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enGold: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
Since civilization began, gold (1) _________ as a symbol of power and wealth. Gold was seen as a magic substance which could protect people (2) _________illness or evil spirits. It is the one material that (3) _________in exchange for goods or services. Humanity never seems to have enough gold, and the search for it has driven people (4) _________. The need to search for gold has been compared to a disease, and (5) _________‘gold fever’. In (6) _________Middle Ages people called ‘alchemists’ (7) _________to manufacture gold from other metals. In spite of the constant search for gold, the (8) _________which has been produced since the beginning of time is only enough to make a solid block of eighteen cubic meters, the size of a large house.
(9) _________gold is untarnishable, workable, almost indestructible, durable, reflective, and conductive, it has a number of industrial uses. About 10% of the annual production (10) _________used for industrial processes.
Because it conducts electricity well and (11) _________, gold is used (12) _________in computers and electric consumer products.
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1 | has been regarded | has been regarding | has regarded | is regarded |
| 2 | from | upon | against | for |
| 3 | has been accepted | was accepted | is accepting | accepted |
| 4 | crazily | crazy | craziness | more crazily |
| 5 | been called | has called | is calling | is called |
| 6 | the | — | a | an |
| 7 | try | tried | were trying | had tried |
| 8 | volume | quality | amount | expanse |
| 9 | Because | However | Because of | Besides |
| 10 | was | be | are | is |
| 11 | not to tarnish | do not tarnish | does not tarnish | Is not tarnish |
| 12 | extensively | extensive | extend | extension |
1.A; 2.C; 3.A; 4.B; 5.D; 6.A; 7.B; 8.C; 9.A; 10.D; 11.C; 12.A
