1. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below

1-TEST

1. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

She used to live in . . . Mall Street, yet she is living in . . . Bronx now.

A) a/a B) the/the

C) */the D) the/*

2. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

Tom had hardly . . . courage to ask a single question about ghosts when he listened to Uncle Perry’s story.

A) any B) some

C) none D) many

3. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

Our boss is too talkative. Yesterday I . . . avoid becoming his listener. Otherwise, it could have taken me ages to make her stop speaking.

A) could B) might

C) managed to D) would

4. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

Latterly, there . . . many changes in our educational system.

A) were B) has been C) had been D) have been

5. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

I have very . . . belief that he will pay for his debts in the near future.

A) small B) a little

C) little D) few

6. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

. . . happens, please, never give up.

A) Whatever B) Whichever

C) Whoever D) What

7. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

Having eaten all the meal, I asked for . . . portion.

A) the second B) a second

C) second D) two

8. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

If you don’t know where . . ., just go on walking.

A) to stop

B) stopping

C) to have stopped

D) having stopped

9. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

. . . his unexpected visit, we had to cancel our planned trip.

A) Despite B) Owing to

C) In spite of D) As

10. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

Why . . . you continually . . . a lie?

A) are/telling B) do/tell

C) does/tell D) have/told

11. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

I would rather they . . . their dog inside their house.

A) kept B) keep

C) to k D) keeping

12. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

I tried three jackets, but . . . of them suited me.

A) either B) neither

C) none D) some

13. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

. . . I seemed strange to me was the fact that he was wearing a tie on a Tshort.

A) That B) What

C) Where D) Why

14.Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

There are four ways leading to the Wonderland. I know only one, but my mother knows about . . ..

A) others B) the other

C) other D) the others

15. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

She openly denied . . . the handle of the door.

A) to have broken

B) breaking

C) break

D) to be broken

16. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

She was from a beautiful town, . . . is directly next to ours.

A) that B) where

C) which D) what

17.Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

She is working hard these days. She . . . get sick if she continues working like this.

A) have to B) had better

C) might as well D) should

18. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

Some people believe in superstitions, while . . . think they are just invented stories.

A) the others B) others

C) the other D) another

19. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

It is nice of you to . . . such a good idea.

A) come up with

B) put up with

C) go up with

D) make up with

20. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

I wish that you . . . less impolite.

A) were B) would be

C) had been D) have been

21. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

Where are you going to be . . . Christmas.

A) on B) at

C) in D) off

22. Choose the answer which accurately completes the sentence below.

The company . . . next year as it is too old.

A) will destroy

B) will be destroyed

C) will have destroyed

D) will have been destroying

Read the passage below and answer the questions 23-26.

Scientists have recreated the deadly 1918 Spanish flu virus, to the alarm of many researchers who fear it presents a serious security risk. Undisclosed quantities of the virus are being held in a high-security government laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, after a nine-year effort to rebuild the agent that quickly swept the globe and claimed the lives of an estimated 50 million people. It was named Spanish influenza because it was first widely reported in Spanish newspapers. The genetic sequence is also being made available to scientists online, a move that some experts fear adds a further risk of the virus being created in other labs. The virus was recreated in an attempt to understand what made the 1918 outbreak so devastating. Reporting in the journal Science, a team led by Dr Jeffery Taubenberger in the USA shows that the recreated virus is extremely effective. When injected into mice, it quickly took hold and they started to lose weight rapidly, losing 13% of their original weight in two days. Within six days all mice injected with the virus had died. "I didn't expect it to be as lethal as it was," Dr Terrence Tumpey, a scientist on the project told the journal Nature. In a comparison experiment, similar mice were injected with a contemporary strain of flu. Although they lost weight initially, they recovered. Tests showed that the Spanish flu virus multiplied so rapidly that after four days mice contained 39,000 times more flu virus than those injected with the more common strain of flu.

23. What was the reason for some researchers to worry about security at the beginning of the passage? A) The fact that scientists recreated the Spanish virus in 1918.

B) The number of people died of the Spanish flu.

C) The fact that scientists have redeveloped 1918 Spanish flu.

D) The risk that half a billion people might die of the Spanish flu.

24. The virus killing some 50 million people was called Spanish Influenza . . . A) due to being a pandemic

B) since Spanish papers was the first to give the depiction of the virus.

C) as it was first observed in Spain.

D) owing to the fact that most of the 50 million people were from Spain.

25. Why did the scientists recreate the virus? A) They aimed to know what caused the virus to be that lethal.

B) They wanted to create a biological weapon.

C) They wanted to use it again.

D) They wanted to provide its sequence online all over the world.

26. What similarly happened to both groups of mice injected both Spanish flu virus and the contemporary strain of flu.

A) They died in 6 days.

B) They recovered from the flu in some hours.

C) They initially lost weight.

D) They became ill and never recovered

Read the passage below and answer the questions 26-30.

The government and military researchers who reconstructed the virus say their work has already provided an invaluable insight into its unique genetic make-up and helps explain its lethality. But other researchers warned that the virus could escape from the laboratory. "This will raise clear questions among some as to whether they have really created a biological weapon," said Professor Ronald Atlas of the University of Louisville in Kentucky. "For me, it raises even more concerns than I already had about the potential of a flu pandemic. It looks as though an avian strain evolved in 1918 and that led to the deadly outbreak, in much the same way as we're now seeing the Asian avian flu strains evolve." The publication of the work and filing of the virus's genetic makeup to an online database followed an emergency meeting last week by the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which concluded that the benefits of publishing the work outweighed the risks. Many scientists remained sceptical. "Once the genetic sequence is publicly available, there's a theoretical risk that any molecular biologist with sufficient knowledge could recreate this virus," said Dr John Wood a UK-based virologist. "If the genetic sequence is on a database, then that is a clear security risk."

Only a handful of scientists have security clearance to access the Atlanta laboratory. Before entering, they must pull on a protective hood, put on breathing apparatus and pass through electronic fingerprint and retina scanners to prove their identity. The recreation process was laborious. Scientists collected fragments of the virus from lung tissue taken from victims at the time and preserved in formalin or, in one case, isolated from the lungs of a woman victim whose body had become frozen in the Alaskan permafrost. Viruses have escaped from high-security labs before. During the recent Sars outbreak the virus escaped at least twice, once in Taiwan and once in Singapore, when researchers became contaminated. Other scientists warned that the 1918 virus's genetic code could easily be misused. But some scientists believe a pandemic is unlikely even if the virus escapes, because of most people's natural immunities and the availability of antiviral drugs and flu vaccines.

27. What is true about the Spanish flu based on the passage?

A) It is curable yet it takes too long to cure.

B) It is not captured in laboratories as it may escape from them.

C) There are some who consider it as a biological weapon.

D) It causes unbearable pain in one’s stomach.

28. Which of the following is an identity measure applied to those having an access to the Atlanta laboratory? A) putting on breathing apparatus.

B) pulling on a productive hat.

C) passing through electronic fingerprint.

D) iris check process.

29. The word “contaminated” used in the passage means . . . A) to become pure

B) to get poisoned

C) to get vulnerable

D) to become dead

30. Which of the following factors makes the scientists feel that the virus may not be as lethal as in the past even it escaped!

A) air

B) drugs

C) tolerance in people

D) People’s mental strength