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GRAMMAR
TEST-11
1- They ............ just........... to their San
Francisco home one night in 1995 when two gunmen
suddenly ........... under the
garage door as it was closing. The men robbed them of
their money and locked them in the car trunk.
A) have / returned / have slipped
B) are / returning / are slipped
C) had / returned / slipped
D) were / returning / have slipped
E) will / return / would slip
2- The State Department says it ............ about
13,000 child-abduction cases since 1977. State also says
it ............ about 900 child-abduction cases between
May 1977 and May 1999.
A) had handled / was closed
B) has been handled / closed
C) is handled / will have closed
D) was handled / was closing
E) has handled / closed
3- Today, when we .......... 20 years longer than our
great-grandparents, and when women mysteriously
.......... men by
seven years, it is clearer than ever that the game of
life is really a game of trade-offs.
A) live / outlive
B) are living / have been outliving
C) were to live / were to outlive
D) have lived / were outlived
E) will live / will outlive
4- The U.S. Conference of Mayors, which publishes an
annual survey on hunger and homelessness in 30 cities,
says demand for emergency shelter ......... every year
since the survey ....... in 1985.
A) was increased / began
B) increased / began
C) is increasing / begins
D) has increased / began
E) increases / has begun
5- Willie Brown ............ last month in the trial of
three people who ............ pies in his face last
November to protest his policies on the homeless.
A) was testified / had thrown
B) has testified / have thrown
C) would testify / threw
D) had been testified / had thrown
E) testified / threw
6- Don't drink and drive and take innocent lives. You
never ........... how it ........... until you
........... someone in
your family.
A) have known / is felt / are lost
B) know / feels / lose
C) knew / felt / lost
D) have known / has felt / has lost
E) know / is feeling / will lose
7- In recent years there ............. a veritable
international gold rush to tap into Mozambique's rich
and diversified energy resources.
A) was
B) has been
C) would be
D) used to be
E) had been
8- When our country .......... independence in 1975 we
............ only one geologist. Today we have thirty
geologists.
A) was gaining / had had
B) has gained / have had
C) gains / will have
D) gained / had
E) gains / will have had
9- All of the mountaineers ............. their lives by
the time the rescue team ..........
A) will be losing / arrives
B) have lost / has arrived
C) lost / had arrived
D) will have lost / arrives
E) are to lose / will arrive
10- We ............. so many friends on our previous
visit to the pyramids and we ............. to each other
since.
A) have made / write
B) make / are writing
C) will make / will write
D) are making / write
E) had made / have been writing
11- By the end of the Great Ice Age, about 10,000 years
ago, many of the world's large mammals............
extinct.
A) have become
B) are becoming
C) will have become
D) were becoming
E) had become
12- Ironically, while the science of medicine
............ in recent years, doctor-patient
communication............ under managed care.
A) is flourished / is suffering
B) was flourished / was suffering
C) had been flourished / suffered
D) is flourishing / suffers
E) has flourished / has suffered
13- I............ my third book at this time next year.
I think I............ it by June if no hindrance occurs.
A) will be writing / will have finished
B) am writing / finish
C) have written / have finished
D) was writing / am to finish
E) am to write / have finished
14- After I.......... up Hepatitis A on vacation,
I.......... terrible. When I .......... I could spread
it to my family, I
felt even worse.
A) have picked / had felt / had learned
B) picked / felt / have learned
C) had picked / have felt / have learned
D) pick / feel / learn
E) picked / felt / learned
15- Although sleep needs ............ people who sleep
about eight hours, on average,........... to live
longer.
A) have varied / have tended
B) was varied / was tended
C) vary / tend
D) will vary / tends
E) had varied / had varied
16- They .............. us the information we need after
they .............. the inquiries.
A) gave / have finished
B) have given / will finish
C) will give / have finished
D) were giving / had finished
E) had given / finish
17- Reliable estimates of the homeless population
............ hard to come by for decades.
A) would be
B) has been
C) used to be
D) were
E) have been
18- In the past three decades, there ..............
great advances in communications than in any other
period in human history.
A) were
B) would be
C) had been
D) used to be
E) have been
19- For the past several years the
government.................. extraordinarily well, with
the average occupancy rate hovering over 68%.
A) did
B) had done
C) would be doing
D) was doing
E) have done
20- Since the 1996-97 growth surge, the country's
economic prospects ............. substantially.
A) have brightened
B) were brightening
C) are brightened
D) had brightened
E) were to brighten
21- Creativity .......... a peak between 30 and 39
generally, but the peak .......... with different
possessions.
A) has reached / has varied
B) reaches / varies
C) will reach / has varied
D) had reached / was varied
E) is reached / is varying
22- It seems ages since we.......... from him - and even
longer since we last .......... him
A) have heard / have seen
B) had heard / have seen
C) heard / saw
D) hear / see
E) were heard / were seen
23- He .......... here long, but he ..........
already.......... an impression on the staff.
A) isn't working / is / making
B) didn't work / was / made
C) hasn't been working / has / made
D) won't work/will / make
E) hadn't worked / has / made
24- Fat............ a staple of the human diet since our
remote ancestors ........... eating meat more than 2
million years ago.
A) will be / have started
B) has been / started
C) had been / have started
D) is/start
E) would be / had started
25- When she finally ............ to seek professional
help, urogynecologist Dr. Linda,............ able to
treat her, as well
as to provide reassurance that her condition was common
in women after childbirth.
A) had decided / has been
B) decides /is
C) will decide / will be
D) decided /was
E) was decided / had been
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