PRONOUNS

1. ---- paintings on the wall were given to us as a 6. I can't believe that you blew ---- surprise party
wedding gift by ---- father. by not coming home tonight.
A) That / our A) yourself
B) Those / my B) yourselves
C) These / myself C) your own
D) This / mine D) by yourself
E) These / theirs E) yours

2. A parrot imitates the sounds of words as ---- 7. Some countries claim that they are
are spoken by people and then records ---- in democratic while they declare war against ----.
its mind.
A) them
A) they / it B) each other's
B) theirs / them C) one another
C) those / themselves D) themselves
D) these / their E) by themselves
E) they / them

8. Unfortunately, one major company in this

3. You should let others make up ---- minds; field is deceiving the public, making ----
otherwise, the decisions they give will be believe that ---- products are healthy.
yours, not ----.
A) themselves / his
A) by themselves / them B) you / theirs
B) his own / their C) ours / their
C) themselves / your D) me / ours
D) their own / theirs E) us / its
E) their / yours

9. It is ---- right to disturb ---- neighbours by

4. As you looked too busy, I didn't want to making too much noise.
bother you, so I asked ---- help.
A) anybody's / his
A) somebody B) everyone's / her
B) someone else's C) somebody's / theirs
C) nobody else's D) everybody's / him
D) someone else E) nobody's / their
E) anybody's

10. The reason why they bought this flat is that

5. My dog Bobby is very loyal to ---- but ---- ---- is close to the centre, which makes ----
never listens to my mother. lives easier.
A) me / he A) its / their
B) mine / it B) their / its
C) myself / its C) it / theirs
D) me / his D) it / their
E) us / its E) theirs / their
11. The school we applied to sent Lucas and ---- 16. To ---- terror, the couple found the front door
an e-mail stating that ---- had decided to grant unlocked, which surely was not due to ----
us scholarship. failure to lock it.
A) myself / themselves A) our / his
B) mine / they B) their / their
C) us / theirs C) my / ours
D) me / they D) they / theirs
E) ourselves / it E) ours / our

12. As far as I remember, all these CDs are ----, so 17. I can’t understand why you are fighting. You
---- are still missing. should learn to tolerate ----.
A) yours / mine A) one another
B) my / yours B) another
C) mine / mine C) the other
D) yours / my D) himself
E) mine / you E) every other

13. With ---- ringleader being in prison, the gang 18. Instead of quarrelling with ----, ---- ought to
dissolved into smaller ----. consider working together.
A) their / one A) themselves / ones
B) one / themselves B) him / your
C) its / ones C) others / his
D) his / others D) theirs / others
E) theirs / itself E) each other / you

14. Getting rid of ---- old one, we decided for a 19. One can hardly improve if ---- keep comparing
new stereo with more features like ----. themselves to ----.
A) their / others A) one / oneself
B) mine / yours B) they / others
C) our / one C) those / theirs
D) my / the one D) we / the others
E) our / theirs E) you / yours

15. Though ---- was a far better suggestion than 20. My memories of ---- being in our class are
the others', the board favoured ---- of Jane's faint, possibly because we didn't use to talk to
more. ---- much.
A) his / that A) him / each other
B) he / the one B) our / them
C) that / his C) her / hers
D) it / its D) one / another
E) theirs / these E) them / themselves
21. It's such a huge shopping centre with 26. ---- that anybody who wants to see her must
hundreds of shops where ---- can find items to make an appointment first.
buy ranging from basic necessities to luxury A) I think the secretary will quit her job
----.
B) The salesman at the shop told us about
A) one / one himself
B) they / one's C) What we've learned about the process of
C) we / ours production is
D) you / ones D) Since you can drop in whenever you want
E) one / the one E) Doctor Perkins is so busy these days
27. ---- but the same cannot be said in terms of
their size.
22. ---- occupying managerial positions usually
fall to view things the way ---- staff do. A) This ancient monument is one of the oldest
monuments that are still intact even today
A) One / the other B) The country that I'd like to visit most is Italy
B) Everyone / its C) I think the colour of this jacket is very nice
C) Others / their and its design is exactly your type
D) The ones / other D) The new towers that have been built in
E) Those / their Japan and Malaysia look similar to one
another
E) You can easily tell when you see a
23. Due to the fact that the number of participants basketball player
didn't satisfy the organizers, ----.
28. They were so caught up with the subject they
A) they are trying to find out ways to increase it were discussing that ----.
for the next conference
A) sometimes, it is a good idea to discuss the
B) these are serious issues that need to be things that disturb us with others
taken into consideration
B) anything they told me could easily spoil my
C) they frustrated those who organized it concentration
D) it was so crowded that a lot of people C) nothing else seemed to matter to them at
weren't able to enter the hall that moment
E) he didn't know how to explain them to his D) I was reluctant to speak because I didn't
employer know much about those
E) the other decided to stay there and listen to
24. Although there is not a single person holding their arguments
Mike responsible for the accident, ----. 29. Today is very important because of several
A) there must be someone else behind all factors, ----.
these A) however this factor has to be taken into
B) nobody accused him of allowing it to happen account if we want to understand the whole
situation
C) the police are looking for them everywhere
B) one of which is the agreement that we have
D) he still cannot stop blaming himself for it signed today with a multinational corporation
E) hardly anybody made a complaint about him C) but on that day, none of us were aware of its
seriousness
25. The charity expected donations ----. D) what's more, I could say that those were our
happiest moments
A) because she had founded it quite a long
E) therefore please don't expect me to make
time ago
any comments over it
B) from anyone who joined the concert
30. ----, while in others it is not.
C) but nobody seemed willing to provide it
A) In some professions, a period of voluntary
D) which is not a huge amount for those who
work is compulsory
can afford it
B) Well-trained and well-experienced
E) that has to meet the expenses since they
employees are what every employer looks
were short of money
for
C) This job demands that you work seven days
a week
D) In this book, the names of the chapters are
actually proverbs
E) There are some things in life that you really
cannot handle unless you have enough
enthusiasm