Advanced English Grammar Test – Multiple-choice Test 6

1.Perhaps you could start by telling me why you’ve … .

2.I like working in the … .

3.Do you like the idea of an office with …?

4.I don’t understand what you’re … .

5.I thought the solution was … obvious.

6.For Bill, the situation … clear.

7.I think there must be a mistake. I … .

8.I’m afraid it’s a case of mistaken … .

9.So you’re not after the job of data specialist, ... .

10.I like working outside. I want to be a gardener, … .

11.This business has lost a lot of orders recently and is going through a … time.

12.In this country trains always arrive … time.

13.They don’t know what to do and are merely playing … time.

14.Just looking at their out of date equipment one can tell that the company is well … the times.

15.His latest invention proved he was … of his time.

16.You can tell he has hit the … time because of the new car he drives.

17.It’s … time you went to the post office.

18.They are meant to … time with the conductor.

19.If you want to grow as a business you must … with the times.

20.The parcel arrived four weeks later, and not … time!

21.She hung the washing out only three hours ago but it is already bone … thanks to the hot sunshine.

22.He came straight out with his complaint … no bones about it.

23.When they found him he was just … and bone.

24.You can hear everything that’s going on next door because the walls are paper … .

25.After the revolution the dictator no longer had much control and became just a paper … .

26.There was no hesitation on his part and quick as a … he paid the bill.

27.He had no problems learning foreign languages because he was very quick on the … .

28.The first … was to hold the event in the open air but that posed some problems.

29.The proposal was discarded because I might find difficulty with the local … .

30.In view of the large number of people the … of a parking area was considered very important.