1.
The meeting ــــــــــــــــــ until the end of the month .
Correct Answer
B. Has been postponed
Explanation
The correct answer is "has been postponed". This is because the phrase "has been" is the correct form of the present perfect tense in the passive voice. In this case, it indicates that the meeting was postponed by someone or something in the past and the effects of the postponement are still ongoing until the end of the month.
2.
I'll have to come by bus as my car ــــــــــــــــــــ .
Correct Answer
C. Is being repaired
Explanation
The correct answer is "is being repaired." This is because the sentence is in the future tense and the action of repairing the car is ongoing or in progress at the time of speaking. Therefore, the present continuous tense "is being repaired" is the most appropriate choice.
3.
The gold ــــــــــــــ in a cave near the top of the mountain .
Correct Answer
A. Was discovered
Explanation
The correct answer is "was discovered". This answer is correct because it uses the past tense verb "was discovered" to describe the action of finding gold in a cave near the top of the mountain. This implies that the discovery of gold in the cave has already taken place in the past.
4.
Not much ــــــــــــــ about the accident since that time .
Correct Answer
B. Has been said
Explanation
The correct answer is "has been said". This is because the sentence is in the passive voice and is referring to something that has been stated or mentioned in the past. The use of "has been" indicates that the action of saying something happened in the past and is still relevant or ongoing in the present.
5.
The secretary ـــــــــــــ to her new boss yesterday .
Correct Answer
B. Was introduced
Explanation
The sentence is in the passive voice, indicating that the secretary is the one receiving the action. Therefore, the correct answer is "was introduced," as it correctly reflects that the secretary was the one being introduced to her new boss.
6.
Our plan ــــــــــــــــ by the member of the committee at the moment .
Correct Answer
A.
is being considered
Explanation
The correct answer is "is being considered." This is because the phrase "at the moment" suggests that the action of considering the plan is currently happening. The use of the present continuous tense "is being considered" indicates an ongoing action in the present.
7.
No clinical studies ــــــــــــــــ in this child disease research so far .
Correct Answer
D.
have been completed
Explanation
The sentence is in the present perfect tense, indicating that the action of completing clinical studies in child disease research has happened in the past and is still relevant to the present. "Have been completed" is the correct answer because it is the present perfect form of the verb "to complete" and agrees with the subject "clinical studies".
8.
The government ــــــــــــــــ that the tasks ـــــــــــــــ with great success .
Correct Answer
B.
confirms / have been maintained
Explanation
The correct answer is "confirms / have been maintained." This is because the sentence is in the present tense, so "confirms" is the correct verb form. Additionally, "have been maintained" is the correct verb form to indicate that the tasks have been successfully maintained up until the present time.
9.
This sentence : '' This surprises me'' in PASSIVE VOICE :
Correct Answer
A.
I am surprised by this
Explanation
The correct answer is "I am surprised by this" because it is in the present tense and the passive voice. The subject "I" is being acted upon by the verb "surprised" and the preposition "by" indicates the cause of the surprise.
10.
All of these sentences are correct except :
Correct Answer
B. He had got a stomachache .
Explanation
The correct answer is "He had got a stomachache." This sentence is incorrect because "had got" is redundant. The correct form should be "He had a stomachache."
11.
Bob ــــــــــــــــ breakfast on Saturday because he gets up early to go fishing .
Correct Answer
A. Doesn't have
Explanation
Bob doesn't have breakfast on Saturday because he gets up early to go fishing.
12.
Sarah ـــــــــــ a fantastic holiday in Kenya last year .
Correct Answer
A. Had
Explanation
The sentence is in the past tense and is referring to an action that Sarah experienced in the past. The word "had" is the correct form of the verb "to have" in the past tense, indicating that Sarah possessed or experienced a fantastic holiday in Kenya.
13.
I ــــــــــــــــ many friends , but Steve is the closest .
Correct Answer
B. Have - have got
Explanation
The correct answer is "have - have got". In this sentence, the word "have" is used to indicate possession or ownership of friends. However, "have got" can also be used in informal English to express the same meaning. Both "have" and "have got" are correct in this context, but "have" is more commonly used.
14.
She ـــــــــــــــ an important exam yesterday .
Correct Answer
D. Had
Explanation
The correct answer is "had". This is because the sentence is in the past tense and the word "yesterday" indicates that the action of taking the exam happened in the past. "Had" is the past tense form of the verb "have" and is used to indicate possession or ownership in the past. In this case, it is used to show that she took the important exam in the past.
15.
ـــــــــــ you ـــــــــــــ a car ?
Correct Answer
A. Do / have - have got
Explanation
The correct answer is "Do / have - have got" because the question is asking about possession of a car. In English, we use "do" as the auxiliary verb for questions in the present simple tense, and "have" is the main verb used to indicate possession. "Have got" is a common alternative phrase that can be used instead of "have" to express possession.
16.
Jana can't go to work because she ـــــــــــ bad flu .
Correct Answer
B. Has - has got
Explanation
The correct answer is "has - has got". This is because the sentence is in the present tense and "has" is the correct form of the verb "to have" for the third person singular subject "Jana". "Has got" is also a correct form, but it is more commonly used in British English.
17.
He ــــــــــــ some problems .
Correct Answer
A. Has got
Explanation
The correct answer is "has got" because the sentence is in the present perfect tense. "Has got" is the correct form of the verb "to have" in the present perfect tense when used with the pronoun "he". This form indicates that he currently possesses or is experiencing some problems.
18.
You ــــــــــــــ many pencils . You don't need another one
Correct Answer
C. Have got
Explanation
The correct answer is "have got." This is because the sentence is referring to the possession of pencils, and "have got" is the correct verb phrase to indicate possession.
19.
The sentence : " Defeating is a temporary condition " in PASSIVE VOICE :
Correct Answer
B. Being defeated is a temporary condition .
Explanation
The correct answer is "Being defeated is a temporary condition." In the passive voice, the subject of the sentence (in this case, "defeating") becomes the object, and the verb is changed to its passive form. "Being defeated" correctly represents the passive voice of the sentence, indicating that the action of being defeated is happening to someone or something. The phrase "is a temporary condition" remains unchanged as it is the predicate of the sentence.
20.
Why ـــــــــ you ــــــــــــــ by her ?
Correct Answer
B. Were / punished
Explanation
The correct answer is "were / punished." In this sentence, the subject "you" is plural, so the verb should also be plural. "Were" is the plural form of the verb "to be" in the past tense. Additionally, the word "punished" is the correct past tense form of the verb "to punish" to match the past tense verb "were." Therefore, the correct answer is "were / punished."
21.
ــــــــــــــ our invitation ــــــــــــــــــ ?
Correct Answer
B. Will / be accepted
Explanation
The correct answer is "will / be accepted." This is because when forming the passive voice in English, we use the auxiliary verb "be" followed by the past participle of the main verb. In this case, the main verb is "accept," and the future tense is indicated by the auxiliary verb "will." Therefore, the correct form is "will be accepted."
22.
Your hair is too long . You need to ــــــــــــــــــــ .
Correct Answer
C. Have it cut
Explanation
To indicate that someone needs to shorten their hair, the correct phrase to use is "have it cut." This construction implies that the person should arrange for someone else to perform the action of cutting their hair. The phrase "has it cut" is incorrect because it uses the wrong subject-verb agreement. "Had it cut" suggests that the person has already had their hair cut in the past, which may not be relevant to the current situation.
23.
Instead of buying a new bicycle , why don't you have your old one ــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ?
Correct Answer
B. Fixed
Explanation
The correct answer is "fixed". In the given sentence, the speaker is suggesting that instead of purchasing a new bicycle, the person should have their old one repaired or restored. "Fixed" is the past tense form of the verb "fix", which means to repair or mend something. Therefore, it is the appropriate word choice in this context.
24.
If you can't see properly , you should ـــــــــــــــــــــــــ .
Correct Answer
B. Have your eyes tested
Explanation
The correct answer is "have your eyes tested." This is the correct phrase to use when advising someone to get their eyes examined by a professional. The verb "have" is used to indicate that the person should arrange for the eye test to be done, and "tested" is the correct past participle form of the verb "test" in this context. The other options, "has your eyes test" and "have your eyes tests," do not use the correct verb form or agreement.
25.
I ــــــــــــــــــــــــــ a couple of days ago .
Correct Answer
C. Had my bike fixed
Explanation
The correct answer is "had my bike fixed". This is the correct answer because it uses the correct verb form "fixed" after the verb "had". In this sentence, the subject "I" had someone else fix their bike in the past.
26.
The temple , which the archaeologist explored , ـــــــــــــــ as a place of a warship in the 15th century .
Correct Answer
C. Was used
Explanation
The correct answer is "was used". This is because the sentence is in the past tense and refers to an action that happened in the past. The phrase "which the archaeologist explored" indicates that the temple was already there and had a specific purpose in the 15th century, which was being used as a place of worship.
27.
He began shouting as though he ـــــــــــــ at what he saw .
Correct Answer
C. Was annoyed
Explanation
The correct answer is "was annoyed". This is because the sentence is in the past tense and the phrase "as though" indicates that the person began shouting in a way that suggested they were already annoyed at what they saw.
28.
She is having her chocolate . "have " means :
Correct Answer
B. Eat
Explanation
The correct answer is "eat". In this context, "have" is used to mean consuming or ingesting something, specifically chocolate in this case. It implies that the person is currently in the process of eating their chocolate.
29.
"The cover of that magazine is really eye-catching " , this sentence includes :
Correct Answer
B. Meronymy
Explanation
The sentence "The cover of that magazine is really eye-catching" does not include hyponym or polysemy. However, it does include meronymy, which is a semantic relationship where a word refers to a part or component of a whole. In this case, the word "cover" refers to a part of the whole magazine.
30.
The relationship between a member and a class is called :
Correct Answer
A. Hyponym
Explanation
The relationship between a member and a class is called hyponymy. In this relationship, the member is a specific type or subtype of the class. For example, "apple" is a hyponym of the class "fruit". Hyponymy is a hierarchical relationship where the member is a subset of the class. Meronymy refers to the relationship between a whole and its parts, while polysemy refers to words with multiple meanings.