Grammar/advance

In the 1960s, the modernist idea that there ------ only one authentic style for the modern age ----- in favour of the ideas of the plurality of styles.

• could be / will have been rejected

• can be / is rejected

• could have been / is being rejected

• could be / was rejected

When photography first appeared, some people predicted that it -------- the death of painting.

• will have caused

• will cause

• would have caused

• caused

• would cause

In the end, he admitted that he -------- the fire -------at such a speed.

• hadn't expected / to spread

• didn't expect / to have spread

• wasn't expecting / spreading

• hadn't been expecting / having spread

The name Adonis was given -------- a stream rising in Mount Lebanon which runs red -------- the soil of the hills after a sudden fall of rain.

• in / by

• for / in

• at / from

• to / with

In the Franco-Prussian war, balloons were used to maintain the city's contacts -------- the outside world ------- the siege of Paris.

• from / over

• with / during

• for / at

• through / in

The sustaining role of the family may go unappreciated ------- the younger members, but the older ones are fully aware -------- its value.

• for / from

• by / of

• from / off

• to / by

Wellington's abandonment of an attempt to make a Tory government was not -------- due to the threats of civil war -------- to Peel's refusal to join a Tory government.

• so far / as if

• as / as

• as much / than

• so much / as

Income tax can be fitted more closely to the individual taxpayer's ability than -------- tax.

• any other

• any

• other

• some

The occupational psychologist is often regarded by industrialists as being-------- academic to serve any practical purpose.

• too much

• so

• too

• more

In the works of many twentieth-century dramatists, it is possible to see ------- the individual writer's ideas and experience ------ some of the social and political developments of his period.

• as much / as

• not only / but also

• only / such as

• more / than