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Grammar - Level C Test 70

in Level C

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

1. He has to go to Canada for the next ________ of his training.

A. step
B. stand
C. point
D. stage

2. You shouldn't call your superior ________ his first name.

A. in
B. with
C. by
D. under

3. The estate agent spent a ________ deal of time trying to persuade me to buy the house.

A. large
B. big
C. great
D. wide

4. If I had seen this film on TV, I ________ to the cinema to see it.

A. don't go
B. didn't go
C. wouldn't have gone
D. wouldn't go

5. I shall certainly act ________ your advice.

A. with
B. on
C. at
D. to

6. She was angry with me for breaking the plate, but it happened quite ________ accident.

A. in
B. by
C. with
D. on

7. I hope he's ________ to buy some bread; there's hardly any left.

A. reminded
B. proposed
C. suggested
D. remembered

8. I don't think I ________ this book ever before.

A. will read
B. would read
C. have read
D. read

9. Who does this book belong ________?

A. to
B. for
C. with
D. at

10. The police have not had time to complete their investigations, but they have concluded ________ that the explosion was caused by a bomb.

A. temporally
B. tenuously
C. tentatively
D. terminally

11. How much have you borrowed ________ me already?

A. of
B. off
C. on
D. from

12. Motorway traffic was ________ after a lorry overturned and spilt its load over the northbound carriageway.

A. diverged
B. digressed
C. deflected
D. diverted

13. Don't blame him ________ this; I am responsible for what has happened.

A. to
B. at
C. for
D. on

14. She was quite unprepared ________ the news.

A. for
B. to
C. at
D. on

15. Mary went shopping; ________ John did some gardening.

A. between
B. meanwhile
C. interval
D. time when

16. Although a solemn tone was appropriate to the seriousness of the occasion, the speaker lapsed into ________ which was depressing rather than moving.

A. reverence
B. frankness
C. levity
D. morbidity

17. I walked ________ Piccadilly Circus and then caught a bus.

A. until
B. as long as
C. as far as
D. till

18. They have ________ the old castle and it is now a luxury hotel.

A. transformed
B. undone
C. remade
D. constructed

19. He and I don't get on. We rub each other up the wrong ________.

A. back
B. way
C. here
D. teeth

20. "Dickie, pointing ________ people is rude," Betty told her son.

A. to
B. at
C. on
D. out