Test 19

Several ____ friends attended last night’s concert.
- A) them
- B) my
- C) of my
- D) of them
The actor ____ house we visited was Robert Redford.
- A) which
- B) whose
- C) who
- D) of whom
A person who talks to ____ is not necessarily mad.
- A) himself
- B) oneself
- C) him
- D) itself
My sister taught ____ to cook Chinese dishes.
- A) myself
- B) themselves
- C) himself
- D) herself
Sometimes it’s a good idea to study ____.
- A) by yourself
- B) itself
- C) by itself
- D) in yourself
____ of the men brought his tools.
- A) Both
- B) Neither
- C) Some
- D) Not all
____you decide to take violin classes let me know.
- A) While
- B) Should
- C) Do
- D) Because
I wish I ____ what to do now.
- A) know
- B) knew
- C) have known
- D) had known
The whole house ____ if he hadn’t called the fireman.
- A) would be destroyed
- B) would have been destroyed
- C) will have been destroyed
- D) would destroy
____ been late if he hadn’t forgotten his keys?
- A) Would he have
- B) He had
- C) Had he
- D) Have he
____, which is essential in learning a language, can be difficult for beginners.
- A) Students ask questions
- B) If students ask questions
- C) Students who ask questions
- D) Asking questions
If Bruce ____ the top up, his car wouldn’t have gotten wet.
- A) put
- B) has put
- C) had put
- D) puts
If she ____ somewhat taller, she would join the team.
- A) were
- B) be
- C) am
- D) will be
They would refuse to read the book if they ____ it.
- A) like
- B) doesn’t like
- C) didn’t like
- D) don’t like
Nancy would have ____ a vacation if she had had enough money.
- A) take
- B) taken
- C) takes
- D) took
They ____ to the cinema if they had known it was the last night of the film.
- A) will go
- B) would go
- C) would have gone
- D) had gone
____ said under oath was disputed by several other witnesses.
- A) It is the man
- B) What the man
- C) That the man
- D) The man
____ is prevalent in both primitive societies and advanced cultures.
- A) They believe in life after death
- B) Life after death
- C) Their life after death
- D) The belief in life after death
Holman’s Department Store ____ business in the same location for fifty years before it moved.
- A) doing
- B) had been
- C) had been doing
- D) is doing
She will be late unless she ____ now.
- A) leaves
- B) is leaving
- C) is going to leave
- D) will leave
She ____ the bus before the accident took place.
- A) had gotten off
- B) was getting off
- C) has gotten off
- D) would get off
____, measles can now be prevented by a vaccine.
- A) Although a serious health hazard
- B) It was once a serious health hazard
- C) That once a serious health hazard
- D) Once a serious health hazard
Jimmy and Linda were walking home when they ____ a loud noise.
- A) saw
- B) were hearing
- C) heard
- D) met
The library ____ since last Wednesday.
- A) has been closed
- B) was closed
- C) closed
- D) is closed
She ____ television since she got home a couple of hours ago.
- A) watched
- B) is watching
- C) has been watching
- D) watched
The last time ____ to the library was last week.
- A) I have gone
- B) I have been to
- C) I was
- D) I went
The old man died not of injuries ____ in the accident but of a heart attack.
- A) were sustained
- B) sustained
- C) to sustain
- D) what sustained
It was recently reported that a young research scientist ____ a blood test to diagnose cancer.
- A) found
- B) finding
- C) who found
- D) to have found
There are over 12000 people ____ in New York.
- A) they don’t have any fixed address
- B) don’t have any fixed address
- C) whose fixed address
- D) with no fixed address
In the desert ____ for water is of primary importance.
- A) all living things need
- B) if there is no need
- C) the need
- D) all living things that need
____, generally found in the desert, is useful as a water softener in the laundry industry.
- A) When Borax
- B) Borax
- C) It is Borax
- D) Borax is
Pete ____ by the time the meeting starts.
- A) arrived
- B) had arrived
- C) will have arrived
- D) has arrived
No sooner ____ the door than the thief fled.
- A) had I opened
- B) have I opened
- C) did I open
- D) I had opened
Linda hoped ____ to Ralph’s party.
- A) to be invited
- B) to have invitation
- C) for being invited
- D) she will be invited
After working on the same project for several months, Mr. Williams asked ____ a different assignment.
- A) for a more interesting
- B) to be interested for
- C) to be given
- D) for giving him
Before the computer could be repaired, a special part had ____ from Japan.
- A) to import
- B) to be imported
- C) a very long delivery
- D) to have been important
If it keeps on raining the game may ____.
- A) delay
- B) be delayed
- C) have delayed
- D) have to delay
____the president given a warm welcome?
- A) Did
- B) Have
- C) Should
- D) Was
____your company’s products guaranteed?
- A) Do
- B) Are
- C) Would
- D) Will
The packages ____ at the post office.
- A) weighs
- B) was weigh
- C) weigh
- D) are weighed
The Sea of Marmara ____ so much that it can now support only little life.
- A) is polluted
- B) with dangerous pollution
- C) has been polluted
- D) has polluted
The answers ____ into Spanish.
- A) were translated
- B) are translate
- C) is translated
- D) are translating
The order ____ sent last month.
- A) is
- B) will
- C) was
- D) will be
All developed countries are running out of space ____ their garbage.
- A) it discards
- B) in which to discard
- C) which discards
- D) which they discard
If Charles Lindbergh ____ across the Atlantic, another person would have done that sooner or later.
- A) hasn’t been
- B) would not fly
- C) did not fly
- D) hadn’t flown
Gilberto ____ more precise instructions; he couldn’t do the job.
- A) must be given
- B) should be given
- C) should have been given
- D) must have been given
____the legendary land of the lost continent of Atlantis may some day be found.
- A) The belief
- B) It is believed that
- C) Believing
- D) That belief
Do you intend ____ English while you are visiting England?
- A) to study
- B) study
- C) studying
- D) studied
I’d appreciate ____ an answer as soon as possible.
- A) receive
- B) to receive
- C) receiving
- D) received
Do you want me ____ that doctor’s address for you.
- A) to copy
- B) copy
- C) copying
- D) copied
Won’t you let the children ____ a little longer?
- A) stay
- B) to stay
- C) staying
- D) stayed
Most teachers don’t permit their students ____ dictionaries during an examination.
- A) use
- B) to use
- C) using
- D) used
She doesn’t allow her daughter ____ high heels.
- A) wear
- B) wearing
- C) to wear
- D) _ _ _
Her mother makes her ____ to bed before ten every evening.
- A) to go
- B) going
- C) go
- D) went
Please have the doctor ____ that report.
- A) sign
- B) to sign
- C) signing
- D) _ _ _
Shall we request the committee ____ our suggestion again?
- A) consider
- B) considering
- C) to consider
- D) _ _ _
Oscar is expected to pick up the products and ____ them to customers.
- A) he delivers
- B) to deliver
- C) then delivers
- D) delivering
____, Horace returned to the house.
- A) Tired of waiting
- B) Tiring of wait
- C) Of waiting tiring
- D) After tired from waiting
Recycling ____ the process of collecting used materials and manufacturing them into new products.
- A) which is
- B) which is done by
- C) which has
- D) is
A person ____ eventually deceives only himself.
- A) tells lies
- B) who tells lies
- C) can tell lies well
- D) has told lies
Learning to live with a chronic illness such as diabetes ____ an ongoing process.
- A) that has to be
- B) it has to be
- C) has to be
- D) and has to be
The package ____ been sent to the wrong person; we’ve never seen it.
- A) must have
- B) would have
- C) should have
- D) can’t have
The ____ the thief is caught, the happier everyone will be.
- A) quickly
- B) quickest
- C) fast
- D) sooner
He may have got delayed. This sentence means:
- A) He will arrive shortly.
- B) He has permission to arrive late.
- C) It is probable that he has been delayed.
- D) He was delayed.
He is very tired. He ____ hard today.
- A) might have worked
- B) must have worked
- C) should have worked
- D) would have worked
You ____ drive carefully. The roads are wet.
- A) would rather
- B) had better
- C) had rather
- D) are better
Mary ____ be in Paris because I saw her here in Ankara only two hours ago.
- A) can’t
- B) mustn’t be
- C) isn’t able to
- D) may not
He’s ____ to know the answer.
- A) likely
- B) probably
- C) maybe
- D) obviously
She ____ a lot by cutting down on the luxuries, but she didn’t.
- A) could save
- B) could have saved
- C) should save
- D) would save
As we drove on, the countryside became ____ and more beautiful.
- A) beautiful
- B) very beautiful
- C) more
- D) so beautiful
Jack’s ability to wrong things at the wrong time ____.
- A) it amazes us
- B) is amazed
- C) which is amazing
- D) is amazing
She ____ terribly disappointed in her low grade because she ____ very hard the night before.
- A) ___ / has studied
- B) was / had studied
- C) would be / has studied
- D) was /can’t have studied
I should ____ my assignment last night, but there was no electricity.
- A) have done
- B) do
- C) had done
- D) did
____ has enough natural resources so as to be practically self-sufficient in the event of war.
- A) Our country which
- B) Only when our country
- C) Our country
- D) If our country
____ is to study Chinese.
- A) What I plan to do
- B) A very difficult language
- C) The language that
- D) What language
Were you ____ when the car started skidding?
- A) frightening
- B) frightened
- C) being frightening
- D) frighten
____ is to finish this test.
- A) That’s what I want
- B) What I want to do
- C) This is what I want
- D) It was easy of me
____ I’m calling about is the job advertised in Sunday’s newspaper.
- A) Where
- B) What
- C) Why
- D) How
Mr. Smart, ____, walks five miles every day.
- A) whose is sixty
- B) he is sixty five
- C) who is seventy
- D) almost eighty old
Mary has three children, ____.
- A) who likes toys
- B) all of which like toys
- C) one of whom likes toys
- D) both of them enjoy toys
The students, ____, did extremely well on today’s English test.
- A) most of them had studied hard
- B) most of whom to study hard
- C) most of whom had studied hard
- D) they all studied very hard
The Wilson’s had three children, ____.
- A) and both of them are musicians
- B) all who became musicians
- C) all of whom became musicians
- D) two musicians and one is salesman
The children, ____, were not injured in the crash.
- A) frightened and seriously hurt in the crash
- B) all of whom were frightened
- C) all of them were frightened
- D) both of them were frightened
There are two trails up the mountain, ____.
- A) both of which are difficult
- B) either of them is difficult
- C) that are difficult trails
- D) they are difficult
I ate two sandwiches, ____ were delicious.
- A) one of them
- B) both of which
- C) either of which
- D) none of whom
____ I go, I seem to bump into people I was at school with.
- A) Wherever
- B) Where
- C) When
- D) How
____you lost your job, what would you do then?
- A) When
- B) After
- C) So
- D) Supposing
Take an umbrella ____ you won’t get wet.
- A) so that
- B) in case
- C) so
- D) _ _ _
Take an umbrella ____ it rains.
- A) so that
- B) in case
- C) so
- D) _ _ _
Have something to eat ____ you can’t get anything to eat later.
- A) in case
- B) so that
- C) so
- D) _ _ _
This picnic site ____ quite tidy is now a disgrace.
- A) used to be
- B) could be
- C) which used to be
- D) would be
He failed his driving test ____ he practiced a lot.
- A) so
- B) because
- C) even though
- D) so that
She is fit and healthy ____ she doesn’t get much exercise.
- A) so
- B) because
- C) even though
- D) so that
____ my friend works at home, I have to drive to work.
- A) While
- B) Like
- C) For example
- D) But
Neither the housing shortage ____ the problem of pollution can be solved easily.
- A) and
- B) or
- C) neither
- D) nor
If our friend had not warned us of the danger, we ____ now.
- A) must have been dead
- B) would have been all dead
- C) would all be dead
- D) had all died
____ did Oswald damage his skis, but he also broke his leg.
- A) Neither
- B) How
- C) Not only
- D) Why
Not only did Oscar lose his job, but he ____ his car.
- A) also damaged
- B) and an accident
- C) lost also
- D) and
I shall say no more ____ I be misunderstood.
- A) so
- B) in order that
- C) lest
- D) even though
Children are forbidden to play with matches ____ they may get burned.
- A) so that
- B) for fear that
- C) if
- D) when

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