Grammar

If the others hadn’t voted in favor of the younger candidate, I probably wouldn’t have done so -------

• even

• either

• too

------- suggestion he may make as regards the tax rate, let’s not give any response ------- we have discussed the matter thoroughly together.

• However / when

• Whatsoever / while

• Whatever / until

Most newspapers are of the opinion that if a majority of Scots really ------- independence, the British Parliament has no option but ------- to their wishes.

• do want / to accede

• wanted / have acceded

• would have wanted / acceded

For a hundred years or so, some critics ------- that poetry is dying and all that time poets ------- poems that later generations recognize as great.

• maintained / wrote

• have maintained / have been writing

• maintain / are writing

What I ------- is that we ------- to think seriously about a thorough reform in the legal system.

• have proposed / should have begun

• had proposed / were beginning

• am proposing / begin

When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli ------- a map of Mars in 1877, he ------- a large number of straight linear features, which he called “canali” that is “channels”

• published / noted

• would have published / had noted

• publishes / has noted

The telephone is at the centre of innovative technologies ------- may alter forever ------- we receive and use information

• which / but

• so that / since

• that / how

The editor thought that the new series of articles would prove very popular, but actually hardly ------- seems to have been impressed by it.

• nobody

• anyone

• the other

Today the United States, still by far ------- prosperous country in the world, is increasing its working hours ------- creating a more positive balance between work and leisure time.

• more / than

• the more / as well as

• the / just as