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If a store manager decides to take a shoplifter to court, the legal process _____ both time-consuming and expensive.

• should be

• may be

• must be

• are to be

• has to be

In my opinion, rich people _____ permitted to buy educational advantages by sending their children to private schools or _____ all schools be run by the state?

• should be / should

• have to be / will

• must be / would

• should be / ought to

• could be / have

Greenpeace operates internationally and _____ governments and large oil companies through feats of direct action which attract public sympathy.

• could have embarrassed

• had to embarrass

• would embarrass

• is able to embarrass

• should be embarrassed

Some European politicians, it seems, _____ spend billions on aid than allow poor-world farmers to sell attractively priced food to Europe’s consumers.

• would rather

• would prefer

• would

• prefer

• were to

Clients _____ the part of town where they want to be based if they want, though this _____ their choice of price-range.

• can specify / may limit

• could specify / used to limit

• had to specify / might limit

• must specify / may have limited

• are supposed to specify / might have limited

Emergency supplies ______ the earthquake area as soon as possible with the help of the UN. It is crucial.

• must reach

• should have reached

• had to reach

• can reach

• was going to reach

The people who lived there _____ everything they needed from the gifted forest.

• should get

• could get

• will get

• may get

• have got

Any kind of modification ____ without informing all the members at that meeting.

• shouldn’t be made

• didn’t need to be made

• wouldn’t be made

• didn’t use to be made

• ought not to have been made

Governments _____ regions in their countries more autonomy so that they _____ and enjoy their own cultures rather than serving the centralized policies of the capital city.

• had to give / can protected

• were going to give / may protect

• should have given / would have protected

• must give / could have protected

• should give / can protect

Cold deserts _____ in snow, which don't receive much precipitation.

• should be covered

• must be covered

• had better be covered

• might have been covered

• can be covered