Upper-intermediate English Grammar Test 8

1. Are you ______ or do you want me to switch on the heating ?

2. You must do ______ he says.

3. I’m going to ______ next term, because the exams are getting closer.

4. It came out many years later that ______ pair had been happily
married since ______ beginning of ______ century.

5. Although ______ brown rice is better for you, ______ most people
prefer______ white rice.

6. The Town Council ______ against raising the rents of its houses.

7. ______ Finance Minister increased ______ tax on ______ petrol in
his last budget.

8. Taylor knows a lot about ______ classical music. He seems to like
______ string quartets of Beethoven best.

9. __ ancient Egypt consisted of __ desert regions surrounding __ Nile.

10. In 1937 ____ explorer Sir Hubert Wilkens set out to search for ____
Soviet airman whose plane had gone down over ____ North Pole.

11. Not all English people ______ fish and chips.

12. All that glitters ______ not gold.

13. ______ you go, I’ll go with you.

14. It is ______ interesting book. It gives ______ wonderful picture of
what ______ life was like in ______ Victorian times.

15. ______ protein can only be found in ______ meat.

16. You look very ______. What’s the matter?

17. ______ inflation is defined as ______ persistent rise in ______ general
level of prices.

18. Economic growth is not ______ sufficient condition on its own to
ensure ______ increase in ______ economic welfare.