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Conditionals and Wish Clauses Advanced Level MCQs Test With Answers 3

1. If I were you, I ____ a new car instead of struggling 7. I wish you ____ me from the station to inform me that
with this old one. you were on your way – I ____ the dinner ready for
your arrival home.
A) have bought
B) was buying A) phone / can prepare
C) had bought B) have phoned / will have prepared
D) would buy C) phoned / will be preparing
E) bought D) would phone / have prepared
E) had phoned / could have prepared
2. It’s not long now before I start my new job in Melissa.
I wish we ____ a suitable house for sale there, but it 8. I wish a flight to Istanbul ____ less than two hundred
seems that we may have to hire one temporarily. pounds, then we would fly there a lot more often.

A) have found A) costs


B) could find B) could have cost
C) can find C) has cost
D) will find D) cost
E) find E) will cost
3. I’m sorry that I sent our driver for you. I wish I ____ 9. I wish I ____ to my friends in Germany every day
you at the airport myself, but I had a meeting with without getting a huge telephone bill.
the production team.
A) have been talking
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A) can meet B) would talk


B) could have met C) will talk
C) have met D) could talk
D) would meet E) can talk
E) meet
10. I’m sure my daughter ____ university life if she ____
4. Take a couple of extra traditional Turkish gifts with but she is so shy.
you in case you ____ any other members of the
Scholz family during your Aunt’s funeral. A) had enjoyed / was socialising
B) enjoys / will have socialised
A) meet
C) would enjoy / socialised
B) have met
D) enjoyed / had been socialising
C) were meeting
E) could have enjoyed / has socialised
D) met
11. If our caravan ____ with a shower, it ____ more
E) will meet
practical for longer holidays.
5. If you give me your tape recorder and a cassette in
plenty of time, then, of course, I ____ the lecture for A) is to equip / can be
you on the day of your Aunt’s funeral.
B) were equipped / would be
A) recorded C) had been equipped / will be
B) had recorded D) equipped / could be
C) would have recorded E) would be equipped / has been
D) have recorded 12. Had the Millennium Dome not been built, 750 million
pounds ____ on health and education.
E) will record
6. If I ____ you would be on your own all weekend, I ____ A) can be spent
you over to our house.
B) must have been spent
A) know / have invited C) could have been spent
B) have known / was going to invite D) will have spent
C) had known / would have invited E) had been spending
D) knew / will have invited
E) will know / must have invited

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Conditionals and Wish Clauses Advanced Level MCQs Test With Answers 3

13. Apparently, a customer wanted to buy something in 19. You had better complain to the manager if you think
the window, but she had left by the time I arrived to you ____ an unfair proportion of the work.
open the shop. How I wish I ____ the bus.
A) would be given
A) hadn’t missed B) will have been giving
B) aren’t missing C) had given
C) wouldn’t have missed D) would have given
D) don’t miss E) have been given
E) haven’t missed
20. Tiger Woods is one of the most successful golfers
14. You ____ determined if you ____ to give up smoking ever, but he ____ into many clubs in the southern US
permanently. because of his colour had he been playing 50 years
ago.
A) have been / wanted
B) have to be / want A) weren’t going to allow
C) could be / will have wanted B) might not have allowed
D) had been / would have wanted C) hadn’t been allowed
E) were to be / would want D) wouldn’t have been allowed
E) weren’t allowed
15. My uncle keeps his share certificates and property
deeds in a fireproof box in case a fire ____ out at his 21. I wish I ____ for dinner as it looks delicious, but
office. unfortunately, I have to collect my mother for her
sister’s house now.
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A) had broken
B) breaks A) will stay
C) was breaking B) would stay
D) will have broken C) can stay
E) broke D) had stayed
E) could stay
16. New strict laws to combat illegal immigration into the
UK mean that if a lorry driver ____ an illegal 22. I really wish my older sister ____ so good at
immigrant into the country, he personally ____ a everything. Now the teacher expects a lot from me
£2000 fine. too.

A) brings / faces A) weren’t


B) would bring / had faced B) won’t be
C) had brought / is facing C) can’t be
D) can bring / could have faced D) hasn’t been
E) has brought / has faced E) isn’t
17. If ways of identifying criminals using DNA samples 23. You’re so wasteful! I wish you ____ so much potato off
____, the person who killed these two young with the skin. Haven’t you heard the saying “waste
teenagers five years ago would still be a free man. not, want not”?

A) aren’t developing A) haven’t cut


B) wouldn’t develop B) wouldn’t cut
C) hadn’t been developed C) won’t cut
D) couldn’t develop D) aren’t cutting
E) won’t have been developed E) don’t cut
18. I don’t know why you waste your money on sports 24. If our health service were indeed excellent, Mrs Beard
centre membership. If you ____ along the coastal path ____ two years for a hip replacement operation,
every morning, you ____ fit without spending a penny. during which time she has been hardly able to move.

A) won’t have waited


A) had run / will get B) hasn’t been waiting
B) run / would have got C) wouldn’t have been waiting
C) were running / got D) isn’t going to wait
D) ran / would get E) weren’t waiting
E) had been running / had got

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25. I wish Turkish courses ____ at a college or university 31. I wish you ____ a camera already as my cousin works
near my home, as I would like to continue my study in a camera shop and can get up to twenty-five per
of the language here in Shrewsbury. cent staff discount.

A) had offered A) aren’t buying


B) would be offering B) wouldn’t buy
C) could have offered C) hadn’t bought
D) have been offered D) haven’t bought
E) were offered E) won’t bu
26. If we were to buy a boat, we ____ down the river at 32. Nobody would have been killed in the fight if one of
the weekends. the teenagers ____ a knife at the time.

A) are going to sail A) wouldn’t be carrying


B) had been sailing B) hasn’t been carrying
C) have sailed C) isn’t carrying
D) could sail D) must not have carried
E) may have sailed E) hadn’t been carrying
27. If Atatürk ____ alive today, do you think he ____ 33. I’m sitting here in my car wishing the breakdown
flattered by the number of plaques, quotations and truck ____ .
photographs displayed in his honour?
A) arrives
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A) were / would be B) will arrive


B) has been / was C) has arrived
C) had been / has been D) would arrive
D) will be / were E) is arriving
E) would be / had been
34. I think Jake wishes he ____ to keep the family home,
28. The ordinary people who live in the area ____ if a but such a big house with land costs a lot to
solution isn’t found. maintain.

A) must have suffered A) would afford


B) have been suffering B) will be affording
C) will suffer C) would have afforded
D) would suffer D) could afford
E) had suffered E) has afforded
29. I wish I ____ to the shop for mint. If I had, my lentil 35. I ____ to go the Antique Auctions in town on Friday if I
soup ____ nice. can get the day off.

A) would run / tastes A) have liked


B) ran / tasted B) would like
C) had run / would have tasted C) had liked
D) were running / would taste D) liked
E) have run / could be tasting E) were to like
30. If only you ____ this Japanese lacquered table with a 36. I’ll allow you to go to the park ____ you come home
harmful liquid, we ____ it for more than 1000 pounds, before it gets dark.
but now it won’t be worth anything.
A) even if
A) wouldn’t clean / are selling B) in case
B) hadn’t cleaned / could sell C) as long as
C) aren’t cleaning / must have sold D) so that
D) wouldn’t be cleaning / had sold E) unless
E) don’t clean / were selling

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37. ____ they improve the quality of their products will we 42. A lot of people bought shares in the company ____
order any more handbags from them. the newspaper predicted it would be successful.

A) Even if A) if
B) Only if B) in case
C) Unless C) because
D) Whether D) only if
E) In case E) unless
38. You shouldn’t wash your car with washing up liquid; 43. I’m afraid we won’t be able to come to Devon ____
____, you’ll damage the paintwork. the repairs to our car can be completed in time. The
garage is waiting for parts at the moment.
A) otherwise
B) in case A) unless
C) only if B) if
D) unless C) in case
E) as long as D) because
E) so that
39. Your advertisement might look more attractive ____ it
were printed in colour. 44. She described her holiday job at the factory ____ it
were torture.
A) if
B) even if A) even if
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C) until B) only if
D) whether C) because
E) in case D) as though
E) unless
40. I wouldn’t be able to afford an Armani suit ____ I ate
bread and water for a month. 45. He has been busy most weekends ____ he started
voluntary work for the hospital radio station.
A) as long as
B) because A) if
C) only if B) until
D) in order that C) since
E) even if D) as if
E) unless
41. ____ you are as bored at work as you say, why don’t
you look for a more interesting job?

A) As though
B) If
C) Even if
D) In case
E) Whether

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Conditionals and Wish Clauses Advanced Level MCQs Test With Answers 3

Answer Key:

1: D 24: C
2: B 25: E
3: B 26: D
4: A 27: A
5: E 28: C
6: C 29: C
7: E 30: B
8: D 31: C
9: D 32: E
10: C 33: D
11: B 34: D
12: C 35: B
13: A 36: C
14: B 37: B
15: B 38: A
16: A 39: A
17: C 40: E
18: D 41: B
19: E 42: C
20: D 43: A
21: E 44: D
22: A 45: C
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23: B

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