English Grammar MCQ Test With Answers Advanced - 16

There are 20 Questions in this Test. Allow yourself 30

minutes for this test. Fill in the blanks, choosing your 5. If only he ............... informed us beforehand, none
answer from among the supposed alternatives Please do of this confusion would have happened.
not click the answer button before you have thoroughly
studied the question & deliberated on your own choice !! A) has been
B) hadn't
GÜZİN asks apprehensively: "What do you think C) had been
1.
that awful noise was outside in the garden just a D) hadn't had
minute ago?" YALÇIN answers, calm and E) had
collected: "Oh, don't worry. It ............... Buddy and
Elmosh chasing after some cat. They must have
knocked over the trash barrel."

A) can't have been

6. You .............. another job pretty soon. I have a
B) should have been feeling that you're going to get fired before long.
C) must have been
D) ought to have been A) would have started to look for
E) would have had to be B) had better to start looking for
C) had better to start looking for
D) 'd better to start to look for
E) 'd better start looking for

2. Then the second clown tumbled down head over

heals, ............... made everyone laugh heartily.

A) that
7. Inversion. Choose the correctly inverted sentence:
B) what
C) who A) Down fell a few drops of rain and the skies were
D) whom soon clear again.
E) which B) Hardly had we settled down with our picnic
baskets because it began to rain.
C) The general gave a briefing to the press about the
situation. Did people begin to understand the danger
He listened to them to the end with the courteous we were in only then?
3.
patience that characterizes him ............... he was D) Arise should any emergency, dial 112.
getting more and more furious by the minute. E) No sooner had we discovered who the thief was
A) consequently did we report him to the local police.
B) though
C) nevertheless
D) however
E) in spite of 8. YALÇIN: "What excellent Turkish you speak!" JUDITH:
".............. !  I've been living in Didim for twenty
years."

A) So must I
 ............... , I decided to take the day off and go B) So do I
4.
down to the beach. C) So I should
D) So I could
A) Promising to be a nice cloudless day
E) So much more
B) Even though it was a nice and warm day
C) Despite the fact that the weather was fine
D) The day being fine and fine days being rare
E) Looking like it was not going to rain

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9. The CUSTOMER: "Shall I have to pay all of the

remaining installments in American dollars, too?"
The SELLER: "No, you ............... . You may pay in
whatever currency you might choose." 14. As is their habit, these bloody self-seeking multi-
national corporations never gave a thought to
A) mustn't probable future ramifications when these decisions
for the restructuring of the international money
B) shouldn't
market .............. ten years ago.
C) dare not
D) can't A) they took
E) needn't B) were taking
C) they were taking
D) to be taken
E) were being taken
10. I'd rather you ............... it now. A: hadn't done B:
 didn't do  

A) "A" is correct.
B) "B" is correct. 15. Aristotle is known to have announced his belief many
times to the effect that, " .............. man is a
C) Both are correct. political animal is pretty obvious."
D) Both are incorrect.
E) The question is unreasonable.. A) This
B) That
C) The
D) A
E) --------
11. He tiptoed into the room as quietly as he could 
............... not to wake the children.

A) because of
B) so as
16. As far as I'm concerned, all he is good at ..............
C) almost  making up the most improbable excuses anyone has
D) unless ever heard.
E) whether or
A) his
B) presently
C) is
D) are
12. ............... for this fresh loan from the İmdatbank, E) present
the company would certainly have collapsed by now.

A) If it had been
B) It wouldn't have been
C) Wouldn't it have been
17. (Over the phone) I was under the impression that
D) If it were you, too, .............. along with us. I am disappointed
E) Had it not been not to see you here.

A) were supposed to be coming

B) came to suppose
C) supposed to have come
13. The boss urged the staff ............... this splendid D) are supposed not to come
opportunity he was offering them.
E) supposed to come
A) about missing
B) on missing
C) why to miss
D) why not to miss
E) not to miss

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18. I shall say no more ............... I be misunderstood.

A) so.
B) lest 20. This friend of mine visited his doctor the other day
with some stomach problems and the doctor simply
C) because of. suggested that he ............... away from alcohol for
D) in order that some time.
E) resulting from
A) stayed
B) is staying
C) would be staying
D) had stayed
19. Which one is correct? E) was staying
A) Nobody is going to convince me to get on this bus
of which the tyres look all worn out.
B) Nobody is going to convince me to get on this bus,
which all the tyres look worn out.
C) Nobody is going to convince me to get on this bus,
the tyres of which look all worn out.
D) Nobody is going to convince me to get on this bus
all the tyres of which look worn out.
E) Nobody is going to convince me to get on this bus
the tyres of which look all worn out.

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Answer Key:

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

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