Miscellaneous Upper-Intermediate Test 5

If you're looking for a good anti-virus software, try AVG or PC-cillin. ________ for me.

1. Both of it worked fine
2. Both they worked fine
3. They both worked fine
4. They worked both fine

I decided not to go to the party. I was really exhausted because ________ the whole day.

1. I had skied
2. I was skiing
3. I'd been skiing
4. I've been skiing

It's a nice apartment but it needs ________ a little.

1. sprucing up
2. to be sprucing up
3. to have spruced up
4. to spruce up

We get a lot of rain in this region so ________ are very rare.

1. drafts
2. drags
3. draughts
4. droughts

I didn't think anyone ________ for me when I arrived but I was really glad to see her there.

1. has been waiting
2. to be waiting
3. waiting
4. would be waiting

Let's not discuss ________. You know we always get into an argument.

1. about politics
2. about the politics
3. politics
4. the politics

I used to get a lot of expensive presents from my dad. He was probably trying to ________ not being there.

1. get out with
2. make up for
3. pay up for
4. put up with

The car ________ and went out of control when I was trying to negotiate a bend.

1. skidded
2. slid
3. slipped
4. slippered

I ________ out of my mind to have allowed my friends to talk me into doing a parachute jump with them!

1. might have been
2. must have been
3. ought have been
4. should have been

People were unable to get to work due to ________ roads.

1. snow-capped
2. snowbound
3. snowed in
4. snowed under

Even after the injury, he didn't seem to have lost his ________ and scored three beautiful goals.

1. face
2. ground
3. touch
4. track

The research shows that it is typical for girls to go on a diet if they want to lose weight, ________ boys usually exercise.

1. although
2. however
3. in contrast with
4. whereas

Jack Tooms' body was not discovered until ________ snow melted in the spring.

1. ---
2. a
3. an
4. the

Make sure you eat ________ meal after your workout.

1. a balanced
2. a combined
3. a weighed
4. an equalized

________ that the transfer would take several business days.

1. I have been explained
2. I was explained
3. It was explained to me
4. They explained me