Advanced Level Grammar Exercise - MCQ Test 2

1. The report presents a general overview of the 7. In developing new collective defence policies,
problems that ------- when a disaster ------ a nation. America and her European allies will ------ be drawn
closer together ------ drift irreversibly apart.
A) would have been encountered / will hit
B) are encountered / will hit A) either / or
C) have been encountered / had hit B) not only / but also
D) had been encountered / was being hit C) so / that
E) will be encountered / hits D) both / and
E) just as / so
2. There have been some art critics who ------- in
depreciation of Van Gogh that he ------- a 8. Originally the sonnet was an Italian poetical form that
draughtsman all his life. attained great popularity in the Renaissance, and ----
it was natural, ----- not essential, for Shakespeare and
A) had maintained / has remained his contemporaries to use it.
B) have maintained / remained
A) while / though
C) were maintaining / had remained
B) since / however
D) maintained / would have remained
C) furthermore / rather than
E) will maintain / remains
D) already / even
3. The Romanian Privatisation Authority announced last
E) hence / if
week that Renault of France ------- to be the sole
bidder for a majority stake in the national car 9. The book of "A Thousand and One Nights" is a
company, Dacia, which ------- cheap cars for the collection of fascinating tales of the Orient, of Mixed
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domestic market. Indian, Persian, Arabic, and Egyptian origination, and

first ----- in Europe by Antoine Galland's French
A) would turn out / had made translation in the early eighteenth century.
B) has turned out / made
A) having known
C) would have turned out / is making
B) to know
D) is turning out / has made
C) to be known
E) might turn out / makes
D) made known
4. Fish farming in the world seems to be destined to
E) to be made known
expand, but it is ------- early to predict the likely
extent of growth in this field. 10. At the Brussels meeting over the last weekend
Madeleine Albright, The American secretary of State,
A) as well ------- her allies that future NATO missions ------- them
further afield, but not all over the world.
B) enough
C) too A) assures / is taking
D) as B) has assured / will have taken
E) so far C) assured / would take
5. Although the American writer Katherine Anne Porter D) had assured / took
used a variety of places ------- the setting of her short
E) was assuring / will take
stories and novels, she frequently came ------- to the
scenes of her early days. 11. They claim that their aim is to establish long term
cooperation ------- their customers ------ a basis of
A) through / over partnership and mutual trust.
B) within / in
A) for / over
C) for / back
B) with / on
D) without / for
C) by / through
E) under / up
D) from / in
6. British TV is still stuck ------- a regulatory structure
E) among / for
designed ------ a bygone age.

A) with / for
B) off / within
C) up / in
D) away / by
E) through / over

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12. In their discussions concerning the proposed defence 17. It won’t be easy to find a replacement for him, for
strategies, NATO diplomats found they could not ------- takes over is likely to meet the same fate.
agree ------- what the alliance was ----, what weapons
it would threaten to use and in what circumstances. A) what
B) which
A) on / for
C) wherever
B) about / into
D) whoever
C) with / over
E) whichever
D) by / about
18. The majority of ------- are apprehensive about new
E) before / through
computer programmes until we’ve actually tried
13. The collapse of Rome left ------- its wake a large them out for -------.
variety of ethnic communities ------- which modern
European states emerged. A) him / himself
B) us / ourselves
A) before / of
C) them / themselves
B) at / through
D) ours / us
C) over / by
E) theirs / ours
D) in / from
19. The history of the Venetian Republic ------- to an end
E) within / with
in 1797 when Venice ------- over to Austria by
14. Marxism ------- an important movement in Britain Napoleon.
even though it ------- its origin here.
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A) was coming / would have been handed

A) would never have been / takes B) came / was handed
B) had never been / would take C) had come / has been handed
C) never was / has taken D) comes / had been handed
D) would never be / would have taken E) would come / was being handed
E) has never been / took
20. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently
15. Germany’s weight in the European Union is known, detained in Britain ------- in prison with no right of
------- what is not known, even to the Germans appeal, even though the vast majority ------- with any
themselves, is ------- they are to use it. offence, let alone convicted.

A) but / how A) were held / are not charged

B) in case / because B) are being held / have not been charged
C) unless / why C) have been held / would not be charged
D) lest / until D) being held / had not been charged
E) otherwise / where E) will be held / were not being charged
16. Edward Gibbon’s great book The History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire informs us
------- mankind’s predilection for faction, augmented
by environmental and cultural differences, is -------
determines history.

A) why / that
B) as / whereby
C) that / what
D) how / whoever
E) so that / whatever

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Answer Key:

1: E 11: B
2: B 12: A
3: E 13: D
4: C 14: E
5: C 15: A
6: A 16: C
7: A 17: D
8: E 18: B
9: D 19: B
10: C 20: B

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