Miscellaneous Upper. Test 20 (revision A)

In the north of the country the archaeologists found the ruins of ________ city.

1. a Roman vast ancient
2. a vast ancient Roman
3. an ancient Roman vast
4. an ancient vast Roman

I wanted to be a doctor but I couldn't get used to ________ blood.

1. be seeing
2. see
3. seeing
4. sight of

I guess he ________ polite when he said we must go out again sometime.

1. had just been
2. has just been
3. was just
4. was just being

Why not try yoga? It will do wonders ________ your health and your figure.

1. at
2. for
3. to
4. with

A survey among students showed that psychology was ________ as biology or calculus.

1. an as demanding subject
2. as a demanding subject
3. as demanding a subject
4. as demanding subject

You're right but that's ________ the point right now.

1. beside
2. off
3. out of
4. without

They don't know for sure it's the swine flu, ________?

1. do they
2. don't they
3. is it
4. isn't it

Back in high school I asked my teacher what I ________ to be a good writer. She said: “Anything but literature!”

1. ought to have studied if I wanted
2. should have studied if I had wanted
3. should study if I had wanted
4. should study if I wanted

If modelling doesn't work out for her, she'll still have her college degree to fall ________.

1. back on
2. for
3. in for
4. out with

He was so nervous that his hands ________.

1. quaked
2. shivered
3. shrank
4. trembled

Hardly ever ________ to bed at the same time. One of them usually had to work late.

1. did go he and his wife
2. did he and his wife go
3. he and his wife went
4. went he and his wife

Last night, Raul got drunk at a frat party, ________ surprising.

1. that isn't
2. what's not
3. which isn't
4. who's not

All the people present were ________ moved by her sincere words.

1. deeply
2. heavily
3. highly
4. strongly

Meredith and Steve first met when they were kids and they've been best friends ________ since.

1. always
2. ever
3. still
4. then

People often say that pain is a natural part of ________ old, but it's not actually true.

1. becoming
2. going
3. growing
4. turning