Advanced Level Grammar Exercise – MCQ Test 5

In the 1960s, the modernist idea that there ------ only one authentic style for the modern age ----- in favour of the ideas of the plurality of styles.

When photography first appeared, some people predicted that it -------- the death of painting.

In the end, he admitted that he -------- the fire -------- at such a speed.

The name Adonis was given -------- a stream rising in Mount Lebanon which runs red -------- the soil of the hills after a sudden fall of rain.

In the Franco-Prussian war, balloons were used to maintain the city's contacts -------- the outside world ------- the siege of Paris.

The sustaining role of the family may go unappreciated ------- the younger members, but the older ones are fully aware -------- its value.

Wellington's abandonment of an attempt to make a Tory government was not -------- due to the threats of civil war -------- to Peel's refusal to join a Tory government.

Income tax can be fitted more closely to the individual taxpayer's ability than -------- tax.

The occupational psychologist is often regarded by industrialists as being-------- academic to serve any practical purpose.

In the works of many twentieth-century dramatists, it is possible to see ------- the individual writer's ideas and experience ------ some of the social and political developments of his period.

--------- Henri Toulouse Lautrec, a French painter who was happy to design posters and to illustrate books, many modern artists have found it necessary to supplement their incomes in various ways.

Many of the company's shareholders felt that such a drastic change in policy was unnecessary, and -------.

------- the past few decades South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong have achieved the fastest rates ------- economic growth the world has ever seen.

The works of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates commonly known as the "Hippocratic Collection", consist ------- about 70 works, ------- which only a relatively small number are possible by him.

------- the computerized Dutch auction system, the flower industry gets flowers into our homes when they are still ------- their best.

Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines ------- the fact that a larger proportion of the fuel used is burned.

The great bulk of industrial work nowadays involves the use of machines, and it is certain that mechanization will proceed ------ in the future.

Let's take the ferry to Bandırma from where it's only a short drive to Bursa, ------- driving all the way from Istanbul to Bursa.

Few things ------- unnerved the Spanish conquerors of the New World ------- the prospect of death on the Aztec sacrificial stone.

Some anthropologists think that man today is ------- honest -------- he was hundreds and thousands of years ago.