Miscellaneous Upper. Test 20 (revision C)

The disease proved to be ________ contagious. Thousands died within just a few days.

1. completely
2. hardly
3. highly
4. widely

How many men were needed to ________ up the church clock every Sunday?

1. wind
2. winding
3. wound
4. wounding

Those were the ________ most delicious cupcakes I've ever had. Could you give me the recipe?

1. by far
2. far
3. rather
4. very

________ it was difficult for me to understand him but then I got used to his accent.

1. At first
2. Firstly
3. In the beginning of my stay
4. Originally

The whole stadium ________ crazy when our team won!

1. got
2. grew
3. turned
4. went

They gave her a bottle of ________ wine.

1. delicious Italian sparkling
2. delicious sparkling Italian
3. Italian delicious sparkling
4. sparkling Italian delicious

The soldiers quickly got down to ________ being seen by the enemy.

1. avoid
2. avoiding
3. be avoiding
4. the avoiding

Guess what! I ________ into your cousin Joan on my way to work this morning. She says hi.

1. had run
2. have run
3. ran
4. was running

The teacher crossed the line and should, ________ all means, be fired immediately.

1. by
2. in
3. under
4. with

________ parents, we should encourage our children to talk about themselves and their feelings.

1. Alike
2. As
3. As if
4. Like

I think he didn't tell us what he did, ________?

1. did he
2. didn't he
3. do I
4. don't I

Jesus said we ________ one another and I believe that's true.

1. must have just loved
2. should have just loved
3. should just love
4. were supposed to just love

At the meeting, Susan ________ up the question of who would be in charge of the D-block.

1. brought
2. mentioned
3. raised
4. touched

Only later ________ that his family lived only a few blocks away from my house.

1. did discover I
2. did I discover
3. discovered I
4. I discovered

Jenna has a ________ because she wasn't invited to Julie and Fred's wedding.

1. cold shoulder
2. hard shoulder
3. chip on her shoulder
4. shrugged shoulder