Advanced English Grammar Test – Multiple-choice Test 47

1.Food prices have been … steadily for at least ten years.

2.I’ll have to study hard, … I can pass the exam.

3.You … to eat if you are not hungry.

4.We’ll dance and … we’ll have lunch.

5.She has to go to Germany for the next … of the training.

6.When the meeting had finished, we went … the plan once again.

7.I locked the animals in the cage to … them from getting away.

8.You’re … your time trying to persuade her.

9.Our last cook was better than our … one.

10.I am grateful to Mary for being so patient … us.

11.Have you exchanged that lovely car … this?

12.The weather was … the poor harvest.

13.Olivia is teaching three classes and she is examining at a literature exam tomorrow. …, she is chairing a meeting at the Bright Owl Club.

14.I don’t see any … in arriving early at the show.

15.Your application for a vise was turned … by the consulate.

16.Shopping malls account for 70 percent of the retail business in this country because they are controlled environments which … concerns about the weather.

17.It is … impossible to tell the twins apart.

18.The man claimed that he was the … heir to the throne.

19.The rather humid climate in no way … from the beauty of these places.

20.… no need to buy traveller’s cheques.

21.Is there … bread for all the sandwiches?

22.Teaching is not a/an … which pays very well.

23.This letter didn’t come through the post. It was delivered personally, … hand.

24.I … do that if I were you.

25.There was nothing to … her with the burglary until the police found two gold ring in her car.

26.The manufacturers are advertising a new … of perfume.

27.… my stay in hospital, I lost three kilos.

28.I’m sorry to hear that they have … . They were good friends.

29.Shall I use this … to fry the eggs?

30.She … being given a receipt for the bill she had paid.