Miscellaneous Advanced Test 6

________ on Saturday morning is a very effective punishment for a child, it is believed.

1. Afterclass
2. Detention
3. Expulsion
4. Suspension

Men tend to ________ up when they get stressed while women usually go on and on about their misery.

1. clam
2. garner
3. jot
4. peter

________ he gets, he always makes time for his family.

1. As busy
2. However busy
3. However very busy
4. No matter that busy

He's such a lazy person. All he does is ________ TV all day long.

1. he watches
2. watch
3. watches
4. watching

He really believes he is the smartest person in the room, you can tell that by the ________ look on his face.

1. contained
2. innocuous
3. rash
4. smug

The information he gave me was worthless. I certainly won't ask him for ________.

1. another
2. another one
3. more
4. one more

The students, ________ were not paying attention, did not ask any questions at the end of the lecture.

1. half of those
2. half of which
3. half of whom
4. half of whose

I dread ________ that something could have happened to them. I don't know what I would do.

1. it to think
2. thinking
3. thought
4. to think

The mountain gorilla is an endangered ________ and without people's help will become extinct in a few years.

1. specie
2. species
3. specimen
4. specy

What time ________ your breakfast tomorrow morning, sir?

1. are you going to be wanting
2. are you going to want
3. will you be wanting
4. will you have wanted

Nearly half of ________ world's primates are in danger of extinction.

1. ---
2. all the
3. the all
4. whole the

Mom and Dad arrived before I ________ away the empty bottles and glasses from the living room. I was busted.

1. had cleared
2. have cleared
3. was clearing
4. would clear

The speaker tried to ________ across the message of the ill effects of tobacco and alcohol consumption.

1. break
2. bring
3. get
4. send

As a homework exercise, the teacher had ________ an essay on the topic of our choice.

1. made us to write
2. us to write
3. us write
4. us writing

She loves her step-daughter as if she ________ her own.

1. had been
2. is
3. were
4. would be