Bài tập ngữ pháp Tiếng Anh nâng cao (Test 4)

Advanced level – Test 4
1. In 1975, according to the national
center for health statistics, the average life
expectancy for people born during that
year …………… 72.4 years.
A. is
B. were
C. are
D. was
2. A …………… mountaineer reached
the top of the Himalaya last week.
A. fearful
B. fearfulness
C. fearless
D. fearlessness
3. Traditionally, the flag is ……………….
in the morning and taken down at night.
A. raised
B. raise
C. risen
D. rise
4. One way to inform the public about
factories that pollute the environment is
through …………… programs on TV.
A. agricultural
B. educational
C. industrial
D. cultural
5. I didn’t enjoy this book on how to
succeed in business. It wasn’t
very ………………

A. poorly written
B. well typed
C. well written
D. good written
6. The corals can be divided into three
groups, two of which …………… extinct.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
7. Without alphabetical order, dictionaries
would be ……………… to use.
A. possibility
B. possible
C. impossibility
D. impossible
8. I was shocked ……………… the news
of the crashed plane.
A. about
B. with
C. of
D. at
9. Jane Addams had already established
full house in Chicago and ………………
her work in the women’s suffrage
movement when she was awarded the
Nobel prize for peace.
A. began
B. begun
C. begin

D. beginning
10. The extent to which an individual is a
product of either heredity or
environment ………………, but several
theories have been proposed.
A. cannot proved
B. cannot be proved
C. cannot prove
D. can be proved
11. Every country ……… a national flag.
A. is
B. are
C. has
D. have
12. Optical fibers ………………… to
deliver laser light.
A. can also used
B. can also use
C. can also be used
D. also can be used
13. The flag of the original colonies may
or may not have been ………… by Betsy
Ross during the revolution.
A. made
B. make
C. to make
D. making
14. Goods for sale at …………… prices.
A. attract
B. attractive

C. attraction
D. attractively
15. Your mistakes in composition are
similar ……………… his.
A. by
B. to
C. on
D. with
16. Often a team of engineers
is ……………….
A. work on one project
B. on one project work
C. working on one project
D. to working on one project
17. A vacuum will neither conduct heat
nor ……………….
A. transmit sound waves
B. transmitting sound waves
C. sound waves are transmitted
D. the transmission of sound waves
18. To relieve pain caused by severe burns,
prevent infection, and treat for
shock, ………………
A. taking immediate steps
B. to take immediate steps
C. taken steps immediately
D. take immediate steps
19. All the cereal grains ……………….
grow on the prairies and plains of the
United States.

A. but rice
B. except the rice
C. but for rice
D. excepting rice
20. All of them are freshmen, …………
whom come from countryside.
A. most of
B. most
C. both a and b are coorrect
D. most of the
21. …………… thought was given, but
all was not approved.
A. A large number of
B. A great deal of
C. May of
D. Many
22. Green and magenta are
complementary colors located opposite
each other on the color wheel, …………
A. and blue and yellow so
B. and too blue and yellow
C. and so blue and yellow do
D. and so are blue and yellow
23. Double-stars orbit ……………….
A. each to other
B. each other
C. each other one
D. other each one
24. A …………… is a person who
searches for valuable minerals.

A. prospect
B. prospects
C. prospector
D. prospective
25. John F. Kennedy was the youngest
president of the United States
and ………………. to be assassinated.
A. the fourth
B. fourth
C. four
D. the four
26. Oscillatona, one of the few plants that
can move about, ………………. a wavy,
gliding motion.
A. having
B. have
C. being
D. with
27. Nitrogen must be ……………. with
another element such as hydrogen or
oxygen to be useful in agriculture or
industry.
A. combine
B. combining
C. to combine
D. combined
28. In ancient times and throughout the
middle ages, many people believed that
the earth …………… motionless.
A. is

B. are
C. was
D. were
29. Anyone reproducing copyrighted
works without permission of the holders
of the copyrights ………… breaking the
law.
A. are
B. is
C. was
D. were
30. Supersonic transport …………… the
Concorde will probably be widely
accepted as soon as problems of noise and
atmospheric pollution are resolved.
A. such
B. so as
C. so
D. such as