I - I wish you _____________ all the water! I’m thirsty.

II - If you hadn’t helped me, I ___________ the task so easily.

III - If you __________ me back, I wouldn’t have to borrow money from my parents.

IV - If it ________________ for the goalkeeper, our team would have lost.

‘Could I help you, sir?’

‘Would you be so kind as to tell me how much __________________________?’

"AlI persons who are assigned duty as officer of a watch or as a rating forming part of a watch shall be provided a minimum of 10 hours of rest in any 24-hour period."

According to the text above is correct to affirm that:

Which of the alternatives below completes the sentence correctly? 

(1) _____ is a bad habit and it can cause lung cancer. 

Which sequence best completes the text below? 

Months and years passed, and I grew more distant (1)___ each (2)____ my friends. Various people flew (3) _____ and (4) _____ of my life. I lost some friends to distance, some to circumstance. Mostly, they just drifted away (5)____ me, toward their own lives. A few of these people are still in my life, and I'm very lucky, because not everyone still has a friend who knew them when they were seventeen. 

(Adapted from http://www.notmyshoes.net/monologues/rachei.html) 

Which sequence best completes the text below?

We ’re in danger of (1)___ locked in the midfield stalemate of agreement, so allow me (2)____ up the left wing. Given the extraordínary wealth of top flight football in this country, I do think the game owes a greater degree of pastoral care to its players, and of a more profound nature than (3)____ out their cars and living arrangements. Football clubs now gain control over players when they1re youngsters, but not nearly enough effort is put into (4)___ rounded, educated individuais.

(Adapted from http://www.guardian.co.uk)

What is the best sequence to complete the paragraph?

This place looks like a thousand other hotel bars up and down the country ... until (1)____ take into account (2 )____ location: reached via a half-hidden lift in the lobby of St George1s hotel. Perched 15 floors above Oxford Circus, the bar offers some of the best views of central London through (3)_____ "wall of Windows". (4) _____ also lies next door to the BBC's Broadcasting House, so you1re almost guaranteed to see a minor celebrity or two.

{Adapted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011) 

Which alternative best reports the stranger's speech in this passage?

In 1953, I got married. A few weeks after the wedding, I suddenly fell ill. My husband took me to a hospital. I was there for almost a week. I was in so much pain. And no one could say for sure what was wrong. One night, in the hospital, a stranger came to see me. He told me, "Janie, you1 re going to die tomorrow". That was my name then, the name I was born with.

(Adapted from http://www.notmyshoes.net/monologues/ hannah-march.html)

 Which is the correct option to complete the sentence below?

Windsurfing will be dropped from {1)____ Olympics after (2)____ London 2012 Games and will be replaced by (3)____ kiteboarding for (4) Rio 2016 Games.

(Adapted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/olympics-2012) 

Which alternative contains a clause from the passage in the active voice?

The ABSTRACT is not a part of the body of the report itself. Rather, the abstract is a brief suramary of the report contents that is often separately circulated so potential readers can decide whether to read the report. The abstract should very concisely summarize the whole report: why it was written, what was discovered or developed, and what is claimed to be the significance of the effort. The abstract does not include figures or tables, and only the most significant numerical values or results should be given.

(Adapted from http://www.columbia.edu)

Which is the correct alternative to complete the following instructions?

(1)_____ a game card in the card slot. (2)_____ power. Important: (3)____ insert or remove cards when the power is on as it damages the machine. (4) _____ the game card icon.  

Which of the alternatives below correctly completes the sentence?

What I like about Jenny is that she always comes (1) ____with great ideas.

In which two sentences the verbs are NOT followed by the correct preposition?

(1) They had to leave to the party right after work.

(2) He's always dreaming with his ex-girlfriend.

(3) She strongly disagreed with him.

(4) They had to apologize for being rude.

The correct answer is

Which sequence best completes the text below?

Apple (1)____ over 15 million iPads just in the final three months of 2011. Now the popular tablet Computer (2)____ in its third generation. But as Apple prepared (3)____ a new iPad on March 7th, it (4)____ legal challenges in China over rights to the name of the device.

(Extracted from http://www.manythings.org/ipad/e/v.php?v=4GmNlCqctLU)