Advanced Level Grammar Exercise - MCQ Test 11
Question 1 |
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 |
Question 2 |
Studies of the survivors of the atomic bomb blasts and radiation accidents have --------- demonstrated the leukemogenic effect of radiation.
A | reluctantly |
B | properly |
C | sensitively |
D | unmistakably |
E | understandably |
Question 3 |
Malnutrition and undernutrition are not ------- to the Third World; they also occur in affluent societies.
A | exposed |
B | permitted |
C | restricted |
D | disposed |
E | convinced |
Question 4 |
In the past 25 years, new knowledge about cancer has led to changes in dietary --------- for the public.
A | disorders |
B | admissions |
C | obligations |
D | obsessions |
E | recommendations |
Question 5 |
Biotechnology offers opportunities to improve the quality and --------- value of foods.
A | nutritional |
B | conditional |
C | collective |
D | deceptive |
E | complacent |
Question 6 |
Our paediatrician said we should always --------- her if the little boy’s temperature continued for more than 24 hours.
A | come across |
B | get in touch with |
C | look forward to |
D | make up to |
E | look into |
Question 7 |
Only after a great deal of pressure had been --------- the registrar did he agree to give up the recovery ward in favour of a second operating theatre.
A | weighed up |
B | taken to |
C | put on |
D | brought down |
E | turned over |
Question 8 |
He claims he has --------- a cure for the common cold, but I don’t suppose he has.
A | waited for |
B | made sure of |
C | put through |
D | taken care of |
E | come up with |
Question 9 |
Over morphological lesions are relatively late manifestations of nutritional disorder and may be preceded --------- long periods of time --------- functional deficits.
A | through / to |
B | in / from |
C | for / by |
D | over / for |
E | at / through |
Question 10 |
If Julie --------- herself like that while we were away, she --------- from anorexia nervosa today.
A | hasn’t starved / wouldn’t suffer |
B | didn’t starve / isn’t suffering |
C | hadn’t starved / wouldn’t be suffering |
D | wouldn’t starve / won’t be suffering |
E | wasn’t starving / isn’t suffering |
Question 11 |
Health Watch, which, initially at least, --------- by pharmaceutical companies, --------- an aggressive campaign against natural medicines.
A | was financed / is waging |
B | had financed / was waging |
C | has been financed / had waged |
D | was being financed / had been waging |
E | will be financed / would wage |
Question 12 |
From time to time, many different theories of heredity ---------, only some of which --------- valid now.
A | had been advanced / had been |
B | were advanced / would be |
C | are advanced / were |
D | have been advanced / are |
E | will be advanced / would be |
Question 13 |
It would be foolish of them not --------- genetic advice as their first child was abnormal.
A | to seek |
B | having sought |
C | to have sought |
D | seeking |
E | being sought |
Question 14 |
The students who ------- a top grade in pharmacology were admitted to postgraduate studies.
A | have received |
B | had received |
C | receive |
D | will receive |
E | are receiving |
Question 15 |
Depression could be one of the fastest-growing ailments of the 21st century, --------- young and unmarried people most --------- risk.
A | about / in |
B | for / from |
C | through / of |
D | of / on |
E | with / at |
Question 16 |
Unfortunately, adults don’t usually offer early adolescents --------- warm indulgence and social protection than they provided a decade earlier.
A | too |
B | as much |
C | more |
D | the same |
E | such as |
Question 17 |
Many of my colleagues work with radiation, but they don’t seem to have been adversely affected by it, and ---------.
A | neither do I |
B | I have too |
C | neither was I |
D | nor was I |
E | nor did I |
Question 18 |
In Africa, the irresponsible sewage discharge of an exclusive hotel gradually put an end to the seafood harvest on --------- a local village depended for its livelihood.
A | that |
B | which |
C | what |
D | where |
E | whom |
Question 19 |
The inquiry into the foot and mouth epidemic will bring together veterinary scientists, virologists and epidemiologists --------- the representatives of the farming and consumer groups.
A | as well as |
B | such as |
C | especially |
D | as to as |
E | but for |
Question 20 |
Scientists wondered --------- Dolly, the cloned sheep, would live a normal life span --------- simply live out the remaining years of the sheep from which she had been cloned.
A | more / than |
B | so / that |
C | whether / or |
D | neither / nor |
E | just / as |
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