Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Students prefer .................... in group to .................. alone.
A.working – study
B.work – studying
C.work – study
D.working – studying

Did you happen to run into George last week?
A.Was it a week ago that you last saw George?
B.Did you, by any chance, see George last week?
C.Where do you think George was all last week?
D.Have you any idea what happened to George last week?

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
................ you talk, ................ I am.
A.More – more tired
B.The most – the most tired
C.The more – the more tired
D.More – the most tired

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
The river is getting ...................... in this area.
A.more polluted
B.the most polluted
C.as polluted as
D.more and more polluted

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Lan is very beautiful, but she is .............. her younger sister.
A.more beautiful than
B.the most beautiful
C.less beautiful as
D.less beautiful than

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Hoa is the same..................Mai.
A.age of
B.old as
C.age as
D.old of

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
It is not .................... it was yesterday.
A.more hot than
B.so hot as
C.the hottest
D.as hot than

Kara will turn James down if he asks her to marry him.
A.Kara has indicated that she would not marry James even if he asked her to.
B.Kara will marry James, but only if he asks her to.
C.Should James make a marriage proposal to Kara, he will be rejected.
D.James should have better sense then to ask Kara to marry him.

On account of quarantine restrictions, they will not allow us to take our dog across the border into the country.
A.We can’t bring our dog over the border into the country because there are quarantine regulations.
B.Dogs are only allowed to cross the border into the country under the quarantine regulations.
C.Quarantine regulations mean that we need official permission to take our dog across the border into the country.
D.Because of the quarantine laws, we’ll need to find a way to bring our dog over the border into the country.

Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following sentences. (10 pts)
They said that they (work) ________ there for twenty-nine years and they would stop working the following year
A.had working
B.have been working
C.had been worked
D.had been working