By criticising the firm at the meeting, Leo……………..his own grave. Did you see how furious the boss was?




A.is digging
B.dug
C.has been digging
D.had dug

I’m afraid Archie will get drunk at the party no matter what his wife …………to prevent it.




A.would do
B.were doing
C.will do
D.does

“So finally, when shall we meet?” - “Any time you wish. Of course, only after you……………the matter with Mr Gray.”




A.will settle
B.will have settled
C.shall settle
D.have settled

From a strictly medical point of view all the children ought to have been vaccinated three months ago.. Anyway we should begin vaccinating them the day the vaccine………………….ready.




A.is
B.was
C.would be
D.had been

Would you mind telling me what you…………….to do for the last half an hour?




A.have been trying
B.had been trying
C.are trying
D.were trying

“I will let you know the answer by the end of this week,” Peter said to Daisy.




A.Peter insisted on letting Daisy know the answer by the end of the week.
B.Peter promised to give Daisy the answer by the end of the week.
C.Peter offered to give Daisy the answer by the end of the week.
D.Peter suggested giving Daisy the answer by the end of the week.

If the place where they……………themselves at the end of the operation doesn’t have electricity, they will have to use their car battery.




A.will find
B.found
C.find
D.will have found

We..................a party next Saturday. Can you come?




A.will have
B.are having
C.have
D.will have had

If I were to leave my country, I_____disappointed.




A.probably
B.would have been
C.will be
D.would be

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 (61)________there is a mark which isn’t (62)________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 (63)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (64)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (65)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.
Two other runners set the pace for him and (66)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (67)________on running just the same….. Those (68)________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. (69)________this record had been broken on many (70)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.




A.on
B.in
C.with
D.by