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enHeroic Failures: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
The least successful attempt to clear molehills
(1) _________ of the 10 large molehills that flourished on his lawn, Mr Oscar Ejiamike decided (2) _________ them. After a vigorous campaign of bombing, gassing and waiting round in the dark with a (3) _________ shovel, he found that the 10 molehills survived intact. There were also 22 new ones.
At this point our man decided to 'surprise the moles' with a midnight (4) _________ raid. (5) _________ May 1984 he drove his Jaguar 2.4 automatic to the edge of the lawn and trained the headlamps upon the enemy zone. While (6) _________ across for the poison, Mr Ejiamike knocked the car into reverse and accelerated (7) _________ the wall of his cottage, knocking over the electric heater, bursting his petrol tanks, setting fire to his (8) _________ sitting room, and (9) _________ his car.
While this certainly surprised the moles, it had (10) _________ the 32 molehills. Next morning Mr Ejiamike bought 22 bags of ready- mixed cement and announced that he (11) _________ to concrete the lawn over.
The Sunday Times
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1 | Tired | Tiring | To tire | To be tired |
| 2 | being removed | to remove | to be removed | removing |
| 3 | raising | raised | risen | rose |
| 4 | poisoning | poisoned | poisonous | to poison |
| 5 | Upon | At | In | On |
| 6 | being reached | was reaching | reaching | reached |
| 7 | above | along | across | through |
| 8 | newly was decorated | new decorated | newly decorating | newly decorated |
| 9 | wrecking | wrecked | was wrecking | was wrecked |
| 10 | no effect on | not effect on | no effect at | not any effect in |
| 11 | was gone | was going | going | went |
1.A; 2.B; 3.B; 4.A; 5.C; 6.C; 7.D; 8.D; 9.A; 10.A; 11.B
