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ADVANCED TEST - 3
Choose correct answer. Only one answer is correct.
One crossing of the Atlantic is very much like __1__; and people
who cross it frequently do not __2__ for the __3__ of its interest. Most of
us are quite happy when we feel __4__ to go to bed and pleased when
the journey __5__. On the first night this time I felt especially lazy and
went to bed __6__ earlier than usual. When I __7__ my cabin, I was
surprised __8__ that I __9__ a companion during my trip. I had expected
__10__ but there was a suitcase __11__ mine in the opposite corner. I
wondered who __12__. Soon afterward he came in. He was the sort of
man you might meet __13__, except that he was wearing __14__ good
clothes that I made up my mind that we would not __15__, __16__, and
did not say __17__.
I suppose I slept for several hours because when I woke up it was
the middle of the night. I felt cold but covered __18__ __19__ and tried
to __20__. Then I realized that a draught was coming from somewhere.
I got up __21__ the door but found it already locked from the inside.
The cold air was coming from the window opposite. I crossed the room
and __22__ the moon shone through it on to the other bed. __23__
there. It took me a minute or two to __24__ the door myself. I realized
that my companion __25__ through the window into the sea.
1.
A) other
B) the other
C) another
D) one other
2.
A) make the travel
B) make the voyage
C) do the travel
D) do the voyage
3.
A) reason
B) motive
C) cause
D sake
4.
A) tired enough
B) enough tired
C) ourselves tired enough
D) our selves enough tired
5.
A) is achieved
B) finish
C) is over
D) is in the end
6.
A) quite
B) rather
C) fairly
D) somehow
7.
A) arrived in
B) reached to
C) arrived to
D) reached at
8.
A) for seeing
B) that I saw
C) at seeing
D) to see
9.
A) am to have
B) should have had
C) would have
D) ought to have
10. A) being lonely B) to be lonely C) being alone
D) to be alone
11. A) like
B) as
C) similar than
D) the same that
12. A) could he be and how he would be
B) he could be and what he would be like
C) could he be and what would he be like
D he could be and he would be
13. A) in each place
B) for all parts
C) somewhere
D) anywhere
14. A) a so
B) so
C) such a
D) such
15. A) treat together well
B) pass together well
C) get on well together
D) go by well together
16. A) whoever he was
B) whoever was he
C) however he was
D) however was he
17. A) him a single word
B) him not one word
C) a single word to him
D) not one word to
18. A) up me
B) up myself
C) up to myself D) myself up
19. A) so well as I could
B) as well as I could
C) so well that I might
D) as well that I might
20. A) go back to sleep
B) go back to sleeping
C) put myself to sleep again
D) put myself for sleeping again
21. A) to shut
B) for shutting
C) in order that I shut
D) so as for shutting
22. A) while doing like that
B) as I did like that
C) as I did so
D) at doing so
23. A) It was no one
B) There was no one
C) It any one
D) There was any one
24. A) remind to lock
B) remember to lock
C) remind locking
D) remember locking
25. A) had to jump
B) was to have jumped
C) must have jumped
D) could be jumped
“__26__ I ask the waiter for the bill, darling, when you __27__ your
coffee?”
“Yes I think you __28__. I __29__ this film for such a long time that I
__30__ any of it.”
“Waiter! The bill, please. Oh dear, I haven’t got my wallet. I __31__
it in my other jacket. I wish I __32__ it before we came out.”
“Good heaven! Now I suppose they’ll make us __33__”
26. A) Shall
B) Will
C) Am I going
D) Ought
27. A) will finish
B) shall finish
C) will have finish
D) have finished
28. A) had rather
B) would rather C) had better
D) would better
29. A) am looking forward to seeing
B) am looking forward to see
C) have been looking forward to seeing
D) have been looking forward to see
30. A) wouldn’t like that we miss
B) wouldn’t like to miss
C) wouldn’t miss
D) wouldn’t like that we missed
31. A) must have left
B) had to leave
C) should have left
D) ought have left
32. A) would check
B) have checked
C) would have checked
D) had checked
33. A) to wash up
B) wash up
C) washing up
D) the washing up
34. He ______ out of the window for a moment and then went on
working.
A) glanced
B) viewed
C) glimpsed
D) regarded
35. It’s the ______ in this country to go out and pick flower on the first
day of spring.
A) use
B) custom
C) habit
D) normal
36. He made a swift ______ from his illness.
A) repair
B) survival
C) relief
D) recovery
37. It gave me a strange feeling of excitement to see my name in ______.
A) news
B) print
C) publication
D) press
38. You’d better add it up. I am no good at ______.
A) counters
B) characters
C) summaries
D) figures
39. Our main concern is to raise the voters’ ______ of living.
A) standard
B) capacity
C) degree
D) condition
40. I’d like to take ______ of this opportunity to thank you all for your
cooperation.
A) profit
B) benefit
C) advantage
D) occasion
41. He ______ to hit me if I didn’t do as he said.
A) pretended
B) thought
C) threatened
D) warned
42. He does not feel like playing tennis because he’s ______.
A) out of condition
B) off condition
C) off fitness
D) out of fitness
43. He’s been working too hard and he’s ______. He needs a rest.
A) broken apart B) broken up
C) run down
D) run over
44. We went to the station to ______.
A) see them out
B) see them off
C) goodbye them
D) say them goodbye
45. New problems are always ______ in the factory.
A) raising
B) going up
C) waking up
D) coming up
In this series of questions, three words have the same sound but
one does not. Choose the one that does not.
46. A) spear
B) wear
C) dare
D) prayer
47. A) spread
B) tread
C) bread
D) bead
48. A) blow
B) allow
C) owe
D) sew
49. A) goose
B) prose
C) flows
D) knows
50. A) crime
B) limb
C) climb
D) rhyme
Advanced test 3
Book 1 Part E
