English Question Bank
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Q2. Your cough ______ get better if you don’t stop smoking.

1. will
2. would
3. won’t
4. didn’t

Q3. We have to break ______ all our emotional barriers to feel free.

1. away
2. down
3. into

Q4. Elephants are not really very savage animals, but occasionally they can be in a very bad temper. Their most dangerous habit at such moments is to pick up, with their trunk, a large stick or stone, and throw it with great force at someone standing nearby. When this happens the only thing anyone can do, is to jump quickly out of the way. ---------- When an elephant is in a bad temper _____.

1. it may try to hurt someone.
2. it moves its trunk from side to side.
3. one shouldn’t throw stones at it.
4. one should keep perfectly still.
5. it never shows it.

Q5. Larry was so (absorbed) in his novel that he forgot about his dinner cooking in the oven.

1. engrossed
2. obliged
3. enlivened
4. excelled
5. devastated

Q6. Some working parents ______ being absent all day by giving their children lots of presents.

1. make out
2. make out of
3. make up
4. make up for

Q7. Police officers working on the murder have _____ hundreds of families.

1. asked
2. demanded
3. enquired
4. questioned
5. requested

Q8. They ______ us just because we’re poor.

1. look down at
2. look down for
3. look down on
4. look down over

Q9. This was the first time Mary was going to fly. It wasn’t going to be a long flight; in fact, she would be in the air just under an hour. She got to the airport an hour before the plane was expected to take off. She was very excited and also a little nervous. But before long, it was announced that her flight was going to be delayed for two hours. Suddenly she felt very disappointed and didn’t know what to do while she was waiting. -------------- Mary’s flight _____.

1. left an hour early.
2. was delayed for two hours.
3. suddenly had to be cancelled.
4. was enjoyable from the beginning to the end.
5. was over far too quickly.

Q10. Many people were ----- during the Salem Witch Trials.

1. hanged
2. hung