ECPE HONORS UNIT 8

If the photos we requested _____ ready we may have to reschedule the presentation.

• are almost

• are still

• are hardly

• still aren't

The city's bus drivers are still on strike today and ______ the power outage is causing many delays on the subway.

• worse than matters

• the worst of the matter

• to make matters worse

• making a worse matter

Maria speaks English very well but on the whole, Jane has _______ command of the language.

• a more impressive

• far more impressed

• the most impressing

• the best impression of

This infection occurs in children more than three times _______adults.

• more in

• as often as in

• as many as

• than that as

It goes without saying that the longer the speech, the harder _________ .

• is memorizing it

• is it to memorize it

• memorizing is

• it is to memorize

The movie I saw last night was ______ film I have seen in a while.

• a far more interesting

• not as interesting as

• much more interesting than

• by far the most interesting

As he is one of the _____ students in class, Jason will no doubt make great progress this semester.

• high motivating

• highly motivated

• motivated highly

• highly motivating

We should make ______ the warm weather and have a barbeque.

• the most of the

• our most the

• it the most

• more than the most

The manager thanked everyone in the marketing department for working______ their deadlines.

• hard enough for meeting

• hardly enough for meeting

• hardly to meet

• so hard to meet

Thomas was annoyed that all the points he raised at the meeting were ______ as irrelevant.

• descented

• defied

• dismissed

• dissipated