Use of english

Part 1

1. B
2. D
3. BC
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. BA
8. D

Part 2

9. Even
10. And
11. When
12. makes
13. even
14. To
15. To
16. Before should

Part 3

17. Loss
18. unnerving
19. Passing
20. Blindness
21. insuring
22. Effective
23. Higher
24. Accompanying

Part 4

25. I managed to talk Bob into lending me his car.

26. I go trekking once in a while with my brother.
27. A month passes without a new environmental disaster.
28. It remains to be seen how David will react to the news.
29. He was on the verge of crying when you shouted at him.
30. Nobody said they had any objections to the plan.
Grammar review

1. Tenses
1.1. B. go
1.2. C. are damaging
1.3. B. has left
1.4. C. has made
1.5. B. Have you seen
1.6. D. I played
1.7. C. I was reading
1.8. A. has played
1.9. C. took
1.10. B. had been suffering

2. The future
2.1. D. will
2.2. A. is going to rain
2.3. D. call
2.4. A. will be staying
2.5. B. will have known
2.6. A. was to have helped

3. Modals
3.1. C. must be
3.2. D. would have been
3.3. C. visited
3.4. D. could
3.5. A. might have been
3.6. A. was able to
3.7. C. had to get
3.8. A. needn’t
3.9. D. was allowed to

4. Be, have, do, make, etc.

4.1. B. turned D. went
4.2. A. have got
4.3. D. did some research

5. Passives
5.1. D. The fence collapsed
5.2. C. is being installed
5.3. B. enjoyed being taken
5.4. C. It was decided that John should

6. Questions
6.1. B. did you say
6.2. D. didn’t you
6.3. C. What do you
7. Infinitive, -ing forms, etc.
7.1. D. red wine with France
7.2. C. him running
7.3. B. you to take
7.4. C. the horse winning
7.5. A. me where to leave B. me where I had to leave
7.6. A. the house to be redecorated
7.7. C. his crime to the police

8. Reporting
8.1. C. news “, she said D.
8.2. B. the bank that
8.3. A. had posted
8.4. D. told me about
8.5. C. Frank to take
8.6. C. should be pulled down
8.7. B. ought to

9. Nouns and compounds

9.1. B. equipment was
9.2. A. have tried
9.3. A. neither of us C.
9.4. D. a two-week
9.5. B. several car parks
9.6. D. a tax on children’s clothes

10. Articles
10.1. B. a quarter of an hour
10.2. C. a journalist
10.3. B. the sauce
10.4. C. Some furniture
10.5. D. Novels are
10.6. C. a security guard at the university
10.7. C. for dinner

11. Determiners and quantifiers

11.1. C. any tomatoes
11.2. A. not many of
11.3. C. All their
11.4. D. every building … needs
11.5. D. None of …. Were
11.6. B. the little
11.7. B. all of them

12. Relative clauses and other types of clauses

12.1. B. I know
12.2. D. who is
 12.3. B. whose chairman
12.4. A. who I look up to
12.5. B. that should
12.6. C. Arriving

13. Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words

13.1. D. with one another B.
13.2. D. some
13.3. D. suppose not C.
13.4. A. Such a person
13.5. B. could
13.6. B. intended to A.

14. Adjectives
14.1. C. people responsible D.
14.2. C. an absolutely impossible B.
14.3. C. a good job
14.4. D. stolen things
14.5. D. about winning
14.6. A. doing
14.7. B. a strong enough
14.8. C. as patient as a teacher D.

15. Adverbs and conjunctions

15.1. C. completely forgot … just don’t know
15.2. B. normally get up …. Sometimes I have
15.3. A. very much B.
15.4. D. Only my mother has A.
15.5. B. are making D.
15.6. A. when I wake up
15.7. C. because there was D.
15.8. A. so as not to
15.9. B. Hot though the night air was, D
15.10. C. had … would drive
15.11. D. were to have … would need
15.12. C. whether
15.13. C. in leaving B.
15.14. D. even though

16. Prepositions