GRAMMAR TEST at it.

A) would have knocked

1. Tourists -------- when large numbers B) were able to knock

of middle-class
C) will have to knock
people -------- to join the more
D) may have knocked
wealthy aristocratic
E) could have knocked
travellers.

A) have originated / had begun

4. Certain serious diseases can be
B) had originated / began
successfully treated
C) could have originated / have
-------- detected in an initial stage.
begun
A) unless
D) originated / began
B) if
E) were originating / are beginning
C) even when
D) before
2. The wounded hunter -------- on the
ground for almost E) after
an hour when, coincidentally, he -----
--- by another
5. ---------- you have made minimal
hunter, who must have keen eyes. progress, it is by no
A) has been lying / is spotting means the kind of progress that you
need to make.
B) has lain / will be spotted
A) What
C) will have lain / had been spotted
B) Despite
D) had been lying / was spotted
C) In addition to
E) was lying / spotted
D) On behalf of
E) While
3. As the tree was too high to climb,
the mischievous
boys ---------- their ball down only by 6. Soils are the result of --------
throwing sticks interacting processes
-------- bring different materials with kids, but forgets that she didn’t
together. have --------

A) a few / by which before she gave birth to her own

kids.
B) such / as
A) enough / as much
C) some / that
B) too many / any
D) most of / which
C) such / none
E) a good deal of / in which
D) so / some
E) more / neither
7. I’m ready to do ---------- I can do to
help you --------

your hardship. 10. If I -------- the choice of making

either an oral or a
A) anything / overcome
written report, I -------- the second
B) whatever / overcoming
alternative.
C) what / to be overcoming
A) gave / could pick
D) that / to have overcome
B) had been given / might pick
E) nothing / having overcome
C) would have given / had picked

D) have been giving / will pick

8. Despite my insistence, Adam
E) were given / would pick
didn’t tell me -------- he
didn’t like me and my family.
11. A combination of imagination
A) why
and determination
B) even if
-------- Peter -------- entirely new lines
C) whose of research

D) the reason concerned with the way animals

survive extreme
E) about whom
environmental conditions.
A) allow / developing
9. She keeps saying that she has got
-------- patience B) have allowed / being developed
C) were allowed / to have A) During / whether
developed
B) Every time / how
D) allowed / to develop
C) Whenever / what
E) will allow / to be developing
D) Until / if
12. The scientist who -------- Dolly the
E) When / wherever
sheep, the world’s
first cloned mammal, -------- a licence
on Tuesday to 15. The results of last weekend’s poll
have ------- to be
clone human embryos for medical
research. announced and officials say it could
be -------- week
A) has created / has been granted
before they are.
B) had created / granted
A) so far / every
C) created / was granted
B) still / each
D) will be creating / has granted
C) already / every other
E) used to create / had been
granted D) even / most

E) yet / another
13. My mother is making a steady
recovery from flu and
16. She failed to get anyone to repair
------- hospital by next week. the taps for her at
A) could have left the weekend, -------- could she do it
on her own.
B) is leaving
A) as
C) has left
B) nor
D) will have left
C) only if
E) must have left
D) so

E) though
14. -------- a celebrity arrives in
Istanbul, the first question

reporters ask them is ------- they like 17. The neutral mutation rate is
Istanbul. known -------- widely
along human chromosomes, -------- 20. Some people argue that certain
to mutational hot oriental relaxation

and cold regions. techniques ------- yoga and

meditation are extremely
A) to be varying / to lead
effective in the treatment of high
B) varying / led
blood pressure.
C) to have varied / being led
A) so
D) having varied / having led
B) just as
E) to vary / leading
C) such as
D) both
18. You would not expect anyone ----
E) also
---- intelligent to
make ------ stupid mistake, but he did
so.
A) so / that
B) too / such

C) as / as
D) more / than

E) too much / those

19. I don’t suppose you are telling us

the true version of
the story, ----------?

A) do I
B) are you
C) can you

D) will you
E) aren’t you