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Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A – E:
…. to your birthday party in September?

  • A. May i come
  • B. Will i come
  • C. Would i come
  • D. Might i come
  • E. Shall i come
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44

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A – E:
When next i come to see you, you … in your new home.

  • A. are already living
  • B. will already be living
  • C. will already live
  • D. will have lived
  • E. have already been living
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45

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A – E:
It …. so hard that all the cars have stopped moving.

  • A. rains
  • B. will rain
  • C. is raining
  • D. was raining
  • E. might rain
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46

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A – E:
The catering manageress saw to it that the morning meal …. by 07.00 hours everyday

  • A. is prepared
  • B. used to prepare
  • C. has been prepared
  • D. was prepared
  • E. used to be prepared
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47

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
In the past 20 years, many patients …. by the doctors in the specialist hospital.

  • A. are treated
  • B. were loved to treated
  • C. have been treated
  • D. treated
  • E. have treated
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48

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
She used to be very untidy but she has grown … it now

  • A. out of
  • B. from
  • C. without
  • D. away with
  • E. by
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49

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
Plans for a rise in production …. through when a strike started

  • A. went
  • B. came
  • C. set
  • D. carried
  • E. fell
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50

There was a loud bang …. we thought it was the television, but it wasn’t

  • A. at last
  • B. at first
  • C. at least
  • D. at the moment
  • E. at present
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51

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
when he was knocked on the head, he fell to the ground ….

  • A. collapsed
  • B. fainted
  • C. unconscious
  • D. conscious
  • E. noisily
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52

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
You look very tired, a cup of tea will …. you some good!

  • A. make
  • B. do
  • C. give
  • D. set
  • E. put
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53

Fill the blank space with the most appropriate option.
Put …. your watch, it is half an hour fast.

  • A. away
  • B. up
  • C. on
  • D. forward
  • E. back
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54

Can you buy African souvenirs in any other shops? OR …. can you buy African souvenirs?

  • A. What place
  • B. Which place
  • C. Where
  • D. Where else
  • E. Wherever
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55

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

X: How do you want to be paid? In cash or by cheque?

Y: They asked him …. in cash or by cheque

  • A. how he wanted to be paid
  • B. whether he wanted to be paid
  • C. how he wants the money
  • D. how to pay
  • E. how did he want to be paid
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56

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
If you …. me that you had run out of petrol, i would have given you some.

  • A. were to tell
  • B. tell
  • C. have told
  • D. would tell
  • E. had told
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57

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
His English was so good that he …. for an Englishman

  • A. took
  • B. is taken
  • C. was taken
  • D. has taken
  • E. is taking
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58

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
Radium …. Maria Sklodowska Curie.

  • A. discovered
  • B. is discovering
  • C. has discovered
  • D. was discovered by
  • E. had been discovered by
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59

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
What made you … that?

  • A. have said
  • B. to say
  • C. saying
  • D. said
  • E. say
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60

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
I am not used to …. on the left

  • A. drive
  • B. having driven
  • C. driving
  • D. have driven
  • E. being driving
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61

Everybody hates …. kept waiting

  • A. be
  • B. being
  • C. to be
  • D. for being
  • E. in being
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62

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
…. fewer strikes since the profit-sharing schemes were introduced.

  • A. There have been
  • B. There are
  • C. There were
  • D. There are going to be
  • E. There was
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63

Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:
His hair needs ….

  • A. to cut
  • B. to have cut
  • C. being cut
  • D. to be cutting
  • E. cutting
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