Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
The hill behind the town was so steep ….
- A. that no man could find a foot-hold on
- B. that any man could find a foot-hold on it
- C. for no man to find a foot-hold on
- D. that no man could find a foot-hold on it
- E. for any man to find a foot-hold on
Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
I saw you walking in that direction but i did not know exactly ….
- A. where are you going
- B. where you were going
- C. where were you going to
- D. to where were you going
- E. where you are going
Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
If he had left home earlier, he …. late
- A. would not be
- B. would have not be
- C. would not been
- D. would have been not
- E. would not have been
Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
By the end of this year, …. in this town for eleven years
- A. i'm living
- B. i'd be living
- C. i'll live
- D. i'll have lived
- E. i have lived
Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
They went to the market and bought a suitcase and …. bag
- A. a big leather brown
- B. a leather brown big
- C. a big brown leather
- D. a brown big leather
- E. a leather big brown
Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
My little boy is suffering …. jaundice
- A. from
- B. of
- C. for
- D. with
- E. by
Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
The bridge connecting the two cities was …. by the enemy
- A. blown up
- B. blown down
- C. blown off
- D. blown over
- E. blown away
Choose the expression or word which best complete each sentence:
….for the team for six years, he decided to join another
- A. When he played
- B. Playing
- C. Having played
- D. In playing
- E. when he was playing
Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:
For all he cared, his parent might have been dead for years
- A. although concern about his parent,he had been unable to find out if they were alive
- B. He cared for no one except his parents, and it was possible that they had died long before
- C. he did not care whether his parents were alive or had died long before
- D. He was concerned about everyone not just his parents, who might have died long before
- E. He cared very much for his parents even though they were dead
Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:
I can walk that distance and have done so many times
- A. I am used to walk that distance
- B. I used to walk that distance
- C. I used to walking that distance
- D. I am used to walking that distance
- E. I will walk that distance
Choose the option which is nearest in meaning to the sentences in each of the following questions:
The dog was limping. It appeared that one of its legs might have been injured
- A. The dog was limping as if it had an injured leg
- B. The dog was limping as it had an injured leg
- C. The dog was limping so it had an injured leg
- D. The dog was limping so as it had an injured leg
- E. The dog was limping for it had an injured leg
Substitute for the underlined word in the following sentence the word that most closely expresses the opposite meaning:
The plaintiff made very cogent submissions to the trial judge
- A. bailiff
- B. prosecutor
- C. lawyer
- D. defendant
- E. accused
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
We got to the hall after the play ….
- A. is started
- B. was starting
- C. had started
- D. has started
- E. would start
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
In West Africa the …. of sickle cell is about 25 percent
- A. incident
- B. incidence
- C. accident
- D. accidence
- E. incense
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
Isn’t it high time you …. your office?
- A. are leaving
- B. do leave
- C. leave
- D. left
- E. did leave
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
There were so many children ….
- A. that she couldn't feed them all
- B. than she could feed
- C. that she couldn't feed
- D. that she could feed them all
- E. more than she could feed them all
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
By the time the rainy season ended, all the young cocoa trees …. in size
- A. have double
- B. had doubled
- C. were doubling
- D. doubled
- E. will double
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
We should take care …. the robbers come back
- A. may be
- B. should in case
- C. perhaps
- D. probably
- E. in case
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
What a relief that the strike …. when it did!
- A. would end
- B. was ending
- C. ended
- D. has ended
- E. is ending
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
If this had happened to you, what …..?
- A. would you do
- B. have you done
- C. would you have done
- D. will you do
- E. would you be doing
Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;
The train rattled along …. full speed
- A. in
- B. at
- C. with
- D. by
- E. on