Relative Clauses (Adjective Clauses) Advanced Level Test - Quiz (Online Exercise

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This fourth gap fill test contains 25 multiple choice

questions on the topic of relative clauses (adjective 5. University students _____ in a career in agriculture
clauses) of English grammar. Both English learners and may take courses including animal husbandry, and
ESL teachers can use this online exercise as a revision to basic mechanics.
check the knowledge of English relative clauses (adjective
clauses). A) are interested
B) to be interested
Those _____ aim for perfection will come much nearer C) have been interested
1.
to it than those _____ despondency and Haziness D) interested
make them give it up as unattainable. E) having interested

A) that / where
B) which / what
C) whose / whose
D) that / that 6. A rich businessman was kidnapped by four masked
men ______ for one million pounds for his safe return.
E) who / whose
A) asked
B) asking
C) having asked
2. School counsellors need to demonstrate a great deal D) having been asked
of sensitivity in their work to gain the trust and E) have asked
respect of the adolescents _____ they work.

A) who
B) with whom
C) where 7. The members _____ part in the discussions last week
D) of whom _____ a joint report.
E) for which A) took / prepared
B) taking / will prepare
C) taken / prepares
D) take / are prepares
3. In living memory, it was not until February 18, 1979 E) to take / have prepared
______ snow fell on the Sahara Desert.

A) in which
B) where
C) whose 8. There was a secret place to the forest _____ we could
D) at which always hide and stay in for a while when we thought
we would be punished.
E) when
A) where
B) what
C) why
4. An expert once observed that playing games is fun, D) when
and that is the reason _____ so many people have E) which
done it for so many centuries.

A) of which
B) what
C) that
D) for which
E) about which

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9. The woman claims she was taken aboard an alien 14. Air pollution, which is a problem _____ by the
spacecraft, _____ she spoke with alien life forms. cooperation between the government and the
citizens in London, is one of the main troubles _____
A) which for an urgent solution.
B) on which
A) solving / to be waited
C) whom
B) to be solved / waiting
D) of whom
C) having sold / having waited
E) what
D) to solve / being waited
E) solved / to wait

10. She is the president of a group _____ is working to

abolish all scientific testing on animals.
15. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea
A) which _____ time has come.
B) where
A) that
C) of whom
B) whose
D) whom
C) of which
E) whose
D) on which
E) when

11. The staff is suggesting that the space _____ for their
offices in the new building is insufficient.
16. An economist is someone who is interested
A) to have been allocated essentially in services _____ are measurable in terms
B) to be allocated of money payments of a fixed and/or regular nature.
C) having allocated A) which
D) having been allocated B) where
E) allocating C) whose
D) whom
E) in that

12. Police have informed people to keep on the alert for a

cougar _____ has been sighted in the area.

A) who 17. The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt were rulers _____ as

B) whom gods on Earth.
C) which A) being considered
D) for which B) having considered
E) in which C) to be considered
D) considering
E) considered

13. The man ______ pleasure and pain are alike, and _____
is wise becomes eligible for immortality.

A) that / that
B) whose / that
C) to whom / who
D) of whom / which
E) in which / whose

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18. The most preferred surgery is the placebo one, _____ 21. It is boiling out here; why don’t we stay for a while
they open up a patient and sew him up again after over there _____ it's shady.
the operation.
A) that
A) which B) which
B) that C) where
C) why D) what
D) where E) of which
E) when

22. H5N1 and H1N1 viruses were deadly bird viruses

19. Areas ____ net security benefits could be easily _____ jumped directly to humans.
gained include better screening of cargo, baggage
and personal items. A) whom
B) of which
A) which
C) where
B) when
D) whose
C) where
E) which
D) that
E) whom

23. Did you see the new film ____ Matt Damon?

20. In 1765 the papers were full of exaggerated accounts A) starred

of the manufacturing establishments _____ in America B) starring
_____ with those of England.
C) to be starring
A) having found / to complete D) having been starred
B) found / to have completed E) to star
C) found / competing
D) having been found / being competed
E) being found / to compete

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24. Mum is sewing a patch at the back of your shirt 25. It has been said that a friend is a person _____ one
______ there is a hole. may be sincere.

A) which A) that
B) in which B) why
C) of which C) with whose
D) whose D) what
E) where E) when

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Answer Key:

1: E 14: B
2: B 15: B
3: E 16: A
4: D 17: E
5: D 18: D
6: B 19: C
7: B 20: C
8: A 21: C
9: B 22: E
10: A 23: B
11: E 24: E
12: C 25: A
13: B

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