Test 5

A: Did you read this book?
B: No, I didn’t. I wish I ____ it.
- A) read
- B) can read
- C) had read
- D) will read
He will study ____ .
- A) until I will come back
- B) when I came back
- C) when I will come back
- D) until I come back
He has a headache so he ____ take an aspirin.
- A) must
- B) ought
- C) had to
- D) must have
By the end of the year, I ____ this journey ten times.
- A) will do
- B) will have done
- C) will be doing
- D) will have been doing
He would have told me if he ____ it.
- A) knew
- B) would know
- C) has known
- D) had known
You will have a long holiday if you ____ your class.
- A) will pass
- B) are going to pass
- C) pass
- D) would pass
I didn’t know that your book ____ into English until Charles told me.
- A) translating
- B) translated
- C) have been translated
- D) had been translated
The Browns will go on a picnic unless it ____ .
- A) doesn’t rain
- B) won’t rain
- C) rains
- D) will rain
The teacher has Ali ____ the blackboard everyday.
- A) cleaned
- B) clean
- C) cleans
- D) to clean
Don’t mention it. It’s the ____ I can do.
- A) little
- B) least
- C) less
- D) likely
Don’t you always feel very ____ when you are home?
- A) happy
- B) hardly
- C) happily
- D) nicely
Helen has finished her school and ____ .
- A) so did her brother
- B) so has her brother
- C) so finished her brother
- D) so her brother has
Rose doesn’t like horror films and ____.
- A) James doesn’t too
- B) James doesn’t either
- C) James doesn’t neither
- D) nor doesn’t James
He must be the director. I remember ____ in school.
- A) to be him
- B) him to be
- C) seeing him
- D) saw him
Both boxers trained very ___ for several weeks before the fight.
- A) much
- B) hardly
- C) many
- D) hard
A: Helen is leaving home to get a job in New York.
B: I think ____ will make her father sad.
- A) her leaving
- B) she leaving
- C) she leaves
- D) her to leave
He ____ mistake in the examination.
- A) did a
- B) was
- C) made a
- D) made
Do you know where ____ ?
- A) will they meet
- B) they will meet
- C) do they meet
- D) are they meeting
These grapes ____ in the sun.
- A) has been dried
- B) have been dry
- C) have been dried
- D) have being dried
He ____ for half an hour when he realized he was painting the wrong wall.
- A) worked
- B) had worked
- C) has worked
- D) has been working
I haven’t eaten anything ____ .
- A) since five hours
- B) since yesterday morning
- C) for yesterday morning
- D) for five o’clock
The teacher told us ____ noise in class.
- A) don’t make
- B) not to make
- C) not make
- D) not making
I can’t remember the writer of the book _____ I have just read.
- A) who
- B) whose
- C) whom
- D) that
Find the driver ____ car is blocking the entrance.
- A) which
- B) whom
- C) what
- D) whose
We will have another test tomorrow. I wish ____ .
- A) we wouldn’t have one
- B) we hadn’t had one
- C) we don’t have one
- D) we won’t have one
I didn’t take the test last week. I wish ____ .
- A) I took it
- B) I would have take it
- C) I had taken it
- D) I have taken it
I haven’t had a peaceful day ____ six months.
- A) from
- B) at
- C) for
- D) since
She likes Turkish coffee ____ .
- A) much
- B) very much
- C) very
- D) as well as
Was the sound ____ you heard like a roar of lion?
- A) that
- B) what
- C) who
- D) whose
Mary ____ the house early yesterday morning.
- A) left
- B) leaves
- C) has left
- D) is leaving
She’d rather that ____ with her homework.
- A) you help
- B) you to help
- C) you helped
- D) will help
Which book ____ ?
- A) Mary likes
- B) does Mary likes
- C) Mary like
- D) does Mary like
The United Kingdom and France made ____ its doors to European drug sellers in 1860.
- A) China to open
- B) China opened
- C) China open
- D) China opening
She swims ____ than I do.
- A) good
- B) well
- C) better
- D) too good
____ Germany nor England really cares for the rights of underdeveloped countries.
- A) Either
- B) Nor
- C) Not
- D) Neither
You ____ the car carelessly because it is still very dirty.
- A) shouldn’t clean
- B) could clean
- C) must have cleaned
- D) can’t have cleaned
____ help our friends, shall we?
- A) Let’s
- B) Shall we
- C) To
- D) Will we
I am interested ____ swimming.
- A) for
- B) in
- C) to
- D) at
He’s been with us ____ ten years.
- A) since
- B) from
- C) in
- D) for
Children often cut ____ with a knife.
- A) himself
- B) they
- C) herself
- D) themselves
The ____ names are Helen and Lucy.
- A) woman’s
- B) women
- C) their
- D) women’s
I’m sure he ____ a job by the end of the year.
- A) will be finding
- B) will have found
- C) will be having
- D) will have been finding
It’s been cloudy all morning, ____ it?
- A) hasn’t
- B) doesn’t
- C) isn’t
- D) wasn’t
You never went there, ____ you?
- A) do
- B) did
- C) don’t
- D) didn’t
Stress, ____ is a psychological problem, may lead to physical illness.
- A) which
- B) what
- C) that
- D) whose
Helen must work hard, ____ she?
- A) mustn’t
- B) doesn’t
- C) must
- D) does
A: How is your father’s cold?
B: ____ it get worse, we will call the doctor.
- A) Should
- B) Might
- C) If
- D) Unless
Try to be a little more tactful, ____ you?
- A) don’t
- B) aren’t
- C) will
- D) are
He said he ____ her.
- A) know
- B) is knowing
- C) known
- D) knew
She told me where ____ .
- A) she lived
- B) does she live
- C) has she lived
- D) did she live
I was glad we ____ the candles when the lights went out.
- A) has had
- B) have been having
- C) were having
- D) had had
Jack asked me if ____ swimming.
- A) do I like C) I was liked
- C) I was liked
- C) I was liked B) I liked
- D) did I like
He has written two books, and ____ is any good.
- A) both of them
- B) neither
- C) one of them
- D) all of which
I told him _____ close the door.
- A) do not
- B) don’t to
- C) don’t
- D) not to
His teacher told them ____ hard.
- A) study
- B) studied
- C) to study
- D) studying
When ____ to you?
- A) does that letter sent
- B) was that book sent
- C) did that letter sent
- D) can that book send
____ waste any more time on this project.
- A) Do
- B) Don’t we
- C) Let’s
- D) Let’s not
He doesn’t know anything about cars, so he ____ by a trained mechanic.
- A) repairs it
- B) it repairs
- C) has it repaired
- D) is repaired
Rarely ____ such terrible poverty as in this African city.
- A) she had seen
- B) she was being seen
- C) had she seen
- D) was she seen
____ all that rubbish thrown away, will you?
- A) Please
- B) Let
- C) Do
- D) Have
What do you want ____ ?
- A) to me to do
- B) me to do
- C) to me do
- D) me do
We ____ shelter until it stops snowing, or we’ll freeze.
- A) had better
- B) had had
- C) had rather to
- D) would better
____ that dress specially made for you?
- A) Have you
- B) Hadn’t you
- C) Had you
- D) Did you have
She finally admitted ____ the key.
- A) taking
- B) took
- C) to take
- D) takes
I’d appreciate ____ from you.
- A) to hear
- B) heard
- C) hear
- D) hearing
Does she deny ____ that?
- A) to say
- B) says
- C) saying
- D) said
We’re looking forward ____ the museum.
- A) visit
- B) visiting
- C) to visiting
- D) to visit
It’s no good ____ the door after the money has been stolen. It’s too late.
- A) lock
- B) locking
- C) locks
- D) to lock
Why don’t you try ____ it with a hammer? It might work.
- A) hit
- B) having hit
- C) hitting
- D) to be hitting
The police said he ____ arrested on several previous occasions.
- A) might be
- B) would have been
- C) will be
- D) had been
He never spends ____ money.
- A) many
- B) some
- C) much
- D) a lot
We will work on the computer ____.
- A) when he will come back
- B) by the time he came back
- C) until he comes back
- D) until he will come back
He has an exam tomorrow, so he ____ study.
- A) ought
- B) must
- C) had to
- D) must have
You say you have gone to his office, but I think you ____
- A) ought to phone him
- B) ought to have phoned him
- C) should has phoned him
- D) should phone him
She would tell you so if she ____ it.
- A) had known
- B) would know
- C) has known
- D) knew
If you ____ your book, you will have a long holiday.
- A) finish
- B) will finish
- C) are going to finish
- D) finished
I would have called him right away if I ____ his telephone number.
- A) have known
- B) will know
- C) had known
- D) would know
We will not eat outside ____ it rains.
- A) until
- B) since
- C) unless
- D) if
____ have coffee after lunch?
- A) Did you
- B) Were you
- C) Are you
- D) You were
When ____ born?
- A) did you
- B) were you
- C) are you
- D) you were
This photograph, ____ I took five years ago, shows the harbor quite well.
- A) who
- B) when
- C) which
- D) what
The patient ____ by the doctor.
- A) has being examined
- B) has examined
- C) has been examined
- D) has been exam
They haven’t drunk anything ____.
- A) since five hours
- B) since yesterday morning
- C) for five o’clock
- D) for yesterday morning
John has written a novel and ____ .
- A) so his sister, has
- B) so got married his sister
- C) so has his sister
- D) so did his sister
Rose didn’t do anything yesterday, and ____ .
- A) nor James
- B) neither James
- C) James didn’t either
- D) James hadn’t either
He ____ less work than his wife.
- A) made
- B) made a
- C) was
- D) did
Most of my students would rather ____ .
- A) play than study
- B) play than studies
- C) plays than study
- D) to play than to study
Does anybody know where ____ ?
- A) are they meeting
- B) do they meet
- C) will they meet
- D) they will meet
I think the roof needs ____ .
- A) mending
- B) to mend
- C) be mended
- D) to be mending
She had the servant ____ the windows.
- A) to clean
- B) clean
- C) cleans
- D) cleaned
Aunt Elizabeth got the roof ____ .
- A) mends
- B) mend
- C) mended
- D) to mend
I ____ the test when the bell rang.
- A) already have finished
- B) have already finished
- C) had already finish
- D) had already finished
She dances ____ than I do.
- A) badly
- B) too badly
- C) worst
- D) worse
Mary ____ the house early yesterday morning
- A) lived
- B) left
- C) has left
- D) leaves
We had a test yesterday, I wish ____ .
- A) we hadn’t one
- B) we didn’t have one
- C) we hadn’t had one
- D) we wouldn’t have one
Has she ever ____ her leg?
- A) broken
- B) breaking
- C) broke
- D) breaks
Will you ____ have lunch with us tomorrow?
- A) be able to
- B) are able to
- C) able to
- D) be able
What kind of books ____ ?
- A) does Mary likes
- B) Mary likes
- C) Mary like
- D) does Mary like
I have to go to a dentist tomorrow. I wish ____.
- A) I have gone there
- B) I had gone there
- C) I wouldn’t have to
- D) I wouldn’t have gone there
My son is seventeen years old. He is ____ to get married.
- A) too old
- B) old enough
- C) too young
- D) enough young

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