Marlin: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
An excellent fish is the immense black marlin (1) _________ global-size blue eyes stare down from its simulated ‘waters’ over (2) _________doors of the executive conference room of the National Museum of Natural History. It is officially recognized as the largest bony fish ever (3) _________on rod and reel, a record that (4) _________since August 1953, when Alfred Glassel caught the (5) _________female eight miles off the steep shoreline of Cabot Blanco, Peru, where the Andes plunge (6) _________the Pacific. Glassel chose this fishing ground (7) _________that’s where the cold Humboldt Current meets upwelling eddies of marine life. (8) _________30 large females were hooked in the area at that time.
Glassel’s record ‘grander’ - meaning a black marlin (9) _________more than 1,000 pounds - was one of four he (10) _________there. His success prompted S. Kip Farrington, a well-known fishing writer, (11) _________the “rod and reel Young Man of the Sea”.
A | B | C | D | |
1 | which | who | whom | whose |
2 | an | the | a | - |
3 | has been caught | was caught | catch | caught |
4 | has stood | stood | had stood | is standing |
5 | 14 foots 7 inches | 14 foot 7 inches | 14 foot 7 inch | 14 feet 7 inch |
6 | from | into | next to | behind |
7 | although | though | because | through |
8 | More than | More then | Much more | Many more |
9 | was weighed | weighed | was weighing | weighing |
10 | had caught | catches | is catching | was catching |
11 | called | to be called | to call | calling |
1.D; 2.B; 3.D; 4.A; 5.C; 6.B; 7.C; 8.A; 9.D; 10.A; 11.C