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GRAMMAR TEST - 002

1) I'm simply surprised at your lack of authority on him. Why can't you ............... him eat his

dinner?

a. persuade

b. ask

c. make

d. tell

e. force

2) "You took the wrong bus." "It .............. the wrong one. It has brought me to the right place,
hasn't it?
b. should have been

d. can't have been

e. may have been

c. ought to have been

Tim

a. must have been

3) Why don't you pay some attention? I .............. be talking to a brick wall!
a. would like to

e. am going to

c. might as well

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d. will go and

b. should better

4) Aristotle is known to have said something like this: .............. man is a political animal is pretty
obvious.

b. That

c. The

d. A

e. - - -

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a. This

5) Listen to me, Ali. The man, ............... refused your proposal, has been arrested.
b. - - -

d. whose daughter has

e. when he

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a. who have repeatedly

c. whom

6) "Don't worry; one of the robbers ............... ," said a policeman to the gathering crowd.
a. are being pursued
d. will be pursuing

b. have been pursuing

c. has been pursuing

e. is being pursued

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7) Theoretical physics ............... to be one of those pure sciences that ............... indispensable for
the advancement of mankind.

a. happens/are

b. happens/is

d. happen/are

e. happens/- - -

c. happen/is

8) I ............... asked to inform you that you're dismissed from your post as of today.
b. have been

c. used to be

d. had

e. would have

Tim

a. - - -

9) Would you believe it! ............... was no other than our poor old postman who had fallen into the
water still holding on to his bags.

a. It

b. Someone

c. Who

d. Somebody

e. Man

10) Darling, I've got news for you: Meltem, together with her husband and six children, ..............
a. have

b. - - -

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come to stay with us for a whole month.

c. has

d. don't

e. are to

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11) ............... when the phone started ringing. This is the sort of situation that I find really
annoying.

a. Although it doesn't really bother me

b. Ever since my childhood, I get frightened

c. Hardly had I got in

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d. No matter what I did

e. Immediately after I came home

a. in comparison with a doctor

d. than a doctor is

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12) Let's face it: The salary of an ordinary grave-digger is much higher ............... .
b. than a doctor

e. if compared to a doctor

c. than that of a doctor

13) I've been meaning to ask you: This is the first time you are visiting Turkey, ............... ?
a. aren't you

b. is it

c. are you

d. isn't it

e. is this

Tim

14) No matter how hard I tried to make them understand, they just wouldn't take my word for
............... I said, .............. annoyed me very much.
a. what/which

b. that/which

d. which/that

e. which/which

c. that/that

15) Let me tell you about a funny thing that happened to a friend of mine the other day: Well,

a. was fitting

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he'd just had a new tyre .............. on his car and he was going to drive the family out for a picnic.
(The story continues...)
b. been fitted
e. fitted

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d. would be fitted

c. fitting

16) Don't you agree with me that learning a foreign language is great fun? ............... is to pick up
a little Italian.

a. A very difficult language to learn

b. The language that I want to practise

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c. What other language than Italian

d. What I am planning to do now
e. Italy is the place it

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17) Yes, I know you're tired and sleepy, but let me remind you one thing: If you ............... up all

night to watch that stupid film, the world would look much brighter this morning, wouldn't it?!
a. wouldn't stay
d. would stay

b. have not stayed

c. hadn't stayed

e. had stayed

18) The bus I intended to catch had an accident on the way and many people got badly injured.
Just think of it: If I hadn't missed it, I myself ............... recuperating in some hospital now.
b. had been

d. having been

c. wouldn't have been

e. were

Tim

a. would be

19) ............... for -- what you call -- his "reckless courage", all lives would have been lost.
a. If it had been

c. Wouldn't it have been

e. Had it not been

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d. If it were

b. It wouldn't have been

20) I'm pretty certain that, unless he's offered more money elsewhere, he ............... our offer.
a. 'd accept

b. won't accept

e. 'll accept

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d. would've accepted

c. wouldn't accept

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06. e

11. c

16. d

02. d

07. a

12. c

17. c

03. c

08. b

13. d

18. a

04. b

09. a

14. a

19. e

05. d

10. c

15. e

20. e

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01. c