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Q2. 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.

Q3. Many people considered it to be cruel to send animals in rockets into outer space. Many people consider that _______ cruel to send animals in rockets into further space.

1. to be
2. it to be
3. it is
4. it was

Q4. My friends all called and told me to hang in there after I'd

1. left for my honeymoon
2. decided to go sky-diving
3. broken my leg in an accident

Q5. If you say that something costs an arm and a leg,

1. it is extremely cheap
2. it is not worth the money
3. it is very expensive

Q6. Mrs. March was afraid of leaving the student teacher with her third period class because she feared that the student teacher was a bit too (green) to be left alone with such a wild bunch.

1. Mrs. March felt that the student teacher was too inexperienced.
2. Mrs. March felt that the student teacher was too jealous of some of the students.
3. Mrs. March felt that the student teacher was too nice.
4. Mrs. March felt that the student teacher was too sick to handle the children.

Q7. Jeremy had to eat humble pie because

1. there was nothing else to eat
2. he wanted to seem humble
3. it was clear he was wrong

Q8. Why do our students always cheat in tests? I don't know, I haven't the ……… .

1. foggiest thought
2. foggiest idea
3. foggiest notion
4. foggiest answer

Q9. I’ll stay home if it ______.

1. rained
2. rains
3. will rain
4. won’t rain

Q10. . Mrs. Robinson expects Cassie and my presentation to be good, but we have been working on it every night for the last week, so we are really going to (knock her socks off)

1. Cassie and the speaker are not prepared to give a good presentation
2. Cassie and the speaker intend on hitting Mrs. Robinson rather than presenting.
3. Cassie and the speaker’s presentation will far exceed Mrs. Robinson’s expectations.
4. Cassie and the speaker’s presentation will meet Mrs. Robison’s expectations.