This exercise is an advanced level multiple choice test with multiple choice questions on passive voice including the topics below.
Passive Voice
- Present Passive
- Past Passive
- Passive Voice with Modals
- Stative Passives (With Prepositions)
Passive Voice Test Exercises - Multiple Choice Questions With Answers - Advanced Level 26
Question 1 |
When you arrive at the place you ____ by our men. They will take you to the exact place.
A | will meet |
B | will be met |
C | are met |
D | meet |
E | are going to meet |
Question 2 |
My little brother ____ a ticket before we went to the cinema.
A | is given |
B | had been given |
C | has been given |
D | will be given |
E | would be given |
Question 3 |
There isn't any ice cream in the refrigerator now. It ____ all ____.
A | was / been eaten |
B | has / eaten |
C | has / been eaten |
D | had / eaten |
E | had / been eaten |
Question 4 |
Since his death, John Milton's poems ____ translated into several languages.
A | was |
B | has been |
C | have been |
D | were |
E | had been |
Question 5 |
You are the one ____ at because either you don't hear me or you pretend so.
A | is to be shouted |
B | shouting |
C | shout |
D | be shouted |
E | to be shouted |
Question 6 |
The Prime Minister ____ about every particular detail per every five minutes during the operation by the team.
A | informed |
B | have informed |
C | having been informed |
D | is to be informed |
E | is informing |
Question 7 |
As you knew everything about the deep government, you ____ before that TV programme.
A | are informed |
B | were informed |
C | should be informed |
D | are being informed |
E | must have been informed |
Question 8 |
He is known to ____ for the mafia for a long time.
A | worked |
B | be worked |
C | having been worked |
D | have worked |
E | work |
Question 9 |
Nothing ____ if the wisest man proclaims his wisdom in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
A | has accomplished |
B | can accomplish |
C | must be accomplished |
D | has been accomplished |
E | will have accomplish |
Question 10 |
Freedom of speech ____ best ____ by having in mind the picture of an assembly where opposing views ____.
A | has ... conceived / have represented |
B | can be ... conceived / represent |
C | is ... conceived / are represented |
D | may ... conceive / represent |
E | may be ... conceived / are representing |
Question 11 |
When I have discussed this kind of device with housewives, some 90 per cent of them have the immediate reaction, “How soon can I buy one?” The other ten per cent have the reaction, “I would ____ to have it moving about my house”— but when one explains to them that it could be switched off or unplugged or stopped without the slightest difficulty, or made to go and put itself away in a cupboard at any time, they quickly realise that it is a highly desirable object.
A | terrify |
B | be terrifying |
C | have terrified |
D | be terrified |
E | have been terrifying |
Question 12 |
He doesn't speak in order to speak. His advice ____ attention when he speaks.
A | might pay |
B | could have paid |
C | should have paid |
D | must be paid |
E | may be paid |
Question 13 |
The germs, microbes, the minute organisms which could ____ only through the most powerful microscopes, breed a life of their own and are able ____ the living tissues infected by them.
A | see / to be destroyed |
B | be seen / to destroy |
C | have been seen / to have destroyed |
D | be seen / to be destroying |
E | see / to destroy |
Question 14 |
A famous scientist, Lister ____ marvellously in the field of observation by the books he had read.
A | prepared |
B | has prepared |
C | to be prepared |
D | prepares |
E | was prepared |
Question 15 |
The essayist ____ man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he ____ about, everything that ____ to him, is of general interest.
A | is a self - liberate / thinks / happens |
B | is a self - liberate / is thought / happens |
C | is a self - liberated / thinks / happens |
D | is a self - liberated / is thought / is happened |
E | is a self - liberating / thinks / is happened |
Question 16 |
A great deal of research ____ to find a cure for cancer, but so far no perfect cure ____.
A | has to be done / is found |
B | need have been done / is to be found |
C | has been done / has been found |
D | was done / was found |
E | is being done / is being found |
Question 17 |
There are no English books on the shelves now. They ____ all ____ to the new library.
A | were / taken |
B | had / been taken |
C | have / been taken |
D | had / taken |
E | have / taken |
Question 18 |
He is known to ____ five people in the war four years ago.
A | be killed |
B | have been killed |
C | be killing |
D | kill |
E | have killed |
Question 19 |
Have you reminded the receptionist that you want ____ at 7 o'clock?
A | to wake |
B | to have awaken |
C | to have been awakened |
D | to be awaken |
E | to have awakened |
Question 20 |
You said you went to the office last Thursday but I found out that you ____ at the cinema.
A | will be seen |
B | saw |
C | would be seen |
D | have seen |
E | were seen |
Question 21 |
"Is this the police station? I am phoning from my car. I ____ by a car for the last twenty minutes.
A | was followed |
B | am followed |
C | am being followed |
D | have been followed |
E | have been following |
Question 22 |
The Prime Minister claimed that inflation ____ to 10 % in two years' time.
A | is going to be reduced |
B | would be reduced |
C | will be reduced |
D | has been reduced |
E | would have been reduced |
Question 23 |
The number of universities ____ to ____.
A | is expected / increase |
B | expected / be increased |
C | has expected / to increase |
D | was expected / be increasing |
E | is expected / to be increased |
Question 24 |
I think that man needs ____ ; he killed two people in the past because he was driving drunk, and this time he killed four for the same reason.
A | execute |
B | to execute |
C | to be executing |
D | to be executed |
E | to have executed |
Question 25 |
I want the reports ____ in by tomorrow morning.
A | to hand |
B | to be handed |
C | to have handed |
D | to be handing |
E | being handed |
Question 26 |
"Have you seen my watch?"
"It ____ by Tom since he had a math exam this morning and his watch was broken."
A | need to be borrowed |
B | may be borrowed |
C | will be borrowed |
D | must have borrowed |
E | must have been borrowed |
Question 27 |
By this time tomorrow, certain results of the elections ____ by the government officials.
A | are to have declared |
B | will have been declared |
C | is having been declared |
D | have been declared |
E | are going to have declared |
Question 28 |
The genius student ____ unhappy since he found the explanations to his problems unsatisfactory.
A | seemed to be |
B | was seemed |
C | seems to have been |
D | has been seemed |
E | is seemed to be |
Question 29 |
The proper working of the machine which ____ by the polluted water has slowed down recently.
A | affected |
B | has affected |
C | was affected |
D | was to affect |
E | to be affected |
Question 30 |
The impact of the bomb explosion ____ by many people who lived around.
A | is being felt |
B | was felt |
C | felt |
D | has been feeling |
E | has to be felt |
Question 31 |
David: Why didn't Terry attend the meeting yesterday?
Daisy: I don't know. He ____ to.
A | was not to be told |
B | may not have been told |
C | has been told not |
D | couldn't told to be |
E | should be told |
Question 32 |
To me, in order to deal with problems easily, a problem-solving centre ____ immediately.
A | was established |
B | has to establish |
C | has been established |
D | should be established |
E | must have established |
Question 33 |
Find the sentence with the same meaning. It is said that the government has introduced a new working act.
A | The government is said to have introduced a new working act. |
B | It is said that the government has been introduced a new working act. |
C | The government said that it has introduced a new working act. |
D | It is said that a new working act has been introduced to the government. |
E | It is said that a new working act will be introduced by the government. |
Question 34 |
Find the sentence with the same meaning.
It is said that the manager will let some workers go abroad to learn a foreign language.
A | It is said that some workers will be let go abroad to learn a foreign language. |
B | The manager is said to let some workers go abroad to learn a foreign language. |
C | The manager is said to be let go abroad to learn a foreign language. |
D | It is said that some workers will let go abroad to learn a foreign language. |
E | Some workers said that they will let the manager go abroad to learn a foreign language. |
Question 35 |
You are supposed to be working at this time of the day, aren't you?
A | People say you work at this time of the day. |
B | You should be working now, but you aren't. |
C | Why don't you work some time during the day? |
D | You are said to work during the whole day. |
E | You aren't allowed to work at this time during the day. |
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