英语语法测试100题

英语语法测试100题

1.She likes _______ better than hers.

A. he and I

B. his and mine

C. his and my

D. his and me

2.You may come on Monday or Tuesday. ______ day will do.

A. Both

B. All

C. Either

D. One

3.We promise to help ______ get good jobs after graduation.

A. to each other

B. another one

C. one another

D. every another

4._______can prevent us from devoting our life to science.

A. Everybody else

B. Nothing else

C. Other nobody

D. Anything else

5.Fifty days ______ a long time for Mary, who never separated from her

child.

A. is

B. was

C. are

D. were

6._______ of his share my opinions so they have ______ in common to discuss.

A. Few, little

B. A few, little

C. Few, a little

D. A little, a few

7.They saw ______ in that room.

A. a large amount of furniture

B. many funitures

C. a large amount of furnitures

D. few furniture

8.After four years in Canada, she got ________.

A. a degree of doctor

B. a doctor’s degree

C. the degree of a doctor

D. a doctor degree

9.Statistics______that the number of housewives who work part-time has increased

in the past few years in the U.S.

A. show

B. shows

C. has showed

D. showed

10. _______ do you have for your student?

A. How much evidence

B. How much evidences

C. How many evidence

D. How many evidences

11. It was _______ that we went swimming.

A. a so hot day

B. so hot day

C. so hot a day

D. a such hot day

12. She is kind and _______ toward old people.

A. considerable

B. considered

C. considerate

D. considering

13. After his latest affair, Clinton hardly seems _____ as a president.

A. credible

B. creditable

C. credulous

D. credulity

13. I can’t believe that he played such a _______ trick on me.

A. contemptible

B. contemporary

C. contemptuous

D. contemplative

14. All the characters in this book are ______.

A. imaginary

B. imagined

C. imaginative

D. imaginable

15. Some people are _______ to odors, pollen and even light.

A. sensible

B. sensing

C. senseless

D. sensitive

16. This shirt too small for me, I want to try on _______.

A.something larger

B. something large

C. larger something

D. large something

17. He writes his letters ______.

A. largely

B. huge

C. large

D. hugely

18. Unfortunately, the bullet went ______ through his heart.

A. clean

B. clear

C. cleanly

D. clearly

19. The moon is approximately 60 times _____ from the center of the earth as we are.

A. as near as

B. as bigger

C. as far as

D. as far

20. The beauty of city is ______ words can describe.

A. more than

B. no more than

C. less than

D. no less than

21. The batter may be disconnected, the connection may be loose, _____the

bulb may

be faulty.

A. and

B. so

C. but

D. or

22._____ Mary _____ Peter have been invited to the party.

A. Either… or

B. Both … and

C. Neither … or

D. Not only … but al so

23. They went _____ they could find work.

A. wherever

B. whatever

C. whenever

D. however

24. _____ the strike has been called off, there will be no train tomorrow.

A. If

B. Only when

C. Unless

D. With

25. We would see no life on the moon, for life as we know cannot be lived____ there

is no atmosphere and _____ there are such great changes of temperature.

A. the place … the place

B. where … where

C. in which … in which

D. when … when

26. Out in space, _____ a rocket is moving, it will continue to move until something

else either pushes against it or pulls it back.

A. if

B. once

C. when

D. supposing that

27. We have made little use of the great amount of energy available ____ us from the

sun.

A. with

B. of

C. to

D. at

28. Scientists have already found problems to be associated ______ living in the

ocean are nearly the same as those of living in outer space.

A. to

B. with

C. of

D. at

29. The account is correct ______ the omission of the carriage.

A. besides

B. apart from

C. except for

D. but

30. Your composition is good ______ a few spelling mistakes.

A. except

B. besides

C. except for

D. but for

31. She speaks English very fluently. She ______ a lot of practice.

A. can have done

B. must have done

C. can do

D. may do

32. I ______ to him, but I was too busy.

A.should write

B. may write

C. should have written

D. may have written

33. You ______ stay at home if you are not feeling well today.

A. mustn’t

B. might

C. could

D. might as well

34. He was afraid that they ______ not like the idea.

A. will

B. might

C. shall

D.Must

35. On Sunday he _______ come to see me and help me with my English.

A. should

B. could

C. would

D. might

36. Do you think John will ______ his driving test?

A. get at

B. get through

C. get into

D. get over

37. We ______ about fifty big factories and made some valuable investigations.

A. called at

B. called on

C. called in

D. called off

38. She told the speaker to ______ while she was going to call the man he wanted to

speak to.

A. hold off

B. hold up

C. hold out

D. hold on

39. Some persons _______ him because he is not well educated.

A. look out

B. look after

C. look on

D. look down on

40. He ______ to listen to the midnight news on the radio.

A. stood up

B. stepped up

C. stayed up

D. stood by

41. I ______ the doctor at six this afternoon.

A. meet

B. am to meet

C. would meet

D. was going to meet

42. This is the first time ______ by air.

A. I travel

B. I had traveled

C. I travelled

D. I have traveled

43. By the end of this year, I _______ the book.

A. will finish

B. should finish

C. am going to finish

D. will have finished

44. They _____ than he called.

A. have no sooner returned

B. have hardly returned

C. had no sooner returned

D. had hardly returned

45. Once the problems ______, all other problems will be readily solved.

A. solved

B. are solved

C. solve

D. will be solved

46. I had no idea that the restaurant ________ so crowded.

A. was going to be

B. have been

C. will be

D. were

47. The teacher told the students that the earth ______ round the sun.

A. run

B. runs

C. ran

D. was running

48. At this moment the king, who__his notebook for some time, called out “Silence”.

A. was busy writing

B. had been busy writing

C. was busy to write

D. had busy writing

49. The old lady opened the mail which ______ that morning.

A. had delivered

B. delivered

C. had been delivered

D. is delivered

50. The existence of radio waves had been predicted long before they _______.

A. were discovered

B. had been discovered

C. discovered

D. have been discovered

51. If the air supply ______ from a motor engine the car would stop.

A. cut off

B. were cut off

C. had cut off

D. had been cut off

52. If things _____ as they were, the valley would have been a desert.

A had left B. were left C. had been left D. left

53. If we ______ to accelerate the motion, we should have to apply some force.

A. should want

B. want

C. would want

D. had wanted

54. _______ radio not _______, many jobs would not have been possible.

A. Had … invented

B. Were … invented

C. Had … been invented

D. Should … been invented

55. _______ he known my address, he would have come.

A. Were

B. Had

C. Did

D. Should have

56. The sun is our energy source and without it we ______ survive.

A. couldn’t be able to

B. might not

C. wouldn’t be able to

D. can’t

57. A part of the scientific method is the requirement that the investigators______ to

accept all of the facts.

A. be willed to

B. are willing

C. are willed to

D. be willing

58. It is important that the problems of water ____, for as long as men live, water will

continue to be what it is today---- next in importance to oxygen.

A. solve

B. solved

C. should solve

D. be solved

59. I wish he ______ better next time.

A. did

B. do

C. would do

D. should do

60. I would rather we ________ well.

A.are getting along

B. got along

C. get along

D. should get along

61. _____the structure of the plant is necessary for every student learning agriculture.

A. Studying

B. Study

C. To study

D. Studied

62. There is no use ______ selling the farm.

A. regret

B. regretting

C. being regretted

D. to regret

63. All his parents did was _______ him find a good job.

A. make

B. making

C. made

D. makes

64. One important way to have fresh water is ______ it from sea water.

A. make

B. made

C. making

D. to make

65. He pretended ________ when his mother went into his room.

A. study

B. to be studied

C. studying

D. to be studying

66. He was ashamed ________ to pass the exam.

A. to fail

B. to be failed

C. to have failed

D. to be failing

67. He hoped _____ what to do.

A. to advise

B. to be advising

C. to have advised

D. to be advised

68. It has proved easier _______ than _______.

A. going up … going down

B. go up … go down

C. to go up … to go down

D. to be going up … to be going down

69. Energy of a body is nothing more than the ability _____ work.

A. doing

B. do

C. to do

D. did

70. Energy ______ in fuel is chemical energy.

A. stored

B. storing

C. to store

D. to be storing

71. ____ in straight line, light cannot turn by itself and that is why there are shadows.

A. Travel

B. Travelling

C. To travel

D. Travelled

72. We put a hand above an electric fire and feel that hot air _____.

A. raising

B. raised

C. rising

D. risen

73. He regrets _______ the mistake.

A. to make

B. to have made

C. made

D. having made

74. Can you imagine him _______ famous as an actor?

A. become

B. becoming

C. to become

D. became

75. When Columbus returned to Spain, he was highly honored for __________ great

contribution to the country.

A. making

B. made

C. being made

D. having made

76. They prefer doing something to _______ nothing.

A. do

B. did

C. doing

D. done

77. She left in such a hurry that she forgot ______ the door.

A. lock

B. locked

C. locking

D. to lock

78. ________ by the Chinese people is a well-known historic fact.

A. The world’s first compass was invented

B. That the world’s first compass was invented

C. What the world’s first compass was invente d

D. Which the world’s first compass was invented

78. The fact _____ the earth and the moon attract each other is only one example of a

very general law called the law of universal gravitation.

A. /

B. that

C. which

D. it

79. That’s the best film ______ I have ever seen.

A. which

B. who

C. that

D. whom

80. _____ air has weight, it exerts force on any object immersed in it.

A. Because

B. Since

C. For

D. While

81. In fact, machine cannot do anything _______ men control them.

A. on condition that

B. if

C. otherwise

D. unless

82. Some kinds of substances are better for certain purposes ______.

A. than other kinds of matter were

B. than other kinds of matter does

C. than are other kinds of matter

D. than do other kinds of matter

83. Everything in the world, no matter_____different it may seem from other thing, is