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GRAMMAR TEST-8
1- It............ the eighth medical facility that the
girl and her mother............this year.
A) had been / were visiting
B) is / have visited
C) was / had visited
D) has been / were visited
E) will be / had been visiting
2- Three hospitals and four clinics.........
already............ to treat the girl's raging kidney
infection because she ............ broke and lacked
medical insurance.
A) had / refused / was
B) have / refused / is being
C) was / refusing / has been
D) have / been refusing / was
E) would / refuse / would be
3- Tomorrow at 3 p.m. I have to be available at the
board meeting, but 1 have a number of reports to be
typed tomorrow. I think I.......... them by then.
A) have typed
B) will typed
C) am typing
D) am to type
E) will have typed
4- The most unusually packaged tourist ............ our
country at this time next week.
A) has visited
B) is visiting
C) is to visit
D) will be visiting
E) has been visited
5- As the new millennium................. the potential
for further development ................ limitless.
A) will approach / will seem
B) approaches / seems
C) has approached / seemed
D) is approaching / had seemed
E) had been approaching / would seem
6- It........... a long while - until Jan. 1, 1989 -
before Europe jointly............. hormones in food.
A) had taken / was outlawed
B) took / outlawed
C) is taking / outlaws
D) has taken / had outlawed
E) will take / outlaws
7- In France, he................ at the hostel
for the past 26 years.
A) lived
B) has lived
C) would be living
D) is living
E) has been living
8- After decades of campaigning by animal welfare
groups, the E.U. Council of Ministers last month
............. to outlaw battery cages for hens by the
end of the year 2012.
A) would be agreed
B) has agreed
C) agreed
D) had been agreed
E) agree
9- There ............. many changes since these
services............. by the state.
A) were / took over
B) had been / were taken over
C) are / have taken over
D) have been / were taken over
E) would be / were to be taken over
10- For decades, duty-free shopping ................ as
much a part of international travel as passports and
plane tickets.
A) will become
B) is to be
C) had become
D) becomes
E) has become
11- The girl................ and................ with
all the force of youth and fullness of life, until, by
little and little, her passionate
exclamations................ off into broken murmurs as
if she were in pain.
A) raged / battled / trailed
B) is raged / battled / have trailed
C) would rage / battle / were trailed
D) rages / battles / will trail
E) had raged / battled / were trailed
12- A few days before my son ............. kindergarten,
he declared that he ............. to go to school.
A) starts / doesn't intend
B) will start / wouldn't intend
C) was to start / didn't intend
D) started / hadn't intended
E) has started / doesn't
13- While the leaders ............. the problems
prevailing over the party a few days ago, they
............. that some of members were spying them.
A) have been discussing / have discovered
B) were discussing / discovered
C) are discussing / discover
D) had discussing / were to discover
E) were discussing / were discovered
14- This time last year he............. his book. He
............. it in October and............. it to the
publisher in December.
A) wrote/finished/sent
B) had written/sent
C) was writing /finished/sent
D) is writing / will finish /send
E) has written /would finish /send
15- Her driving force is an insatiable curiosity about
life, which she............. since early childhood.
A) was exhibited
B) will exhibit
C) is exhibited
D) has exhibited
E) exhibited
16- Normally, we ............. two rises in salary a
year, but this year we ............. just one rise on
account of the low export rates of our company.
A) will get / will give
B) get / are giving
C) are getting / are given
D) have got / have given
E) get / will be given
17- The last time I.......... them, they ........ For
final exams were approaching.
A) have seen / are swotting
B) would see / would swot
C) had seen / swotted
D) saw / were swotting
E) see/will swot
18- Over 200 million people ............. their own
mobile phones by the end of 1997, and estimates
............. mobile users at 400 million by 2000 and
one billion by 2008.
A) will have had / number
B) was having/ number
C) had had / number
D) have had / number
E) is having / are numbering
19- My daughter .............pirate swords for her sons
just before she................. home from vacation.
A) purchased / flew
B) had been purchased / was flying
C) was purchasing / has flown
D) purchased / would fly
E) was purchased / flew
20- To make sure we ............. plenty of time to eat
breakfast and get ready in the first day of the school,
I.............
everybody up early - so early that it was still dark.
A) have / wake
B) had had / have waken
C) had/woke
D) are having / am waking
E) will have / will wake
21- After we.......... the judges for normal olfactory
senses, we.......... them to rank odours and their
intensity.
A) screened / had trained
B) will screen / will train
C) were screened /trained
D) have screened / train
E) had screened / were training
22- I ensure you that the police team .............
earlier if they............. about the robbery in due
time.
A) would arrive /informed
B) will arrive / are to inform
C) were to arrive / had informed
D) arrive /have informed
E) would have arrived / had been informed
23- He has neither the time nor the patience for the
rigid, conservative practices that.............. in
French business for decades.
A) were dominating
B) dominated
C) have dominated
D) are dominated
E) had been dominating
24- 1.12 billion tons of the volume of the world's
oceans ............. under the earth's crust each year.
Only 23 billion tons............
A) have disappeared / have reappeared
B) disappear / reappear
C) will disappear / have been reappearing
D) were disappearing / were reappeared
E) are disappearing / will be reappearing
25- The Italian word paparazzi.............. 'buzzing
insects'. The photographers often .......... flies as
they swarm around
a celebrity victim.
A) is meaning / are resembling
B) has meant / have resembled
C) was meaning / have swarmed
D) means / resemble
E) would mean / were resembling
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