GRAMMAR TEST - 002

1) I'm simply surprised at your lack of authority on him. Why can't you ............... him eat his dinner?
a. persuade**** b. ask**** c. make *** d. tell**** e. force
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2) "You took the wrong bus." "It .............. the wrong one. It has brought me to the right place, hasn't it?
a. must have been**** b. should have been****
c. ought to have been d. can't have been****
e. may have been
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3) Why don't you pay some attention? I .............. be talking to a brick wall!
a. would like to**** b. should better**** c. might as well
d. will go and**** e. am going to
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4) Aristotle is known to have said something like this: .............. man is a political animal is pretty obvious.
a. This**** b. That**** c. The**** d. A**** e. - - -
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5) Listen to me, Ali. The man, ............... refused your proposal, has been arrested.
a. who have repeatedly**** b. - - -**** c. whom
d. whose daughter has**** e. when he
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6) "Don't worry; one of the robbers ............... ," said a policeman to the gathering crowd.
a. are being pursued**** b. have been pursuing****
c. has been pursuing d. will be pursuing****
e. is being pursued
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7) Theoretical physics ............... to be one of those pure sciences that ............... indispensable for the advancement of mankind.
a. happens/are**** b. happens/is**** c. happen/is
d. happen/are**** e. happens/- - -
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8) I ............... asked to inform you that you're dismissed from your post as of today.
a. - - -**** b. have been**** c. used to be****
d. had**** e. would have
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9) Would you believe it! ............... was no other than our poor old postman who had fallen into the water still holding on to his bags.
a. It**** b. Someone**** c. Who****
d. Somebody**** e. Man
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10) Darling, I've got news for you: Meltem, together with her husband and six children, .............. come to stay with us for a whole month.
a. have**** b. - - -**** c. has**** d. don't**** e. are to
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11) ............... when the phone started ringing. This is the sort of situation that I find really annoying.
a. Although it doesn't really bother me
b. Ever since my childhood, I get frightened
c. Hardly had I got in
d. No matter what I did
e. Immediately after I came home
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12) Let's face it: The salary of an ordinary grave-digger is much higher ............... .
a. in comparison with a doctor****
b. than a doctor**** c. than that of a doctor
d. than a doctor is**** e. if compared to a doctor
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13) I've been meaning to ask you: This is the first time you are visiting Turkey, ............... ?
a. aren't you**** b. is it**** c. are you****
d. isn't it**** e. is this
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14) No matter how hard I tried to make them understand, they just wouldn't take my word for ............... I said, .............. annoyed me very much.
a. what/which**** b. that/which**** c. that/that
d. which/that**** e. which/which
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15) Let me tell you about a funny thing that happened to a friend of mine the other day: Well, he'd just had a new tyre .............. on his car and he was going to drive the family out for a picnic. (The story continues...)
a. was fitting**** b. been fitted**** c. fitting
d. would be fitted***** e. fitted
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16) Don't you agree with me that learning a foreign language is great fun? ............... is to pick up a little Italian.
a. A very difficult language to learn
b. The language that I want to practise
c. What other language than Italian
d. What I am planning to do now
e. Italy is the place it

17) Yes, I know you're tired and sleepy, but let me remind you one thing: If you ............... up all night to watch that stupid film, the world would look much brighter this morning, wouldn't it?!
a. wouldn't stay**** b. have not stayed****
c. hadn't stayed d. would stay**** e. had stayed
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18) The bus I intended to catch had an accident on the way and many people got badly injured. Just think of it: If I hadn't missed it, I myself ............... recuperating in some hospital now.
a. would be**** b. had been**** c. wouldn't have been
d. having been**** e. were
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19) ............... for -- what you call -- his "reckless courage", all lives would have been lost.
a. If it had been**** b. It wouldn't have been****
c. Wouldn't it have been d. If it were****
e. Had it not been
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20) I'm pretty certain that, unless he's offered more money elsewhere, he ............... our offer.
a. 'd accept**** b. won't accept**** c. wouldn't accept
d. would've accepted**** e. 'll accept


01. c 06. e 11. c 16. d
02. d 07. a 12. c 17. c
03. c 08. b 13. d 18. a
04. b 09. a 14. a 19. e
05. d 10. c 15. e 20. e