Question

III. Choose the correct answer, circling letter A , B , C or D. (10p)

1. Has the committee .................. a decision yet?

A. given            B. made               C. done              D. arrived

2. .................. the time you get to the theatre, the play will have finished.

A. Until              B. In               C. By               D. On

. .................. her five dresses, she likes the red one best.

A. Of              B. In                C. From             D. Among

4. Because of the bad weather, we had to put ..................our picnic until next weekend.

A. out               B. away            C. up                 D. off             

 5. By the year 2015, the world population .................. 8 billion people.

A. will reach                    B. reaches                    C. will have reached                D. reach

6. We are destroying our environment by adding more .................. to it.

A. pollutes                B. pollutants               C. pollutives                  D. pollutions

7. He tried to explain the reason .................. he got to class late yesterday.

A. for which             B. of which               C. in which                       D. by which

8. We didn’t remember .................. our document into our removable disk, so we have lost all now.

A. saving                 B. to be saving               C. saved               D. to save

9. There is a crowd of students .................. for the lecturer outside the lecture hall.

A. to wait                  B. waiting                      C. to be waiting                D. are waiting

10. The storm was on .................. Thursday of that week.

A. the                    B. x                  C. a                   D. an