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enSo What'd Ya Get? Multiple Choice Grammar Test
What did you get for Christmas this year? These are common words (1) _______ around the world in the days following this annual holiday. Good stuff, right?
But let's get real. After all we are not 5 years old (2) _______ . Let's get (3) _______ to what Christmas is really about: greed, greed, greed.
Do you doubt this? Look at the stores in the weeks (4) _______ up to Christmas.
Every retail outlet is trying its (5) _______ to separate your money from your pocket. Sale, sale, sale!
And every year people respond (6) _______ these sales. Consumers spend money like 7 — tomorrow.
We buy virtually anything and everything that can (8) _______ .
And then after weeks of (9) _______ it’s Christmas! We finally (10) _______ our presents. Wrapping paper flies everywhere as we tear open our gifts. We call (11) _______ up and compare. We talk about the treasures we got at work and school. We talk about (12) _______ we wanted to get but did not. Get, get, get.
Is this good? Christmas is a holiday created by men.
It’s not in the Bible. It (13) _______ part of traditional Christianity until more than 300 years after the death of Jesus Christ. And no Christian in the Bible (14) _______ Christmas. Facts, Facts, Facts.
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1 | hear | hearing | are heard | heard |
| 2 | whatsoever | not at all | no more | anymore |
| 3 | about | on | up | down |
| 4 | to lead | that leading | leading | are leading |
| 5 | most the best | most best | best | the best |
| 6 | with | to | for | on |
| 7 | it is not | there is no | there is not | it is no |
| 8 | be bought | bought | buy | to be bought |
| 9 | anticipation | anticipating | being anticipated | anticipate |
| 10 | get to be opened | get to open | got to open | are got to open |
| 11 | anybody | both | each other | one another |
| 12 | whom | which | that | what |
| 13 | was not becoming | have not become | did not become | has not become |
| 14 | ever celebrated | has ever celebrated | have ever celebrated | was ever celebrating |
1.D; 2.D; 3.D; 4.C; 5.C; 6.B; 7.B; 8.A; 9.A; 10.B; 11.C; 12.D; 13.C; 14.A
