1. She once again went through her composition carefully to _______ all spelling mistakes from it.

a. exclude     b. eliminate

c. abolish       d. diminish

2. She remains confident and _______ untroubled by our present problems.

a. indefinitely       b. infinitely

c. optimistically      d. seemingly

3. In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Eastern Europe _______ Europe into a great war.

a. inserted      b. imposed

c. pitched       d. plunged

4. Your story about the frog turning into a prince is _______ nonsense.

a. sheer      b. shear

c. shield      d. sheet

5. He _______ across the room to answer the telephone.

a. sprang      b. bounded

c. jumped      d. leaped

6. He _______ upon the meaning of life, but he hardly found it.

a. thought      b. came

c. pondered      d. considered

7. The Act seems _______ to failure.

a. determined      b. reluctant

c. hesitant      d. destine

8. Though prohibited from 1911, this custom _______ slowly.

a. handed out       b. knock out

c. died out      d. work out

9. She did not _______ much after her operation.

a. get around      b. get about

c. get on      d. get down

10. Science _______ observation.

a. rests on      b. rests with

c. looks on      d. looks through

11. They ______ uniforms at that school years ago.

a. go away      b. run away

c. do away with      d. blow away

12. He reads the newspapers to ______ current events.

a. lose track of      b. keep track of

c. make tracks for      d. make tracks for

13. He came back late, ______which time all the guests had already left.

a. after      b. by

c. at      d. during

14. If the whole operation ______ beforehand, a great deal of time and money would have been lost.

a. was not planned

b. has not been planned

c. had not been planned

d. were not planned

15. His remarks left me _______ about his real purpose.

a. wondered      b. wonder

c. to wonder      d. wondering

16. I have heard both teachers and students _______ well of him.

a. to speak      b. to have spoken

c. spoken      d. speak

17. The house was very quiet, _______ as it was on the side of a mountain.

a. isolated      b. isolating

c. being isolated      d. having been isolated

18. Small as it is, the ant is as much a creature as ________all other animals on earth.

A. do     b. are

c. is nbsp;    d. have

19. The policeman declared that the blow on the victim’s head _____from behind.

a. should have been made

b. must have been made

c. would have been made

d. ought to have been made

20. None of their new products have sold well, ___________?

a. haven’t they nbsp;     b. has it

c. hasn’t it? nbsp;     d. have they

Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the given words.

● The councils have little more than a ________ advisory function. (decorate)

● This book tells us in __________form of the history of China. (concentrate)

● He committed suicide during temporary __________ for his illegal activities. (insane)

● He spoke in a __________ tone of the teacher’s great efforts to help him. (monotony)

● What should you do if your friend feels ______?(suicide)