Modals Test 1

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1) You ______________ the meeting this week if you are too busy. There is going to be another one next week and you ______________ to that one.

2) You look as if you are having trouble with your homework. ______________ you like me to help you with it?

3) I thought that I had my keys with me, but I can’t find them in my coat. I __________________ them in my other coat.

4) I’ve heard that Mr Benner is the toughest teacher for this course. You ______________ to get another teacher, or you can’t get a good mark.

5) You ______________ to bed early the night before an exam. A good night’s sleep will do you more good than studying all night and then falling asleep in the exam.

6) The company had sent the advertisement to the newspaper when they realised they’d mistyped the salary they were offering for the position. Luckily, they ____________ the newspaper to correct their mistake before they printed it.

7) Would you mind ______________ your music so loudly? I’m trying to study.

8) The former president never ______________ to the press, but this one is much more accessible.

9) A: I wish I hadn’t criticised Mark’s drawings yesterday because he hasn’t spoken to me today. Do you think he’ll come to my party on Friday?
    B: Possibly, he ______________  you by then.

10) Since the day his manager transferred him to the foundry section of the steel works, he ______________  safety goggles.

11) Hurray! We ______________ to school today because it is snowing so hard.

12) Wilber ______________ smoking and eating meat after his heart attack, but he didn’t and now he has had a second one.

13) A: This student has circled the mistakes in the text, but he hasn’t corrected them, so he’ll only get half marks.
     B: He ________________ the instructions properly.

14) As a single woman, Lucy _________________  quite a lot of money on clothes, jewellery and cosmetics, but now married with two children, she can’t spare so much money on them.

15) According to the weather report, it ________________ tomorrow, and if it does, we ________________ the hike I’ve been looking forward to.

16) A: Are you going to enroll on the second course when we finish this one?
     B: I don’t know. It’s tiring coming every day after work. I _________________  a month before I start the second course.

17) James will book the hotel rooms for the German representatives and you ____________ them at the airport at eight o’clock. Is that clear?

18) I know you have a lot of work to do, but it is your own fault; you ________________ everything until the last minute.

19) _______________ lending me $20 so that I don’t have to give the taxi $100 dollar note?

20) A: Jack doesn’t work for a computer company, so why has he gone to the computer exhibition?
     B: I don’t know. He ______________ interested in buying a computer to use at home or perhaps he’s thinking of starting his own company.