English Grammar Tests » Intermediate: Test - 4
Test - 4
- Modal verbs (can, could, have to)
- I _____ work very hard because I have an exam next week.
- A) am having
- B) has to
- C) had to
- D) have to
- You _____ work hard after your exam. You can have a holiday.
- A) had to
- B) won’t have to
- C) have too
- D) won’t have
My father is a customs official so he always __(3)__ wear a uniform at work, but my mother is a teacher so she __(4)__ wear one.
- A) doesn’t have to
- B) have to
- C) has to
- D) don’t have to
- A) doesn’t have to
- B) have to
- C) has to
- D) don’t have to
When we were teenagers, we __(5)__ be home by nine o’clock. But we __(6)__ take as many exams as teenagers nowadays.
- A) had to
- B) won’t have to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- A) had to
- B) didn’t have to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- I can’t see the small print very well. I think I ____ wear glasses soon.
- A) will have to
- B) won’t have to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- Nobody enjoys _____ get up at five o’clock in the morning.
- A) have to
- B) has to
- C) having to
- D) will have to
- _____ we _____ have any vaccinations before we go to Barbados?
- A) Will / have to
- B) Did / have to
- C) Won’t / have
- D) Are / having
- _____ your grandmother _____ leave school when she was only fourteen?
- A) Will / have to
- B) Did / have to
- C) Won’t / have
- D) Are / having to
- You _____ be a millionaire to shop in Harrods. Everything is expensive there.
- A) will have to
- B) won’t have to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- If I fail my exam, ____ I ___ take it again?
- A) will / have to
- B) did / have to
- C) does / have to
- D) do / won’t have
- I phoned the plumber because I _____ smell gas in the kitchen.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- Jane and John saved and saved, and finally they _____ buy the house of their dreams.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- I phoned yesterday, but I ____ get an answer. Where were you?
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- The neighbors were having a row, and I _____ hear every word they said.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- ____ you speak French before you moved to Paris?
- A) Can
- B) Could
- C) Managed to
- D) Couldn’t
- I went for a ten-mile run last Saturday. It nearly killed me! I _____ move on Sunday.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- _____ you _____ find all the things you wanted at the shops?
- A) Did / have to
- B) Did / can
- C) Did / manage to
- D) Did / could
- The police _____ find the man who had stolen my car. He was sent to prison.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- My grandfather _____ speak four languages when he was alive.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- When we got to the top of the mountain we _____ see for miles.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed
- D) couldn’t
- In my country you _____ get married when you’re sixteen.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- Speak up! I _____ hear you!
- A) can
- B) could
- C) can’t
- D) couldn’t
- _____ I borrow your dictionary?
- A) Can’t
- B) Could
- C) Manage to
- D) Couldn’t
- I’d love _____ help you, but I can’t. I’m sorry.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) to be able to
- I _____ get into my house last night because I’d lost my key.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- Women _____ vote in England until 1922.
- A) can
- B) are able to
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- I’m learning Spanish because I want _____ speak when I’m in Mexico.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) will be able to
- D) to be able to
- The doctor says I _____ walk again in two weeks’ time.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) will be able to
- D) to be able to
I asked the teacher if I __(31)__ open the window, but she said I __(32)__ because it would be too noisy.
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- A) can
- B) could
- C) managed to
- D) couldn’t
- I’m sorry, but I _____ come to your party next week.
- A) can’t
- B) couldn’t
- C) can
- D) ‘ll be able to
- I love driving! _____ drive has changed my whole life.
- A) Can
- B) Could
- C) Will be able to
- D) Being able to
- Children in my country _____ go to school when they’re 7.
- A) doesn’t have to
- B) has to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- Adults _____ go to school.
- A) doesn’t have to
- B) has to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- Every adult _____ go to work.
- A) doesn’t have to
- B) has to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- A retired person_____ go to work.
- A) doesn’t have to
- B) has to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- Teenagers _____ study for exams.
- A) doesn’t have to
- B) has to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
- You _____ drive on the right in Britain.
- A) mustn’t
- B) has to
- C) have to
- D) don’t have to
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