Please select the best expression to complete the following sentences:
1. I come ________ France.
a. from
b. in
c. to
2. There aren't ________ children here.
a. lot of
c. some
c. many
3. Tim ________ tomorrow.
a. isn’t
b. work
c. isn’t working
4. I'd like ________ information, please.
a. some
b. a piece
c. many
5. ________ to your office yesterday?
a. Did you walked
b. Did you walk
c. walked
6. I went to the shop ________ some sugar.
a. to buy
b. buying
c. to buying
7. 'I don't like tea.' '________ do I.'
a. Either
b. Neither
c. Also
8. 'Have you visited Madrid?' '________'
a. Yes, please
b. Yes, I do
9. Is Joan ________ Lucy?
a. as tall as
b. taller
c. Not yet
c. more tall than
10. ________ your homework!
a. Do
b. Make
c. Did
11. 'Where's the ________ bank, please?'
a. nearer
b. most near
c. nearest
12. Can you ________ the door?
a. closing
b. close
c. closed
13. He's interested ________ learning English.
a. in
b. by
c. of
14. How long ________ English?
a. learn you
b. have you been learning
15. His room is on the second ________.
a. floor
b. ground
c. lift
c. are you learning
16. The doctor gave me a ________ for some medicine.
a. receipt
b. recipe
c. prescription
17. Can you tell me when ________ ?
a. does the bus leave
b. does the bus leaves
c. the bus leaves
18. I ________ a reply to my e-mail in the next few days.
a. expect
b. wait for
c. want
19. When Simon ________ back tonight, he'll wash his hair.
a. come
b. will come
c. comes
20. We arrived ________ Spain two days ago.
a. in
b. to
c. into
21. 'Why are you so hungry?' 'Oh, I ________ breakfast this morning.'
a. ate
b. don’t eat
c. didn't have
22. You ________ better see a doctor.
a. had
b. would
c. need
23. You should ________ playing football.
a. take up
b. take off
c. start off
24. 'Did you talk with Laura?' 'No, I've ________ seen her.
a. never
b. hardly
c. nearly
25. He told me that he ________ in Scotland the previous month.
a. have been working
b. worked
c. had been working
26. She looks ________ she's going to be angry.
a. like
b. if
c. as if
27. The best way to learn a language is ________ a little every day.
a. by speaking
b. speak
c. in speaking
28. She ________ me to go to school.
a. said
b. told
c. suggest
29. I want to be a painter when I ________ .
a. grow up
b. grow big
c. growing old
30. I'm fed up ________ this work.
a. doing
b. by doing
c. with doing
31. After ten years working for the same company, she ________ from her job yesterday
a. fired herself
b. resigned
c. give up
32. He has been ________ of murdering her brother.
a. charged
b. accused
c. arrested
33. You aren't allowed to use your mobile so ________ .
a. there's no point in leaving it on
b. it’s no point in leaving it on c. there's no point in leaving it off
34. You ________ the cleaning. I would have done it tonight.
a. needn't have done
b. wouldn’t done
c. won’t do
35. They have put a traffic light on the road to ________ accidents.
a. cancel
b. avoid
c. prevent
36. We would never have had the accident if you ________ so fast.
a. haven’t driven
b. hadn't been driving
c. wouldn’t have driven
37. The tree ________ by lightning.
a. has struck
b. was struck
38. If only I ________ a bird..
a. was
b. were
c. is hit
c. was been
39. ________ the better team, we lost the match.
a. Despite being
b. Despite be
c. Despite
40. By this time next week, I ________ all my exams.
a. will take
B. will have taken
C. am taking
Are Today’s teenagers victims of fashion?
A ………. (1) among the 1300 pupils at Caldicot Comprehensive School near Newport, Wales ……….. (2) that
teenage girls and boys are deeply …………. (3) by the images presented by the fashion ……………….. (4) in
magazines.
When we asked ………….. (5) super-slim fashion models ……………. (6) anorexia – the eating ………….. (7) in
which people go without food – 100% of our ……….. replied “yes”.
[…] We interviewed psychologist Dr Glenn Waller of London’s Royal Holloway College, an expert of the
influence of fashion on adolescents. He told us that fashion photographs in magazines make a ……….. (9)
impact on young people’s self-image, particularly females ………… (10) 13-19.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
A. survey
A. told
A. impressed
A. tendency
A. whether
A. influence
A. problem
A. witnesses
A. great
A. aged
B. interview
B. says
B. shocked
B. industry
B. that
B. affects
B. disorder
B. group
B. huge
B. with
C. inquest
c. shows
C. affected
C. model
C. how
C. cause
C. illness
C. sample
C. important
C. among