Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences.

1. How do you usually ……… your friends (by text, phone...)?
A. get rid of
B. get on with
C. get to know
D. get in touch with ✔

2. How often do you ……… things (e.g. clothes) that you don't use any more?
A. get rid of ✔
B. get on with
C. get to know
D. get in touch

3. I used ……… with that boy over there.
A. going out
B. to go out ✔
C. to going out
D. go out

4. We ……… close friends, but we don't see each other any more.
A. usually are
B. use to
C. used to be ✔
D. didn't used to be

5. My son is ……… university.
A. in
B. on
C. out
D. at ✔

6. I want to buy ……… new car.
A. a ✔
B. on
C. out
D. Φ

7. I think ……… red dress suits you, but take your time. There are lots of other shops we can try.
A. a
B. an
C. the ✔
D. Φ

8. My sister plays tennis and she ……… goes swimming once a week.
A. also ✔
B. according to
C. whereas
D. however

9. Do you agree ……… your friends about politics?
A. with ✔
B. on
C. for
D. to

10. Are you going to apply ……… a job soon?
A. with
B. on
C. for ✔
D. to

11. Are you interested ……… fashion?
A. on
B. at
C. about
D. in ✔

12 I am good at ……… quick decisions.
A. make
B. making ✔
C. help
D. helping

13. I find it easy ……… theoretical principles.
A. to do
B. doing
C. to understand ✔
D. understanding

14. Nobody likes him. He has ……… friends.
A. many
B. much
C. very few ✔
D. very little

15. I don't have ……… time for myself
A. any ✔
B. some
C. no
D. yet

16. There aren't ……… in the city centre.
A. much car parks
B. a lot car parks
C. enough car parks ✔
D. car parks enough

17. My brother ……… in 1999
A. is born
B. was born ✔
C. born
D. will born

18. The film ……… a famous novel.
A. was based on ✔
B. based on
C. based
D. have based

19. The football match ……… tomorrow.
A. is played
B. was played
C. is being played
D. will be played ✔

20. 'I like shopping.' She said that she ……… shopping.
A. likes ✔    This is considered to be a fact.  In choosing B, it means that now she no longer likes to shop.
B. liked ✔
C. has liked
D. doesn't like

21. 'Where do you live?' She asked me ……….
A. where do I live ✔     These are two possible answers and used all the time in speech.  However, B. where I live             there is a slight meaning.  The first one means the current place you are 
C. where did I live        living at. The other one means the previous place you had lived before 
D. where I lived ✔        the current place.  However, in the strictest grammar environment, D is not
                                  quite grammartically correct, unless you are talking in some fantasy story 

                                  setting that people die and can be reborn with past memories.  Other than                                     this, if D is worded as, "where I had lived before" would be grammatically                                       perfect.

22. 'Don't worry.' The doctor told me ……….
A. to worry
B. not to worry ✔
C. don't worry
D. worried

23. It's a book ……… tells you how to relax.
A. who
B. whom
C. whose
D. which ✔

24. My neighbour, ……… son goes to my son's school, has just re-married.
A. who
B. whom
C. whose ✔
D. which

I think that

20 should be A 

21 should be B