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.