Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It was essential that we______ the lease before the end of the month.
A.sign
B.signed
C.had signed
D.were signing

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Paul sold everything he owned and went to live in Tahiti. Without warning, ________.
A.off the cuff
B.like a flash in the pan
C.once in a blue moon
D.out of the blue

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It’s essential that he_________. His illness seems worse.
A.need an operation         
B.needs an operate
C.need to operate
D.needed operating

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
“I phoned but you didn’t answer. You must have gone out.” – “_________”
A.I agree
B.I was
C.I must
D.I did

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
          It’s nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by others. Yet in many sports (26)________there is a mark which isn’t (27)________in itself, but which becomes as legend as athletes try to break it. The most famous of these is the attempt to run the mile in less than four minutes.
          In 1945, the mile record was (28)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (29)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (30)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.
          Two other runners set the pace for him and (31)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (32)________on running just the same….. Those (33)________few second seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape…I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save him from danger…” Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. (34)________this record had been broken on many (35)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.
(27)________
A.central
B.major
C.significant   
D.considerable

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
          It’s nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by others. Yet in many sports (26)________there is a mark which isn’t (27)________in itself, but which becomes as legend as athletes try to break it. The most famous of these is the attempt to run the mile in less than four minutes.
          In 1945, the mile record was (28)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (29)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (30)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.
          Two other runners set the pace for him and (31)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (32)________on running just the same….. Those (33)________few second seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape…I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save him from danger…” Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. (34)________this record had been broken on many (35)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.
(26)________
A.happenings
B.events
C.games
D.matches

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He escaped by ________.
A.a hair’s breadth
B.the hair’s breadth
C.the breadth of a hair
D.a breadth of a hair

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She listened so attentively that not a word__________.
A.she missed
B.she had missed
C.she didn’t miss
D.did she miss

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
My supervisor had me______ the morning taking inventory.
A.spending
B.to spend
C. spent
D.spend

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The jokes Jacks tells are as old as_________.
A.the earth
B.the mountains
C.the hills
D.the oceans