Prepositions Test Exercises – Multiple Choice Questions With Answers – Advanced Level 17

The last time we discussed the matter was ____ the 13th of May last year.

When I arrived ____ the airport, it was late so I decided to stay ____ a hotel.

It was so cold that I decided to wear a thick sweater ____ my coat.

I am very glad to be ____ my close friends again.

Some students earn a diploma ____ a career school - only to be left ____ in the cold because of additional standards they have not been informed ____ such as additional regulations.

When I was a small boy ____ Kansas, the Sunday school picnic was one of the major events ____ the calendar.

I held ____to the rope ____ every bit of strength I possessed.

Very early ____ the morning of June 29, a heavy mist settled directly ____ the wheatfield.

____ 6 a.m. the mist began to lift, revealing a remarkable pair of circles carved ____ the rocks.

Thoughts of climbing pricked me as I stepped ____ a tiny plane ____ to an airstrip ____ a remote Icelandic fishing village.

Built ____ a ruined ninth-century castle, the Alcazaba's towers loom protectively ____ the sultan's palaces.

My wife was ____ her way out to do shopping when she asked me to check the list she had written ____ a piece of paper.

We depend ____ oil and gas ____ nearly 3/4 ____ our energy requirement.

It's been eight years ____ the Arab oil embargo.

It will help take care ____ some ____ the increase ____ demand.

It's already too late to plan ____  additional nuclear plants ____ 1999.

It was a warm day ____ August when I first saw him ____ he jumped ____ a freight car at Campiglia Maritima, a busy railway station ____ Italy's main north-south Rome - Turin way.

____ a child born ____ undeveloped facial bones or other grotesque structural defects, the usual solution is to graft bone "harvested" ____ the patient's ribs or hips to the existing bone ____ the head.

The old man explained that he had taken care ____ the dog ____ one day he just disappeared.

You've been looking forward ____ the leisure of summer, ____ you have more time to spend relaxing ____ family and friends.

____ his efforts, Jack has been nominated ____ seven awards.

____ the past decade, U.S. executives watched almost help helplessly ____ their customers were snatched away ____ industrious Japanese competitors selling better products ____ lower prices.

The Japanese today look ____ what they regard ____ the poor quality ____ American products.

Recent research and therapeutic techniques are shedding light ____ the dark world ____ sleep disorders.

How has an over-populated island country (Japan) ____ less land than California leapt in only three and a half decades ____ wartime defeat to the status ____ high-technology dynamo?

The Mayans were skilful ____ mathematics. They could count ____ millions.

Land animals must often wander ____ searching ____ food.

Numerous rays of sunlight reflecting  ____ raindrops form a shining, curved rainbow.

The people were discovered sitting ____ a table where they had been eating a meal.

____ 1841, ____ several seasons ____ the road, Barnum heard that Scudder's American Museum on Broadway was ____ sale.