Miscellaneous Upper-Intermediate Test 12

When he was a child, he ________ up every night, screaming.

1. used to waking
2. was used to wake
3. would use to wake
4. would wake

Do you remember who ________ Wuthering Heights? Charlotte or Emily Brontë?

1. did write
2. has written
3. was to write
4. wrote

I was ________ exhausted last night and couldn't get my five-month-old baby to settle down to sleep.

1. deeply
2. highly
3. totally
4. very

The sky looked ________ if it were on fire. Simply beautiful.

1. ---
2. alike
3. as
4. like

Little ________ then that a month later that nice lady next door would be dead.

1. did we know
2. didn't we know
3. we didn't know
4. we knew

There were some dull moments but overall, it was ________ show.

1. a fairly interesting
2. fairly an interesting
3. fairly interesting
4. fairly interesting a

He promised to fix her car but he hasn't gotten around ________ yet.

1. on doing it
2. on it
3. to do it
4. to doing it

When you lived in New York, ________ to work by cab?

1. did you go
2. had you gone
3. have you been going
4. were you going

There's no point ________. Nothing ever changes anyway.

1. for complaints
2. in complaining
3. of complaining
4. to complain

If I learned one thing from that book it's this: It's never too late to ________ to be a good parent.

1. regret
2. resent
3. resolve
4. resort

Mobile phones should be turned off for the ________ of the concert.

1. duration
2. during
3. endurance
4. enduring

They wanted me to stay longer but I said it was late and ________.

1. I had had better go
2. I'd better go
3. I'd better went
4. I'd had better gone

Jack totalled his car on New Year's day! What a lousy start ________ the year!

1. for
2. of
3. on
4. to

She was supposed to meet me at 7 but she didn't show up. By 8, there was still no ________ of her.

1. clue
2. evidence
3. mark
4. sign

The tombstone of Col. Jonathan Buck was ________ obelisk.

1. a granite impressive towering
2. a towering granite impressive
3. a towering impressive granite
4. an impressive towering granite