1.

In recent decades, the efficiency of the United

7. The orders were that we...............the area within
Nations..................by a growing number of
countries. hours to prevent further loss of life

A) had evacuated
A) will have been questioned B) have to evacuate
B) would be questioned C) will have evacuated
C) has been questioned D) shall have to evacuate
D) had been questioned E) had to evacuate
E) was questioned 8. As I..................you yesterday, the undersecretary
2. We..................no problems whatsoever with the .................over this afternoon’s discussions
dam
since it.................forty years ago. A) have told / was presiding
B) told / will be presiding
A) had / has been constructed C) would have told / had presided
B) were having / was being constructed D) will tell / has presided
C) have had / was constructed E) would tell / has been presiding
D) had had / had been constructed 9. For a hundred years or so, some critics
E) are having / is constructed ................. that poetry is dying, and all that
3. Before I got to the end of his article, I felt I knew time poets
everything there about the North America .................poems that later generations recognize
Free Trade Agreement. as
great.
A) had known
A) have maintained / have been writing
B) was to know
B) maintained / wrote
C) is known
C) had maintained / were writing
D) is being known
D) maintain / are writing
E) has to be known
E) would maintain / had been writing
4. It seems likely that by the end of the week, the
costs involved in the construction of the bridge 10. What I ................. is that we....................to think
................. by the Ministry. seriously about a thorough reform in the
legal system.
A) would have been announced
A) have proposed / should have begun
B) have been announced
B) had proposed / were beginning
C) would be announced
C) am proposing / begin
D) are being announced
D) was proposing / have begun
E) will have been announced
E) proposed / had begun
5. One feels that there...............any noticeable
improvement in the human rights problem in 11. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni
Africa until all the African countries...their Schiaparelli
economic difficulties. ................. a map of Mars in 1877, he................a
large number of straight linear features, which he
called "canali", that is, channels.
A) cannot be / will overcome
B) hasn’t been / had overcome A) publishes / has noted
C) won’t be / overcome B) had published / was noting
D) wouldn’t be / would be overcome C) has published / notes
E) wasn’t / have overcome D) published / noted
6. The Etruscans, who...............a great part of Italy E) would have published / had noted
about 900 B.C.,................from Asia Minor.
12. In the past few months, our company director
.................more mettle than most industrialists
A) had colonized / originally came
.................in an entire career.
B) colonized / had originally come
C) were colonized / have originally come A) had shown / have done
D) have colonized / originally come B) showed / would do
E) were colonizing / might originally come C) shows / did
D) was showing / may have done
E) has shown / do
13. The history of the Venetian republic.............to an 17. Last week’s supplementary budget package
end in 1797 when Venice..............over to Austria .................to prevent Japan's economy from
by Napoleon. plunging
even lower.
A) was coming / would have been handed
B) had come / has been handed A) is being designed
C) comes / had been handed B) has designed
D) came / was handed C) was designed
E) was questioned D) would be designed
14. The Pacific markets...............extremely E) had designed
competitive 18. Russia...................earlier this week that it
since the manufacturing capacity of many Far ...................all its troops out of Georgia.
Eastern countries................to improve at the
turn
A) had announced / pulled
of the decade.
B) announces / would have pulled
A) are becoming / begins C) announced / had pulled
B) had become / would begin D) is announcing / has pulled
C) became / have begun E) has announced / was pulling
D) were becoming / would have begun 19. To the astronomers of the Middle Ages, the
E) have become / began most important classical authorities on natural
philosophy
15. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers .................Aristotle and Ptolemy, since both
currently detained in Britain in prison with no .................frameworks that explained the whole
right universe.
of appeal, even though the vast majority
................. with any offence, let alone convicted.
A) had been / created
A) were held / are not charged B) are / have created
B) are being held / have not been charged C) were / had created
C) have been held / would not be charged D) have been / create
D) being held / had not been charged E) may have been / were creating
E) will be held / were not being charged 20. North Korea still.................a vast police state that
..................a network of concentration camps
16. When they heard gunfire across the border, the spanning the country.
relief workers in the camp knew that another
group of refugees before long.
A) was maintaining / has included
A) are arriving B) had maintained / would include
B) had arrived C) is maintaining / had included
C) will arrive D) maintains / includes
D) would be arriving E) maintained / will include
E) could have arrived
 Answer
Key:
1: C 11: D
2: C 12: E
3: B 13: D
4: E 14: E
5: C 15: B
6: B 16: D
7: E 17: C
8: B 18: C
9: A 19: C
10: 20: D
C