❷. MULTIPLE CHOICE
I. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
11. Was this beautiful house _____________ by Mark?
A. buy B. bought C. buying D. buyer
12. After he _____________ everything clearly, we started our work.
A. had explained B. had explain C. has explained D. has explain
13. My boss's anger suddenly _____________ into furious shouting.
A. erupt B. erupted C. erupting D. eruption
14. These old pictures won't _____________ in the bedroom.
A. is hung B. are hung C. be hung D. been hung
15. Before my mother _____________ home, my father had prepared dinner.
A. came B. come C. comes D. will come
16. This house and these doors are going to _____________ for Christmas day by the Greens.
A. painted B. be painted C. paint D. be paint
17. When I got up this morning, my wife _____________.
A. has already left B. already has left C. had already left D. already had left
18. It is time you _____________ your homework done.
A. has B. had C. have D. having
19. She was very angry _____________ Marcos.
A. to B. with C. about D. with
20. During 1942 _____________ started to arrive in the city.
A. evacuee families B. evacuate families
C. families evacuee D. families evacuate
21. The dogs _____________ fed before they went to the party.
A. has B. have been C. had been D. having been
22. The car was dirty. They _____________ it for weeks.
A. hasn't cleaned B. haven't cleaned
C. hadn't been cleaned D. hadn't cleared
23. It _____________ her 10 minutes to do this exercise yesterday morning.
A. made B. took C. cost D. lost
24. Frank is capable _____________ doing better than he is doing now.
A. of B. at C. with D. in
25. The scheme has been set up to help _____________ people.
A. home-made B. homeless C. house-style D. houseful
26. We're _____________ the evening around a Japanese theme.
A. organizing B. organizer C. organization D. organized
27. The pollution problems _____________ since last month.
A. has discussed B. have discussed
C. has been discussed D. have been discussed
28. When they got home last night. They found that someone _____________ into the house.
A. had broken B. had been broken
C. has broken D. has been broken
29. How many languages are _____________ in Chinese?
A. speak B. speaking C. spoken D. speaker
30. The woman sitting next to me on the plane was very nervous. She _____________ before.
A. hasn't flown B. hadn't flown C. didn't fly D. doesn't fly
31. The earth’s weather is _____________ and we don’t know what will happen to us.
A. dangerous B. serious C. predicted D. mysterious
32. Man has spent years and years trying _____________weather patterns but it is still an inexact science.
A. predicting B. to predict
C. to predicting D. to have predicted
33. A drought occurs when a region receives consistently below average _____________
A. falling rain B. rain falling C. rainfall D. fallrain
34. When we _____________back to our home village last month, it _____________ so much.
A. had come - changed B. came - had changed
C. came - has changed D. had come - has changed
35. She _____________ in that town for 20 years by the time that historic earthquake
A. had live - occurred B. has lived - occurred
C. had lived - occur D. had lived – occurred
36. Some tents _____________ so that children and old people could sleep in.
A. was set up B. were set up C. set up D. setted up
37. People in Japan _____________ how to survive in an earthquake.
A. have been taught B. are taught C. were taught D. had been taught
38. Exactly 5 people got stuck and _____________ in that fire.
A. was death B. was died C. dead D. died
39. An earthquake is the _____________ a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust.
A. cause by B. consequence C. result from D. result of
40. The magnitude of an earthquake_____________ on the Richter scale.
A. reports B. is reported C. was reported D. reported
41. If I _____________ you, I wouldn't buy that kind of car.
A. am B. are C. was D. were
42. What does the forest _____________ like?
A. is B. be C. look D. looks
43. People will be _____________ to a safe place to live in the short run.
A. taken B. took C. takes D. to take
44. Is it _____________ to improve our speaking skill?
A. import B. importing C. importance D. important
45. The window needs _____________ today to prepare for our party.
A. clean B. to clean C. cleaning D. cleaned
46. Before I was born, my father had _____________ a teacher.
A. be B. been C. being D. was
47. They are _____________ a team with two foreign friends.
A. on B. at C. in D. of
48. Have they ever visited English _____________ countries?
A. speaking B. spoken C. speak D. speaks
49. I _____________ visit my grandmother on Sunday if I don't go to school.
A. would B. wouldn't C. will D. will not
50. _____________ is the most common disaster in Vietnam?
A. What B. When C. Where D. Which