Choose the correct answer

1. The locals gather around the electricity generator, but they cannot get _____.
a) It started
b) Lights to start
c) Started it
d) Starting it

2. Just because you're living in a concrete jungle in the sky _____ mean you're in
prison.
a) Don't
b) Isn't
c) Aren't
d) Doesn't

3. _____ food is more quintessentially Indian than basmati rice.

a) No
b) Some
c) Any
d) Every

4. _____ films about writers are so dull is that writers don't dress up to practice their
craft.
a) Everybody says
b) One of the reasons
c) It is often claimed
d) Because

5. If you are _____ with your goods, contact us within ten days of receipt, and we shall
arrange collection and refund your money in full.
a) Not completely satisfactory
b) Not completely satisfying
c) Not completely satisfied
d) Not satisfied completely

6. It's a horrible irony, but a bully has to know his victim well _____ effective; it's
almost impossible to bully strangers.
a) If being
b) In order to
c) To be
d) If they are

7. Desks can often show aspects of character otherwise hidden from general view
_____ , if analyzed in detail, will reveal their owner's innermost secrets.
 a) But where
b) And which
c) These
d) However

8. The Kvichak River of Bristol Bay, Alaska, is _____ of the world's largest salmon
producing systems.
a) First
b) The most important
c) Where there is
d) One

9. Motor vehicle collisions are _____ of death in infants and children.

a) Primary reason
b) Frequently resulting
c) A leading cause
d) Often blamed

10. Smokers who try to _____ cigarettes can double their chances of success by using
patches, gum, lozenges, inhalers or nasal sprays containing nicotine.
a) Give up
b) Stop
c) Quit the
d) Stop to use

There are 4 underlined sections in the text below. Select the one which is
wrong.
11. The increase population, and rapid economic growth in recent years, have put a
large and increasing stress on the water resources and environment in Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam.
a) Increase
b) In recent years
c) On the water resources
d) In

12. Over 5000 years of Chinese Culture will soon have a world-wide audience, following
to a collaboration between IBM Taiwan and the National Palace Museum in Taipei
a) Years of
b) Will soon have
c) Following to
d) Between
13. The camp on the inhospitable, mosquito-infested banks of the River Sekonyer, was
set up to track the primates and learn from their habitat, diet and behavior.
a) Mosquito-infested
b) Set up
c) Diet and behavior
d) Learn from

14. Aspen, where the limousines have four-wheel drive and an empty plot can cost ten
million dollars, has been declared the more expensive town in America.
a) Where
b) More expensive
c) Four-wheel drive
d) Has been

15. Full-time jobs for men are declining, while more women are finding part- and full-
time work. The result is declining social status for men so they lose their role as the
sole financial provider.
a) While
b) Is
c) As
d) So

16. Woody Guthrie finally died, after a lengthy illness, in October 1967, but this project
will help his name live on, and perhaps provoke a re-evaluation about his influence
on popular music in the 20th century.
a) After a
b) Live on
c) In the
d) About his

17. Movie directors are accused of assuming the audience is stupid. But contemporary
thrillers seem more often to make the opposite mistake: assuming that the audience
is astonishingly sophisticated, able to see into a plot in seconds.
a) See into
b) Are accused of
c) More often to
d) Assuming that

18. This is a film that proves not only that Duval can direct but, as if we didn't know it,
that he is one of America strongest screen presences.
a) Not only
b) As if
c) America
 d) That

19. Italian citizens lead their counterparts in the UK, France and Germany in supporting
moves to bring the service standards and practices of government's departments
closer to those achieved by the best private sector companies.
a) Lead their counterparts
b) Practices of government's
c) In supporting moves
d) Those achieved

20. Most of the large industries in the country are well organized and structured and are
sometimes backed up internationally reputable mother companies.
a) Most of
b) Backed up
c) In the
d) Are

Complete the sentences in reported speech.

21. John said, "I love this town."
John said
22. "Do you like soccer ?" He asked me.
He asked me
23. "I can't drive a lorry," he said.
He said
24. "Be nice to your brother," he said.
He asked me
25. "Don't be nasty," he said.
He urged me
26. "Don't waste your money" she said.
She told the boys
27. "What have you decided to do?" she asked him.
She asked him
28. "I always wake up early," he said.
He said
 29. "You should revise your lessons," he said.
He advised the students
30. "Where have you been?" he asked me.
He wanted to know

In this exercise you have to put a question tag on the end of each sentence.

31. Your father's at home, ........................................... ?

32. Susan doesn't like chicken, ........................................... ?
33. I am funny, ........................................... ?
34. You've got a camera, ........................................... ?
35. He won't mind if I go early, ........................................... ?
36. There are a lot of people here, ........................................... ?
37. This is very boring, ........................................... ?
38. You wouldn't tell anyone, ........................................... ?
39. Listen, ........................................... ?
40. I shouldn't have got angry, ........................................... ?
41. She had gone home before we came here, ........................................... ?
42. They had to go home, ........................................... ?
43. Everybody's happy, ........................................... ?
44. She seldom sees her parents in the village, ........................................... ?
45. Let's go, ........................................... ?