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enData snatchers: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
Joselow was getting ready to bang out a newspaper story when the invisible intruder (1)_________ Joselow, a financial reporter, had carefully slipped a disk holding (2) _________ worth of notes and interviews into one of the newsroom computers when the machine's familiar whir (3) _________ by a sharp, high-pitched beep. Each time she tried to call a file to the screen, the warning disk error flashed instead. It was as if the contents of her floppy disk (4) _________ .
The detective work began immediately. Engineer Peter Scheidler examined the disk's contents (5) _________ , he began peering into (6) _________ of the disk's 360 concentric rings of data.
Suddenly he spotted something (7) _________ gave him a chill.There, (8) _________ out amid a stream of random letters and numbers, was the name and phone number of a Pakistani computer store and a message that read, in part: welcome to the dungeon ... contact us for vaccination.
Joselow (9) _________ by a pernicious virus. Not the kind that causes measles, mumps or the Shanghai flu, but a special strain of software virus, a small but (10) _________ program that lurks in the darkest recesses of a computer waiting for an opportunity(11) _________ to life. The computer virus that struck Joselow had been hiding in the memory of the newspaper's machine and had copied itself onto her data disk, (12) _________ its contents and turning the reporter's words and sentences into electronic confetti.
Time (AmE)
| # | A | B | C | D |
| 1 | struck | stroke | strike | had stricken |
| 2 | six months | six months' | six’s months' | six month’s |
| 3 | piercing | was piercing | was pierced | pierced |
| 4 | vanished | was vanished | has vanished | had vanished |
| 5 | line by a line | the line by the line | a line by a line | line by line |
| 6 | every | another | each | one |
| 7 | as | that | which | who |
| 8 | be stood | standing | was standing | stood |
| 9 | had been stricken | stricken | were stricken | striking |
| 10 | deadly | dead | death | dying |
| 11 | to be spurng | to spring | sprung | springing |
| 12 | scrambled | was scrambling | scrambling | to scramble |
1.A; 2.B; 3.C; 4.D; 5.D; 6.C; 7.B; 8.B; 9.A; 10.A; 11.B; 12.C
