1. A century is equal with _. 9.

There was _ evidence against Tom, so he was not

a) one hundred years accused of theft.
b) fifty years a) a little
c) one thousand years b) some
d) ten years c) few
d) little
2. I don’t enjoy _ in full stores.
a) shop 10. I have given _ that I will ever have the chance to
b) shopping participate in the London Marathon.
c) to shop a) up hope
d) for shopping b) in hope
c) over hope
3. The Wilsons had three children, _. d) away hope.
a) and both of them are musicians
b) all who became musicians 11. I cannot understand why she did that, it really
c) all of whom became musicians doesn’t add up.
d) two musicians and one is salesman a) doesn’t calculate
b) isn’t mathematics
4. Let’s go _, this place is too expensive! c) doesn’t make sense
a) someone else d) makes the wrong addition
b) elsewhere
c) anywhere else 12. I _ anything today for I _ unwell and last week I
d) everywhere else _ even worse.
a) have not eaten, have been feeling, felt
5. The car is very old. We’re going _ a new car b) didn’t eat, have felled, felt
soon. c) haven’t ate, feeled, have feeled
a) to buy d) haven’t been eating, have felt, felt.
b) buying
c) to will buy 13. The Great Expectations _ by Charles Dickens.
d) buy a) were written
b) is written
6. Carol has been _ from her job. c) wrote
a) given up d) was written
b) dismissed
c) thrown 14. The Government publish health warnings on
d) registered cigarettes _ people would become aware of the
dangers of smoking.
7. They have got enough money _ to the cinema. a) even though
a) go b) so that
b) having gone c) as soon as
c) to have gone d) in case
d) to go
15. _ you mind closing the window, please?
8. I expect him _ the job by four o’clock. a) May
a) finishing b) Could
b) to be complete c) If
c) have been finished d) Would
d) to have completed
16. We said that we were leaving on Saturday. We
said, “_”
a) You are leaving on Saturday c) long before
b) We leave on Saturday d) ever since
c) We are leaving on Saturday
d) You were leaving on Saturday 24. The most important chemical catalyst on this
planet is chlorophyll, _ carbon dioxide and water
17. I’m going to the station to meet a relative _ react to form carbohydrates.
a) of me a) whose presence
b) of my b) which is present
c) of mine’s c) presenting
d) of mine d) in the presence of which

18. For goodness’ sake hurry up because if we don’t 25. When the committee submitted _ four versions
_ cracking soon we’ll miss the bus! of the document, it was clear to us that the
a) find committee members had acted as individuals, not as
b) get a group.
c) use a) its
d) put b) their
c) theirs
19. When I was younger I _ long hair. d) his
a) would have
b) would have had 26. "I don’t care if you have been studying chess
c) used to have tactics since I last beat you. I am going to _ the
d) use to have floor with you!" Joe said to Brent.
a) mop
20. Unlike many other racecourses, Ascot _ to b) build
depend on royal financial support, as stipulated in a c) sand
legal document. d) paint
a) must
b) needs 27. She let the children _ to play.
c) has a) going out
d) have. b) that they went out
c) to go out
21. I wrote to him an e-mail _ to our meeting at the d) go out
conference in June.
a) before; 28. He is so devoid of imagination! The more he
b) prior; talks, _ she becomes.
c) previously a) the less bored
d) after b) the more bored
c) more bored does
22. By the time the firemen arrived, the house _ d) the least bored
down,
a) has burnt 29. The student _ the topic carefully before writing
b) will have burnt a report.
c) was burning a) research
d) had burnt. b) researching
c) researched
23. Anna has been interested in learning how to sail d) ressearches
a boat _ she went sailing a few years ago
a) by the time 30. You may find the end of the story quite _
b) the moment a) surprized
b) surprised
c) surprising
d) surprise