Modals Test 2

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1) You ________________________ anything to me. If you want to spend virtually your entire wages on lottery tickets, then that’s up to you.

2) You _____________ anything until after your operation. The nurses will tell you when it is all right.

3) Oh dear, my fruit cake is a little too sweet. I ________________ the amount of sugar I add to the mixture next time.

4) Isn’t it great that Tim and Sue have given up smoking? They both ___________ too much.

5) A: What’s happened to Mr. Meyer?
    B: He’s ill in hospital. They ___________ keep him in overnight, and if they do, he ___________ travel back to Germany tomorrow morning.

6) A: ___________ we paint the kitchen this weekend?
    B: We could, but I ____________ wait until the weather gets better because we’ll have to open the windows.

7) I’d really rather ________________ in Hawaii at the moment than stuck behind this desk all day.

8) A: I couldn’t persuade John to come to the match with us. He said he couldn’t afford it.
    B: You _________ to lend him the money.

    A: I did, but he said he _________  borrow any money at the moment.

9) You ______________ your plane ticket so far in advance because flights to Birmingham are never full.

10) In Iran and Saudi Arabia, all women ______________ their heads outside of the house, but in most Muslim countries it is optional.

11) I ______________ a stockbroker if I had wanted to, but I thought life as a bass guitarist in a heavy metal band would be far more interesting.

12) ______________ I ask you a favour? ______________  you work on Thursday night this week instead of Friday night?

13) Amy Johnson, the first woman pilot who _____________ from England to Australia, _____________ several times during her flight to fill her plane with petrol.

14) _______________ you take this screwdriver back to Mr. Smith next door and thank him for lending it to us?

15) They _______________ their house yet. They only put it up for sale yesterday.

16) We ___________ get a visa before we ___________ go to Bulgaria.

17) I only had a brief chat with Mary at the bus stop, so I ________________ to ask her how she _________________ on in her new job.

18) A: Well, I’ve got lots of great ideas, but I haven’t written anything down yet.
     B: But you _______________ us a written outline of your section of the project today!

     A: Don’t panic. I’ll do it tomorrow.

19) Our father __________ a small present for me and my sister every month when he __________ his salary.

20) I ______________ listening to pop music at all, but recently I have realised that I quite like certain pop – songs.