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enThe National Passion: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
(1) _________ is the national passion of an otherwise dispassionate race. The English are rather shy about it, and deny (2) _________ it.
(3) _________ the Continent, if people are waiting at a bus-stop they loiter around in a (4) _________ vague fashion. When the bus arrives they make a dash for it; (5) _________ of them leave by the bus and a lucky minority(6) _________ away by an elegant black ambulance car. An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an (7) _________ queue of one.
(8) _________ weekends an Englishman queues up at the bus-stop, travels out to Richmond, queues up for a boat, then queues up for ice cream, then joins(9) _________ queues just for the sake of the fun of it, then queues up at the bus-stop and has the time of his life.
Many English families spend lovely evenings at home just by (10) _________ up for a few hours, and the parents are very sad when the children leave them and queue up for (11) _________ to bed.
How to be an Alien, George Mikes (abridged)
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1 | Queue | Queueing | Queued | To queue |
| 2 | to adore | adoring | being adored | to be adored |
| 3 | By | In | On | At |
| 4 | seems | seeming | seem | seemingly |
| 5 | much | mostly | the most | most |
| 6 | is taken | is taking | taken | was taken |
| 7 | orderly | ordered | ordering | order |
| 8 | For | At | Within | Upon |
| 9 | A little much | a little more | a few more | few many |
| 10 | queued | queueing | being queued | queue |
| 11 | go | gone | to go | going |
1.B; 2.B; 3.C; 4.D; 5.D; 6.A; 7.A; 8.B; 9.C; 10.B; 11.D
