Level B lesson 11
Posted in January 14th, 2009
by admin in English Test Level B
1. Could you ________ me ten pounds until next payday?
D
(A) let
(B) provide
(C) borrow
(D) lend
2. Many kinds of ________ animals are disappearing or
have already disappeared from the earth.
B
(A) brave
(B) wild
(C) unfriendly
(D) angry
3. I ________ away for the next weekend.
A
(A) am going to go
(B) go
(C) goes
(D) had
4. She told him that if he ________ his promise, she
________ speak to him again.
D
(A) break - would never
(B) break - will never
(C) broke - will never
(D) broke - would never
5. They claimed they ________ the law.
B
(A) haven’t broken
(B) were not breaking
(C) hadn’t braken
(D) wouldn’t breaking
6. I wish that we ________ with my brother when he flies
to England next week.
A
(A) could go
(B) had gone
(C) will go
(D) are going
7. The man who was driving the truck would not admit that
he had been at fault, and ________.
B
(A) neither the other driver
(B) neither would the other driver
(C) neither had the other driver
(D) the other driver neither
8. John Kenedy was ________ of the United States.
B
(A) the thirty-five president
(B) the thirty-fifth president
(C) the president thirty-fifth
(D) president the thirty-five
9. Even when his reputation was in eclipse, almost
everyone ________ that he had genius.
A
(A) was willing to admit
(B) denied vehemently
(C) refused to acknowledge
(D) swore on a stack of Bibles
10. When he heard the terrible noise he asked me what
was ________ on.
D
(A) happening
(B) being
(C) getting
(D) going
11. Do you ________ my turning the television on now?
A
(A) mind
(B) disapprove
(C) want
(D) object
12. You’re really old-fashioned. It’s time you got more
________ it.
A
(A) with
(B) at
(C) on
(D) through
13. They fooled me totally. They pulled the ________ over
my eyes.
D
(A) snake
(B) eel
(C) egg
(D) wool
14. Too many undergraduates think it is easy to ________
a job once they leave university. Unfortunately, jobs for
graduates are getting scare. Finding a suitable one is
another problem.
A
(A) obtain
(B) attain
(C) collect
(D) apply
15. Everything about her is borrowed, temporary, unstable
________.
A
(A) as a soap bubble
(B) as a book of verse
(C) like her clothing
(D) with no regret
16. The trunk of a tree or stalk of a plant is called the
________.
B
(A) branch
(B) stem
(C) root
(D) leave
17. I hope you don’t mind ________ to come and meet
her.
C
(A) to be asked
(B) you were asked
(C) being asked
(D) we asked you
18. Look at these two pieces of material I have just
bought. Which do you like ________?
A
(A) better
(B) more than
(C) best
(D) most
19. What pretty ________ earrings you are wearing, Anna!
B
(A) small
(B) little
(C) tiny
(D) minor
20. They claimed they ________ the law.
B
(A) haven’t broken
(B) were not breaking
(C) hadn’t braken
(D) wouldn’t breaking