Advanced Level Grammar Exercise - MCQ Test 5

5. In the Franco-Prussian war, balloons were used to

1. In the 1960s, the modernist idea that there ------ only maintain the city's contacts -------- the outside world
one authentic style for the modern age ----- in favour ------- the siege of Paris.
of the ideas of the plurality of styles.
A) from / over
A) could be / will have been rejected B) with / during
B) can be / is rejected C) for / at
C) could have been / is being rejected D) through / in
D) could be / was rejected E) out of / under
E) can be / would be rejected

6. The sustaining role of the family may go

2. When photography first appeared, some people unappreciated ------- the younger members, but the
predicted that it -------- the death of painting. older ones are fully aware -------- its value.

A) will have caused A) for / from

B) will cause B) by / of
C) would have caused C) from / off
D) caused D) to / by
E) would cause E) with / into

3. In the end, he admitted that he -------- the fire -------- 7. Wellington's abandonment of an attempt to make a
at such a speed. Tory government was not -------- due to the threats of
civil war -------- to Peel's refusal to join a Tory
A) hadn't expected / to spread government.
B) didn't expect / to have spread
A) so far / as if
C) wasn't expecting / spreading
B) as / as
D) hadn't been expecting / having spread
C) as much / than
E) wouldn't expect / to be spreading
D) so much / as
E) even / more

4. The name Adonis was given -------- a stream rising in

Mount Lebanon which runs red -------- the soil of the
hills after a sudden fall of rain. 8. Income tax can be fitted more closely to the
individual taxpayer's ability than -------- tax.
A) in / by
B) for / in A) any other
C) at / from B) any
D) to / with C) other
E) by / over D) some
E) one another

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9. The occupational psychologist is often regarded by 13. ------- the past few decades South Korea, Taiwan,
industrialists as being-------- academic to serve any Singapore and Hong Kong have achieved the fastest
practical purpose. rates ------- economic growth the world has ever seen.

A) too much A) Within / at

B) so B) During / of
C) too C) In / over
D) more D) After / in
E) as much E) Over / about

10. In the works of many twentieth-century dramatists, it 14. The works of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates
is possible to see ------- the individual writer's ideas commonly known as the "Hippocratic Collection",
and experience ------ some of the social and political consist ------- about 70 works, ------- which only a
developments of his period. relatively small number are possible by him.

A) as much / as A) in / for
B) not only / but also B) for / in
C) only / such as C) of / of
D) more / than D) at / about
E) whether / or E) by / within

11. --------- Henri Toulous Lautrec, a French painter who 15. ------- the computerized Dutch auction system, the
was happy to design posters and to illustrate books, flower industry gets flowers into our homes when
many modern artists have found it necessary to they are still ------- their best.
supplement their incomes in various ways.
A) Under / at
A) Due to B) At / in
B) Firstly C) From / with
C) Despite D) Until / to
D) In case of E) Within / for
E) Like

16. Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline

12. Many of the company's shareholders felt that such a engines ------- the fact that a larger proportion of the
drastic change in policy was unnecessary, and ------- fuel used is burned.
.
A) consequently
A) I would, too B) following
B) neither did I C) owing to
C) so did I D) contrary to
D) I wouldn't either E) so that
E) I don't either

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17. The great bulk of industrial work nowadays involves 19. Few things ------- unnerved the Spanish conquerors of
the use of machines, and it is certain that the New World ------- the prospect of death on Aztec
mechanization will proceed ------ in the future. sacrificial stone.

A) as well as A) as / as
B) on the other hand B) so / as
C) just as C) not only / but also
D) ever since D) neither / nor
E) further still E) so / that

18. Let's take the ferry to Bandırma from where it's only 20. Some anthropologists think that man today is -------
a short drive to Bursa, ------- driving all the way from honest -------- he was hundreds and thousands of
01 stanbul to Bursa. years ago.
00

A) as well as A) much / as
B) more than B) the less / than
C) besides C) the least / of
D) instead of D) little / as
E) except for E) less / than

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Answer Key:

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

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