Choosing the word or phrase from A to E which has the same meaning as the underlined word or words in each sentence:
Writing for newspaper is exciting and lucrative especially when one is a freelance journalist
- A. a forthright
- B. an eloquent
- C. an unattached
- D. a political
- E. a convincing
Complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
I started writing this test at 8 : 00 a.m It is 10 : 00 a.m now. By 11 : 00 a.m. I …. it for three hours
- A. shall be writing
- B. have been writing
- C. shall have been writing
- D. am writing
- E. was writing
Complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Will they sign any contracts at the Fair? They will not only sign the contracts but a lot of goods …. as well
- A. will buy
- B. to buy
- C. they buy
- D. they bought
- E. will be bought
Complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Shall we go to the union meeting? No thank you, i do not feel like …. anywhere
- A. go
- B. going
- C. to go
- D. to have gone
- E. went
Complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
He reported to his manager that he …. overseas
- A. had never been
- B. never was
- C. has never been
- D. is never
- E. will never be
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
…. a lot of arguments for and against car loans in the press recently
- A. There are
- B. There has been
- C. There have been
- D. There is
- E. There was
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
I …. to gain admission to the college for the past three years
- A. have been trying
- B. tried
- C. am trying
- D. was trying
- E. try
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Don’t study on the examination day? What did he tell you? He told me …. on the examination day
- A. no studying
- B. don't study
- C. not study
- D. not to study
- E. to not study
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Could i ring him up? I’d rather you ….
- A. visit him
- B. visited him
- C. would visit him
- D. visiting him
- E. will visit him
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
He acts …. he were a general manager
- A. as
- B. if
- C. as if
- D. so as
- E. that
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
Many goods …. tape recorders and cameras find a ready market in every country
- A. like
- B. such a
- C. such as
- D. such
- E. as
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
He told me to go on …. till seven
- A. to work
- B. worked
- C. works
- D. working
- E. work
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
They said that ….about 20 candidates for the job of a shorthand typist
- A. they were
- B. it will be
- C. there were
- D. it was
- E. there are
complete the sentences with the correct options from the list below:
…. listening to the news when i came in
- A. There were
- B. There was
- C. It was
- D. There are going to be
- E. They were
Must you always …. lies? Why don’t you …. the truth for once
- A. speak
- B. say
- C. talk
- D. tell
- E. utter
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
You should make an ….. to improve the situation
- A. effect
- B. efficiency
- C. effectiveness
- D. effort
- E. effectualness
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
I am afraid you cannot use this telephone; it is ….
- A. out of order
- B. in order
- C. for order
- D. at order
- E. with order
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
You have been absent from classes for four months. How can you …. for the lost time
- A. make in
- B. make up
- C. make off
- D. make out
- E. make over
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
I am a student and …. Musa. I left for the university, and …. Musa
- A. was, does
- B. so is, so did
- C. so was, so does
- D. he is , he did
- E. so he is, so he went
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
I am travelling by the 6:30 train tomorrow morning. Will you …. me ….?
- A. see/off
- B. look/up
- C. take/down
- D. see/to
- E. put/up
Choose the best option to fill the gaps in the following sentences:
Why does a flamingo stand on one leg? Because if it lifted the other one, it would ….
- A. go down
- B. let down
- C. fall down
- D. come down
- E. get down