GRAMMAR TEST - 002

Allow Yourself 20 Minutes for this Test. Fill in the Blanks, Choosing a Word from Among the Supposed Alternatives

There are 20 Questions in this Test

Level : Upper Intermediate

 

READY... STEADY... GO !!

 

 01  I'm simply surprised at your lack of authority on him. Why can't you ............... him eat his dinner?

a. persuade     b. ask     c. make

d. tell              e. force

  

 

 02  "You took the wrong bus." "It .............. the wrong one. It has brought me to the right place, hasn't it?

a. must have been         b. should have been

c. ought to have been     d. can't have been

e. may have been

  

 

 03  Why don't you pay some attention? I .............. be talking to a brick wall!

a. would like to     b. should better

c. might as well     d. will go and

e. am going to

  

 

 04  Aristotle is known to have said something like this: " .............. man is a political animal is pretty obvious."

a. This     b. That     c. The     d. A      e. - - - - -

  

 

 05  Listen to me, Ali. The man, ............... refused your proposal, has been arrested.

a. who have repeatedly       b. - - - - - -

c. whom     d. whose daughter has

e. when he

  

 

 06  "Don't worry; one of the robbers ............... ," said a policeman to the gathering crowd.

a. are being pursued

b. have been pursuing

c. has been pursuing

d. will be pursuing

e. is being pursued

  

 

 07  Theoretical physics ............... to be one of those pure sciences that ............... indispensable for the advancement of mankind.

a. happens / are       b. happens / is

c. happen / is      d. happen / are

e. happens / - - - - - -

  

 

 08  I ............... asked to inform you that you're dismissed from your post as of today.

a. - - - -      b. have been     c. used to be

d. had        e. would have

  

 

 09  Would you believe it! ............... was no other than our poor old postman who had fallen into the water still holding on to his bags.

a. It         b. Someone     c. Who

d. Man     e. Somebody

  

 

 10  Darling, I've got news for you: Meltem, together with her husband and six children, .............. come to stay with us for a whole month.

a. have        b. - - - -     c. has

d. don't        e. are to

  

 

 11  ............... when the phone started ringing. This is the sort of situation that I find really annoying.

a. Although it doesn't really bother me

b. Ever since my childhood, I get frightened

c. Hardly had I got in

d. No matter what I did

e. Immediately after I came home

  

 

 12  Let's face it: The salary of an ordinary grave-digger is much higher ............... .

a. in comparison with a doctor

b. than a doctor

c. than that of a doctor

d. than a doctor is

e. if compared to a doctor

  

 

 13  I've been meaning to ask you: This is the first time you are visiting Turkey, ............... ?

a. aren't you        b. is it       c. are you

d. isn't it              e. is this

  

 

 14  No matter how hard I tried to make them understand, they just wouldn't take my word for ............... I said, .............. annoyed me very much.

a. what / which

b. that / which

c. that / that

d. which / that

e. which / which

            

 

 15  Let me tell you about a funny thing that happened to a friend of mine the other day: Well, he'd just had a new tyre .............. on his car and he was going to drive the family out for a picnic. (The story continues...)

a. was fitting           b. been fitted

c. would be fitted     d. fitting

e. fitted

  

 

 16  Don't you agree with me that learning a foreign language is great fun? ............... is to pick up a little Italian.

a. A very difficult language to learn

b. The language that I want to practise

c. What other language than Italian

d. What I am planning to do now

e. Italy is the place it

  

 

 17  Yes, I know you're tired and sleepy, but let me remind you one thing: If you ............... up all night to watch that stupid film, the world would look much brighter this morning, wouldn't it?!

a. wouldn't stay

b. have not stayed

c. hadn't stayed

d. would stay

e. had stayed

  

 

 18  The bus I intended to catch had an accident on the way and many people got badly injured. Just think of it: If I hadn't missed it, I myself ............... recuperating in some hospital now.

a. would be         b. had been

c. having been     d. wouldn't have been

e. were

  

 

 19  ............... for -- what you call -- his "reckless courage", all lives would have been lost.

a. If it had been         b. It wouldn't have been

c. Had it not been     d. If it were

e. Wouldn't it have been

  

 

 20  I'm pretty certain that, unless he's offered more money elsewhere, he ............... our offer.

a. 'd accept     b. won't accept

c. 'll accept      d. wouldn't accept

e. would've accepted

  

 

         

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