GRAMMAR REVISION TEST 9

1. The problem with antiseptics is that _____ killing germs, they _____ kill the surrounding tissues.
A) far / from
B) so far as / too
C) as much as / both
D) besides / as well
E) as well as / also

2. Beethoven’s seventeen string quartettes hold _____ the same position in chamber music _____ his symphonies hold in the orchestral repertoire.
A) as / that
B) much / as
C) quite / whether
D) just / what
E) thus / than

3. Post offices don't have enough space to cope _____ the tremendous increase _____ demand for PO boxes.
A) with / in
B) on / of
C) up / for
D) for / upon
E) through / from

4. Even prior to the 1930's, Swedish banks played an important role _____ the financing _____ long-term industrial projects.
A) at / for
B) for / in
C) in / of
D) by / with
E) into / over

5. In Belgium, compensation _____ accidents at work and occupational illness is exclusively the concern _____ employers.
A) over / from
B) in / by
C) from / for
D) for / of
E) at / over

6. More than _____ invention of the last eighty years or so, television has been the most harmful to family life.
A) some other
B) another
C) the other
D) any more
E) any other

7. Our sales are down again this month, _____.
A) and they also are
B) and so are theirs
C) and neither are theirs
D) but theirs aren't either
E) but they are too

8. Several important ports, _____ export timber, are situated on the shores of the White Sea.
A) most of which
B) that many of them
C) those which
D) whichever of them
E) of which they

9. Once the occupying forces _____, many seemingly innocent people were accused of _____ with the enemy.
A) were leaving / to have been collaborated
B) were leaving /collaborated
C) have left / being collaborating
D) will leave / collaborating
E) had left / having collaborating

10. Although the metropolitan theatres _____ a monopoly there for a long time, recently several private theatres _____.
A) would hold / are being opened
B) had hold / had been opened
C) were holding / will be opened
D) held / have been opened
E) have held / were opened

11. In 1906 at Boğazköy, several thousand cuneiform tablets _____ and most of them _____ now on exhibit in the Anatolian civilizations museum in Ankara.
A) have been discovered / were
B) were discovered / are
C) have been discovered / had been
D) would have been discovered / are being
E) had discovered / have been

12. One oil company, in particular, claims _____ its best to balance economic progress with environmental care and social responsibility.
A) to be done
B) having done
C) doing
D) having been done
E) to have done

13. Had it not been for the variety and flexibility of its trades, Huddersfield, like so many of the other textile towns, _____ into a decline in the 20th century.
A) was going
B) had gone
C) would have gone
D) would go
E) had been gone

14. _____ the letters written by so many parents, the headmaster agreed not to expel the boys.
A) In response to
B) With reference to
C) In case of
D) Apart from
E) Pertaining to

15. Henry VII's foreign policy was unheroic and unspectacular, _____ did he go to war and that was when he invaded France.
A) this once
B) never before
C) once again
D) only once
E) once more

16. Bennett's novel “The Old Wives's Tale” is the one _____ he is likely to be best known by posterity.
A) whose
B) for whom
C) by which
D) in which
E) that

17. Infectious diseases are those which are caused _____ an invasion of the body _____ organisms from outside.
A) by / by
B) through / with
C) over / through
D) in / without
E) upon / within

18. He looked _____ nervously _____ his shoulder hoping that no one was paying him any attention.
A) out / of
B) up / through
C) back / over
D) down / from
E) in / for

19. We know nothing at all about the company's new chairman _____ that he's just had his fiftieth birthday.
A) since
B) instead
C) in case
D) on condition
E) except

20. _____ wins will be expected to take the rest of us for a meal.
A) Whoever
B) Who
C) Whomever
D) Whomsoever
E) Whatever

21. Today, _____ rapid transportation and communications, the whole world is becoming one community with common economic interests.
A) as long as
B) in spite of
C) just as
D) because of
E) such as

22. Of all the drugs that have been prescribed so far, this has proved to be _____ effective one.
A) most
B) the most
C) more
D) just as
E) the more

23. Of course nobody knows what the outcome of the election _____, but at the moment Malcolm _____ as the most likely candidate.
A) would have been / is being regarded
B) is / has been regarded
C) was / would have been regarded
D) will be / is regarded
E) has been / has been regarded

24. The doctors are of the opinion that if the disorder _____ a few months earlier, it _____ treated successfully.
A) had been diagnosed / could have been
B) were diagnosed / would be
C) has been diagnosed / will be
D) is being diagnosed / is being
E) were to be diagnosed / has been

25. He's certainly going to recommend that the changes in the structure of the company be introduced step by step, and _____.
A) so I am
B) so am I
C) so do I
D) I do, too
E) I also do