1. Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence.
1.1. “__________” is used to express agreement.
1.2. My roommate is driving me crazy! It seems that __________ it is at night, __________ he plays his music!
1.3. We have been informed that __________ animals at the zoo are starving to death.
1.4. He was a wonderful talker. He really had the gift of the __________ .
1.5. The teacher _________________the truth, for he looked very angry.
1.6. “Timmy’s not very good at tennis, is he?”
“I know, but he’s very sensitive so don’t __________.”
1.7. Direct speech: “I’m sorry for breaking your vase” she said.
Reported speech: __________
1.8. __________ I had a very good year at school.
1.9. Nowhere in the northern section of the United States __________ for growing citrus crops.
1.10. She’d prefer __________ noodles rather than __________ milk.
1.11. My husband and I would like to go to India, __________ it’s no means the only country in the world I want to see.
1.12
“How do I look tonight?”
“Wow! ___________ dress you have on”
1.13
“I’m surprised no-one tried to help Linda.”
“____________ us sooner, we might have been able to do something.”
1.14. She is such an experienced teacher. By November she _________teaching for fifteen years.”
1.15
No one has ever asked me that question before.
In the passive voice: ___________
1.16. He showed me the hospital ___________.
1.17. All the engineers were happy because they finally made ___________.
1.18. The Prime Minister is to consider changes to sexually ___________ laws to enforce equal opportunities.
1.19. I cannot understand why she did that, it really doesn’t add up.
1.20.
I think the crop must be irrigated as soon as possible.
1.21. My son regrets ___________ enough time to finish the exercises.
1.22. It is ___________ around the world.
1.23. Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, was once captured as a slave and spent five years in ___________ in Algiers before a Roman Catholic group paid a ransom for his release.
1.24. It’s excellent value for money. You get a ___________ meal and coffee for under $10 per person.
