B2 English Grammar Test – Multiple-choice Test 13

1   You must decide and … up your mind.

a) get

b) do

c) make

2   What time do you … up in the morning?

a) take

b) get

c) do

3   At the moment we are trying to … for the town centre.

a) make

b) do

c) take

4   After they had shouted at each other, they decided to … it up.

a) make

b) do

c) get

5   They are good friends and … on well with each other.

a) make

b) take

c) get

6   The firm has expanded and they want to … on extra staff.

a) do

b) take

c) get

7   She is good at writing stories for children and is keen to … up new plots.

a) make

b) take

c) do

8   As I don’t have much money at the moment, I’ve decided to … without certain luxuries.

a) make

b) take

c) do

9   Today is when the new boss is going to … over.

a) get

b) take

c) make

10   All lines were destroyed in the storm last night and so it’s impossible to … through to anybody today.

a) take

b) get

c) make

11   He had two sons both of whom were not very … and avoided work if they could.

a) industry

b) industrial

c) industrious

12   One day the old man knew that he was dying and called his two sons to his bed … .

a) side

b) wall

c) corner

13   He wanted his son to pay as much … to the cultivation of the farm as he had done many years before.

a) care

b) thought

c) attention

14   She told him that there was a … treasure in the land.

a) unseen

b) hidden

c) obscured

15   He told them that they would find the basket in one of his 5 vine … .

a) areas

b) spaces

c) yards

16   They assured him that they would work hard to … out the treasure.

a) sort

b) find

c) seek

17   In the end their father died and been …

a) earthed

b) buried

c) confined

18   We worked hard and dug every single … meter of the land.

a) square

b) cube

c) block

19   However hard we worked, we … to find the smallest bit of treasure.

a) missed

b) lacked

c) failed

20   All the work they had done on the land ensured that they had the best … for years.

a) crop

b) production

c) yielding

21   Yesterday he … to an archeological site.

a) visited

b) go

c) went

22   The problems she has … the language are to do with spelling.

a) on

b) to

c) with

23   If I want to pass my exams, I … study very hard.

a) can

b) must

c) will

24   The … thing of all difficulties in a language is vocabulary.

a) bad

b) worse

c) worst

25   Ann has been … English for 7 years.

a) trying

b) studied

c) learning

26   When I walked there, I saw that the students were working very … .

a) hard

b) easy

c) hardly

27   Most people don’t want to study Latin because it is a … language.

a) old

b) dead

c) death

28   I’ve forgotten the name of my teacher but I think it is something like … .

a) Brown

b) john

c) smith

29   What is the name of the … you put tea into?

a) think

b) thinking

c) thing

30   I … a lot of presents for my birthday.

a) became

b) got

c) become