IV. Choose the best answer.
1. A large number of students in this school…….English quite fluently.
A. speaks B. is speaking C. has spoken D. speak
2. Beauty as well as health…..failed her this term.
A. has B. have C. is D. are
3. Not only John but his brothers……also in debts.
A. is B. have C. was D. were
4. The quality of these recordings……..not very good.
A. is B. are C. is being D. has been
5. To what place……..either the man or his son wish to go?
A. is B. does C. do D. are
6. We have had……….homework in Mathematics recently.
A. lots of B. many C. several D. any
7. The use of credit cards in place of cash……increased rapidly in recent years.
A. have been B. has been C. has D. have
8. Three years in a strange land…….like a long time for lonely people.
A. is seeming B. are seeming C. seems D. seemed
9. For most of these children, poverty………..them from having enough schooling.
A. makes B. avoids C. prevents D. refuses
10. If anyone…….., tell him I’ll come back later.
A. was calling B. called C. call D. calls
11. About 60% of students in this class……from China.
A. was B. were C. are D. is
12. The writer and poet……at the meeting yesterday.
A. have been B. was C. were D. had been
13. The Browns……..here since 1950.
A. are living B. is living C. have lived D. has lived
14. The science classes at this……..difficult.
A. schools are B. school is C. school are D. school’s is
15. She isn ’t used to………….in these bad conditions.
A. work B. working C. worked D. be working
16. One of the……from Italy.
A. student is B. students are C. student are D. students is