Miscellaneous Advanced Test 5

It's really difficult to discuss anything with my sister. We're simply not on the same ________.

1. brainwave
2. mindwave
3. tuning
4. wavelength

The producer was too busy ________ us but had his assistant go through the details with us.

1. having met
2. meet
3. meeting
4. to meet

________ parents who want me to go to Yale. I don't really care.

1. It are
2. It's my
3. They're my
4. This is my

He was still a little ________ from the anesthetic but he really had to go so he called a friend to pick him up.

1. asleep
2. distraught
3. drawn
4. drowsy

I couldn't get rid of this ________ feeling that there was something I had forgotten to do before I left home.

1. gagging
2. grudging
3. nagging
4. nudging

It was no big deal. Why do you have to ________ so much fuss about it?

1. cause
2. do
3. have
4. make

Why are your eyes so red and swollen? ________?

1. Had you cried
2. Have you been crying
3. Have you cried
4. Is it crying

She called him a slut although he had never cheated ________ her.

1. by
2. off
3. on
4. with

Some people believe that due to global warming the polar ________ will melt and that will cause serious ecological disasters.

1. ice caps
2. ice glaciers
3. icebergs
4. icicles

First I was afraid that I wouldn't know anyone there but then I was relieved to notice ________ familiar faces.

1. a few
2. a few of
3. few
4. few of

The boss is rather ill-tempered today. Are you sure you want to enter the lion's ________?

1. cave
2. den
3. nest
4. pride

________ more attention in class the other day, you would know the answer.

1. Had you been paying
2. If you have been paying
3. Should you pay
4. Were you paying

I would suggest ________ a more positive approach. Guilt and fright aren't working very well, you know.

1. taking
2. that we will take
3. to take
4. us to take

God, he's so annoying. I wish ________ always trying to be the wittiest and funniest person in the room.

1. he quits
2. he would quit
3. him to quit
4. to quit his

After the shooting incident, Marissa was ________ from the Harbor School and had to attend public school instead.

1. deposed
2. detained
3. expelled
4. suspended