Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Christopher Columbus _______________ America more than 500 years ago.
A. discovered            
B. has discovered 
C. had discovered               
D. had been discovering

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
The rain ____________________. Come out, I want to speak to you. 
A. stops           
B. stopped                
C. has stopped                
D. is stopping

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
We were very much surprised. We were ___________ surprised.
A. more  
B. many  
C. most 
D.  the most

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
He doesn't catch anything. He never catches _____________________.
 
A. nothing             
B. anything             
C. something               
D. everything

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Some of the students began to fall asleep _____________ the lecture was boring and irrelevant.
 
A. as                      
B. due to                  
C. because of                   
D. on account of

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Poachers deserve strict ________________ for what damage they have caused to wildlife. 
A. estimation                     
B. award                      
C. location                         
D. punishment

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
We started our journey ___________ foot. 
A. with  
B. by  
C. on  
D. in

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
A _____________________ few the test. 
A. have failed           
B. has failed               
C. is failing                
D. failing

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Which thief got a fright? ______________________ with the money. 
A. He              
B. Him                 
C. That                     
D. The one

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Many companies don't require their employees ______________ formal clothing to work, so men _____________ wear suits.
A. wearing - mustn't                
B. to wear - don't have to
C. wearing - don't have to               
D. to wear - mustn't