Beginner - Intermediate level (21)

201. He ... all the information he needed. Now we … no value to him.

• a) found / are

• b) find / was

• c) don’t find / were

202. Lucy ... a successful businesswoman in the steel industry after she had married the president’s youngest son. Originally, she comes from a poor small village whose inhabitants have … access to good education.

• a) become / few

• b) became / little

• c) will became / a little

203. He ... him 720 dollars yesterday even though he is very well aware that Alex is … squandering the money on gambling.

• a) give / certain

• b) gave / certainly

• c) have given / certainty

204. They ... an international phenomenon after their single ‘Crying In The Rain’ topped the hot-100 list in Billboard for 5 weeks in a row. Now they … gigs around the world.

• a) isn’t/doing

• b) becomes/are done

• c) became/are doing

205. It was really lucky of me that I ... the file online while searching for something else.

• a) find

• b) found

• c) have been finding

206. We ... all our money in a local bank in 2019. However, During the pandemic, life … so difficult. We had to withdraw half the money for … necessities such as food, water and electricity.

• a) keeps / is / basis

• b) kept / was / basic

• c) don’t keep / were / based

207. My colleague ... the USB near his computer and somebody took it. It … all the information of several projects he is working on. Now, … his panic, he’s tearing the office apart and asking everyone if they have seen it.

• a) put / contains / in

• b) to put / containment / on

• c) have put / containing / at

208. They promised to ... our little secret.

• a) keep

• b) kept

• c) didn’t kept

209. She ... him one more chance to right his wrongs. If he fails one more time, she … no choice but to officially exile him from the oasis.

• a) given / has had

• b) gave / has

• c) giving / have

210. He ... a beautifully sculpted head of a deer in the middle the desk. He stood there by the window, looking at the sculpture … exactly one hour. He, then, frowned and screamed … because there was a scratch on the deer’s antlers.

• a) putting / on / anger

• b) put / for / angrily

• c) has put / at / angry