Test 17

Neither of the men gave _____ approval.
- A) their
- B) his
- C) its
- D) they
Most of the women sent____applications to the director of the program.
- A) their
- B) her
- C) her own
- D) them
Gold_____to be the most alliable metal of all.
- A) know
- B) has known
- C) is known
- D) knows
_____enjoyed their meal.
- A) Every guest
- B) Neither guest
- C) Each of the guests
- D) Some guests
The cause of the series of disasters____not yet known, but an enquiry has been set up to find out what happened.
- A) are
- B) is
- C) has
- D) were
Each team has received_____new uniforms.
- A) their
- B) them
- C) his
- D) its
It was____Dave to quit his job.
- A) fired because
- B) stupid of
- C) foolish by
- D) because of school
Robert didn’t study for the test; _____ he did very well.
- A) consequently
- B) nevertheless
- C) therefore
- D) moreover
The sheep_____to be brought down from the hills in bad weather, or some might die.
- A) has
- B) would
- C) must
- D) have
I’ll go to the station and_____for you
- A) wait
- B) to wait
- C) waiting
- D) have waited
Their ship was designed to make several trips and____equipment.
- A) carrying
- B) to carry
- C) for carrying
- D) carries
_____ of measurement has ever equaled the metric system in simplicity.
- A) Another system
- B) A new system
- C) No other system
- D) Other systems
_____ to hear that Charles is doing well at his job.
- A) That is good
- B) It is good
- C) I am good
- D) What is good
I don’t care if we go to the beach or not. _____ .
- A) It’s up to you
- B) Mind your own business
- C) We haven’t got all day
- D) It isn’t worth it
She lost her job yesterday. _____ .
- A) We are proud of her
- B) I can’t stand her
- C) I believe in her
- D) I feel sorry for her
Susie said, “I’ll wash the dishes.” She said she _____ the dishes.
- A) would wash
- B) will wash
- C) shall wash
- D) could wash
People respect Dr. Play. They _____ him because of his great knowledge.
- A) look up to
- B) look at
- C) look up
- D) look for
It’s high time _____ measures to protect our environment.
- A) we take
- B) we took
- C) we have taken
- D) we are taking
The Food and Drug Administration makes grocers and restaurant owners _____ all milk before selling it.
- A) pasteurized
- B) had pasteurized
- C) pasteurize
- D) should have pasteurized
She has always wanted other people _____ slowly.
- A) that they speak
- B) to speak
- C) have spoken
- D) had spoken
We would like _____ our radio.
- A) she’s fixing
- B) she’d fix
- C) she had fixed
- D) her to fix
The discovery was made after a _____ search.
- A) two years
- B) twice a year
- C) two year
- D) two year’s
It’s very important _____ before entering the contest.
- A) having practiced
- B) to have practiced
- C) having to practice
- D) practicing
____ highway accidents may paralyze traffic for hours is known to all.
- A) These
- B) That
- C) As
- D) Because
Mr. Nester can’t swim, and _____ .
- A) I can too
- B) I can’t either
- C) I swim neither
- D) neither do I
It would be _____ to write George and thank him.
- A) a letter from you
- B) kind of letter
- C) kind of you
- D) of you
Every year, a _____ automobile race is held in Indianapolis.
- A) five hundred miles
- B) five hundred-mile
- C) five hundred mile
- D) of hundred miles
Rose ran in a _____ race.
- A) twenty-kilometer
- B) twenty kilometer’s
- C) of twenty kilometers
- D) for twenty kilometers
A: Have you finished your book _____ ?
B: No, I am _____ in the middle of it.
- A) yet/still
- B) already/still
- C) still/already
- D) yet/yet
_____ lucky I am to see you this morning!
- A) What
- B) What a
- C) How
- D) That
The delay was due _____ negligence, not to lack of funds.
- A) for
- B) to
- C) from
- D) because
We insist _____ prompt attention.
- A) for
- B) on
- C) at
- D) in
We shall agree _____ any reasonable proposal.
- A) for
- B) with
- C) to
- D) for
I’m afraid we can’t agree _____ each other _____ anything.
- A) with/on
- B) with/with
- C) on/on
- D) on/with
The fluctuation in the money market is _____ worries the economists.
- A) what
- B) which
- C) that
- D) whose
Is there a shop round here where they sell _____ clothes?
- A) children’s
- B) child’s
- C) children
- D) childish
The building should be finished in about three _____ .
- A) of months
- B) month’s
- C) month
- D) months
_____ motivate learning is well documented.
- A) That is computers
- B) Computers that
- C) That computers
- D) It is those computers
Raymond studies for several hours every evening; _____ , he does very well on tests.
- A) however
- B) not only
- C) nevertheless
- D) consequently
Dr. Osaka gives interesting lectures; _____, he is very popular with his students.
- A) however
- B) consequently
- C) but also
- D) not only
I wasn’t in the office yesterday; _____ , I didn’t get the message you left for me.
- A) however
- B) not only
- C) therefore
- D) nevertheless
Who was the first person _____ today?
- A) spoke to you
- B) you spoke to
- C) you spoke
- D) whom you spoke
_____ city life has its advantages, it also has its disadvantages.
- A) Like
- B) While
- C) But
- D) For example
The argument soon developed _____ a quarrel.
- A) out
- B) from
- C) of
- D) into
I am ashamed _____ my mistakes on that composition.
- A) of
- B) from
- C) for
- D) with
_____ my opinion, English is a difficult language.
- A) For
- B) To
- C) In
- D) With
The service in the restaurant is very poor; there aren’t enough waiters to wait _____ people.
- A) to
- B) on
- C) for
- D) at
Don’t blame other people _____ your own mistakes.
- A) on
- B) at
- C) for
- D) _____
This simple machine consists _____ three small wheels and a handle.
- A) of
- B) for
- C) from
- D) at
Let’s not have fish again tonight; I am tired _____ fish.
- A) from
- B) with
- C) of
- D) _____
_____ I known you were coming, we would have stayed at home.
- A) Should
- B) Had
- C) Might
- D) Would
_____ I not heard the warning, I would have had a serious accident.
- A) Had
- B) If
- C) Should
- D) Would
_____ I listened to your advice, I wouldn’t have had any trouble.
- A) When
- B) Had
- C) Although
- D) Then
The car _____ with gas if the service station had been open.
- A) should have filled
- B) would have been
- C) would have been filled
- D) could be filled
_____ Bruce not driven so fast, he wouldn’t have had an accident.
- A) Should
- B) Had
- C) Might
- D) Would
Would Bruce _____ his car if he had driven slowly?
- A) damage
- B) have damage
- C) have damaged
- D) damaged
He wishes he _____ the exam.
- A) will pass
- B) had passed
- C) has passed
- D) can pass
Intolerance between ethnic groups _____ on lack of information.
- A) usually based
- B) which has been based
- C) which is usually based
- D) is usually based
_____ bough gasoline if they had had more money?
- A) Would they have
- B) Have they
- C) They had
- D) Had they
If I had checked the gas, I wouldn’t _____ to walk to the gas station.
- A) has had
- B) have had
- C) had had
- D) had have
My mother, _____ you never met, works in a hospital.
- A) _____
- B) that
- C) who
- D) whom
Helen’s sister, for _____ we work, is really a good manager.
- A) _____
- B) who
- C) that
- D) whom
Houses for _____ people pay high prices aren’t always well built.
- A) _____
- B) that
- C) which
- D) whom
Goods _____ we have paid for have not been delivered.
- A) that
- B) of which
- C) who
- D) whose
The room in _____ Peter works is very small.
- A) that
- B) which
- C) _____
- D) who
The girl to _____ I spoke comes from Italy.
- A) _____
- B) who
- C) whose
- D) whom
The letter _____ I wrote to him was foolish.
- A) who
- B) to which
- C) _____
- D) whose
Although he has money, with _____ he can do most things, he is rather unhappy.
- A) that
- B) _____
- C) which
- D) who
Manuel asked _____ to the project.
- A) to work
- B) to be assigned
- C) for a job
- D) to be fired
The mechanic expects the car _____ by nylon.
- A) have fixed
- B) have finished
- C) to have been repaired
- D) repairing
What happened when the recipes _____ presented?
- A) were being
- B) are past
- C) have been
- D) will be
I expect all the arrangements _____ by tomorrow.
- A) to have been made
- B) will be making
- C) have been made
- D) were made
Irma wants _____ an opportunity to explain.
- A) being given
- B) to be given
- C) for
- D) to giving
This book is said _____ in the fourteenth century.
- A) many times
- B) to have been written
- C) when it was written
- D) by being written
One of the primary causes of traffic accidents _____ .
- A) is reckless driving
- B) people drive recklessly
- C) people who drive recklessly
- D) driving recklessly
Land _____ in large cities that architects conserve space by designing skyscrapers.
- A) is more expensive
- B) which is most expensive
- C) is so expensive
- D) the most expensive thing
_____ is to visit Asia and Africa.
- A) It would be exciting
- B) How interesting
- C) What I’d like to do
- D) That’s what I’d do
_____ I am talking about does not really concern you.
- A) What
- B) That’s what
- C) Why
- D) It’s why
_____ requires a lot of patience to learn a second language.
- A) Teachers
- B) Students
- C) That
- D) It
_____ to know is the address of Tim’s house.
- A) What I will need
- B) Had I needed
- C) That I will need
- D) What directions are needed
Crocodiles are different from alligators _____ they have pointed snouts.
- A) in which
- B) with which
- C) in that
- D) that
How long _____ here by the time she’s sixty-five?
- A) will she work
- B) she will work
- C) does she work
- D) will she have worked
We _____ several possibilities before we made the decisions.
- A) had been
- B) hadn’t been
- C) been considering
- D) had been considering
The lower the stock market falls, _____ .
- A) then the price of gold rises higher
- B) the higher the price of gold rises
- C) because the price of gold rises high
- D) the price of gold to rise higher
Rafts _____ the trunks of trees may have been the earliest vehicles.
- A) are made from
- B) made from
- C) which they are made from
- D) which made
For the past ten minutes I _____ for my friend to come. He hasn’t arrived yet.
- A) wait
- B) am waiting
- C) have been waiting
- D) waiting
He _____ better as soon as he had eaten dinner.
- A) would feel
- B) will feel
- C) felt
- D) could feel
They took a rest after they _____ the yard.
- A) had cleaned up
- B) were cleaning up
- C) would clean up
- D) have cleaned up
For three days we _____ the living room, and still haven’t finished.
- A) paint
- B) are painting
- C) have to paint
- D) have been painting
When she left the building, she had the feeling she _____ .
- A) is watched
- B) may be watched
- C) was being watched
- D) has been watched
I expect him _____ the job by four o’clock.
- A) finishing
- B) to be complete
- C) have been finished
- D) to have completed
I would like _____ to the concert last night.
- A) to go
- B) going
- C) to have gone
- D) will have gone
A chameleon is a tree lizard _____ can change colors in order to conceal itself in the vegetation.
- A) with which it
- B) that
- C) whose life it
- D) that it
He imagined the man _____ him.
- A) to be following
- B) were following
- C) want to follow
- D) follow
They were looking for a good _____ car.
- A) use
- B) used
- C) to use
- D) using
They had their car _____ at Nick’s Garage.
- A) repairing
- B) to repair
- C) repaired
- D) repair
She was late to work. She _____ a taxi instead of waiting for the bus.
- A) would have taken
- B) might have taken
- C) must have taken
- D) should have taken
A new employee had _____ after Mr. Ferguson fired Oscar.
- A) to have been working
- B) to be working
- C) to be hired
- D) to be for the job
Hundreds of workers had _____ to build the pipeline.
- A) hired
- B) to be hired
- C) been hiring
- D) hiring
No one realized that the document was important. It ____ thrown out.
- A) would have been
- B) wouldn’t have been
- C) should have been
- D) might have been

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