Advanced Grammar 5

The report presents a general overview of the

problems that ------- when a disaster ------ a nation.

• would have been encountered / will hit

• are encountered / will hit

• have been encountered / had hit

• had been encountered / was being hit

• will be encountered / hits

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

There have been some art critics who ------- in

depreciation of Van Gogh that he ------- a

draughtsman all his life.

• had maintained / has remained

• have maintained / remained

• were maintaining / had remained

• maintained / would have remained

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

The Romanian Privatisation Authority announced last

week that Renault of France ------- to be the sole

bidder for a majority stake in the national car

company, Dacia, which ------- cheap cars for the

domestic market.

• would turn out / had made

• has turned out / made

• would have turned out / is making

• is turning out / has made

• might turn out / makes

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Fish farming in the world seems to be destined to

expand, but it is ------- early to predict the likely

extent of growth in this feld.

• as well

• enough

• too

• as

• so far

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

Although the American writer Katherine Anne Porter used a variety of places ------- the setting of her short stories and novels, she frequently came ------- to the scenes of her early days.

• through / over

• within / in

• for / back

• without / for

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

British TV is still stuck ------- a regulatory structure designed ------ a bygone age.

• with / for

• off / within

• up / in

• away / by

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

In developing new collective defence policies, America and her European allies will ------ be drawn closer together ------ drift irreversibly apart.

• either / or

• not only / but also

• so / that

• both / and

• just as / so

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

Originally the sonnet was an Italian poetical form which attained great popularity in the Renaissance, and ---- it was natural, ----- not essential, for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to use it.

• while / though

• since / however

• furthermore / rather than

• already / even

• hence / if

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

The book of "A Thousand and One Nights" is a collection of fascinating tales of the Orient, of Mixed Indian, Persian, Arabic, and Egyptian origination, and first ----- in Europe by Antoine Galland's French translation in the early eighteenth century.

• having known

• to know

• to be known

• made known

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

At the Brussels meeting over the last weekend Madeleine Albright, The American secretary of State, ------- her allies that future NATO missions ------- them further afield, but not all over the world.

• assures / is taking

• has assured / will have taken

• assured / would take

• had assured / took

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A