Miscellaneous Upper-Intermediate Test 9

I'll call you the minute ________ anything, ok?

1. I know
2. I'll know
3. I'm to know
4. I've known

I have to be here ________ seven but then we can go out if you want.

1. about
2. by
3. in
4. until

I have no idea what's going on ________ her mind. She never tells me anything.

1. by
2. in
3. on
4. through

It takes about an hour for the pill to ________ so you should take it when you feel the first symptoms.

1. butt in
2. kick in
3. let in
4. take off

I went jogging this morning in the dazzling ________.

1. fog
2. rain
3. sunshine
4. wind

If you go to Greece, Athens ________.

1. are definitely worth to visit
2. are definitely worth visiting
3. is definitely worth to visit
4. is definitely worth visiting

He wrote most of the songs on the album while ________ through Europe.

1. backpacking
2. he backpacked
3. he had been backpacking
4. he has been backpacking

When they told me the news I didn't know ________ to laugh or cry.

1. ---
2. if
3. if I should
4. whether

There seems to be some ________ blood between the two coaches, which might be the cause of the teams' rivalry.

1. bad
2. boiling
3. cold
4. thick

Many children are rude and use unacceptable language because that's the way they are used to ________ to at home.

1. being talked
2. have been talked
3. talk
4. talking

If you want to learn Spanish, you need to ________ yourself in the language and culture as much as possible.

1. dive
2. immerse
3. sink
4. surround

I ________ away my lunch hour browsing through magazines in the library.

1. kept
2. killed
3. saved
4. whiled

The shopping mall was so crowded on the weekend that we ________ a parking space.

1. can't have found
2. couldn't find
3. couldn't have found
4. weren't to have found

Spending hours on ________ roads every day is definitely not what I expected of my new job.

1. concluded
2. confined
3. confused
4. congested

He managed to pass the course despite his somewhat ________ class attendance.

1. erratic
2. immense
3. meticulous
4. odd