From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The clown made everybody in the market………….
- A. to belaughing
- B. to laugh
- C. laugh
- D. laughed
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
……………..here, the case would have been settled long ago.
- A. had my mother been
- B. where my mother to be
- C. if my mother were to be
- D. my mother having been
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
I wish Hassana………..at the birthday party yesterday
- A. would have been
- B. is
- C. have been
- D. were
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
I can’t see him anywhere so he………………….
- A. can have gone
- B. shall have gone
- C. must have gone
- D. would have gone
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The seeds……….in the nursery before they were transplanted last week.
- A. germinate
- B. had germinated
- C. have germinated
- D. would germinate
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
By this time next year, I ………here for ten years
- A. will have been working
- B. have worked
- C. had been working
- D. would have worked
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
Please go on I …….. you.
- A. am hearing
- B. hear
- C. can hear
- D. was hearing
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
It is you and John who………wanted
- A. is
- B. are
- C. was
- D. will
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
He…………not retort when I am speaking.
- A. dare
- B. dares
- C. dared
- D. will dare
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
She…….to his overtures after much delay
- A. gave out
- B. gave up
- C. gave away
- D. gave in
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The intervention forces have successfully………..the rebels’ supplies
- A. cut in
- B. cut off
- C. cut up
- D. cut away
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
The two men……each other
- A. fell out for
- B. fell out with
- C. fell out from
- D. fell out on
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
No matter how much a bully tries to intimidate you just….him
- A. stand up before
- B. stand up against
- C. stand up to
- D. stand up for
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
with the recent police action we expect the high incidence of crime to ……….
- A. die down
- B. die away
- C. die off
- D. die up
From the words lettered A to E, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.The next nation league match will……sometime next month
- A. come in
- B. come along
- C. come about
- D. come off
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
I think she………her mother
- A. takes from
- B. takes after
- C. take to
- D. take for
After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.
we shall understand him better by and by. This means that we shall knows him better
- A. much later
- B. before long
- C. by getting closer to him
- D. without his realizing it
After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.
I am not going to say yes or no until you come out into the open. This means that I will give the answer until
- A. we both go outside
- B. we agree on a position
- C. you go outside
- D. you reveal your own position
After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.
Whenever you discuss nuclear physics Ali is in his elements. This means that Ali
- A. does not like nuclear physics
- B. hates people who disuss unclear physics
- C. enjoys discussing nuclear physics
- D. kowns that nuclear physics is difficult
After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.
Before all the election results were announced it was clear that the leader of the opposition was home and dry. This means that the leader of the opposition
- A. was very exhausted
- B. won the election
- C. lost the election
- D. has arrived home before the rain
After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.
In his last days in office, the ruler was behaving like a bull in China shop. This means that the ruler
- A. loved the bull because he brought it from China
- B. behaved in a manner that pleased the people
- C. did not want to leave office
- D. was acting in a manner unsuitable for his position