Practice 117

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1. ____ I was entering the room, the phone rang. 6.

6.If you _____ any problems, let me know and I _____

A) When and help you straight away

B) Just as A) had / would come

C) At the time B) have / will come

D) For C) had had / would come

E) An hour ago D) have / would go

2. It ____ just before the war when Colin received a 7. We ____ for Alexandria for our holiday tomorrow

letter from Germany. morning.

A) had been A) are leaving

B) was B) leave

C) is C) left

D) has been D) go

E) should be E) are going

3. Students ____ to each other when the director wanted 8. Julian was a young student when his father ____ in an

them to help him. accident.

A) were talking A) dies

B) have talked B) died

C) have been talking C) was dying

D) are talking D) is dying

E) talk E) dead

4. When he ____ a schoolboy in Ohio, Jeffrey caught a 9. Give me Peter’s letter. If I _____ him, I _____ it to him.

wounded falcon in the roof. A) see-will give

A) was B) saw-would give

B) is C) meet-would visit

C) had been D) had seen- would give

D) has been

E) would be 10. Last year I ____ camping with my friends for the last

time.

5. Jane ____ always ____ her room untidy these days. A) went

A) was / leaving B) go

B) -- / leaves C) am going

C) is/leaving D) was going

D) --/left E) have gone

E) were / left
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a) In the United States, Lake Erie was dead; in Japan, people were dying of mercury poisoning.
b) The environmental revolution has been almost three decades in the making, and it has changed forever how
companies do business.
c) In the 1960s and 1970s, corporations were in a state of denial regarding their impact on the environment.
d) Then a series of highly visible ecological problems created a groundswell of support for strict government
regaulation.
e) Today many companies have accepted their responsibility to do no harm to the environment.

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a) This is somewhat surprising, given the London Underground’s historic difficulty in grasping the concept of
pucntuality.
b) But the map has always fascinated me, and still does, even though it now seems very primitive.
c) For as long as I can remember, there has been a map in the ticket hall of Piccadilly Circus tube station supposedly
showing night and day across the time zones of the world.
d) This is because it chops the world up equally by longitude, without regard to the reality of either political divisions or
the changing seasons.

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a) It also will give him something worthwhile to live for.
b) If he fails, it may have been due to troubles in his home, his school or unsympathetic and hostile relative.
c) The finest asset any child can have is a happy home.
d) If he exhibits good judgement in later years, much of the credit must go to those who trained him.
e) Such environment will enable him to develop strength and stability of character thereby teaching him to face the
future without fear or undue anxiety.

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a) Thus begins the search for relief: painkillers, ice, yoga, herbs, even surgery.
b) Most computer users develop disorders because they ignore warnings like tingling fingers, a numb hand or a sore
shoulder.
c) They keep pointing and dragging until tendons chafe and scar tissue forms, along with bad habits that are almost
impossible to change.
d) But cures are elusive, because repetitive stress injuries present a bag of pills that often defy easy diagnosis.

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a) The general impressions that skilled negotiators seem to convey is they are people who keep their cards close to their
chest and do not reveal their feelings.
b) Hence, they used a surrogate method- they countered the number of times that the negotiators talked about their
feelings or motives.
c) This contrasts sharply with the amount of information given about external events such as facts, clarifications and
general expressions of opinion.
d) The results showed that contrary to the general impressions, skilled negotiators are more likely to give information
about internal events than are average negotiators.
e) Feelings are in themselves not observable and Huthwaite’s researchers could not measure them directly.

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