Modals Test 9

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. 

1) Failure to put the right postage on will mean that your application ______________ back, thus delaying the whole procedure for you.

2) Severe drought ______________ Brazil and Central America this year and cause serious problems for growers.

3) Oh! Thank you very much for your kindness! But you _______________ that, you know!

4) ______________ do a lot of chores at home when you were young?

5) After the earthquake, officials feared that outbreaks of cholera _______________ raise the already huge death toll.

6) Our neighbours _______________ on holiday again. I can’’t see their car!

7) Before he went blind, my father ___________ hours reading in his armchair.

8) We ______________ any kind of drug when we’’re travelling in Indonesia as one risks death penalty.

9) Your son is really clever, I was told he ___________ read and write when he was only five.

10) So far, this student ________________ write a proper letter of application despite all that education.

11) Unlike the common belief, I think we ______________ politics in class.

12) Sorry, I couldn’t come to the party! I ____________ my term paper, so I ____________.

13) The Green Line _______________ as a good film since most of the characters are well drawn and it is beautifully filmed.

14) Thank God! The exam got cancelled. Otherwise, I _______________.

15) We ______________ at 6.00 tomorrow morning if we ______________ the first train to Amsterdam.

16) They ______________ swimming lessons before being allowed on the boat. Moreover, they were requested to wear their life jackets at all times.

17) Look at our front garden! You _________ all those branches; it looks as if we had had a tornado now!

18) As the armed group was definitely anti-American, it _______________ a serious offence to speak English in front of them.

19) This is a no fly zone. Aeroplanes __________ over this area.

20) Don’t take it to heart, but I must say you’re as selfish as your sister! You ___________ me some coffee, too.