Upper-intermediate English Grammar Test 9

1. Since the old lady’s husband died, she’s been living ______.

2. There was ______ anyone could do to help.

3. I don’t want to stay here ______.

4. The migration of the ducks was due to the ______ of colder weather.

5. Neither of them ______ interested in history.

6. The weather changed ______. There was an ______ change in the weather.

7. Her condition improved ______. There was a ______ improvement in her condition.

8. He works so hard that there are ______ minutes in the day when
he’s not busy doing something.

9. Heart disease remains the ______ of diseases. It killed about 750,000
Americans last year, almost 40 percent of all ______.

10. It is very difficult to drive in ______.

11. Larry is a friendly person. He meets new people ______ he goes.

12. They were all strangers to me. I’d met______ of them before.

13. I suppose he wanted to get home as ______ as ______.

14. Nobody ______ objecting to the decision to closedown the factory.

15. ______ way is acceptable.

16. It seemed ______ that we would ______ have a crash.

17. The nurse is very ______. She spoke ______.

18. Poor people from rural areas are migrating to the cities to find work
and _____ the circles of slum housing in many suburbs are growing
larger.