me?
C) I’m not a kind of person that can give you good
B) Let’s go to the cafeteria and talk to each other a
suggestion about this because the only place I have
little bit, shall we?
seen except my hometown is Ankara
C) I’m very annoyed about your non stop sleeps
D) Go to the airport and board the first plane you can
while I am teaching in the classroom what is the
find
problem?
E) Why don’t you join me in my trip including
D) Don’t you know that you can be punished if one of
Antalya, especially Alanya?
teachers has noticed that you are sleeping in the
class?
E) I think you are having difficulty sleeping at nights.
I saw you sleep in my lessons. Why don’t you let me
know what is going wrong about you?
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10. 10. Mary was rather sad for a long time because of 13. 13. Since your friend hasn’t had a good score on
her physical appearance. She had always eaten much Math’s exam, it is unprobable for him to graduate
more than anybody at her age. Last year she decided from the university at the end of this semester. That
to lose weight, and she started to visit a dietician. matter of affairs bothers him so much that he is
After a few weeks, she stopped eating so much. And about to decide to postpone his graduation to the
you saw her at a party last week. She’d got rather next year. You think that it isn’t too late and say
thinner and fitter in appearance. You want to encouragely:
compliment on her:
A) No matter how much you study, you will fail over
A) Can I have, your doctor’s telephone number? again.
B) Do I look as thin as you? B) If it had been for my help, you would have
C) How did you dare such a thing? succeeded it
D) God! How silly you look today! C) Don’t worry! I’ll help you explain this bad luck to
E) How nice to see you so happy today and you also your family.
look perfect in shape. D) Be sure that it is still in your hand to get the
required mark.
E) Never mind! Such things always happen in life.
11. 11. You’ve just arrived at the hotel where you’ll spend
your whole vacation. As soon as you enter the
reception, you see that everything is in dirt and dust.
And nobody helps you carry the luggage. You get 14. 14. Your teacher has shouted insults at you without
angry and say to the receptionist. any reason in front of your classmates. You hate
being insulted in public. What is worse is that this is
A) I'm really overjoyed to see the surrounding such not the first time he has done such an unexcusable
neat and tidy. thing. After the lesson you ask him to have a private
word and warn him but not in an intimidating way:
B) I’m very set on staying in this hotel.
C) I’m apprehensive about your hotel’s future so is A) If you do that again, I am afraid something will
there anything I can do for you? likely get worse
D) I fear that I've created a bad impression by B) Why don’t you call my parents and tell them all I
arriving late. did.
E) I’m afraid I have a complaint to make about your C) I suppose I don’t deserve to be treated like that.
hotel. D) Your teaching style bothers me, and this is the
only problem for me
E) I know some inspectors well working in the
ministry of enlightment
12. 12. On your way to London you have had flat tire.
This is the first time you have faced such a problem,
and you don’t know what to do. You stop a car and
say:
A) As I see, you look very tired
B) I think my car has an engine problem. Can you
check it?
C) I can repair it, but you should wait for a while.
D) I was wondering if you could give me a hand.
E) How about stopping and checking your car out?
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15. 15. Your friend needs to borrow an amount of money 18. 18. Bill really has made a big mistake this time. He
from someone. He comes to you and explains the has forgotten to turn in his research paper. He can’t
situation. Actually this is not the first time he has have done it because he had to spend most of his
broken his promise. At first you doubt whether to give time on the funeral of an old friend of his. At first he
him one more chance or not, but later you think that tried to explain his excuse, but later on it hasn’t been
it would be wise not to lend any and tell him found reasonable. Bill doesn’t give up and says but
decisively: this time quite convincingly:
A) A man who doesn’t keep his word doesn’t deserve A) Well it isn’t impossible for me to make you believe
to be lend any thing. me.
B) I have lent money to many people, but you are the B) I think there is a misunderstanding between us.
only one to return oh time. C) It was very important than this assigment.
C) Should you not return on the exact date, the D) Were you in my condition what would you have
amount you owe will double. done?
D) You usually break your promises, and that is why E) Do you know that I am an absendminded person?
nobody trusts you but me.
E) Keep your head with you, and don’t ask anybody
to lend such a great amount of money.
19. 19. Your brother studies English in a course. He has
just been given a test. He has had an awful score on
it, so he has been feeling very sad since the time he
received the results. As an elderly you think that not
16. 16. You are shopping with your wife in a department everything is over and try to relieve him by saying:
store. One of the shop assistants is following you
wherever you move, therefore you can’t comment on A) Don’t mind it any more. Many others didn’t do well
prices to your wife comfortably. To show your either.
displeasure you say ironically:
B) Just think about how you could persuade your
A) Following customers step by step is making them master to postpone the exam.
buy more, isn't it? C) Why do you have to take such awful marks?
B) Is it possible to find every kind of goods here? D) That is not the end. You may be given a make-up
C) Have you just started working in here? exam
D) We have been looking for a pair of shoes. E) This is not the first time you have made such a
E) We come here all the time, So will you make a miserable score
reduction for us?
20. 20. You feel you are being unfairly criticized for
negligence and feel you have every right to protest.
17. 17. You are working in a big firm due to economic
recession. Your firm is said to go into bankruptcy. The You say:
staff manager calls you and Says that they will not
dismiss you having considered your past great A) You've no right to go shouting at people like that,
performonces. Having heard perfect news, you no matter what they’ve done.
express your gratitudes and say: B) Agreed! Perhaps, there is evidence of
A) Thanks to you for increasing our salaries. carelessness? But whose? No one has the right to put
B) Isn’t there anyone else in this firm to be made the blame on me.
redundant? C) If you carry out the instructions meticulously
C) I am so sad to hear all these about such a huge there’ll be no problem.
company D) Luckily I foresaw the problem - if hadn’t, you
D) I appreciate your concern, and be sure that I will would all be in danger of losing your jobs.
not let you down. E) Let’s stop accusing each other and get down to
E) The firm’s success is attributed by all of us to your putting things right.
outstanding managing.
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21. 21. There has been an unusually heated board-
meeting. One of the younger members, quite out-of-
character, has really been rather rude to one of the
senior members. You feel he ought to apologize 23. 23. A friend of yours is under great pressure at work
though really he isn’t to blame. You say: and the strain is showing. You really want to get him
to relax for one evening at least. You’ve fixed an
A) It really was most unfortunate, but I do think it evening out with mutual friends and ask him to join
you. You want the invitation to seem casual but be
would be best if you tried to smooth out the situation.
tempting. You say:
B) You are always speaking out of turn like this and A) It’s time you widened your circle of friends. You're
you’d better cure the habit. getting iri â rut.
C) We all know he’s an aid fool, but it doesn’t pay to B) You really ought to meet these people; They are in
tell him so to his face. the same line of business aS yourself
D) What he said was quite unforgivable. You did right C) How about joining us? It'S all people you know so
to say so. you can relax and be yourself
E) The event is hardly likely to improve even if you D) I don’t want to go there by myself; won’t you
do apologize to him. come with me?
E) You’re on edge all the time. You must take a break
of you’ll get sick. You must come
22. 22. Ted is thinking about buying your car. As he is an
old friend you want him to have the first option. But
he’s been hesitating about it for ten- days or more,
and you are losing patience as you want to get the 24. 24. In a large department store one of the assistants
has really been Very rude to an old lady. True, the old
transaction finished. You tell him quite openly:
lady was slow to make up her mind about what She
wanted and in faGt seemed rather confused
A) You really ought to get a driving license before
altogether, especially about how hiiuch she could
thinking about buying a car. afford to pây After she has gone you turn to the
B) I’d like you to have the car but my financial assistant and, hoping to change her attitude, Say:
position is such that I must let it go to the highest
A) Your job is harder than I expected!
bidder.
B) That wasn’t well dorte; Remember, we shall all be
C) My car really isn’t in very good condition so you’d
bid one day; you too.
probably be better to look elsewhere.
C) Old people Should find someone to do their
D) There are several other people interested in
shopping for them.
buying my car, so do please make up your mind
D) I shall report the whole incident to the manager
about it by Thursday at the latest.
and it will serve you right If you lose your job.
E) You can borrow my car for a few days but I have to
E) You handled the matter well. These old people try
get it back by the weekend.
one’s patience to the limit.
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25. 25. A friend is worried about his son because he’s
been getting really poor marks at school. Your
friend’s manner is rather too authoritarian and you
think he is being too hard on the boy. Rather
tentatively you say:
A) What are his friends like? Are they a bad influence
on him?
B) It’s serious. You’ll have to make him work harder
C) Perhaps you’re putting too much pressure on him.
He’s just at the age that reacts badly to pressure
D) Don’t change yOur attitude. He’ll give in.
E) He must be made to see reason.
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Answer Key:
1: E 14: C
2: D 15: A
3: E 16: A
4: E 17: D
5: C 18: C
6: A 19: D
7: B 20: B
8: B 21: A
9: E 22: D
10: E 23: C
11: E 24: B
12: D 25: C
13: D
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