If you like, we ________ volleyball with the children while the men ____________ up the barbecue.




A.could play – are setting
B.could have played – have set
C.will play – were setting
D.can play – had been setting

Those__ approve of strip mining point out that coal is needed.




A.of which
B.which
C.whom
D.who

A.socialise
B.memory
C.tradition
D.animal

After paying the bill I had some money left and so I ________ a T-shirt with Magic Johnson, which my son said was the best present he had ever received.




A.was able to buy
B.might buy
C.could have bought
D.might have to buy

It ‘s good I got interested in that bottle. Granny _____ the poison the it for her asthma medicine because the bottle was unmarked.




A.might have swallowed
B.had swallowed
C.could swallow
D.was able to swallow

You know how upset she was that night. You ________ her everything all right. Why were you so cruel?




A.should tell
B.ought tell
C.could have told
D.may have told

Since the day his manager transferred him to the foundry section of the steel works, he _________ safety goggles.




A.will be wearing
B.must have worn
C.ought to wear
D.has had to wear

On that evening the landlady let us into her kitchen and so we ________ the normal gas cooker with four rings. Making so many pancakes on my two-ring electric stove would have taken too long.




A.could use
B.could have used
C.were able to use
D.may have used

“Must I take my umbrella?” – “No, you _______. It ‘s not going to rain.”




A.mustn’t
B.have to
C.needn’t
D.don’t

She __________ , but luckily, a lifeguard spotted her and rescued her.




A.has drowned
B.ought to drown
C.could have drowned
D.might drown