1/ John might phone tonight. I don't want to go out ______ he phones.
(a) if
(b) although
(c) for
(d) in case
2/ I'm going to the Opera tonight, but I ________
(a) would rather see a play
(b) must see a play
(c) would like a play
(d) had better see a play
3/ But once he had a difficult game against Alf. Alf played very well but in the
end Jack ________ him.
(a) was able to beat
(b) could beat
(c) is able to beat
(d) A and B are correct
4/ Could you give this book to Tom ________ you see him?
(a) if
(b) where
(c) in case
(d) since
5/ Did anyone clean the windows? No, They ______ but they weren't.
(a) should clean
(b) should have clean
(c) should have been cleaned
(d) should be cleaned
6/ I don't know many people and I'm lonely. I wish I ________
(a) know more people
(b) knew more people
(c) will know more people
(d) would know more people
7/ The phone rang but I didn't hear it. I_________ asleep.
(a) were
(b) must be
(c) must have been
(d) all are correct
8/ We didn't go out last night. We _______ to the cinema but we decided to stay
at home.
(a) could go
(b) could have
(c) had gone
(d) would go
9/ I __________ recently.
(a) can't have slept
(b) won't have slept
(c) haven't be able to sleep
(d) haven't been able to sleep
10/ People should send their complaints to the head office.
Complaints ________ to the head office.
(a) should send
(b) should be sent
(c) should have sent
(d) should have been sent
11/ "Why didn't he say hello when he pass us in the street?" He _______
(a) may day - dream
(b) might day - dream
(c) may be day - dreaming
(d) might have been day - dreaming
12/ "Do you know if Jack is in his office?"
"I'm not sure. He _________ in his office?"
(a) can be
(b) could be
(c) may be
(d) must be
13/ Tom, you're smoking" but you know you ________ in this room.
(a) are said to smoke
(b) are supposed to smoke
(c) are not supposed to smoke
(d) are not smoked
14/ Hello, _______ I speak to Tom, Please?
(a) can
(b) could
(c) may
(d) All are correct
15/ The fire spread through the building very quickly but everyone _______
(a) could escape
(b) can escape
(c) is able to escape
(d) was able to escape
16/ I hear that your examinations in next week. You ________ very hard at the
moment.
(a) are studying
(b) study
(c) must study
(d) must be studying
17/ It is getting cold. You'd better not ________ without a coat.
(a) go out
(b) to go out
(c) going out
(d) have gone out
18/ He came to the party without _________
(a) inviting
(b) invited
(c) being inviting
(d) being invited
19/ Mr. Miller doesn't like ________ waiting.
(a) keep
(b) to keep
(c) being kept
(d) kept
20/ I feel sick. I wish _________ so much.
(a) I don't eat
(b) I didn't eat
(c) I hadn't eaten
(d) haven't eaten
21/ Tom might not _________ tomorrow.
(a) be able to come
(b) can't come
(c) been able to come
(d) none is correct
22/ The music at the party was very loud and ________ from far away.
(a) can hear
(b) can be heard
(c) could hear
(d) could be heard
23/ It is believed that the wanted man is living in London.
The wanted man ________ in London.
(a) is believed to be living
(b) is believed to live
(c) is believed to have lived
(d) is living to believe
24/ What are those workmen doing in your garden?
Oh, I ________
(a) have built a swimming pool.
(b) have a swimming pool built.
(c) had a swimming pool built.
(d) am having a swimming pool built.
25/ Jack was an excellent tennis player. He _______ anybody.
(a) could beat
(b) can beat
(c) was able to beat
(d) A and C are correct
26/ Mr. Sierra offered ________ because she had faith in his capabilities.
(a) to Mr. Armstrong the position
(b) Mr. Armstrong the position
(c) the position for Mr. Armstrong
(d) Mr. Armstrong to the position
27/ I ________"detective stories" but I don't any more.
(a) am used to enjoy
(b) used to enjoy
(c) am used to enjoying
(d) am getting used to enjoying
28/ They are _________
(a) so lazy boys that they are punished.
(b) so lazy boys as they are punished.
(c) such lazy that they are punished.
(d) such lazy boys that they are punished.
29/ Bring John with you the next time you come. Emphatic:_________
(a) Please bring John with you the next time you come.
(b) The next time you come, bring John with you.
(c) Do bring John with you the next time you come.
(d) All are correct.
30/ Are you accustomed to ________ in a small flat yet?
(a) live
(b) living
(c) lived
(d) have lived
31/ Oh! I can't stand ______ to his complaints any longer.
(a) listen
(b) to listen
(c) listened
(d) listening
32/ She wanted to serve some coffee to her guests; however, ________
(a) there was not a great amount of the sugar.
(b) she did not have much sugar.
(c) she was lacking in amount of the sugar.
(d) she hadn't many sugar.
33/ For a while, we consider not ________ with them.
(a) to go
(b) going
(c) go
(d) be going
34/ He goes to England________
(a) so to learns English.
(b) so that he learns English.
(c) so he learns English.
(d) so that he may learn English.
35/ ________ did Jane accept the job.
(a) Only because it was interesting work
(b) Because it was interesting work
(c) Only because it was interested work
(d) The work was interested
36/ His secretary failed _______ several important items.
(a) include
(b) to include
(c) including
(d) included
37/ Mr. Green suggested _______ before the weekend.
(a) to leave
(b) leave
(c) leaving
(d) left
38/ ________ sir, Isaac Newton described the law of gravitation.
(a) Was a seventeenth - century scientist
(b) Who was a seventeenth - century scientist
(c) A seventeenth - century scientist
(d) When was a seventeenth - century scientist
39/ I will go out _________
(a) in spite the rain.
(b) in spite it rains.
(c) although the rain.
(d) in spite of the rain.
40/ It's true that many years ago he _______ by a famous artist?
(a) had his portrait painted
(b) has his portrait painted
(c) has his portrait paint
(d) had had his portrait painted
41/ Jill's coat was dirty so she took it to the cleaners.
Now it is clean. What has Jill done?________
(a) She has her coat cleaned.
(b) She had her coat cleaned.
(c) She had had her coat cleaned.
(d) She has had her coat cleaned.
42/ _________ with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountains do not
seem high at all.
(a) When compared
(b) Compare them
(c) if you compare
(d) A comparison
43/ Especially important to many people ________
(a) there is legislation against pollution.
(b) is legislation against pollution.
(c) it is legislation against pollution.
(d) legislation against pollution is.
44/ He is not clever, but he tries. Emphatic:_______
(a) He is not clever but does he try.
(b) He is not clever but he do try.
(c) He is not clever but he does tries.
(d) He is not clever but he does try.
45/ Hard as they tried, they didn't succeed in their scheme.
Emphatic:__________
(a) Hard as they tried, they succeeded not in their scheme.
(b) Hard as they tried, they never did succeed in their scheme.
(c) Hard as they tried, they never did succeeded in their scheme.
(d) A and B are correct.
46/ He runs ________
(a) so quick that I can't catch him.
(b) so quickly that I can't catch him.
(c) such quick that I can't catch him.
(d) so quickly as I can't catch him.
47/ Mr. Moore _______ this weak American coffee.
(a) used to
(b) get used to
(c) is becoming accustomed to
(d) none is correct.
48/ The hospital owes _____ for the construction of the new wing.
(a) the government twenty million dollars
(b) for the government twenty million dollars
(c) to the government twenty million dollars
(d) twenty million of dollars to the government
49/ Everyone urged Bill _______ his education.
(a) continue
(b) to continue
(c) continuing
(d) continued
50/ Having been asked to speak at the convention ________
(a) some notes were prepared for Dr. Millington.
(b) Dr. Millington prepared some notes.
(c) the convention members pleased to hear Dr. Millington.
(d) some notes were prepared by Dr. Millington.
51/ What did the teacher want to students to do?
The teacher had the students _________ all afternoon.
(a) write
(b) written
(c) work
(d) to write
52/ In Austria, where fertile farmland is limited, crops _________
(a) are on the sides of mountains often grown.
(b) often are on the sides of mountains grown.
(c) are grown on the sides often of mountains.
(d) are often grown on the sides mountains.
53/ I can't go there now, but I ________
(a) plan to go there tomorrow
(b) plan to go tomorrow
(c) plan to tomorrow
(d) plan tomorrow
54/ I was late again this morning. Well I think you had better _______ on time.
(a) to start to be
(b) start being
(c) started being
(d) to be
55/ He wishes _______ What does John want to do?
(a) to have his hair cut.
(b) to have cut his hair.
(c) to cut his hair.
(d) his hair to cut.
56/ During the last twenty year _________
(a) there has been an increase in average annual snowfall
(b) there is more interest of winter sports
(c) there have been less snow and more rain.
(d) a tendency toward colder winters that it were before.
57/ What do you want to do? I think _________ it myself.
(a) I'd better to drive
(b) better I drive
(c) I'd rather drive
(d) I had drive better
58/ She told me her address ________ I wrote down on a piece of paper.
(a) that
(b) which
(c) whose
(d) A and B are correct
59/ I live in a pleasent room ________ the garden.
(a) overlook
(b) overlooked
(c) overlooking
(d) to overlook
60/ The rumour _______ we heard yesterday is not true.
(a) that
(b) which
(c) no word is needed
(d) all are correct
61/ Most of the goods_________ in this factory are exported.
(a) make
(b) to make
(c) made
(d) making
62/ We should invite them, but we ________
(a) don't want to invite them.
(b) don't want to invite
(c) don't
(d) don't want to
63/ After each suggestion below _________
(a) you will find sample exercises for practice
(b) for practice will you find sample exercises.
(c) exercises will be found for practice by you
(d) to exercises for practice will be found.
64/ The policemen ________ the robbery are looking for three men.
(a) investigate
(b) investigating
(c) investigated
(d) none is correct
65/ It's sometimes ________ when you have to ask people for money.
(a) embarrassing
(b) embarrassed
(c) to embarrass
(d) embarrass
66/ The teacher about ________ she spoke was my teacher last year.
(a) who
(b) whom
(c) whose
(d) which
67/ _________ James Fen more Cooper wrote about Indians and pioneers in the
forest and sailors on the high seas.
(a) The first American novelist to achieve world-wide fame who is
(b) The first American novelist to achieve world-wide fame
(c) Although he was the first American novelist to achieve world-wide fame.
(d) He was the first American novelist to achieve world-wide fame.
68/ Jack has three brothers, all of ________ are married.
(a) which
(b) who
(c) whom
(d) all are correct
69/ Did you leave very early last night, Mr.Smith?
Yes, but I wish I __________ so early.
(a) didn't leave
(b) hadn't left
(c) haven't left
(d) couldn't leave
70/ _______ Thomas Edison invented a device to transmit a special signal while
he slept.
(a) He was a night telegraph operator
(b) That he was a night telegraph operator
(c) As a night telegraph operator
(d) Whereas a night telegraph operator
71/ Shall I drive to the track? No, I think you ________
(a) had better
(b) had not
(c) not have better
(d) had better not
72/ We were all ________ when we heard about the disaster.
(a) horrify
(b) horrifying
(c) to horrify
(d) horrified
73/ The new model ________ has just come out is the best so far.
(a) Who
(b) whom
(c) whose
(d) which
74/ None of the people________ to the party can come.
(a) invite
(b) to invite
(c) inviting
(d) invited
75/ The African killer bees couldn't be handled safely, nor _______
(a) could their honey be harvested.
(b) their honey could be harvested.
(c) harvested could their honey be.
(d) could not their honey be harvested.
76/ Did you eat three sandwiches? Yes, I was _________ hungry today.
(a) more than usual
(b) unusual
(c) more usually
(d) unusually
77/ He could not help _________
(a) to cry
(b) cry
(c) cried
(d) crying
78/ He did nothing but __________
(a) laughing
(b) to laugh
(c) laugh
(d) laughed
79/ He should be here in a few _________ time.
(a) minute
(b) minute's
(c) minutes
(d) minutes'
80/ How did you learn to drive?
_______ strict obedience to my tutor.
(a) To give
(b) give
(c) By giving
(d) Giving
81/ __________ will please them.
(a) Offer him a job
(b) To offer him a job
(c) For offering him a job
(d) Offering him a job
82/ Only in the last few years _________ to help them.
(a) anything has been done
(b) something has been done
(c) has anything been done
(d) is anything done
83/ The _________ admitted that he was to blame for the accident.
(a) car's driver
(b) driver's car
(c) driver of the car
(d) carred driver
84/ What do you think about French?
If I had known French was so difficult, I ________ it up.
(a) would never taken
(b) will never take
(c) would never take
(d) would never have taken
85/ ________ the teacher gave me a passing grade.
(a) After taking the test
(b) After taken the test
(c) After I take the test
(d) After I took the test
86/ The house is a ________ building.
(a) two stories
(b) two-story
(c) two-story's
(d) two-stories
87/ Mary ________ her good friend, will help her.
(a) is
(b) being
(c) be
(d) been
88/ When are you going to walk the dog? As soon as I _________ dinner.
(a) will finish
(b) finished
(c) am finished
(d) finish
89/ Doesn't Mary want to go to that movie?
Yes, but she says _______ tonight.
(a) she'd not rather go
(b) she'll rather not go
(c) she won't rather go
(d) she'd rather not go
90/ According to this newspaper, John is said _________ a new record for the
long jump.
(a) to have established
(b) to establish
(c) establishing
(d) established
91/ The man got out of the car ________ round to the back and opened the boot.
(a) walking
(b) walked
(c) walk
(d) walks
92/ A telephone conversation should be ________
(a) short
(b) shortly
(c) shorted
(d) shortened
93/ The exam was very stiff. Now, don't begin making excuses.
Other boys _________ have passed.
(a) not cleverer like you
(b) as clever not like you
(c) no cleverer than you
(d) clever not than you
94/ How can I help you the most?
_________ out of the way.
(a) For you to say
(b) to stay
(c) By staying
(d) With your staying
95/ What happened to her teeth? She ________ the apple more than she could
chew.
(a) has bitten
(b) had been bitting
(c) bit
(d) bite
96/ Eleven plus twenty _________ thirty-one.
(a) equal
(b) are equaled
(c) are equal
(d) equals
97/ _________ things make us do useful work.
(a) Wanting
(b) Want
(c) Being wanted
(d) Wanted
98/ __________ won't bite.
(a) Barked dogs
(b) Barking dogs
(c) Bark dogs
(d) To bark dogs
99/ What was going on last night? When I returned home, I found the window
open and something ________
(a) to steal
(b) stealing
(c) stolen
(d) stole
100/ He as well as I _________ honest.
(a) are
(b) is
(c) am
(d) all are correct.
101/ John said that no other car could go _________
(a) so fast like his car.