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INTERMEDIATE

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE

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adjective - adverb - noun clauses

Choose the best answer.

1.

I don’t know _______ to telephone.
A) whom did Tom want

B) why was Tom going

C) when is Tom

D) who Tom was going

2.

No one seemed to know _______.
A) why was he angry
B) which party has won
C) when the festival was due to start
D) what is his latest decision

3.

“Why don’t we go out for dinner?”  His wife suggested that _______.
A) they would go out for dinner
B) they should go out for dinner
C) we will go out for dinner
D) we’d like to go out for dinner

4.

“Oh dear! It looks as if it is going to rain again.” Mother was afraid
that _______.
A) it was raining again

B) it was going to rain

C) it is going to rain again

D) it looked like rain again

5.

“Fantastic! I’ve actually passed my exam!” exclaimed Janet. Janet
was delighted to find that _______.
A) I’d passed my exam

B) I’ve passed my exam

C) she’s passed her exam

D) she’d passed her exam

6.

I doubt ______ anybody knows how to solve the housing problem
in Turkey.
A) whether

B) which

C) why

D) what

7.

It is important that you _______ late.
A) don’t be

B) won’t be

C) not to be

D) not be

8.

The doctor recommended that she _______ in bed for a few days.
A) will stay

B) stay

C) would stay

D) to stay

9.

The bank manager suggested that I ______ again the following year.
A) should apply   B) applied

C) to apply

D) would apply

10. _______ is still uncertain.

A) Why did they lose the match B) He is really guilty
C) When will they come

D) Who first reported the fire

11. The accused pretended that he _______ the lawyer’s question.

A) didn’t understand

B) hasn’t understood

C) doesn’t understand

D) wouldn’t understand

12. His doctor recommended that he ______ taking sleeping pills for a

while.
A) would try

B) should try

C) tries

D) tried

13. _______ next was lost in the general uproar.

A) What the speaker said

B) That the speaker said

C) What did the speaker say

D) The speaker said that

14. _______ is where you get all your energy from.

A) It amazes me

B) That amazes me

C) What amazes me

D) That amazed me

15. _______ me to do is out of question.

A) What you are asking

B) How you are asking

C) That you ask

D) That you asked

16. No one doubted _______ sincere in his beliefs.

A) what he was

B) that he was

C) why was he

D) that he is

17. He didn’t even apologize. This made her really angry. _______ he

didn’t even apologize made her really angry.
A) Why

B) What

C) The fact that

D) The reason

18. _______ made her angry was the fact that her husband had forgotten

her birthday.
A) Why

B) The fact that C) What

D) The thing

19. On entering the restaurant, I immediately  realized _____ so popular.

A) why was it

B) how is it

C) the fact that was

D) why it was

20. Where the pilot finally managed to land _______.

A) is not known

B) nobody knows;

C) we don’t know

D) nobody knew

21. Teachers have found the overhead projector to be invaluable as a

teaching aid.
Teachers have found that the overhead projector _____.
A) to be invaluable as a teaching aid
B) is invaluable as a teaching aid
C) was invaluable as a teaching aid
D) invaluable as a teaching aid

22. The law requires that all cars _______ regularly tested for safety and

efficiency.
A) should be

B) to be

C) were to be

D) have to be

23. I assured him that he _______ pneumonia.

A) should get

B) would get

C) get

D) gets

24. He began to realize that he _______ mistake.

A) is making

B) has made

C) had made

D) will make

25. The Prime minister warned that higher wages _____ higher prices.

A) would mean B) will mean

C) mean

D) to mean

26. Many people considered it to be cruel to send animals in rockets

into outer space.
Many people consider that _______ cruel to send animals in rockets
into further space.
A) to be

B) it to be

C) it is

D) it was

27. The Prime Minister clearly suspects his party to have little chance of

winning the next election.
The Prime Minister clearly suspects that his party _______ little chance
of winning the next election.
A) to have

B) has

C) would have

D) had

28. The witness later disclosed the evidence to have been destroyed.

The witness later disclosed that the evidence _______.
A) to be destroyed

B) had been destroyed

C) has been destroyed

D) would be destroyed

29. Researches have now proved that earlier theories _______ incorrect.

A) were

B) had been

C) to have been D) to be

30. “May I have my letters addressed in care of your office?” asked Mr.

Taylor.
Mr. Taylor asked if ______ letters addressed in care of ______ office.
A) he may have his / my

B) I might have my / your

C) he may have his / his

D) he might have his / my

31. The doctor says, “The moisture in the air might affect your breathing.”

He thinks that the moisture in the air _______.
A) might affect my breathing

B) might affect your breathing

C) would affect my breathing

D) may affect your breathing

32. “I’d love to come.” she said. She said _______ to come.

A) she’d liked

B) I’d like

C) she’d like

D) I’d liked

33. “Which of these films have you seen?” My friend asked me which of

the films _______.
A) have I seen B) I had seen

C) you had seen D) have you seen

34. “Whom did you see at the concert last night?” She asked us whom

_______ the other night.
A) I’d seen

B) we’d seen

C) we saw

D) I saw

35. They asked, “Is the work going to be easy?” They wondered if _____.

A) was work going to be easy

B) the work is going to be easy

C) the work was easy

D) the work was going to be easy

36. He asked “Have you read 

The old Man and the Sea, Ted?” He wanted

to know if _______ 

The old Man and the Sea.

A) I’d read

B) he’d read

C) I have read

D) he has read

37. “Please give me a pain killer.” the patient said.

The patient begged the nurse _______ a pain killer.
A) to give her

B) she would give her

C) she would give me

D) to give me

38. “Don’t eat those cherries, they are poisonous,” said David. David

_______ not to eat those cherries because they were poisonous.
A) didn’t want me

B) said to me that

C) warned me

D) suggested that

39. “Did she agree with me?”  He wondered if _______.

A) she’d agreed with he

B) she agreed with him

C) she’d agreed with him

D) she’d agree with him

Clauses (Intermediate / Upper-Intermediate)

Book 1 Part B