1. The city is now crowded with people who ... for employment.
A. are looking B. is looking C. look D. were looking 2. What ... when I phoned last night?
A. you were doing B. did you do C. were you doing D. you doing 3. It is 10 p.m. I ... for two hours.
A. am studying B. was studying C. studied D. have been studying 4. I ... a very good programme on TV last night.
A. saw B. see C. see D. was seeing 5. While I ... this morning, I lost my money. I don't know how.
A. shopped B. was shopping C. am shopping D. shopping
6. Last week the police ... Alan in his car because he ... at over eighty miles an hours.
A. stoped/ drove B. was stopping/ driving C. stopped/ was driving D. stopped/ drove
7. What's that smell? - Something ... in the kitchen.
A. are burnt B. are burning C. burns D. is burning 8. He ... thirty cigarettes a day.
A. smoke B. smoked C. is smoking D. smokes 9. He spends two hours a day ... the piano.
A. to practise B. practise C. practising D. practised 10. If we don't stop ... down trees, forests ...
A. to cut/ will disappear B. cutting/ disappear
C. cutting/ would disappear D. cutting/ will disappear 11. He often ... to the zoo on Sunday when he was a boy.
A. goes B. was going C. went D. is going
12. I don't know Carol's husband. I ... him.
A. never meet B. never have met C. never met D. have never met 13. Hello, Susan. Is Alan here? - No. I'm afraid, he ... out.
A. goes B. went C. going D. has gone
14. What is ... at the cinema tonight?
A. at B. on C. for D. in
15. We saw her ... football in the schoolyard.
A. to play B. play C. is playing D. playing 16. This town is famous ... its beautiful resort.
A. as B. in C. for D. at
17. I'm sorry ... breaking the disk.
A. about B. for C. in D. of 18. I liked T-shirt ... he was wearing.
A. which B. that C. who D. whose 19. You ... better be careful not to miss the train.
A. would B. had C. should D. did 20. I've never eaten this food before.
A. It's the first time I've eaten this food.
B. It's the most tasty food I've ever eaten.
C. I've never eaten such a good food before.
D. The food is so good that I've never eaten before.
21. It was ... to see him again.
A. wonder B. wonderful C. wonderfully D. more wonder 22. People are ... to discover an intelligent life on the other planets.
A. liking B. liked C. unlike D. unlikely 23. If they knew the danger, they would it ...
A. differ B. differently C. different D. difference 24. ..., he didn't get an accident.
A. Lucky B. Unlucky C. Luckily D. Luckyly
25. If we find out the remedy, we would save thousands of people's lives and bring ... to many people.
A. happy B. happyness C. happily D. happiness
26. The leading causes of ... in many developing countries are now heart disease.
A. die B. dead C. deadth D. deadly
27. Smoking cigarette is ... to our heath.
A. harm B. harmful C. harmless D. unharm 28. English has become an ... language in many countries.
A. office B. officer C. official D. officially 29. Fresh air is of great ... to our health.
A. use B. useful C. useless D. disused 30. ... is better than the cure.
A. Prevent B. Preventing C. Prevention D. To prevent 31. Lack of ... would lead to the rapid advance of the process of extinction.
A. to attend B. attending C. attention D. attendance
32. Many wild animals are in ... of extinction.
A. dangerous B. danger C. endanger D. dangerously 33. Bacterial are very ... to our life.
A. help B. helped C. helpful D. helpless 34. Some people are ... in animals than in other people.
A. more interest B. more interesting C. interest D. more interested 35. The lesson this year are longer and more difficult than ... of last year.
A. lessons B. that C. these D. those
36. There ... a lot of changes in the past few years.
A. has been B. was C. were D. have been
37. Can you tell me what time ...?
A. did they arrive B. they did arrive C. they arriving D. they arrived 38. I'll phone you when I ... in Paris.
A. arriving B. arrive C. am arriving D. will arrive 39. Who is it?
A. It's she B. She's Marry C. It's Marry D. I'm Marry 40. New Zealand is a/ an ... country.
A. speak English B. English spoken C.speaking English D. English speaking II- Read the following passage and choose A, B, C, or D to fill in the gaps:
Five thousand (41) gathered in a demonstration in front of Parliament House to (42) the increase in the price of wheat export.
Most of them were (43) the North Eastern part of the country (44) has just been hit heavily by the snow fall.
Mr Naruan, Head of the Wheat Growers' Union of the area (45) our reporter that if the government had agreed to increase the price of wheat export and lowered the price of machine import, the farmers' life (46) not have been so hard (47) also said due to the government's policy, hundreds of farmers were prepared to (48) the country- farming area in the country (49) abandoned. Dairy farming would (50) the same problem.
41. A. workers B. farmers C. teachers D. doctors
42. A. ask B. demanding C. demand D. demanded
43. A. at B. from C. on D. for
44. A. which B. who C. whose D. where
45. A. said B. spoke C. tell D. told
46. A. will B. can C. would D. had
47. A. he B. they C. it D. she
48. A. left B. leaving C. leave D. go
49. A. be B. is C. was D. were
50. A. to face B. facing C. faced D. face