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TEST  13

1.     Her husband is ill in _____ hospital, so she has to stay at _____

home to look after _____ children instead of going to work.
A) __ / __ / __

C) the / the / the

B) __ / the / the

D) __ / __ / the

2.

Because _____ sun was so strong, they decided to sleep during
_____ day and travel by _____ night.
A) the / the / __

C) the / the / the

B) the / __ / __

D) __ / __ / __

3.

Here is a picture of _____ village where I was born. It is about ten
minutes by _____ car from Wellington, _____ big town.
A) the / __ / a

B) the / the / __

B) __ / the / __

D) the / __ / __

4.

The two kinds of _____ dog that I detest most are _____ snow dogs
and _____ lap dogs.
A) the / __ / __

C) __ / __ / __

B) __ / the / the__

D) the / __ / __

5.

Do you think that I could ever learn to speak _____ Japanese _____
way _____ Japanese speak it?
A) __ / the / the__

C) __ / __ / __

B) the / the / the__

D) __ / the / __

6.

This is _____ toughest steak I have eaten. It is _____ last time I eat in
this restaurant.
A) __/__

C) __ / the

B) the / __

D) the / the

7.

I would like _____ there yesterday.
A) being

C) to have been

B) having to be

D) to be

8.

I can

’

t find my sister. Do you know _____?

A) where is she

B) where she is

C) somewhere she is

D) is she anywhere

9.

Mr. Green has a _____ vacation.
A) two weeks

B) two-week

’

s

C) two weeks

’

D) two-week

10. Have you heard _____ weather forecast?

A) yesterday

B) tomorrow

’

s

C) for today

’

s

D) next week

11. She ran in a _____ race.

A) ten kilometer

B) ten-kilometer

C) ten kilometer

’

s

D) ten-kilometers

12. _____ weather will be great.

A) Tomorrow

B) Yesterday

’

s

C) Yesterday

D) Tomorrow

’

s

13. I wish my car _____ make so much noise.

A) won

’

t

B) can

’

t

C) didn

’

t

D) doesn

’

t

14. “Are you leaving, Sam?” asked Mabel.

She asked Sam if he _____.
A) is leaving

B) leaves

C) was leaving

D) would leave

15. Alice said that _____.

A) I

’

m at my office

B) she was at her office

C) I

’

m at her office

D) you have been at your office

16. Jack _____ to Tom.

A) says that he had spoken

B) said that he had spoken

C) say that he speaks

D) had spoken that he will say

17. “How have you been, Mona?” asked Fred.

He asked Mona how _____.
A) she was

B) she had been

C) was she

D) had she been

18. He hoped that they _____ that question.

A) don

’

t ask

B) will ask

C) would ask

D) can

’

t ask

19. The new system is more productive and _____.

A) cheap

B) less dangerously

C) less expensive

D) costing less

20. It was foolish _____ your advice.

A) to be forgotten

B) for her forgetting

C) of her to forget

D) to listen

21. She gave me a very nice book _____.

A) reading

B) read

C) to read

D) will read

22. He can climb trees _____ a monkey.

A) as though

B) like

C) as

D) as if

23. _____ poverty in the world.

A) There are always

B) It has always

C) It has always been

D) There has always been

24. _____ the children for me while I

’

m out.

A) Look after

B) Take care

C) Look at

D) Care

25. Robert seems _____ ready.

A) it is

B) to be

C) being

D) of being

26. He was working at the office when the telegram _____.

A) was arriving B) has arrived

C) arrived

D) arrives

27. This is the first time I _____ tennis this month.

A) play

B) have played C) was playing

D) played

28. Tom _____ carefully when he had the accident.

A) hadn

’

t been driving

B) hadn

,

t been

C) drives

D) driving very

29. The Browns family _____ about moving for several months.

A) thinking

B) had been thinking

C) been thinking

D) are thinking

30. We _____ for only a few minutes before you came.

A) will wait

B) have to wait

C) have been waiting

D) had been waiting

31. Julia _____ our visit.

A) hadn

’

t been expecting

B) was very surprised

C) hadn

,

t been to expect

D) had expected for

32. Tom: Have you seen that film?

Bob: Yes, I have.
Tom: When?
Bob: I _____ it a week ago.
A) would see

B) had seen

C) saw

D) have seen

33. He _____ the rent last Friday.

A) pays

B) has paid

C) was paying

D) paid

34. Has Nick finished his work yet? Yes, he _____ half an hour ago.

A) has finished B) had finished C) was finishing D) finished

35. At eight o

’

clock last night I _____ a book.

A) was reading B) have read

C) read

D) am reading

36. They would have gone home if we _____ here.

A) aren

’

t

B) won

’

t be

C) hadn

’

t been

D) are

37. If Bruce had been careful, he _____ had an accident.

A) has

B) have

C) wouldn’t

D) wouldn

’

t have

38. Wilma _____ called if she had forgotten her keys.

A) had

B) was

C) would

D) would have

39. If they _____ harder, they would succeed.

A) could try

B) try

C) tried

D) had tried

40. If Bruce ____ to a small country, his vacation would have been better.

A) went

B) have gone

C) has gone

D) had gone

41. If I _____ a politician, I would never tell lies.

A) was

B) were

C) am

D) cooked

42. _____ been made?

A) Have the arrangements

B) When the invitations

B) The urgent steps

D) A good salary was

43. “The letter _____ last week”, Lola said.

A) is sent

B) was sent

C) will be sent

D) sent

44. When the door _____ Frank was very surprised.

A) opens

B) is opened

C) was opened

D) shuts

45. I

’

m teaching _____ to speak English.

A) himself

B) yourself

C) us

D) myself

46. The work had _____ under extremely difficult conditions.

A) for them

B) completed

C) to be done

D) slightly

47. Traffic was bad because the highway _____ repaired.

A) will be

B) was being

C) is

D) being

48. _____ mountains that we climbed were high.

A) All

B) All of

C) Of the

D) All of the

49. Do you know the man _____ lives across the street?

A) which

B) there

C) who

D) what

Test 13

Book 1 Part D