Grammar Test 1,  Grammar Test 2,  Grammar Test 3,  Grammar Test 4,  Grammar Test 5,    
Grammar Test 6,   Grammar Test 7,  Grammar Test 8,  Grammar Test 9,  Grammar Test 10

1. Though we still ________ a long way to go, a lot of ________ in developing now medical procedures to deal with diseased issue.

 

A) had had/had been accomplished

B) had/has been accomplished

C) have had/was accomplished

D) are having/was being accomplished

E) have/is being accomplished

Answer C

2. Soon customs officers ________ to use X-ray technology ________ cavities in vehicles for drugs.

 

A) have been able/having scanned

B) are able/scanned

C) were able/to be scanned

D) will be able/to scan

E) would have been able to/to have scanned

Answer D

3. As acqusation opportunuties within the EU________ less, western European energy companies ________ to turn eastwards in the hunt for expansion opportunites.

A) grow/are being forced
B) will grow/would have been forced
C) are growing/would be forced
D) have grown/had been forced

E) grew/have been forced

Answer C

4. If Britain ________ the euro, say in 2004, the stability pact ________ highly important.

A) will be joining/is becoming
B) has joined/will have become
C) will have joined/will become
D) would join/has become
E) were to join/would become

Answer E

5. Whatever else ________ the British Empire for so long, it was not Britain's education system.

A) was sustained
B) has sustained
C) sustains
D) sustained
E) to have sustained

Answer D

6. Professional tennis, which got its start in 1926 when the French player Suzanne Lenglen ________ 50,000 US dollars for a tour, only ________ full recognition in 1968.

A) had been paid / has received
B) was paid / received
C) has been paid / would receive
D) is paid / receives
E) would be paid / had received

Answer B

7.  Once the director ________ just how much was at stake, he ________ immediate steps to deal with the dispute.

A) realizes / will take
B) has realized / had taken
C) had realized / took
D) realized / takes
E) would realize / has taken

Answer C

8. The once radical notion that birds ________ from dinosaurs ________ stronger and stronger since palaeontologists first started taking it seriously a couple of decades ago.

A) descended / has grown
B) have descended / grew
C) had descended / had grown
D) descend / is growing
E) are descending / was growing

Answer A

9. Throughout his term in office, President Clinton ________ by allegations relating to the Whitewater real estate deal in which he and his wife, Hillary Clinton, ________ prior to the 1992 election.

A) is dogged / are involved
B) had been dogged / were involved
C) was dogged / had been involved
D) has been dogged / have been involved
E) was being dogged / may have been involved

Answer C

10. The essays taken together tell the story of how the US became an economic power ________ a scale unprecedented ________ history.

A) for / with
B) at / by
C) with / from
D) thought / at
E) on / in

Answer E

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