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GRAMMAR TEST - 001

1) Oh, I'm exhausted. .............. you give me a hand with this heavy box and help
me carry it upstairs?
a. Please

b. Should

c. If

d. Do

e. Would

2) Let's forget all about it for the time being, .............. .

a. won't we

b. will we

c. don't we

d. shall we

e. do we

3) "Now, ............... needs all that rubbish?" "I do."

a. Whose

b. Who

c. Which

d. What

e. Whom

Tim

4) You must all look after .............. on your trip back home.
a. yourselves

b. yourself

d. your selfs

e. your selves

c. your self

5) He's surely .............. ill to need a doctor now; you'd better call for the imam.
b. very

c. critically

d. too

e. enough

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a. so

6) May I have a little bit more coffee, .............. ?

a. I may have
d. haven't I

b. mayn't I

c. please

e. mayn't have I

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7) Did your friend formerly .............. live here?

a. used not to
d. used to do

b. used to

c. was used to

e. use to

8) What a fantastic book ............... !

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a. is this new book

d. isn't it

b. have you written

c. which you wrote

e. this book of yours is

9) I haven't seen you for such a long time. Where have you ............... all this
time?
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b. had been

c. being yourself

e. c
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a. been hiding yourself

e. had yourself

10) He was .............. businessman to fall into that trap.

a. too shrewd a

b. shrewd enough a

d. a too shrewd

e. an enough shrewd

c. enough shrewd a

11) .......... either of you a doctor? .............. you both engineers?

a. Are/aren't

b. Is/is

c. Are/are

d. Is/are

e. Aren't/are

a. his father/wasn't it
d. wrong/didn't you

Tim

12) It was definitely .............. that you meant, .............. ?

b. right/wasn't it

c. him/wasn't him

e. ---/didn't you

13) I'm afraid I've terribly misjudged them both. The truth is that he can
drive this machine very skillfully, and so ............... .
b. am I

c. can his friend

d. he can

e. do I

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a. is he

14) You .............. another job pretty soon. I have a feeling that you're going to
get fired before long.
a. would have started to look for

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b. had better to start looking for

c. would start looking for

d. 'd better to start to look for

e. 'd better start looking for

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15) She ............... about twenty-five when I first met her.

a. will have to be

d. ought not to be

b. has had to be

c. didn't need to be

e. must have been

a. either

b. whether

c. however

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16) The trouble is that he doesn't like mathematics. Come to think of it, he
doesn't enjoy geometry much ............... .
d. neither

e. nevertheless

17) I was under the impression that you, too, .............. along with us. I am sorry
that you aren't.
a. were supposed to come

b. came to suppose

c. supposed to have come

d. were supposed to have come

e. supposed to come

a. they laid down

Tim

18) It seems to me that they never gave a thought to probable future problems
when the plans ............... five years ago.
b. were not laid down

d. had been laid down

c. to be laid down

e. were being laid down

19) .............. feeding these fish, please be careful with .............. you give them.

d. Where/how

b. When/what

c. What/where

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a. After/that

e. Before/when

20) As far as I'm concerned, all he's good at .............. making up the most
improbable excuses anyone has ever heard.
b. presently

c. is

d. he is

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a. his

e. Present

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06. c
07. e
08. e
09. a
10. a

11. d
12. a
13. c
14. e
15. e

16. a
17. a
18. e
19. b
20. c

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Tim

01. e
02. d
03. b
04. a
05. d