Advanced Level Grammar Exercise - MCQ Test 20

1. Tourists -------- when large numbers of middle-class 7. I’m ready to do ---------- I can do to help you --------
people -------- to join the more wealthy aristocratic your hardship.
travellers.
A) anything / overcome
A) have originated / had begun B) whatever / overcoming
B) had originated / began C) what / to be overcoming
C) could have originated / have begun D) that / to have overcome
D) originated / began E) nothing / having overcome
E) were originating / are beginning
8. Despite my insistence, Adam didn’t tell me -------- he
2. The wounded hunter -------- on the ground for almost didn’t like me and my family.
an hour when, coincidentally, he -------- by another
hunter, who must have keen eyes. A) why
B) even if
A) has been lying / is spotting
C) whose
B) has lain / will be spotted
D) the reason
C) will have lain / had been spotted
E) about whom
D) had been lying / was spotted
9. She keeps saying that she has got -------- patience
E) was lying / spotted
with kids, but forgets that she didn’t have --------
3. As the tree was too high to climb, the mischievous before she gave birth to her own kids.
boys ---------- their ball down only by throwing sticks
at it. A) enough / as much
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B) too many / any

A) would have knocked
C) such / none
B) were able to knock
D) so / some
C) will have to knock
E) more / neither
D) may have knocked
10. If I -------- the choice of making either an oral or a
E) could have knocked
written report, I -------- the second alternative.
4. Certain serious diseases can be successfully treated
-------- detected in an initial stage. A) gave / could pick
B) had been given / might pick
A) unless
C) would have given / had picked
B) if
D) have been giving / will pick
C) even when
E) were given / would pick
D) before
11. A combination of imagination and determination
E) after
-------- Peter -------- entirely new lines of research
5. ---------- you have made minimal progress, it is by no concerned with the way animals survive extreme
means the kind of progress that you need to make. environmental conditions.

A) What A) allow / developing

B) Despite B) have allowed / being developed
C) In addition to C) were allowed / to have developed
D) On behalf of D) allowed / to develop
E) While E) will allow / to be developing
6. Soils are the result of -------- interacting processes 12. The scientist who -------- Dolly the sheep, the world’s
-------- bring different materials together. first cloned mammal, -------- a licence on Tuesday to
clone human embryos for medical research.
A) a few / by which
B) such / as A) has created / has been granted
C) some / that B) had created / granted
D) most of / which C) created / was granted
E) a good deal of / in which D) will be creating / has granted
E) used to create / had been granted

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 Advanced Level Grammar Exercise - MCQ Test 20

13. My mother is making a steady recovery from flu and 17. The neutral mutation rate is known -------- widely
------- hospital by next week. along human chromosomes, -------- to mutational hot
and cold regions.
A) could have left
B) is leaving A) to be varying / to lead
C) has left B) varying / led
D) will have left C) to have varied / being led
E) must have left D) having varied / having led
E) to vary / leading
14. -------- a celebrity arrives in Istanbul, the first question
reporters ask them is ------- they like Istanbul. 18. You would not expect anyone -------- intelligent to
make ------ stupid mistake, but he did so.
A) During / whether
B) Every time / how A) so / that
C) Whenever / what B) too / such
D) Until / if C) as / as
E) When / wherever D) more / than
E) too much / those
15. The results of last weekend’s poll have ------- to be
announced and officials say it could be -------- week 19. I don’t suppose you are telling us the true version of
before they are. the story, ----------?

A) so far / every A) do I
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B) still / each B) are you

C) already / every other C) can you
D) even / most D) will you
E) yet / another E) aren’t you
16. She failed to get anyone to repair the taps for her at 20. Some people argue that certain oriental relaxation
the weekend, -------- could she do it on her own. techniques ------- yoga and meditation are extremely
effective in the treatment of high blood pressure.
A) as
B) nor A) so
C) only if B) just as
D) so C) such as
E) though D) both
E) also

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