IV. Select the option to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Question 40: If I got promotion at work, I’ll take everyone out to celebrate.
A. got B. work C. take D. out
Question 41: If I were you, I will never forgive him for his telling lies.
A. were B. will C. him D. lies
Question 42: If you are late at a job interview, you won’t make a good impression.
A. are B. at C. won’t D. impression
Question 43: Oceans will run out of fish within the next 50 years if we won’t stop dynamite fishing.
A. will B. run out of C. won’t stop D. fishing
Question 44: If I am you, I would confess to my mom before she finds out the truth herself.
A. am B. would confess C. finds out D. herself
Question 45: If you had a headache, you should take an aspirin.
A. If B. had C. take D. an
Question 46: If only I weren’t on a diet, I will eat a lot of chocolate.
A. If only B. on C. will D. much
Question 47: Provided that you will hand in your paper before 5 p.m today, I will accept your submission.
A. Provided that B. will hand C. before D. will accept
Question 48: What will you do if a billionaire gave you one third of his fortune?
A. will B. do C. a D. one third
Question 49: He will be able to operate the machines if somebody shown him how.
A. will be B. to operate C. somebody D. shown
Question 50: Suppose they cancelled the flight yesterday, how would you have got home?
A. Suppose B. cancelled C. would D. got
Question 51: If it hadn’t been because his support, I couldn’t have completed the mission.
A. hadn’t B. because C. couldn’t D. completed
Question 52: Not for two minor mistakes, I would have got full marks for the test.
A. Not B. mistakes C. have got D. for
Question 53: The tourists wouldn’t have been so angry if the trip hadn’t cancelled right before the departure time.
A. have been B. if C. hadn’t cancelled D.before
Question 54: Were the werewolf here, would you stay and protect me or ran for your life?
A. Were B. stay C. protect D. ran
Question 55: If I had known that the road were flooded, I would never have taken that way.
A. had known B. were flooded C. would D. have taken
Question 56: If I had known he is not at home, I wouldn’t have gone all the way to his house.
A. is not B. have gone C. the way D. to
Question 57: Hadn’t it been for his words, I wouldn’t have gone that long as I did.
A. hadn’t it been for B. wouldn’t have gone
C. long D. did
Question 58: They treat me as if I would be a three-year-old child.
A. treat B. as if C. would be D. three-year-old
Question 59: She shouted so loud as though she was on pins and needles.
A. shouted B. as though C. was D. pins and needles
40A 41B 42B 43C 44A 45B 46C 47B 48A 49D 50B 51B 52A 53C 54D 55B 56A 57A 58C 59C
