UNIT FIVE
Past participle and present participle adjectives
Multiple choice questions for past participle and present participle adjectives
Direction-I- Choose the correct answer for the following questions.
1. My sister ________ him to write a new song. My sister was very ________.
A. inspired / inspired
B. inspiring / inspired
C. inspire / inpiring
D. inspired / inspiring
2. They were all ________ because the game was very ________.
A. bored/bored
B. boring/bored
C. bored/boring
D. boring/boring
3. My sister _________ me with a cup of chocolate. The chocolate was very ____________.
A. comforted / comforted
B. comforted / comforting
C. comforting / comforted
D. comforting / comforting
4. I was rather _______ by what he said. His words were very _______.
A. offended / offending
B. offended / offensive
C. offending / offended
D. offending / offensive
5. It ________ me to see my marks at the end of every term. They are usually very ________ marks.
A. depressed / depressed
B. depresses / depressing
C. depresses / depressed
D. depressed / depressing
6. I was _______ to accept the job offer. The salary was very _______.
A. tempted / tempting
B. tempted / tempted
C. tempting / tempted
D. tempting / tempting
7. Losing the final was ________. The players were ________.
A. devastated / devastating
B. devastated / devastated
C. devastating / devastated
D. devastating / devastating
8. We were ________ to have Sam at home. He is such a _______ boy!
A. delighted / delightful
B. delighted / delighting
C. delighting / delighted
D. delightful / delighted
9. Her behavior was really _______. Her teacher felt _______.
A. irritated / irritating
B. irritated / irritating
C. irritating / irritated
D. irritating / irritating
10. We were totally _______. His _______ words didn’t make any sense to us.
A. perplexed / perplexing
B. perplexed / preplexed
C. perplexing / perplexed
D. perplexing / perplexing
11. I don’t understand chess. The rules are very _________.
A. confused
B. confusing
C. confusingly
D. confuse
12. He was ________when he arrived late for class.
A. embarrassed
B. embarrassing
C. embarrassingly
D. embarrass
13. There is a new movie playing at the Cinema. Are you ________?
A. interesting
B. interestingly
C. interested
D. interestedly
14. My little brother makes too much noise. He is _________.
A. annoyed
B. annoying
C. annoyingly
D. annoy
15. Moving to a new home is hard work. It’s _________.
A. tired
B. tiredly
C. tire
D. tiring
16. The sad news made me __________.
A. depressing
B. depressingly
C. depressed
D. depress
17. Bontu got a B+. She was ________ with her test results.
A. satisfied
B. satisfying
C. satisfy
D. satisfyingly
18. Our company isn’t making any money. It’s very _________.
A. worry
B. worryingly
C. worrying
D. worried
19. Dejene thinks that dogs are _________.
A. terrified
B. terrifying
C. terrify
D. terrifyingly
20. I think that insects are ________. I love to study them!
A. fascinating
B. fascinated
C. fascinate
D. Fascinatingly
21. We walked by the ________ bridge.
A. damaged
B. damaging
C. damagingly
D. damageful
22. The news was ________ to his reputation.
A. damaged
B. damagingly
C. damaging
D. damageful
23. I found the song to be very ________. It made me feel calm.
A. relaxingly
B. relaxed
C. relaxing
D. relaxeful
24. There were a lot of ________ people in the room after the troublemaker left.
A. relieved
B. relieving
C. relievingful
D. relieve
25. Dawit has a ________ father who cares for him deeply.
A. love
B. lovingly
C. loving
D. loved
26. They seemed really ________ by the joke.
A. irritate
B. irritatingly
C. irritated
D. irritating
27. His sense of humor can be pretty _________.
A. irritate
B. irritatingly
C. irritated
D. irritating
28. The band’s last album was __________.
A. disappointed
B. disappointing
C. disappointedly
D. disappointingly
29. He was happy to hear such ________ words.
A. encouragingly
B. encouragedly
C. encouraged
D. encouraging
30. The candidate felt _________ with the results.
A. satisfyingly
B. satisfied full
C. satisfied
D. satisfyingly
31. The foot ball match was ________; I didn’t expect it to be that bad.
A. disappoint
B. disappointed
C. disappointing
D. disappointment
32. ________ by a Snake, Selamawit was taken to a hospital.
A. Have bitten
B. Having been bitten
C. Having bitten
D. Have been bitten
33. You have been working since early in the morning till now. You look ________. You should take rest now.
A. exhaust
B. exhausting
C. exhausted
D. exhaustive
34. Many young Africans fled their home town because of the ________situation around them.
A. terrified
B. terrifying
C. terrify
D. terrifyingly
35. Yordanos doesn’t enjoy her job. She’s ________because she does the same thing every day.
A. boring
B. bored
C. bores
D. boringly
36. My nephew was _______ by the clown.
A. amusing
B. amusingly
C. amused
D. amuse
37. It’s so ________! No matter how much I study I can’t seem to remember this vocabulary.
A. frustrating
B. frustrated
C. frustrate
D. frustratingly
38. This lesson is so ___________!
A. bored
B. boringly
C. boring
D. bores
39. I’m feeling ________, so I’m going to go home, eat some chocolate, and go to bed early with a good book.
A. depressed
B. depressing
C. depressingly
D. depress
40. I thought her new idea was absolutely________ .
A. fascinated
B. fascinate
C. fascinating
D. fascinatingly
41. This maths problem is so _______ (/). Can you help me?
A. confused
B. confusing
C. confusingly
D. confuse
42. The teacher was really ________ so the lesson passed quickly.
A. amusing
B. amusingly
C. amuse
D. amused
43. The journey was________! Twelve hours by bus.
A. exhausted
B. exhausting
C. exhaustingly
D. exhaust
44. The plane began to move in a rather ________way.
A. alarming
B. alarmed
C. alarm
D. alarmingly
45. He was _________when he saw the spider.
A. frightening
B. frighten
C. frightened
D. frighteningly
46. I was really _________ when I fell over in the street.
A. embarrassing
B. embarrassed
C. embarrass
D. embarrassingly
47. That film was so ________! There was no happy ending for any of the characters.
A. depressed
B. depress
C. depressingly
D. depressing
48. I’m sorry, I can’t come tonight. I’m completely _________.
A. exhausting
B. exhaust
C. exhaustingly
D. exhausted
49. We are going in a helicopter? How __________!
A. excited
B. excite
C. exciting
D. excitingly
50. Don’t show my baby photos to people, Mum! It’s so ________!
A. embarrassing
B. embarrassed
C. embarrassingly
D. embarrass
51. It’s okay, it’s only me. Don’t be _________.
A. alarmed
B. alarming
C. alarm
D. alarmingly
52. My sister is so ________because she is going on holiday tomorrow.
A. exciting
B. excite
C. excited
D. excitingly
53. I hate long flights, I’m always really ________.
A. boring
B. boringly
C. bores
D. bored
54. She looked very ________when I told her we had to change the plan.
A. confusing
B. confuse
C. confusingly
D. confused
55. John was ________ by Mandarin when he first started learning languages. He decided to study more and now he can speak it fluently.
A. fascinated
B. fascinating
C. fascinate
D. fascinatingly
Answer Key For Unit Five
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1 D |
8 A |
15 D |
22 C |
29 D |
36 C |
43 B |
50 A |
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2 C |
9 C |
16 C |
23 C |
30 C |
37 A |
44 A |
51 A |
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3 B |
10 A |
17 A |
24 A |
31 C |
38 C |
45 C |
52 C |
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4 B |
11 B |
18 C |
25 D |
32 B |
39 A |
46 B |
53 D |
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5 B |
12 A |
19 B |
26 C |
33 C |
40 C |
47 D |
54 D |
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6 A |
13 C |
20 A |
27 D |
34 B |
41 B |
48 D |
55 A |
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7 C |
14 B |
21 A |
28 B |
35 B |
42 D |
49 C |
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