Miscellaneous Upper-Intermediate Test 17

Don't forget about all the things you had to give up to ________ here.

1. be
2. being
3. have been
4. having been

Oh, ________. It was nice running into you like that! See you.

1. does here come my cab
2. here comes my cab
3. here does my cab come
4. here my cab comes

I'm sorry, I don't mean to ________, but you don't by any chance happen to be an actor?

1. pray
2. preen
3. prey
4. pry

If you consider how vast the universe is, it is ________ unlikely that we are the only ones.

1. deeply
2. highly
3. largely
4. widely

Celia, ________ of paying for the membership card if we hardly ever go there any more!

1. I can see no use
2. I can't see the use
3. I don't make a point
4. there isn't any point

________ the beginning of the book, Ayla is separated from her mother and adopted by a Neanderthal tribe.

1. At
2. From
3. In
4. On

What's a ten-letter word for ‘applied science’? – I haven't ________.

1. a clue
2. a sign
3. a thought
4. an evidence

The optician told me to look into the distance, breathe deeply and naturally and try not to ________.

1. blind
2. blink
3. wig
4. wink

President Bush was ________ that military action against Iran was called for.

1. of the opinion
2. opinioned
3. under opinion
4. under the opinion

Harvard University, ________ the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is the hub of western education.

1. been
2. being
3. that is
4. which being

I don't think it's a good idea, ________?

1. do I
2. don't I
3. is it
4. isn't it

In my report, I ________ briefly on the subject of animal welfare.

1. brought up
2. mentioned
3. put forward
4. touched

They've been going out ________ since they met in ninth grade.

1. always
2. ever
3. still
4. yet

They cut her short because her arguments were ________ the point.

1. beside
2. besides
3. out of
4. outside

She was in her late ________ but looked much younger.

1. forties
2. fortieth
3. forty
4. forty's