Mixed Grammar Points Test 1

I.

1. Ms. Erickson is a sales clerk in a large department store. It’s almost closing time. Her feet A hurt as they B do every day, because she C is standing at the sales counter since eight o’clock D this morning.


2. My uncleA is painting the outside of his house for three weeks, and B he has still not finished. He is very careful. He C wants his house D to look just right.


3. Dolphins, whales, and A many B other sea creatures use C high sophisticated navigation D systems.


4. The A smallest things B in the universe are, paradoxically, C be explored D by the largest machines.

II.

1. 
   A By the time Jason arrived to help we B already C finished D moving everything.


2. 
   The farmer’s barn A caught on fire some time during the night. By the time the firefighters B arrived, the building C burnt to the ground. It D was a total loss.


3. 
   Scurvy, A caused by the B lack of vitamin C, could kill C the most of a ship’s crew on a long D voyage.


4. 
   A The term '‘Punchinello” B refer to a clown C in Italian D puppet shows.

III.

1. 
   A Most critics agree B that William Shakespeare was the C greater writer D in the English language.


2. 
   A Symptoms of multiple sclerosis B may be eased C by injecting a solution D consisted of snake venom.


3. 
   Uranus is the A alone planet B in the solar system C which is tipped on D its side.


4. A Much nutritionists B argue that people’s intake of C fat should be D reduced.

IV.

1. 
   A Many American novelists, B such as Gore Vidal, C resides in D other countries.


2. 
   The refracting telescope A contains lenses B that C magnification the image which reaches D it.


3. 
   In some societies A hired B people cook, clean, take care C after the children, and D do the yard work.


4. 
   The A highly endangered Waldrapp ibis B it is a C wading bird, D related to the stork and flamingo.

V.

1. 
   A During the two centuries B between Herschel and Voyager, C relatively little D learned about the planet Uranus.


2. 
   Platinum is a A rare and B value metal, white in C colour, and D easy to work.


3. 
   A Some conservationists B attempt to save rare domestic farm C animal, D such as the Tamworth pig.


4. 
   Sigmund Freud, the A founding of psychoanalysis B settled in London C at the D age of eighty-two.

VI.

1. 
   A Although France is a B predominant Catholic country, C it has D a large Muslim minority.


2. 
   A Adult education has become B increasingly popular in C the United States in recent D years ago.


3. 
   Many A disabled children cannot B derive full C enjoyment from toys D make for non-disabled children.


4. 
   The C oceans contain many B forms of life that C has not C yet been discovered.

VII.

1. A Perhaps were his defiance against B his parents’ attitude C that led Salvatore Ferragamo to fame D as the shoemaker for the world’s most famous women.


2. 
   A As medical costs soar, B the idea of a complete physical checkup has come C under fire as both a waste of time D or money.


3. 
   A Married women are B twice so likely as married C men to D be depressed.


4. 
   On February' 21,1995, the A oldest person in the world, B a French woman C named Jeanne Calment, D she celebrated her 120^th birthday.

VIII.

1. 
   The Concorde can fly A across the Atlantic B without refueling and C carrying 11 tons of D freight.


2. 
   I A have seen you in the school play last night. You B did a terrific acting job. C Had you ever acted D in a play before this one?


3. 
   American’s first A satellites exploded B before it had C risen three and a half D feet off the ground.


4. 
   Last year A I had gone mountain climbing for the first time. It B was exciting and terrifying at the same time. We C moved slowly and carefully and it D took three days to get to the top.

IX.

1. 
   A Most babies will grow B up to be as C cleverer as their D parents.


2. 
   It should not be A assume that the B lower the price, C the happier the D buyer.


3. 
   A To help policymakers and B another, the U.S. government spends as C much as $ 1,4 billion a year in D collecting statistics.


4. 
   Sprinkler system A have proven to be B the most effective C means of D fighting hotel fire.

X.

1. 
   A For more than 450 years, Mexico City has been the economic, B culture and C political centre of Mexican D people.


2. Some bacteria A are extremely harmful but B anothers are C regulary D used in producing cheeses, crackers, yogurts.


3. A In 1927, Charles Lindbergh completed B a solo C crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in D its aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.


4. The A firing of bricks and tiles B for use in the C build industry requires large D amounts of fuel.