1. Multiple choice
1. I now work in publishing from / for / to / with a living, so these days I´m a customer in travel agencies.
2. Anybody who has travelled from one time zone to another will be aware / knowledgeable / familiar /
popular with the three letters GMT.
3. Scientists everywhere are trying to make / do / produce / discover a cure for AIDS.
4. In the present / new / modern / current world, time is something that can be in short supply.
5. the manufacturers advertise a new mark / make / brand / box of washing powder.
6. Vesuvio is no longer an erupting / live / alive / active volcano.
7. I don´t very / so / much / fairly like the idea of having to read a boring novel.
8. If Mary works really hard she should be able to make out / up / to / back the time she lost through absence.
9. John and Mary have called off / broken off / put off / written off their wedding and decided to go their separate ways.
10. It doesn´t sound as if / so as / that is / like as he knows anything about it.
11. What does this notice tell / say / write / print?
12. Your children are utterly / totally / completely / incredibly noisy! I wish they´d be quiet!
13. The mechanic carefully backed / led / turned / directed the car out of the garage.
14. Today the temperature is normal / moderate / average / level for this time of the year.
15. What I hate most is flying – I really cannot suffer / stand / tolerate / cope with that.
16. It said they wanted someone with a nice mood / character / humour / personality.
17. It´s always better to make an attempt / chance / guess / try than to leave it blank.
18. Excuse me, do you mind / oppose / object / complain to me bringing my dog into your house?
19. He wonders / says / tells / asks that it´s noisier living there than it over was in London.
20. My hand was moving / shaking / jumping / rattling so bad that the water was spilling out of the cup.
21. The meal Sarah cooked for us was absolutely delicious / tasty / nice / good.
22. She´s sensitive about her weight, so only talk about it if she makes / gets / brings / comes it up.
23. Frank´s girlfriend was wearing an utterly / an awfully / a quite / a totally short skirt.
24. The manager told us that a great quantity / number / deal / supply of money was missing.
25. In today´s newspaper it says / writes / remarks / notices that oil has been discovered near Birmingham.
26. I never wear brown because it doesn´t match / suit / fit / agree me.
27. The students remained unmoved / static / motionless / unmoving behind the door waiting for the
members of the Examination board.
28. Tramways and buses are the most popular forms of public communication / transport / transfer / traffic in this town.
29. I was a bit terrified / petrified / scared / horrified when I went to bed after watching the horror film.
30. It said they wanted someone with a friendly manner / custom / behaviour / habit.
31. I thought I was late but I realized my watch was the minutes ahead / in advance / fast / early.
32. The caller asked to be put through / to / over / up to the manager.
33. After a great deal of discussion we were all for / at / on / in agreement that we should have a party.
34. Earth is the only situation / place / position / site we know of in the Universe that can support human life.
35. One thing I always keep to / under / in / of mind is the need to say thank you.
36. They shouldn´t have accused me of / accused me with / blamed me for / charged me with the accident. It wasn´t my fault.
37. The meeting will begin at 6 pm on time / exact / sharp / accurate.
38. Like any good recipe you have to know the main parts / ingredients / pieces / sections of a successful novel.
39. I´m making you responsible for this project. Please see to / into / for / at it that it is finished on time.
40. The delay at the airport resulted / led / caused / meant that we arrived 3 hours later than planned.
41. I don´t have a job, I´m workless / lonely / unused / unemployed.
42. The house has been unpopulated / uninhabitated / free / unoccupied since the owner died last year.
43. If you want to buy that motorbike you´ll have to take down / on / up / out a loan to do it.
44. We couldn´t eat the meat because it had gone off / gone away / gone out / gone over.
45. Excuse me, have you got a light / fire / match / the fire, please?
46. Would you like to meet for a coffee after career / work / job / employment?
47. I was utterly / terribly / completely / totally disappointed by the food in the new restaurant.
48. If you have an ambition to become the next / following / subsequent / later Agatha Christie, what should you do?
49. It´s that connection with other people that I would avoid / lose / forget / miss most if I lived in the country.
50. It was amazing the number in / of / to / with customers who would spend ages finding the perfect
destionation only to have a change in / of / to / with heart at the last moment. 2. Word formation
1. He has become … important in the company. (increase)
2. I didn´t understand what you just said. Could you … it? (clear)
3. They … him even if he was innocent. ( prison )
4. A newborn baby is completely … . ( help )
5. I´m studying medicine. I want to … in genetics. ( special )
6. Experts say that the younger the parents, the … the danger. ( big )
7. Many human rights activists were … disappointed by the election results in Rwanda. ( bitter )
8. Helping companies to create jobs is the best way to stimulate … in an economy. ( grow )
9. When I … myself, I found out I´d lost 10 kg! ( weight )
10. I entered a bowling … . ( compete )
11. He is a former swimming … . ( instruct )
12. You behave in a very … way. ( response )
13. What a … lovely present! That was very kind of you. ( think )
14. There is a water … nearly every summer in the south of England. ( short )
15. We don´t want to … of the violence at last year´s football match. ( repeat )
16. When I lived abroad, I found the … from my family very difficult. ( separate )
17. In the not-to-distant past farm animals were able to live … lives in what we would now term free- range conditions. (nature)
18. I was … surprised by his achievements. ( please )
19. There will also be much more … in the work people do. ( employ )
20. Schools now offer many … activities. ( addition )
21. Don´t worry! This injection will be completely … . ( pain )
22. We had a long … about our problems. ( discuss )
23. These days are warm and … . ( sun )
24. The … of my computer screen gives me a headache. ( bright )
25. It´s … to smoke in public places nowdays. ( legal )
26. There is a huge … of rice dishes in Valencia, apart from paella. ( vary )
27. I stared at him in … . ( believe )
28. The medicine was … - he didn´t recover. ( effect )
29. Frita Lang is my favourite film … . ( direct )
30. The time we spent apart only … my love for him. ( strong )
31. My dog is completely ... . I promise he won't bite. ( harm )
32. The film The Ring ... me. I couldn't sleep for days. ( terror )
33. Many older people don't want to stop work ... and take up a life of relaxation. ( complete )
34. Refined sugar does so much damage to human health that you could almost say that it was ... . ( poison )
35. I think I'll ... this photograph. ( large )
36. Please send a photograph with your CV and form ... . ( apply )
37. You need to do some more ... of this grammar. ( practise )
38. The great leader Kolokotronis defended Greece against the Turks in the Greek War of ... . ( depend )
39. Her ... of the grammar was very unclear. ( explain )
40. Valencian firework displays are very ... . ( impress )
41. The police are conducting an ... into the murder. ( investigate )
42. ... the investigators were unable to prove that the scientist had been murdered. ( fortunate )
43. Many people are ... of the dangers of mobile phones. ( aware )
44. You must remember to recharge your phone. Without its batteries, it's ... . ( use )
45. There was little ... that John knew the answer. ( possible )
46. A healthy diet will ... your life expectancy. ( long )
47. The noise is ... and I cannot sleep. ( deaf )
48. You have no ... - you must do it. ( choose )
49. Instead of doing the same job for life, ... will have several jobs, which is known as 'portfolio working'. ( work )
50. I'm studying medicine. I want to ... in genetics. ( special )
3. Think of any words you can form from the word given
1. convert 2. industry 3. accurate 4. fail 5. court
6. account 7. suit 8. dream 9. hand 10. favor
4. Form sentences with the phrasal verb given
1. blot out 2. call on someone 3. turn up 4. cut in 5. hang in 6. get round to something
7. opt out 8. hold onto someone / something 9. get on something 10. pass something up
11. set something up 12. figure something out 13. get away with something 14. bail someone out
15. keep something up 16. break in 17. look down on someone 18. look out for
19. think somethink over 20. cut something off 21. run over 22. look forward to 23. go over
24. pass something out 25. turn down 26. stick to 27. catch up 28. end up 29. wind up
30. count on 31. look into 32. get over 33. wear off 34. shop around 35. cut in 36. run out
37. break out 38. take after someone 39. let someone down 40. break down 41. knock over
42. hang up 43. pass away 44. get along / on 45. set someone up 46. tear up 47. put up with
48. attend to 49. kick off 50. bring someone down
5. For questions 1-12, read the text and decide which word best fits each gap
As a child, Spencer West was told that he would never be a functioning member of society after losing
both of his legs at the age of 5. However, (1) all odds, Spencer managed to climb to the summit of
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain. Spencer walked on his hands for about 80 percent of
the (2), and used a wheelchair for (3) of the rest. Only in a few places, where neither his hand nor his
chair would do the job, (4) his friends carry him. Spencer climbed the mountain with the (5) of raising
$750,000 for a charity organization which builds sustainable water supplies in Kenya. He was (6) to
launch a campaign called "Redefine Possible" after volunteering in a Kenyan village, an experience
which he says changed the (7) of his life. The region was later hit by a (8) drought and Spencer often
wondered about the fate of the people he met there. Now, he feels he has done something to repay
them. It (9) Spencer and his three friends eight days to reach the summit. Spencer admitted that,
despite (10) training, the climb was more difficult than he had (11). "There was a lot of snow at the
top. Also my two friends suffered from altitude sickness and I didn't. I ended up (12) them!"
1 - outside, even, although, against
2 - excursion, trip, tour, travel
3 - nearly, many, majority, much 4 - have, did, were, had
5 - point, objection, aim, target
6 - initiated, affected, provoked, inspired 7 - mode, line, way, course
8 - severe, strict, critical, hard
9 - was, took, lasted, required
10 - intensive, harsh, massive, exhausting
11 - considered, anticipated, deduced, waited
12 - transferring, bearing, fetching, supporting
6. For questions 13-24, read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
The Northern and Southern lights, fascinated mankind (13) many thousands of years. People travel
huge distances (14) see the brilliant light shows in the winter skies. The auroras occur (15) highly
charged electrons from solar winds interact with elements in the earth's atmosphere. Solar winds
travel away from the sun at speeds (16) up to 1 million miles per hour. (17) reaching the earth,
around 40 hours later, they enter the earth's upper atmosphere. Here, they collide with oxygen and
nitrogen atoms, and create coloured ''lights". The colour depends (18) the type of atom and the
altitude at (19) it is struck. For example, green ''lights'' (20) created when electrons strike oxygen
atoms at low altitudes. At higher altitudes, the lights are red. The auroras tend to occur close to the
Arctic and Antarctic circles. At certain (21), however, especially when there is a great (22) of sunspot
activity, the auroras are visible much (23) from the poles. Many stories mention sounds produced by
the auroras, but as (24) no recordings have been made.
7. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap next to it.
Scientists believe that athletic success is not just due to athletic (ABLE). It is also influenced by the
shape of our bodies. Body shape can be divided into three categories. Endomorphs typically have a
pear shaped body and carry a lot of body fat. They gain (WEIGH) easily and quickly lose condition if
they stop training. Their heavy mass makes it difficult for such people to compete in sports requiring
(AGILE) and speed. They are more suited to sports involving (STRONG), such as power lifting.
Mesomorphs tend to be of medium (HIGH). They carry very little fat and have a (MUSCLE) build, so
they are strong candidates for many different sports. Ectomorphs are long, slender and thin.
(CONSEQUENCE), power sports are generally (SUIT) for people with this type of body because they
can cause injury. However, their light frame makes them ideal for aerobic activities such as
gymnastics. They are also good at (ENDURE) sports like long distance running. Most people are a
(COMBINE) of each of these body types. With a better (UNDERSTAND) of your own body type, you are
more likely to find a sport that's right for you!
8. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word
given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given.
Someone is going to paint our house next weekend. (HAVE)
We are going to ... next weekend.
We had to cancel our barbecue because the weather was so bad. (ACCOUNT)
We had to cancel our barbecue ... the bad weather.
I don't often walk so far. That's why I ache so much. (USED)
I ache so much because I ... walking so far.
Neither Tom nor Ellie plays a musical instrument. (EITHER)
Tom doesn't play an instrument and ... .
Hearing the best band in the country play in the local theatre was fantastic. (IT)
... hear the best band in the country play in the local theatre.
Could you wash up the dishes before you go out? (LIKE)
I'd ... wash up the dishes before you go out.
I wanted to buy the chair, but it has been sold. (THAT) The chair ... has been sold.
Could you lend me your pencil, please? (MIND)
Would ... me your pencil, please?
The coat is a bit cheaper than the jacket. (QUITE)
The coat isn't ... the jacket. 9. Error Correction
1. Should we really speak of the ´´breakdown´´ of families when we are perhaps witnessing new
family forms and a new social structure arising late capitalism?
2. Public opinion polls have consistently demonstrated the public´s willingness for ´´tradeoff´´
economic growth for environmental protection.
3. The economy is heavy dependent on industry, and economic growth has always been of greater
concern than environmental preservation.
4. Advocacy for child war victims, children in hazardous work, abused children and those variously
expoited or handicapped has attracted the attention and commitment of legislators and policy-makers through the world.
5. The increase population, and rapid economic growth in recent years, have put a large and
increasing stress on the water resources and environmental in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
6. Most of the large industries in the country are well organized and structured and are sometimes
backed up internationally reputable mother companies.
7. Full-time jobs for men are declining, while more women are finding part- and full-time work. The
result is declining social status for men so they lose their role as the sole financial provider.
8. The camp on the inhospitable, mosquito-infested banks of the River Sekonyer, was set up to track
the primates and learn from their habitat, diet and behavior.
9. Italian citizens lead their counterparts in the UK, France and Germany in supporting moves to bring
the service standards and practices of government´s departments closer to those achieved by the
best private sector companies.
10. ´´Everybody holds hands. This is the energy that will get you through the evening. We´re going to
be a winning team. Let´s make it the best shift we´ve ever had. Go for it, guys!´´
11. Aspen, where the limousines have four-wheel drive and an empty plot can cost ten million dollars,
has been declared the more expensive town in America.
12. Evidently, the increasing popularity of Internet shares has led to further investment out of this
sector and there are persistent rumors of takeovers.
13. Over 5000 years of Chinese Culture will soon have a world-wide audience, following to a
collaboration between IBM Taiwan and the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
14. Woody Guthrie finally died, after a lengthy illness, in October 1967, but this project will help his
name live on, and perhaps provoke a re-evaluation about his influence on popular music in the 20th century.
15. Movie directors are accused of assuming the audience is stupid. But contemporary thrillers seem
more often to make the opposite mistake: assuming that the audience is astonishingly sophisticated,
able to see into a plot in seconds.
16. This is a film that proves not only that Duval can direct but, as if we didn’t know it, that he is one
of America strongest screen presences.
17. Education should emphasize our interdependence with peoples, with other species and with the planet as a whole.
18. On the bottom of the New York MetroCard have three arrows and little white letters that say
´´Insert this way/This side facing you.´´What is it about that instruction that is so impossible to understand?
19. Charters are self-governed schools that operate independent of local school boards, however with public money.
20. Since 2001, the company´s annual revenue from ticket sales and contributions grown by 85 percent, to $42.9 million.
1. When major food companies began widely using partially hydrogenated oils in the 1970s, they
thought they were making these products more healthful.
2. The norovirus causes illness 24 hours to 48 hours after exposure, and can cause a sickness that
lasts to three days. It is not life-threatening. It can be passed through food or touching infected surfaces.
3. In 2002, 20 million people in the United States were reported have asthma – a chronic
inflammatory lung disease characterized by wheezing, difficulty breathing, chest tightness and coughing.
4. Scientists have uncovered evidence for an innate satisfaction in human beings giving people their comeuppance.
5. The Eiffel Tower was built the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the
centenary of the French Revolution.
6. A no-smoking program has help overweight people reduce their risk of heart attacks or their need for surgery by 63 percent.
7. Japan´s latitudinal spread, ranging from subtropical in the south to sub-arctic in the north, makes
that a wide diversity of flora and fauna.
8. After a muscle fiber has worked intensely for while, it begins to lose potassium, and that dampens
the fiber´s ability to contract.
9. For decades the food industry has been known serving up sugary or fat-laden products, promoted with ceaseless advertising.
10. Greece´s achievement in the 2004 Olympics raise anew the question of whether Athens should be
the permanent home of the Games.
11. Crushed ice is use to cool drinks, and is often applied to injuries where there is swelling, to remove
excess heat generated in the tissues.
12. E-book users tend to read more often than people who read only print material. In particular, they
read more books. A typical e-book users read 24 books in the past year, compared with the 15 books
reported by typical non-e-book users.
13. There are now a dozen European nations that having had their economies shrink for consecutive
quarters, a condition that generally equates to a recession.
14. According a recent poll, 39% of 18- to 34- year olds are living with their parents or have moved
back in with their parents temporarily because of the sluggish economy.
15. Though many fields are now gender integrated, it still holds true that construction and
manufacturing are dominated by men, teaching and health care for women.
16. Birds are famously good navigators. Some migrate thousands of miles, flying day and night, even the stars are obscured.
17. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday approved an update policy that
makes it harder for employers to use background checks to systematically rule out hiring anyone with a criminal conviction.
18. America´s top technology companies have approval ratings that most politicians can only dream, according to a new poll.
19. Our young college graduates are suffering primarily because I believe the current demand in high
paying jobs requires a degree in the hard sciences like math, engineering, computers, and physics.
20. Beta blockers for heart disease, diabetes drugs, and other treatments are keeping the obese alive
longer, with the result that they incur astronomically high medical expenses in old age just for their slimmer peers.
1. Women had to fight hard to gain … / the / her / an equality.
2. I´ve never heard a such / so a / a so / such a ridiculous speech.
3. All their children are allowed to do / do / for doing / doing exactly what they like.
4. The old lady came near to being dead / dying / die / death of pneumonia but to everyone´s amazement she pulled through.
5. I had no sooner told her what I thought of her as / when / than / that I wished I´d held my tongue.
6. I should / did / had / would rather you didn´t tell my parents about this.
7. We promised to keep in touch whenever / wherever / however / whatever happened to us in life.
8. We are at a disadvantage for / with / in / by that we did not have a very good knowledge of the
language the others were using.
9. The President resigned; the whiff of scandal remained nevertheless / therefore / otherwise / immediately.
10. If you can win his attention the better so much / the so much better / so much the better / so the much better for you.
11. My daughter is planning to spend a year before university working in Australia, which / what / that
/ where seems to me to be a sensible idea.
12. I can´t imagine any reason how / that / for / why he should have behaved in such an extraordinary way.
13. I borrowed a friend´s of my / friend´s of mine / friend of my / friend of mine´s bike and went into town in the lunch break.
14. They live about a drive of an hour / an hour´s drive / a drive hour / an hour of drive from here.
15. It was the collapse of the dotcom boom that finally did off / with / out / for him.
16. By the time you´re my age, you will probably change / are probably changing / will probably have
changed / would probably change your mind.
17. When I first came to Australia it took me a long time to get used to drive / be used to driving / get
used to drive / get used to driving on the left.
18. You´d rather stay at home tonight, didn´t / hadn´t / wouldn´t / won´t you?
19. Kevin´ll do well in the job as soon as / as long as / as far as / as well as he stays on the right side of the boss.
20. Thank you very much – I haven´t been to the so enjoyable / so enjoyable / so enjoyable a / a so enjoyable party for ages.
1. I hope you don't mind my / I had been / to be / that I may sitting here.
2. On no account you / should you / that you may / to call her at the office.
3. Things woud go a lot more smoothly if you ... / do / didn't / will keep interrupting.
4. We'll get you a car once you are passing / are having passed / have passed / might pass your driving test.
5. She is / was being / has been / will have forever practising on that out-of-tune trumpet.
6. Please tell me when to stop downpour / to have poured / pouring / pour.
7. I regret to inform you that your application has been / to be / should have been / is being unsuccessful on this occasion.
8. The number of girls in school and women in parliament has risen, and their overall access to
contraception has improved in the past decade, published in a / according a / according to a / are stated in a new report.
9. The 2000 Census showed that married couples which they made up / and made up / to make up /
made up half of the 2 million households in the state, and 46 percent of those coupleshd children living with them.
10. By far the most noticeable blemishes on the surface of the Sun are / the / that are/ in the sunspots.
11. If parents / When parents / Parents that / Parents are poor observers of their child's behavior so
deviant behavior reaches unmanageable proportions.
12. Apple Computer has unveiled its new desktop computer design, which includes / which contains /
enclosing / which integrates all disk drives and processors into a flat display less than two inches thick.
13. Astronomers on university research labs / NASA / observatories / Tuesday announced the
discovery of a new - and possibly abundant - class of planets that has more in common with Earth
than the uninhabitable gas giants previously discovered.
14. Across the country, recreational and commercial fishers have been pointing fingers for decades
over which group is responsible for reduce / growing / increasing / dwindling stocks of sports fish.
15. Nearly all the brown bears in the USA are resident / reside / live / inhabit in Alaska, which has an
estimated 30,000 to 40,000 brown bears, also called grizzlies.
16. The hospital is now discounting 10 standard operations and equipment / visits / medication /
procedures, ranging from having a baby and treating a cataract to undergoing a heart bypass.
17. Long hours and unsociable shifts must / are able to / shouldn't / can take their toll on health,
relationships and family life.
18. Food is, after all, an important part of Chinese culture and mission controllers say it is important
so that / that food is provided for / make sure / to ensure that China's space pioneers do not go hungry.
19. The problem os squaring a pan-European agenda with the national interests of 25 separate
countries have made / resulting in / often affect / causes the process of integration a slow, complex and at times divisive one.
20. International trade in the world's 20-odd varieties of sturgeon has been promoted / is supported /
has been regulated / is controlled by the United Nations since 1998, after a drastic rise in poaching.
1. Tell me what has she said / she would be saying / was being said / has she been saying about me.
2. I will / may / was meant to / can't have arrived in Tokyo by now.
3. A sandwich? Had you better / Wouldn't you / Wouldn't you rather / Wouldn't you better have that gorgeous meringue?
4. There's no way I would ever have / should never have / have ever / would ever done it without your help.
5. If you happen to see Morag, would you ask her whether has she / if she did / if she got / is she getting my postcard.
6. Only by chance discovered I / did I discover / ought I to be discovering / I discovered that she had been stealing from us.
7. Listen, I'm not imagining this. There's a man he is following / following / that follows / which has followed us.
8. If you ..... / will / may / might just bear with me, sir, I'll find out what's happened to your order.
9. It was Italian that she was studying / studies / may have studied / would be studying, wasn't it?
10. The police officer ordered the teenager put / to have put / to put / putting the gun on the floor.
11. It would have been said / is to say / is said / is to say that garlic thins the blood.
12. How had you to / would you / might I / have you get back home if you lost your ticket?
13. When you open your new account, you will give / will be given / will have been given / should have
had a personal identification number.
14. Ronan said he'll call as soon as he would get / is getting / gets / had got back.
15. Great! The washing machine isn't / seems to be / won't be / can't have been working. Did you have it fixed?
16. I was thinking having / thinking of having had / thinking of having / having thinking a
housewarming party, next week. What do you think?
17. No sooner have I opened / was I being opened / had I to open / had I opened the door than the
dog rushed out into the garden.
18. If you don't / can't / might / can get a move on, we'll miss our connection.
19. I really didn't think there is / would be / has been / will have been any gateau left.
20. I'm sorry, but you're not supposed ..... / to be taken / taking / to take photos on this base.
1. Men dying sooner than women is natural / works in / makes sense / is obvious biologically: because
105 males are born for every 100 females, it would assure that there are about the same number of
men and women at reproductive ages.
2. The decanting of red wines are / has / have / is a long tradition in high quality wine service and can
be done to add a special flourish at a meal.
3. Computers crash due the errors / owing errors / resulting in errors / because of errors in the
operating system (OS) software or errors in the computer hardware. Software errors are probably
more common, but hardware errors can be devastating and harder to diagnose.
4. Why do traffic jams sometimes happen / seem / look / occur to appear out of nowhere?
5. Temperature can affect the sound of a musical instrument in a variety of ways, with / while / which
are / although often different for each instrument.
6. Geysers occur when magma lies just below the Earth's surface, particularly in volcanic regions for
example / such as / e.g. / alike Iceland or New Zealand.
7. Our Sun, in many ways an average sort of star, has been around for nearly five billion years and
has enough fuel to carry / keep / maintain / continue going for another five billion years.
8. The best available supply of nutrients is insects. Your most vital nutritional needs in a survival
situation are protein and fat, and most insects are / contain / are rarely / provide rich in both.
9. The island of Mauritius is evolving / has evolved / evolved / has been evolved from an agricultural
to a semi-industrialized country over the past three decades.
10. The ocean provides a dependable and affordable source of recreation / pollution / entertainment / fishing for many.
11. It is no secret that healthy natural environments make up / lead for / result with / contribute to healthy human lives.
12. Motor vehicle collisions are primary reason / a leading cause / often blamed / frequently resulting
of death in infants and children.
13. Most foreign visitors traveling to the USA on a visa need / must to / are required to / are expected
to have their two index fingers scanned and a digital photograph taken to verify their identity at the port of entry.
14. The Kvichak River of Bristol Bay, Alaska, is first / one / the most important / where there is of the
world's largest salmon producing systems.
15. Alaska's salmon stocks should continue to produce healthy harvests in / for the / during / in the
foreseeable future, barring significant damage to their habitat either via local activities or global warming.
16. A trio of newly discovered worlds are much smaller than any / all / the / most other planets
previously discovered outside of the solar system.
17. Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as option / in order / as a way / as method to control nuisance animals.
18. Smokers who try to give up / quit the / stop to use / stop cigarettes can double their chances of
success by using patches, gum, lozenges, inhalers or nasal sprays containing nicotine.
19. Sugar-sweetened soft drinks pack plenty of calories, but drinking them makes / more / does / often
is little to make a person feel full.
20. For humans, running a given distance requires 50 to 80 percent more energy than walking
identical / the same / equal / equivalent distance does.
1. It has been claimed that drinking / a drink / to have been drinking / drink red wine is good for your heart.
2. I'm sorry, but we've had some difficulty in locating / to have located / that we locate / in the location your luggage.
3. Only when I bend over must / make / should / does the pain get worse.
4. It's no good for him / him / he is / that he apologising to me now.
5. I was getting angrier and the angriest / angrily / more angry / angrier as the hours passed by.
6. The most important factors in determining a person's risk of developing heart disease is / through /
are / measurement of body weight and the type of fat he or she consumes.
7. Cincinnati's state-of-the-art Undergound Railroad Museum makes details of escapes and all /
whatever / every other / each other imaginable aspect of slavery in America accessible to the broad public.
8. At colleges across the country, from ivy League to less exclusive state schools, students are / who
are / which are / are they mispronouncing the library's name this month will soon feel truly and deeply a part of their college.
9. A new law will require foreigners who marry South Africans for residence / to live / women / to wait
five years before they can apply for anything but temporary residence and work permits.
10. For most laboratories / components / reasearch / people, the notion of harnessing nanotechnology
for electronic circuitry suggests something wildly futuristic.
11. The locals gather around the electricity generator, but they cannot get started it / it started / starting it / lights to start.
12. Desks can often show aspects of character otherwise hidden from general view these / however /
and which / but where, if analysed in detail, will reveal their owner's innermost secrets.
13. With so few as / as fewer than / as few as / not fewer than 5,000 tigers remaining in the world
today, time is quickly running out for this beautiful animal.
14. The way the film eventually got made feels / has / indicates / looks, like the story itself, a certain ring of destiny to it.
15. As you have expected / would expect / expected / are expecting, the technology on the inside
matches the brilliance of the exterior.
16. Every / No / Some / Any fod is more quintessentially Indian than basmati rice.
17. It's a horrible irony, but a bully has to know his victim well in order to / to be / if being / if they are
effective; it's almost impossible to bully strangers.
18. It is often claimed / One of the reasons / Everybody says / Because films about writers are so dull
is that writers don't dress up to practice their craft.
19. Just because you're living in a concrete jungle in the sky don't / isn't / doesn't / aren't mean you're in prison.
20. If you're not completely satisfied / not completely satisfying / not completely satisfactory / not
satisfied completely with your goods, contact us within ten days of receipt, and we shall arrange
collection and refund your money in full.
1. Capital punishment was done out for / over from / off by / away with in Britain nearly half a century ago.
2. No offence intended but / when / as / if I think you haven't understood the problem correctly.
3. I take great exception from / to / with / against the implication that I was not telling the truth.
4. In such a complex situation as this mistakes bound to / bound for / bound / are bound to happen occasionally.
5. No one wants to have extra homework tonight, don't he / do they / does he / don't they?
6. Have you / Have you got / Do you have / Have you been your house repainted every year?
7. I had no difficulty for finding / to find / finding / to finding their house although they had said that
people often did.8. I'm sure he only said those things to my annoyance / for annoy me / to annoy me / for annoying me.
9. James is staying with the Greens / the Green / Green / Greens while he is in New York - their son,
Nick Green, will then come back with James for a few weeks over here.
10. The more I get to know him, the much / lesser / less /most I like him.
11. We've been colleagues for ages. I have know / am knowing / knew / know him since I first moved to Chicago.
12. You have taken the rubbish out, won't / didn't / haven't / have you?
13. We had such a great week when / during / where / that we went walking in the mountains.
14. I going to call / call / 'll call / 'm calling Julia to tell her as soon as we arrive at the hotel.
15. Paris has some great museums which / where / that / while you can see the impressionist painters.
16. What a noise! You fed the cat, did / won't / will / didn't you?
17. I'm looking forward to my holiday! I going / 'm going / will / 'll go to spend the whole week on a boat!
18. I could talk to him but he doesn't come here often, did / does / do / doesn't he?
19. Are you going to the club tonight? You shouldn't / didn't / mustn't / don't have to pay an entrance
charge if you arrive before 8pm.
20. You don't have to apply for a student visa if / unless / if not / if don't you're from outside the EU.
1. Try as I could / would / should / might, I couldn't turn the key.
2. Should / If / Unles / Were you to change your mind about handing in your notice, we would be happy for you to stay with us.
3. I find her / that / them / it very strange that Meena has not been promoted yet.
4. Did you really understand all which / what / that / when he said?
5. Please come and see me every / all / some / any day you like.
6. His grandfather often dozes in / off / out / over in front of the TV after dinner.
7. Only on very rare occasions the old lady make would / the old lady would make / would the old lady
make / would make the old lady an appearance before midday.
8. He escaped by the breadth of a hair / the hair's breadth / a hair's breadth / a breadth of a hair.
9. Nevertheless / Despite / Whereas / However he should have spent all the weekend preparing for the
test, he in fact just lay in bed watching videos.
10. Which / Where / What / How with being so busy both at work and at home, she became
increasingly tired and bad-tempered.
11. I benefited a great deal with / off / from / for taking that online training course.
12. In such a plight did we find ourselves / we ourselves found / we found ourselves / did we ourselves
find that we had no choice but the radio for help.
13. Why do you object to him being taken on / him be taken on / he be taken on / he being taken on -
he'll be an asset to the company.
14. Unfortunately, their house burgled / got burgled / went burgled / had burgled while they were at
the restaurant celebrating their anniversary.
15. If the decision would have been taken / was being taken / was taken / had been taken before he
arrived, he would have been furious.
16. You must phone us as soon as you will get / will have got / are getting / get home.
17. I can reassure you that everything will deal with / will deal / will be dealt / will be dealt with as quickly as possible.
18. Bob couldn't resist from adding / resist for adding / resist to add / resist adding a moustache to the
photo of his Headmaster in the newsaper.
19. This time next week I won't be in a stuffy office, I'll lie / I'll have lain / I'm lying / I'll be lying on a beach in Spain.
20. He crept whereby / unless / otherwise / lest his parents should wake up.
1. If only you were telling / have told / would have told / had told me earlier, I could have helped you out.
2. We had been traveling for / until / during / since about four hours when the train cme to an abrupt halt.
3. I told Julie I was being able / would not / might not be able / oughtn't have to have to come.
4. Supposing you have / you had been / you had / you have been injured. What would I have done then?
5. In spite of my protests, he wouldn't let me to have paid / let me paying / have me to pay / let me pay for the meal.
6. I'd rather you didn't / should / could / might have to ask her round.
7. The grass is all wet. It must have been raining / should have rained / ought to have been raining during the night.
8. I really don't like having been / being / to have been / if I am invited to formal receptions.
9. Not only had you won / have you won / you have won / were you winning an automobile, you've
also won free gasoline for a year.
10. If I do / may / will / don't phone you, I'll see you at seven.
11. I don't understand why you didn't say / didn't you tell / didn't you say / you didn't tell me you were so sick.
12. I asked if I could / you let me / could I / whom to use Judith's cellphone.
13. Only now I understand / I do understand / am I to be understood / do I understand why you didn't tell me.
14. There ought to have been / has been / was / must be someone at home I can hear voices in the living room
15. We don't have to be there yet / from / as far as / until lunchtime.
16. Some foods, such as burgers and pizzas, can be / must have / oughtn't to be / should have been bad fo your health.
17. He wanted to know by / for / since / during when had the school been used as a call centre.
18. Maria: Are dogs allowed in this supermarket? Candy: Yes, but I wish they weren't / shan't / wouldn't / aren't.
19. Those apples cost only $1 by / for / the / a kilo.
20. Nothing will be decided whenever / still / until / so far as after the holidays.
1. What will she do when she would have / will have / has / should have her results?
2. How many books do you think he was to have written / would have to write / had written / must
have been writing before he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature/
3. Scarcely we have / have we / had we / we had taken off, than the plane was forced to make an emergency landing.
4. We had a great time, but for / except / in spite / spite of the awful weather.
5. I'll do my very best to get / getting / be getting / have got there on time.
6. That sign says not to / shouldn't / shan't / to not walk on the lawn.
7. Hadn't you to / already / rather / better start getting ready? We leave in ten minutes.
8. Although it had been advertised as fully furnished, there was actually none / little / lack of / a few furniture in the flat.
9. My secretary reminded me to / I should / oughtn't I to / that i buy my wife an anniversary present.
10. I'm on the point of having given / to give / I give / giving up smoking.
11. Joe won't have been / wouldn't have / wasn't / has been taken the car without asking first.
12. Only in Scotland they / are they to / they can / do they produce original malt whisky.
13. The policeman threatened to have the drunk locked up when / if / until / as he stopped making nuisance of himself.
14. I didn't used to / use to / never / be used to listen to opera.
15. She has to / mustn't / can't / shouldn't be a grandmother. She looks like a teenager.
16. Hardly I put / had I put / put I / had I downed the receiver down than there was a knock at the door.
17. Had you will show / it been / they shown / not they shown some remorse, they might have been given a lighter sentence.
18. Gerry: Will all of these people lose their jobs? Robert: I hope not / think / don't think / don't hope.
19. Had the grammar section of the test not been so difficult, Kay would certainly pass / have passed /
be passed / have been passed it.
20. Mom and Pop are off now, kids. See you in a little while. You're / That's / Be / Behave good, now.