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GRAMMAR TEST
-89
1. Mother's Day is ______May.
A) on
B) in
C) at
D) for
E) for
2. Something must be done quickly if endangered species
----- saved.
A) is
B) be
C) can be
D) will be
E) are to be
3. How much snow _____ now?
A) it is
B) is it
C) there is
D) is there
E) there
4. If you still don't have an answer from the University
of Iowa, why _____call the admissions office?
A) you don't
B) not to
C) not
D) don't
E) you
5. At a potluck dinner, everyone who comes must _____ a
dish.
A) take
B) get
C) carry
D) bring
E) receive
6. Sending ______ "special delivery" costs about 16
times as
much as sending it "regular delivery".
A) a few parcels
B) a lot of letters
C) some packages
D) pieces of post
E) a piece of mail
7. Thousands of journalists around the world _____ all
aspects of life in China until 2008.
A) will be scrutinizing
B) would be scrutinizing
C) might have been scrutinizing
D) were scrutinizing
E) have been scrutinizing
8. He was dealt such a harsh blow _____stunned for
several minutes.
A) which caused him to be
B) that he was
C) because of which he was
D) so as to make him
E) owing to surprising him
9. If the man ______ off the stepladder, the paint
wouldn't have fallen on to her.
A) hadn't fallen
B) didn't fall
C) had fallen
D) were
E) could
10. Proposition 216 is a two-year-old law _____ to allow
seriously ill people in California to use marijuana as
medicine.
A) intended
B) which has been intending
C) for intending
D) which could intend
E) for intending
11. A hurricane is a steamy storm with winds that
-------- a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more.
A) won't be reaching
B) reach
C) is reaching
D) has reached
E) reaches
12. By the end of the year, Pole ______ with a degree in
the syntax of Friesian language.
A) already graduates
B) will have already graduated
C) has already graduated
D) had already graduate
E) will be graduating
13. If Alex _____ with his girlfriend, he _____ now.
A) hadn't broken up / wouldn't be suffering
B) hadn't broken up / wouldn't suffer
C) didn't break up / wouldn't be suffering
D) weren't to break up / wouldn't suffer
E) was breaking up / shouldn't suffer
14. Whenever I _____ talk to my boss, I get butterflies
in my stomach.
A) had to
B) will have to
C) have to
D) might
E) should have to
15. By the end of the year, she_____ with a degree in
business.
A) already graduates
B) had graduated
C) has already graduated
D) is going to graduate
E) will have already graduated
16. The slide to nationalism in Turkey's general
election highlights the country's disillusionment with
Europe, which ____ gradually growing since the country's
EU membership bid ____ rejected.
A) has been/was
B) have been / were
C) has been/were
D) had been / was
E) were / was
17. Sergeant Rickman _____ two small white amphetamine
tablets with his vitamins so as_____ in the morning.
A) swallowed / to wake up
B) swallow / to wake up
C) swallowed / woke up
D) has swallowed / woken up
E) has been swallowed / to wake up
18. Such a situation ______ drawn howls of protest from
leaders of the antiabortion movement just four years
ago.
A) has
B) would be
C) might have
D) could be
E) was
19. Recent outbreaks of food poisoning in Japan _____
been_____ severe that the government authorities asked
the researchers to take time out from developing new
audio and video gadgets to come up with a quick and
simple test ____ the presence of deadly bacteria in
food.
A) had / such / since
B) had / so / for
C) have / such / since
D) have/ so / for
E) have / very / to
20. Around 100 000 troops ____ served in the 1991 Gulf
conflict with Iraq developed a mysterious illness ____
memory loss, thyroid disorders, allergies, exhaustion,
rashes and persistent pain.
A) had / involving
B) - / involving
C) who / involving
D) which / involved
E) - / involved
21. A man _____ for jumping over the gates of Buckingham
palace _____released by police force.
A) which arrested / were
B) arresting / had been
C) arrested / has been
D) which arrests / has been
E) which arrested / was
22. The owner of Disneyland Paris, Europe's most popular
tourist draw, ____ the French supervision will chip in
to help it ____ a second theme park in Paris.
A) hopes / builds
B) hoped / builds
C) hopes / build
D) hoped / build
E) hope / builds
23. I asked her _____
A) to not go away
B) to go not away
C) not to go away
D) go not away
E) he will not go away
24. He would have known that, if he_____ the convention.
A) had attended
B) would have attended
C) has attended
D) would attend
E) were to attend
25. The great earthquake in August, 1999, ___much of the
city and claimed about 30,000 lives.
A) that it destroyed
B) that destroyed
C) was destroyed
D) destroyed
E) has been destroyed
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