Advanced English Grammar Test – Multiple-choice Test 17

Choose the correct letter a, b or c.

1   That fruit salad was so good. The apples were particularly … .

a) delicious

b) flavored

c) tasteful

2   We haven’t … this room for years.

a) decorate

b) decorated

c) decoration

3   This property is … a lot of money.

a) valued

b) priced

c) worth

4   The gas from the factory was extremely … .

a) harmful

b) harmless

c) harmfully

5   The professor … them the answer to the question.

a) said

b) told

c) explained

6   She … when I arrived.

a) should sleep

b) sleeps

c) was sleeping

7   I have been in Spain … the beginning of March.

a) since

b) for

c) at

8   Although we argued with him for a long time, he kept his ground.

a) changed his decision

b) refused to change his decision

c) felt sorry for us

9   Tom and Steven were hurt in the last match, so … can play today.

a) neither of them

b) either one of them

c) both of them

10   We sat in the classroom, … to our teacher.

a) listened

b) listen

c) listening

11   This is an important commercial and industrial centre … the coast.

a) along

b) on

c) at

12   Put the ice-cream in the … please.

a) frozen

b) freezing

c) freezer

13   He admitted that his cruel joke was … .

a) intentional

b) intention

c) unintentional

14   The man steals … he doesn’t have enough money to buy food.

a) if

b) because

c) unless

15   I wish you a very happy … .

a) retiring

b) retire

c) retirement

16   There was nothing we could do … leave the car at the roadside where it had broken down.

a) but

b) unless

c) than

17   They don’t like him. Thomas always carries … with the girls.

a) off

b) on

c) out

18   The group is concerned about the … of the natural environment.

a) conservator

b) conservation

c) conservatory

19   She is one of those who … money.

a) enjoy spending

b) enjoys to spend

c) enjoy to spend

20   … you run fast, you are likely to miss the bus.

a) Since

b) When

c) Unless

21   … of my friends, I would like to wish you a happy honeymoon.

a) On behalf

b) In place

c) On account

22   Steve was my close friend … I was a child.

a) until

b) during

c) when

23   In her … she was a respected athlete.

a) younger

b) youth

c) young

24   The best animals in the show were the … tigers.

a) danced

b) dancers

c) dancing

25   I find that book very … .

a) amusing

b) amusingly

c) amused

26   She looks beautiful but she … to be a opium addict.

a) turned out

b) turned off

c) turned into

27   … has it been since you left this city?

a) How long

b) How often

c) How

28   He was one of the greatest thinkers … history.

a) by

b) into

c) in

29   The child was only eight, but he ate ... his father did.

a) much than

b) more that

c) as much as

30   You must remember … tomorrow.

a) turn your assignment in

b) to turn in your assignment

c) turning in your assignment