Advanced Level Grammar Exercise – MCQ Test 9

In 1906 at Bogazköy, several thousand cuneiform tablets ------- and most of them ------- now on exhibit in the Anatolian civilizations museum in Ankara.

One oil company, in particular, claims ------- its best to balance economic progress with environmental care and social responsibility.

Had it not been for the variety and flexibility of its trades, Huddersfield, like so many of the other textile towns, ------- into a decline in the 20th century.

------- the letters written by so many parents, the headmaster agreed not to expel the boys.

Henry VII's foreign policy was unheroic and unspectacular, ------- did he go to war and that was when he invaded France.

Bennett's novel “The Old Wives' Tale” is the one ------- he is likely to be best known by posterity.

Infectious diseases are those which are caused ------- an invasion of the body ------- organisms from outside.

He looked ------- nervously ------- his shoulder hoping that no one was paying him any attention.

We know nothing at all about the company's new chairman ------- that he's just had his fiftieth birthday.

------- wins will be expected to take the rest of us for a meal.

Today, ------- rapid transportation and communications, the whole world is becoming one community with common economic interests.

Of all the drugs that have been prescribed so far, this has proved to be ------- effective one.

Of course, nobody knows what the outcome of the election -------, but at the moment Malcolm ------- as the most likely candidate.

The doctors are of the opinion that if the disorder ------- a few months earlier, it ------- treated successfully.

He's certainly going to recommend that the changes in the structure of the company be introduced step by step, and -------.

Several members of the research team haven't handed in their reports yet, and I must admit I haven't ---------.

Acid rain only became a --------- environmental issue in the 1980s following groundbreaking studies in the 1970s.

Using the dam to generate power would not --------- the treaty with the neighbouring country, but diverting water out of the river.

The --------- that terrorists use the money from regions that finance them to their target country are often identical to those used by criminal gangs.

In the wake of yet another financial scandal, the chief accountant handed in his --------- to the director.