Advanced Level Grammar Exercise – MCQ Test 6

Until the eighteenth-century comparative linguistic studies did not progress ------- beyond the stage where ancient Greek and Roman grammarians had left them.

Julius Caesar ------- a great historian if the making of history ------- him the time and the inclination to write it.

Early in 1940, when Europe was already at war, Hitler ------- the sale of uranium from the Czech mines he ------- over.

Physics, as it ------- at the end of the nineteenth century, ------- to as classical physics.

Sometimes people select certain foods that they believe ------- their physical appearance and avoid those they believe ------- detrimental.

It is not unusual for advertising campaigns ------- even before the new products ------- onto the market.

Much health education in recent years ------- towards the view that heavy drinker ------- subject for amusement but for practical help.

Galileo originated the method of controlled experiment ------- now forms the basis of scientific investigation.

Unfortunately, the world's forest -------- at such a rate that the remaining tropical rainforests ------- by the middle of the century.

The continuing controversy -------- in 1924 by P. Hubble, who found that the great spiral nebula in Andromeda -------- Cepheid variables.

If weather forecasters -------- warnings of storms on time telecommunications companies -------- to take steps to protect their satellites.

Up to the present time, oceanographers ------ lots of seafloor mountains they -------- existed.

It was the first canal of the US artificial waterways built -------- the Great Lakes with sea.

Had she realised just how potentially dangerous her discovery was, she would surely have suppressed it, ------?

The prohibition -------- growing some sorts of plants without official permission prevents farmers -------- growing anything by any means.

------ what extent does her book deal ----- the problem of light pollution?

There is a discussion -------- sending a bacterium, genetically engineered to digest atomic wastes -------- a space shuttle to Mars.

The laboratory team endeavours ------ to generate power as efficiently and cheaply as possible, ----- to apply it economically.

Chemical industry in the world developed very quickly from 1935 ------, especially in the organic sector of the industry.

------- any outside impacts, certain chemical impurities would make such explosives unstable if they were kept in warm conditions.