Advanced Level Grammar Exercise – MCQ Test 18

In 1994, seven countries signed an accord, agreeing to guidelines designed to minimize the _____ of salmon farming on wild fish in the North Atlantic.

Had this 70 m.-long asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere, it could have _____ a large city.

India has dozens of half-completed water projects, not to mention a _____, centuries-old infrastructure of forgotten local water supply systems.

Researchers attending the World Water Forum in Kyoto last year argued that collecting and using water more _____ would lessen the need for more dams.

Apparently the drop in farm incomes had nothing to _____ the introduction of modern farming methods.

Most of our exposure to organic mercury _____ eating oily fish such as tuna.

Since the equator is the closest place _____ earth to the sun, the atmosphere _____ it absorbs the most solar energy.

Because the plateau was so far _____ sea level, when we finally reached it, we had difficulty _____ breathing.

My parents are taking me to the theatre this evening to _____ my being ill when they had a party last week.

It is important for people who lead an inactive life to _____ a sport like swimming or cycling.

Although it cannot be proven scientifically, presumably, the expansion of the universe will _____ as it approaches a critical radius.

Schizophrenia, a behavioural _____, may well be triggered by genetic predisposition, stress, drugs, or infections.

The phone call must have been about something urgent, considering how _____ the bewildered teacher left after it.

The cut on your leg looks very nasty. I genuinely recommend that you get _____ medical attention.

Calculus, an elegant and economical symbolic system, can _____ complex problems to simple terms.

I think Jack _____ moving to a quieter area when he _____ next summer.

Whereas in 1975 only one in every ten new enterprises _____ by a woman, in 1989 this figure _____ to one in three.

Although the scientific community had hoped that the field of transplantation _____, the shortage of organ donors has curtailed research.

_____ a small specimen of the embryonic fluid is removed from a fetus, it will be possible to determine whether the baby will be born with the birth defects.

Jane wasn’t actually feeling fit enough to work overtime; _____, she did it as she was in dire need of money.