Verb After Verb Test 7

Choose the alternative best completes each sentence.

1) To celebrate the town’s five hundredth anniversary, they are having a sculpture ______________ by a famous sculptor who was born there.

2) There isn’t any point ______________ for your examinations at the last minute. It won’t help you ______________ anything.

3) Smoking is known ______________ hazardous, yet a large number of people keep __________ it.

4) Can you tell me where ______________ the customer record cards please?

5) At first, my father had difficulty ___________ to retirement, but slowly he began to enjoy ____________ in the garden.

6) It’s typical of her ___________ more time than usual tidying up whenever she has an essay ___________.

7) The word deafness is used ______________ any degree of hearing loss, though it is most common when there is a total inability ______________.

8) Some cows in India have humps, which aid them ______________ by ______________ a store of fat and water in the dry season.

9) Our office is near the market, so on market days we can hear the traders ______________ out the prices of the goods they are selling

10) It’s difficult _________________ the rules of chess in a short time, so I think it will be easier now to show you how _______________ backgammon

11) If you had remembered ______________ your swimming costume with you, we could go ______________ in the lake now.

12) Today the managers are busy ____________ the yearly price increase.

13) Usually men don’t like to waste time ______________ in shops. They prefer ______________ shopping only when they have something particular to buy.

14) We ought to have the carpets ___________ before your parents come to visit.

15) If this mistake should cause our client ______________ his order, I will hold you personally responsible.

16) The illness from which thirty of the town’s inhabitants are suffering is believed __________ by a contaminated water supply.

17) I don’t remember ______________ that the prices have gone up, so just now, I told a customer the old price for this item.

18) It’s not worth ______________ so much at an expensive hotel if we are to spend most of our time ______________ over the hills.

19) The famous pop singers the Everly Brothers are believed ______________ up after a bitter disagreement.

20) As you chose ______________ the safety regulations, you can only blame yourself for ______________ disaster.