Modals Test 8

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. 

1) We _______________ offices soon. I saw the boss this morning viewing the new office block next to the station.

2) A: Did you have a busy day at the shop? If you did, you _______________ rushed off your feet without me there.

    B: No, I wasn’t. It was quite a quiet day.

3) I was just about to buy a new pair when the police rang to say my handbag had been found with my glasses still inside, so I ______________ a new pair after all.

4) A: Why is she still perspiring? She ____________ too hot — I’ve taken her sweater off.

    B: In that case, she _______________ a fever. You’d better take her temperature.

5) Please Mum, _______________ I watch the film tonight? I have finished all my homework.

6) I really miss Istanbul, where I lived when I was younger. On summer evenings, we ____________ along the coast by the Sea of Marmara when the Sun was setting behind Kinaliada

7) A: Julester looks so slim.

    B: Has she been dieting?

    A: Not that I’m aware of.

    B: Well, she _______________ very hard then. She goes horse-riding, doesn’t she?

8) You _______________ a tie on Friday. They don’t let men into the restaurant unless they wear a tie.

9) Jennifer _______________ the promotion that she is expecting as she hasn’t reached her sales target yet.

10) Mum, according to what the doctor instructed you to do, you _______________ any salt on your food, you know! If you insist on eating that much salt, you’re bound to have another heart attack!

11) Alfred _______________ his ankle badly as we _______________ in the mountains last Saturday.

12) _______________ I look after Katie for a couple of hours so that you and Kevin can go to the cinema?

13) During the strike of the railway workers, many commuters _____________ a taxi to and from work by coming three or four people together so that they could afford it.

14) We _______________ by the river, but unfortunately, the riverside car park was full.

15) You _______________ some more appointments to get some more business. You’re never going to achieve your sales target at this rate.

16) You haven’t got time to do the gardening. I think you _______________ a gardener, don’t you think so?

17) The management _______________ some measures like increasing salaries or improving working conditions. Otherwise, we will continue to lose our most efficient employees.

18) To improve performance at work, you _____________ the ability to set priorities and to separate the relevant from the irrelevant when facing the many tasks of the day.

19) The more you honestly and sincerely listen to another person, the more that other person _____________ and trust you and want to give you additional help and responsibilities.

20) Don’t get mad! I __________________.