Miscellaneous Advanced Test 10 (revision B)

Men had to defend their honor ________, otherwise they appeared weak.

1. at all costs
2. at any costs
3. for what it's worth
4. whatever it was worth

She deliberately picked a ________ with her husband so that she could come and stay with her mother that night.

1. brawl
2. problem
3. quarrel
4. row

There are a lot of explanations for why we spend so much on advertising, but ________ you look at it, we spend too much.

1. although
2. anyway how
3. despite
4. however

Jackie ________ Harvard University last year and she was really disappointed when she was rejected.

1. applied at
2. applied to
3. enrolled in
4. enrolled to

‘It was by perseverance ________ the snail reached the ark,’ Charles Spurgeon once said.

1. by which
2. hence
3. how
4. that

Mount Rainier is the highest and the most hazardous volcano in ________ Cascades.

1. ---
2. a
3. an
4. the

The earthquake rendered the building unsuitable for ________.

1. habilitation
2. habitat
3. habitation
4. inhabiting

I've always loved math. It's the only thing ________.

1. at that I was good at school
2. at what I was good at school
3. I was good at at school
4. that I was good at school at

The new drug ________ have helped me but there were more side effects than benefits.

1. supposed to
2. was about to
3. was going to
4. was to

I think her hair looked better when it was blond, but ________ way she looks stunning.

1. any
2. either
3. every
4. the

When war broke ________ between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia, some families packed their bags and set off to Tbilisi.

1. forth
2. off
3. out
4. up

During the Great Depression, economic need ________ women to join the labor force.

1. had
2. made
3. posed
4. urged

She ________ the baby gently in his crib so as not to wake him up.

1. laid
2. lain
3. lay
4. lied

Make sure you write down the phone number of your doctor ________ to contact them.

1. had you needed
2. should you need
3. were you needed
4. would you need

You'd rather ________ gone, wouldn't you?

1. I were
2. I'd be
3. me to be
4. me to have been