ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST 5.

One man among the crew ____ into the water

every
1. The aims of the course ____ me willing to
begin. week.
A) makes A) can be diving
B) were made B) dive
C) make C) had dived
D) making D) is diving
E) had been made E) dives

2. The weight of the apples ____. 6. The men of the community ____ not support
the
A) were varied
leader.
B) vary
A) does
C) varying
B) have
D) varies
C) has
E) might have varied
D) do
E) is
3. The regulations of the administration ____
from the
curriculum. 7. Few students who ____ playing football
missed the
A) stem
class.
B) stems
A) would be
C) stemming
B) could be
D) are stemmed
C) had
E) is stemmed
D) were
E) was
4. The children of the man who works with me
____
broken the window this morning. 8. The police ____ to be careful since the
criminal was
A) were
dangerous.
B) have
A) were told
C) had
B) were telling
D) has
C) was telling
E) was
D) was saying
E) was told D) have come
E) comes
9. Students' minds ____ about the order of
structures.
13. Do you know the woman ____ next to the
A) has been confused window?
B) have been confused A) stands
C) had confused B) stood
D) have confused C) is standing
E) has confused D) stand
E) standing
10. The man whom I ____ with ____ the dean of
our
14. He and I ____ good friends but now we
faculty. ____ anymore.
A) was talking/ were A) have been / don't talk
B) were talking/ were B) am / don't tal king
C) can talk/ were C) were / won't talk
D) were talking/ was D) were / aren't tal king
E) was talking/ was E) are / weren't talking

11. Neither the man nor his son ____ convinced 15. If he ____ early, we ____ catch the last train
of the on time.
idea. A) comes I will be able to
A) had B) will come / --
B) has C) is coming / can
C) was D) will come / will
D) have E) comes I could be
E) were
16. Although every student in my class ____ the
schedule,
12. Either Hasan or Fatih ____ to the meeting
this one of my students always ____ late to the
class.
evening.
A) know / come
A) are coming
B) knows / coming
B) come
C) know / comes
C) is coming
D) knows / comes C) were concerned with them a lot
E) knows / coming D) enjoys redecorating old rooms
E) are su rrou nded with new high ones
17. All the furniture I bought ____ at my home
now.
21. Events taking place in every part of the
A) are world ____ .
B) was A) are enjoying life
C) is B) has interested me
D) were C) were our close relatives
E) have been D) interest many politicians of the country
E) due to some information of the world news
agents
18. After the meeting, he said a great deal of
advice ____
A) were given 22. I could conclude from his way of talking
____
B) has been given
A) that he was content with his life
C) had been given
B) she was happy for being with her family
D) have been given
C) he will come with me to the theater
E) were being given
D) the sky is clear today
E) they are my old friends
19. Only when each of the committee members
____
reading the instructions then can you ____ them 23. The film was so good that ____ .
to
A) we are going to the cinema today
the hall.
B) it is sometimes good to watch it
A) would fi nish / took
C) the spectators have seen it twice
B) is finishing / be taking
D) it had been watched by millions
C) finish / take
E) we were still under its influence two hours
D) finishes / take later
E) finished / take
24. ____ since we cannot arrive there on time.
20. Some of the old beautiful buildings ____ . A) She told me to hurry
A) is being replaced by the new ones B) It's not suitable to enter the exam
B) have been reconstructing for the last three C) The cat was under the table
decades D) They are running toward the road
E) We needn't go faster anymore
29. One of my close friends ____ us a question
that
25. Istanbul ____ in 1453 by Sultan Mehmet the
neither of us ____ able to answer.
Conqueror.
A) have asked / are
A) had been conquered
B) had asked / are
B) conquered
C) has asked / is
C) was conquered
D) have asked / is
D) would be conquered
E) had asked / can
E) had conquered

30. Every student ____ going to be responsible

26. The news he reported ____ us all, we are all
for his
in an odd
chapters and each student ____ bring his or her
mood.
homework on the exam day.
A) was astonishing
A) are / will
B) has astonished
B) are / have to
C) have astonished
C) are / has to
D) were astonishing
D) is / have to
E) astonish
E) is / has to
27. Each candidate ____ fill in these forms and
sign them.
A) are to 31. Neither of the pictures in the exhibition ____
to me,
B) have to
so I left the gallery.
C) apt to
A) appeal
D) has to
B) were appealing
E) were to
C) was appealing
D) are appealing
28. One of the main solutions to such problems
____ to E) will be appealing
show no reaction to the person in those times.
A) are supposed 32. The grandchildren of the old man whom he
told me
B) supposed
about a great deal during the journey ____
C) is
students
D) were
at university now.
E) was
A) was 36. Giving a speech in front of such a big crowd
who are
B) were
made up of intellectuals ____ a very difficult
C) would be
action, I
D) is
suppose.
E) are
A) will have been
B) were
33. Neither he himself nor the spectators ____
C) are
satisfied
D) was
with his answers to the prominent questions.
E) is
A) is
B) has been
37. The police ____ to have been called by the
C) had been
thieves
D) were
themselves to wrong address at the same time
E) was of
robbery.

34. Do you know the boy ____ glasses at the A) is spposed

back of the
B) was supposed
class?
C) will be supposed
A) is wearing
D) supposed
B) wore
E) are supposed
C) wearing
D) wear
38. Nobody in the classroom ____ able to
E) wears answer the
question about subject verb agreement
yesterday.
35. Nobody ____ able to escape from the final
conclusion; A) were

death. B) is

A) can C) will be

B) were D) can

C) are E) was

D) is
E) have been 39. This may seem very difficult for you but after
the
course any one of our students ____ able to MIXED TENSES
solve
1. It _____ that, by 2050, world population
such problems, so you will be able to do, too. _____ twice
A) were as much as it is now.
B) had been A) appeared / would have been rising
C) have been B) appears / will have risen
D) is C) has appeared / will be rising
E) are D) would appear / has risen
E) will appear / would rise

2. After years of cheap credit worldwide, the

U.S.
Federal Reserve _____ its short-term rates for
two
years, and now comes new signs that long-term
rates, in the end, _____ to rise, too.
A) has been rising / are starting
B) rose / had started
C) will have risen / had been starting
D) was rising / started
E) had risen / have started

3. Scientists _____ that by 2030, doctors _____

the
people suffering from certain illness during their
space travel in the health care institutions in
space.
A) will have expected / are treating
B) have expected / would be treating
C) expected / had treated
D) will expect / will have been treating
E) expect / will be treating

4. She had been trying to learn how to use a

computer _____ as long as she lived here C) have read / has been called
_____ she
D) had read / was called
gave up because of her illness.
E) are reading / is called
A) for / when
B) till / before
8. No zoologist _____ able to keep a gorilla
C) before / for under
D) so / until close observation in the dark jungles in which he
E) since / once ______.
A) was / lived
5. Jane quitted trying for the swimming team B) will / will live
after
C) had been / has lived
that time she _____ out too far down at Horn
D) is / had been living
Pond.
E) has been / lives
A) swims
B) will swim
9. The practice of working woman _____ so
C) would swim
widespread that the working mother _____ now
D) was swimming
not an
E) had swum
unusual factor in the world.
A) becomes/was
6. Stone _____, and so the tools of long ago
B) became / is
have
C) had become / is
remained when even the bones of the men who
D) has become / is
made them _____ without trace.
E) became / was
A) didn't decay / disappeared
B) wouldn’t decay / disappear
10. What ____ almost all Hollywood pictures
C) doesn’t decay / have disappeared
_____
D) won’t decay / had disappeared
their inner emptiness.
E) didn’t decay / have disappeared
A) characterized / was
B) characterizes / had been
7. We _____ a play by Oscar Wilde in the class
C) has characterized / were
which
D) characterized / will be
_____ “The importance of Being Earnest”
E) characterizes / is
A) read / is called
B) are reading / was called
11. When I first arrived at State University, I C) are / are dated
_____ by
D) have been / will be dated
the size of campus. Fortunately, I found three
E) will be / have been dated
helpful
people who _____ me from total confusion.
15. William S. Hart____ the greatest of all
A) had been overwhelmed / saved
Western
B) was overwhelmed / saved
stars, for he _____ in nothing but Westerns.
C) was overwhelmed / was saving
A) had been / appeared
D) would be overwhelmed / had saved
B) has been / appeared
E) was overwhelmed / had saved
C) was / appears
D) is / would appear
12. The peace which Istanbul once _____,
E) is / is appearing
______
away.
16. One important field in which the laser
A) know / has been swept
______
B) knew / had been swept
many applications ________ communication.
C) knew / has been swept
A) has / is
D) knows / will sweep
B) was / are
E) has known / swept
C) does / are
D) have / is
13. The young soldier ____ that he _____ in the
E) is / is
battle.
A) will fear / would be killed
17. Since my roommate ______ yet, Mrs
B) feared / was killed
Stanton _____
C) fears / is killed
me all around the dormitory.
D) fears / will be killed
A) does not come / showed
E) has feared / is killed
B) has not come / showed
C) was not coming / showed
14. The oldest Mesoamerican calendar
D) hadn’t come / had showed
inscriptions
E) had not come / showed
_____ from the site of San Jose Mogote in the
Oaxaca
Valley, with day signs that _____ from 600 B.C.. 18. Whoever ____ the cooking ______ a great
deal of
A) were / were dated
work to do.
B) were / had been dated
A) do / has animal two old woman _____ at the pack _____
a
B) does / had had
puma.
C) has done / has
A) had seen / is
D) is doing / had
B) saw / was
E) does / have
C) saw / had been
D) have seen / were
19. By the end of this month he ______ as one
of the E) saw / has been
assistants of Bill Gates for five years.
A) had worked 23. Time _____ over. We ______ fifty
applications in all.
B) will work
A) had been / received
C) is going to work
B) is / have received
D) had been working
C) is / received
E) will have been working
D) was / had been receiving
E) was / would receive
20. It’s only the second time I ______ a football
match
in a stadium. 24. You _____ for being late to the party.
A) saw A) will regret
B) see B) will be regretting
C) will see C) have been regretting
D) had seen D) regret
E) have seen E) regretted

21. He is the man about whom we ______ so

much.
A) have heard
B) heard
C) would have heard
D) had heard
E) have been hearing

22. The experts are now fully convinced that the