Advanced Level Grammar Exercise – MCQ Test 2

The report presents a general overview of the problems that ------- when a disaster ------ a nation.

There have been some art critics who ------- in depreciation of Van Gogh that he ------- a draughtsman all his life.

The Romanian Privatisation Authority announced last week that Renault of France ------- to be the sole bidder for a majority stake in the national car company, Dacia, which ------- cheap cars for the domestic market.

Fish farming in the world seems to be destined to expand, but it is ------- early to predict the likely extent of growth in this field.

Although the American writer Katherine Anne Porter used a variety of places ------- the setting of her short stories and novels, she frequently came ------- to the scenes of her early days.

British TV is still stuck ------- a regulatory structure designed ------ a bygone age.

In developing new collective defence policies, America and her European allies will ------ be drawn closer together ------ drift irreversibly apart.

Originally the sonnet was an Italian poetical form that attained great popularity in the Renaissance, and ---- it was natural, ----- not essential, for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to use it.

The book of "A Thousand and One Nights" is a collection of fascinating tales of the Orient, of Mixed Indian, Persian, Arabic, and Egyptian origination, and first ----- in Europe by Antoine Galland's French translation in the early eighteenth century.

At the Brussels meeting over the last weekend Madeleine Albright, The American secretary of State, ------- her allies that future NATO missions ------- them further afield, but not all over the world.

They claim that their aim is to establish long term cooperation ------- their customers ------ a basis of partnership and mutual trust.

In their discussions concerning the proposed defence strategies, NATO diplomats found they could not agree ------- what the alliance was ----, what weapons it would threaten to use and in what circumstances.

The collapse of Rome left ------- its wake a large variety of ethnic communities ------- which modern European states emerged.

Marxism ------- an important movement in Britain even though it ------- its origin here.

Germany’s weight in the European Union is known, ------- what is not known, even to the Germans themselves, is ------- they are to use it.

Edward Gibbon’s great book The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire informs us ------- mankind’s predilection for faction, augmented by environmental and cultural differences, is ------- determines history.

It won’t be easy to find a replacement for him, for ------- takes over is likely to meet the same fate.

The majority of ------- are apprehensive about new computer programmes until we’ve actually tried them out for -------.

The history of the Venetian Republic ------- to an end in 1797 when Venice ------- over to Austria by Napoleon.

More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently detained in Britain ------- in prison with no right of appeal, even though the vast majority ------- with any offence, let alone convicted.