- Call me at 10 p.m. By that time my parents ________________________.   Will have left.

- Can i pay by check? I don't have any cash on me   Sorry, we only take hard cash

- Can i see your ticket, please?   I'm affraid i can't find it

- Can I speak _____ Anne please?   to

- Can you drive me _____ the station?   to

- Can you drive? No _____   I can't

- Can you give me _____ water?   some

- Can you lend your camera ____ Tom?   to

- Can you show me on the map where I am?   Può mostrarmi sulla pianta dove mi trovo?

- Careful, you are going ____ the glasses.   to drop

- Cars and insurance are hard to........   sell

- Choose the alternative which means the same as the word in square brackets. Mary is [nearly] sure she turned the stove off.   almost

- Choose the best answer for this question: Are you ready?   Yes, I am

- Choose the best answer for this question: Can I speak to the director, please?   Certainly, sir. Just a moment

- Choose the best answer for this question: Do your parents live in France?   No, they don?t

- Choose the best answer for this question: When did you come back from lunch?   An hour ago

- Choose the best answer for this question: When do you play squash?   On Wednesday afternoons

- Choose the best answer for this question: Where is the next candidate?   He?s waiting in the corridor

- Choose the best phase to complete this sentence: The Home Office said that they ____ who was responsible.   didn?t yet know

- Choose the best phrase to begin this sentence: ___ that the equivalent output of around 50 power stations across Europe could be saved by increasing the efficiency of electrical appliances on ?standby?.   It has been calculated

- Choose the best phrase to begin this sentence: did it take you to finish the job?   How long

- Choose the best phrase to begin this sentence: people sympathised with her situation, her decision to resign seemed very hasty.   However much

- Choose the best phrase to begin this sentence: the cutbacks for 2006 proposed at the end of last year, the board of directors made it clear that it regarded all previous agreements as null and void.   Having failed to approve

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: Hello, reception? ____ an external line please?   Can I have

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: If you are going to be interviewed for a new job, you _____ as much as possible about what the interview will be like. Who'll be interviewing you? Does the interview include any tests or exercises?   should find out

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: Is there anything to eat? We ____ .   are hungry

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: It?s a really stressful situation. You _____ to attend a meeting at any time, you know.   could be asked

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: The company is in trouble. Not only ____ to increase productivity, we have also seen an increase in costs.   have we failed

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: There?s no point _____ about the future. The future will take care of itself.   in worrying

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: Why don?t you buy yourself some new clothes? If you know you look good, you _____ more confident.   will definitely feel

- Choose the best phrase to complete the following: You _____ the meeting yesterday. It was very important.   shouldn?t have missed

- Choose the best phrase to complete the opening sentence of a letter to a magazine: Sir, I _____ an error on page 60 of your April issue in the article on rail privatisation.   must point out

- Choose the best phrase to complete this information from a holiday website: The Comfort Hotel, Patong: Closed from 26 December 2004 until ____.   further notice

- Choose the best phrase to complete this passage: The critics were very negative about the new film by Helgar Barn. Although it was expected to become a cult movie, the pace was slow and the subject matter dreary. Altogether it was _____ than had been expected!   far less entertaining

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question. ____ to do Phoenix?s MBA program face-to-face or online?   Is it cheaper

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question. _____ money did the government ask Griffiths for?   How much

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question: _____ a scanner in the office?   Is there

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question: _____ to drive if you have had more than two alcoholic drinks?   Are you allowed

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question: Could you ____ date of birth please?   tell me your

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question: Does anyone know how much ____ on staff per year?   the department spends

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question: How many questions ____ in this test?   are there

- Choose the best phrase to complete this question: What ____ tomorrow?   are you doing

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence : I am going to London to do a summer course to ____.   get to know the language better

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence. There are no shops ____ the Ministry of Justice.   close to

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: ?White-collar crime? is generally committed by ____.   professional people

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: ____ is part of an attempt to reduce the national debt.   The sale of public services

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: _____ I listened to a football match on the radio.   Yesterday evening

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: _____ is to write stories based on known facts.   A journalist's job

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: A group of French people said they _____ litigation against the Mayer chemical group because of cardiac problems after using a pain killer.   would begin

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: A holiday website offers peaceful, relaxing hoildays where you can get _____ it all.   away from

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: A new deal ____ to the unions by the government.   has been offered

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: By 1999 the FBI had doubled their personnel and tripled their budget, but they knew it was not ____ .   nearly enough

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Chinese immigrants have lived in this district ____.   for many years

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber _____ Britain's 65th richest person, with an estimated fortune of ?700 million.   is ranked as

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Congratulations to the Italian Federation for allowing Ms de Filippis to take part in a Grand Prix, something that the RAC is afraid to do, banning, as it does, _____ Ms Mitchell and Ms Bloxham from any hope of competing professionally.   such drivers as

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Eritrea is the most exciting country ____.   I have ever visited

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Everyone ____ pay taxes.   has to

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: For security reasons we will never _____ provide sign-in passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information through email.   ask you to

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: He apologised _____ late at the meeting.   for arriving

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: He went to university ____ political science.   to study

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: He?s a ____ .   colleague of mine

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Her beauty owes more to ____.   art than nature

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Her sister is expecting a baby in June, so they _____ a holiday this year.   won't be having

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: He's worked in this department ____.   for a long time

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: I am not familiar with this technology yet so I am going to ____ research on it.   do some

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: I have ____ admiration for working mothers.   nothing but

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: I like _____.   playing volleyball

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: I work _____ Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.   at the

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: I?ve arranged to meet a friend in a city centre café, but first of all I have to _____ there on my own.   find out how to get

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: I?ve been trying ____ with him all week, but he?s never in the office and his mobile always seems to be busy.   to get in touch

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: I?ve heard that you _____ for a new job.   have applied

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: If you don?t know his telephone number, you can _____ in the yellow pages.   look it up

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: It _____ worrying about meeting the deadline, because they are quite prepared to give us an extra month to get the job finished.   isn?t worth

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: It was recently reported that the Home Secretary was advocating fines for ____ in political elections, just as in Austria, Greece or Belgium.   not voting

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Italy's public debt is ___.   the highest in Europe

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Last Saturday bore witness to the biggest protest march that Scotland____.   had ever seen

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: On Fridays, public offices _____ early.   usually close

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: On Sept. 11, 2001, al- Qaeda ____ to bypass the U.S. counterterrorism structure.   was able

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Please respond to the following questions to help _____ your account.   us set up

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Prof. Mallard of the Space Science Laboratory said: ?_____ penetrated the nucleus of a comet.?   Never before have we

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Rome is ____ .   a very beautiful city

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: She asked me what ____.   the new supervisor was like

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: She's going to start a three- year course in dentistry ____.   next year

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The company _____ in the red for some years when it was forced to close down.   had already been operating

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The concert begins at _____.   eight o?clock this evening

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The concert in Hyde Park required very ____.   careful planning

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The conference ____ in London ? it was there last year and it?s never in the same place two years? in a row.   can?t be

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The experts think that the company will do well next year and ____ .   so do I

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The famous English writer, E. M. Forster, ____.   never married

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The new CEO is clearly capable of doing anything she _____.   sets her mind to

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The office ____ open on Saturdays.   is not

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The planet Jupiter is ____ the Earth.   bigger than

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The Prime Minister returned to Scotland ____.   last night

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The receptionist _____ to spell my name.   didn?t know how

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that global warming over the past five decades _____ by natural variations alone.   cannot be accounted for

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: The report said that in the first two years after a divorce, women were more likely than men ___a positive activity, such as doing therapy.   to have undertaken

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: This car has a _.   three year guarantee

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: This evening I'm going for dinner ____.   at my girlfriend?s house

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: This garden contains the finest collection of conifers in ____.   the UK

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: To improve our balance of payments, we must increase productivity and _____ expenditure.   cut down on

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Tomorrow morning I _____ the 6.30 train to Rome to attend a European conference on world poverty.   am getting

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Visiting the Czech Republic _____ a visa, but now it?s no longer necessary.   used to require

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: We ____ a better office party than this one.   have never had

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: When she lived in the centre, she ____ the bus to work.   would often take

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Where ____ your father?   did your mother meet

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: Working in the office ____ dealing with the public.   isn?t as tiring as

- Choose the best phrase to complete this sentence: You pay the electricity bill but your lawyer's ____.   fees

- Choose the best phrase to start this sentence: Inverness is in Scotland.   I think

- Choose the best question for this answer: I?m fine thanks.   How are you?

- Choose the best question for this answer: No thanks. I'm on a diet.   Would you like some chocolate?

- Choose the best verb form to begin this sentence: last week that the Prime Minister had ordered the Home secretary to limit the cost of the new identity cards.   It was revealed

- Choose the best verb form to complete the following: How nice to see you again. I _____ you for ages!   haven't seen

- Choose the best verb form to complete the following: Oh dear! It?s so difficult to be patient with colleagues. I wish Colin ____ so loudly on his mobile. I can?t stand it any more.   wouldn?t talk

- Choose the best verb form to complete the following: We shouldn?t have bought our flat screen television when we did. If we _____ for a couple of years, we could have bought one for half the price we paid.   had only waited

- Choose the best verb form to complete this question: Where did they all _____ after the party?   go

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: Are these men really _____ for a single group?   working

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: British citizens ____ to carry an identity card with them, but in Italy it's compulsory.   don't have

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: By this time next week we _____ the new computer system.   will have installed

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: He ____ in his office when the fire alarm went off.   was working

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: I _____ so many people at the Live8 concert last month.   met

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: If I _____ a cake, will you bring some wine?   make

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: If I hadn?t spent so much money on my car earlier this year, I _____ afford a nice holiday in the sun, somewhere exotic.   would be able to

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: If I weren't a civil servant, I wouldn't mind ____ a private detective!   being

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: If the accounts department _____ the error, we would have found ourselves in a difficult situation.   hadn?t noticed

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: It's very easy _____ addicted to the Internet once you start!   to get

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: Last Monday the House unanimously _____ the new legislation.   passed

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: Leading historian Robin Andrews called for an investigation into contamination of the National Archives, after the Daily Chronicle reported that forged documents ___in.   had been smuggled

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: Only one other president in the modern era has been ____ office during a period of economic expansion.   turned out of

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: She _____ be in love with him. He?s twice her age!   can't

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: The chancellor said that every child born after September 2002 ____ a gift of ?250 at birth.   would receive

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: The employees were told that they would receive a pay rise when the new budget ____.   had been approved

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: The Ford Motor Company first _____ producing the famous Model T in 1908.   started

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: The notebook ____ in the office yesterday evening, but now it's gone!   was

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: We ____ the project in March and finished it in October.   began

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: What work needs ____ to improve customer relations?   to be done

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: Would you like a coffee before ____ back to work?   you go

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: You _____ send the original documents, a photocopy will do.   don?t have to

- Choose the best verb form to complete this sentence: You will feel more confident about your new job when you _____ in it for another month.   have been

- Choose the best verb to complete this question: In the era of the European Union and of the single currency, _____ it still make sense to maintain national boundaries?   does

- Choose the best verb to complete this sentence: By midnight yesterday all the forms _____ to the Commission.   had been sent

- Choose the best verb to complete this sentence: Last month, 3.8 billion people _____ the Live8 concert.   watched

- Choose the best verb to complete this sentence: The Post Office usually _____ at 8.20.   opens

- Choose the best verb to complete this sentence: The three judges who convicted him ____ a terrible mistake.   made

- Choose the best verb to complete this sentence: Traditional philosophy has _____ a great deal about man's existential condition.   told us

- Choose the best verb to complete this sentence: When you come back from Scotland, I would be really grateful if you could ____ some single Malt whiskey with you.   bring

- Choose the best way to begin this sentence: our expectations, we found that the bank was quite willing to give us a loan to cover our debts.   Contrary to

- Choose the best way to complete the following: Cover letters generally have a standard structure. This includes an opening paragraph ____ you explain why you are writing and a second paragraph with a description of your experience and accomplishments.   in which

- Choose the best way to complete the following: Hello, Sarah. I haven?t seen you around for ____. Where have you been hiding?   such a long time

- Choose the best way to complete the following: Please ____ need any further information. I will be very pleased to provide it.   let me know if you

- Choose the best way to complete the following: We can?t be sure that global warming is to blame for the hot summers we have had recently. _____ no other plausible explanation has been provided so far.   On the other hand

- Choose the best way to complete the following: You know that Frank has always had a flair for business. Well, apparently he?s thinking of leaving the office to set ____ his own computer company.   up

- Choose the best word or phrase to begin this sentence: I manage to get through all the letters I have to write this morning, I?ll be able to start working on the new project this afternoon.   As long as

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete sentence: Committee chairpersons can ____ serve two terms in office.   only

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: I can't work with Tony! If you ask ____ to do something, he always refuses.   him

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: I like Bologna. _____ interesting city.   It's a very

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: I want something ____ . I?m so thirsty after gym.   to drink

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: Ian McEwan is a British writer. _____ from Hampshire.   He?s

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: Pete and Susan are away this week. ____ at a conference in Rome.   They're

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: That isn?t your desk. It?s ____.   hers

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: Their children don?t get any exercise. They just watch television _____.   all day

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: This is our area manager. He ____ all the day-to-day business at the company.   is in charge of

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: We have allowed our competitors to get the upper hand for too long, it?s time we ____ hitting back with a really good advertising campaign.   started

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following: Your purse? ____ in your office?   Isn't it

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this question. Excuse me, can you ____ me the way to the Post Office?   tell

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this question: _____ the head of your department?   Who?s

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this question: Do you drink _____?   coffee

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this question: How ____ do you go abroad in an average year?   often

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this question: How much _____ this multi-media projector?   is

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this question: What will you do if they _____ you a transfer?   offer

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence. _____ left after the tourist office and you will see the Marine Hotel on the right.   Turn

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence. James Chan doesn't live in Hong Kong any _____.   more

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: According to the market, prices may fall or____.   rise

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Angela told me _____ was said at the meeting.   what

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: At the time of my visit last April, Kembruck Inc. _____ a successful, ?340 million advertising campaign.   was just finishing

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Bruno can't have _____ future if he doesn't go to school.   a better

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Don?t buy that jacket ? it?s _____ for you.   too big

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Government workers usually _____ home quite early in the afternoon.   get

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: However you want to express yourself, _____ it's writing an email using a keyboard, sending an image by MMS, or texting, the most up-to-date messaging devices provide you with a range of options for communicating.   whether

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I _____ her for eighteen years.   have known

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I _____ in free enterprise but not without some form of state supervision.   believe

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I _____ in the bank at 8.30 yesterday morning.   was

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I _____ paperwork.   don?t like

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I do _____ work at home.   a lot of

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I don?t understand the appeal of boxing ? what?s so fascinating about watching two men punching _____?   each other

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I like _____ news on the radio in the morning.   listening to the

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I love Ireland but I?ve only been there ____ times.   a few

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I need to check my schedule with my colleagues before ____ my tickets.   buying

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I think the company?s ____ a busy year next year.   going to have

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I wish I _____ the small print before I signed the contract.   had read

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: If the train _____ late, I will get a taxi to the meeting.   arrives

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: If you don?t hurry up, you?ll _____ the meeting.   miss

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: I'll pay you back the money _____ I can get to the bank.   as soon as

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: James and Sarah ____ for 20 years but they got divorced last year.   were married

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Japan has promised it will pay double aid to Africa ____ three years.   over the next

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: John Baxter sent a report this afternoon from _____ the disaster scene.   close to

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Last month a government spokesman told journalists that getting _____ to the protestors could be dangerous.   too close

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Most of the people in this office ____ a university degree.   have

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: My husband doesn't ____ to help plan our holidays!   do much

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: My job involves ____ a large number of international conferences, where English is the main language of communication.   attending

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: My sister?s husband ____ thirty-five.   is

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: My wife makes me clean the house but she never _____ my daughter to help!   asks

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: On Mondays the shopping centre doesn?t open ____ two o'clock in the afternoon.   until

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: One of ____ things that happened to me was when I met an Italian nurse working on a remote Scottish island.   the most unusual

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Our customers usually pay _____ bills promptly.   their

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Over the next two days, more than 10,600 police officers will be _____ to protect world leaders.   on duty

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Pedro Almodòvar is a film director from _____.   Spain

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: People in my office often work ____ 7 p.m.   until

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Reehana used to like going to school but this year she had to leave because her mother ____ to buy her books.   could not afford

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Several people ____ his suggestion and some emails were exchanged about this.   responded to

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: The busy terminal is now returning ___.   to normal

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: The company considered several offers, but in the end they ____ the cheapest one.   chose

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: The filing of tax returns online is unlikely to increase significantly _____ the forms provided by the Inland Revenue offer clear added value to customers.   until

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: The goods will be posted _____ the cheque is cleared.   as soon as

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: The manager thinks we should accept the contract and I _____.   agree

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: The Mississippi river is very long, but it is not _____ in the world.   the longest

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: This article deals with the _____ of combining network services.   issues

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: We ____ the training course very much.   enjoyed

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: What would you do if you _____ the job?   got

- Choose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: Yesterday evening, ____ people on the streets.   there were few

- Choose the best word or words to complete the following: I love Berlin. It?s a really lively and exciting place, and the people _____ friendly.   are very

- Choose the best word or words to complete the following: I?m quite an ambitious person. I want _____ general manager in a few years? time.   to become

- Choose the best word or words to complete the question: Who ____ this afternoon? I heard that someone was looking for me.   rang

- Choose the best word or words to complete this question: What ____ clothes do you wear?   size

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: _____ the economic situation improves, we will all be poorer next year.   Unless

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: Georgina ____ in a small village near Cambridge.   lives

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: I want to become a judge so I am studying ____ .   law

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: It rained all last weekend _____ we didn?t go to the seaside.   so

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: Joanne came to this office after she ____ in business administration.   graduated

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: The manager doesn?t let us _____ anything in the office. We eat and drink by the coffee machine in the corridor.   eat

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: There's ____ speculation about who will become the new leader of the Labour Party when the Prime Minister retires.   too much

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: We ____ to install the new version of the computer program.   managed

- Choose the best word or words to complete this sentence: When I was young, I _____ to be a famous actress.   wanted

- Choose the best word to complete the following: Dear Susan, It was such a pleasure to meet you after hearing so much about you through your parents. I?m really looking forward to _____ you again this summer.   seeing

- Choose the best word to complete the following: Did you read the main ____ on the front page of The Times this morning? It said ?Italian Scientist Wins Nobel Prize for Physics?, and the article was all about your friend Antonio who works at Bologna university.   headline

- Choose the best word to complete the following: Elena is a student. She _____ to the University of Pisa.   goes

- Choose the best word to complete the following: He never knows where things are and his desk is always in such a mess! He leaves papers everywhere and is always losing his keys. He?s just so ____.   untidy

- Choose the best word to complete the following: He never turns up on time. He?s totally ____.   unreliable

- Choose the best word to complete the following: He said I was overweight and should go on a diet. After all the problems I?ve had this year I think that is so ____ !   rude

- Choose the best word to complete the following: I don't have my cell phone. Could I use ____ please?   yours

- Choose the best word to complete the following: I find it so difficult to talk to him! He seems to be terrified of speaking to anyone new. He?s really _____.   shy

- Choose the best word to complete the following: I have a lot of responsibility. I also have to deal ____ all customer complaints at the department store.   with

- Choose the best word to complete the following: I was most impressed with our hotel in Berlin, and with the prices there. It was all very ____.   reasonable

- Choose the best word to complete the following: I?m always exhausted because my job is so demanding. I?m _____ a coffee bar in the centre of town at the moment, so I?m busy every day except Sundays.   running

- Choose the best word to complete the following: My boss ____ to Florence for a meeting last week. He came back on Friday.   went

- Choose the best word to complete the following: My friend Catherine is a journalist. ____ job is very interesting.   Her

- Choose the best word to complete the following: She knows how to get on with people and does all the right things. She really is terribly ____ .   sensible

- Choose the best word to complete the following: There is a crisis in Europe at present. It could be resolved quickly, but it _____ lead to the destruction of the European Union.   might

- Choose the best word to complete the following: We?re advertising for two computer technicians at the moment. We need to take _____ more staff to increase our technical expertise and become more competitive.   on

- Choose the best word to complete this question. Is there ____ airport in Modena?   an

- Choose the best word to complete this question. Where ____ you like to go this evening?   would

- Choose the best word to complete this question: ____ do Branson and Geldoff have in common?   What

- Choose the best word to complete this question: _____ do you like your job?   Why

- Choose the best word to complete this question: _____ you like to come to Germany with me next month?   Would

- Choose the best word to complete this question: Have you ever _____ a poem?   written

- Choose the best word to complete this question: I?m sorry. I didn?t understand your name. Can you ____ your surname please?   spell

- Choose the best word to complete this question: What is your book ____?   about

- Choose the best word to complete this question: Where ____ you born?   were

- Choose the best word to complete this question: Why don't you tell _____ what happened next?   us

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence. Veronica has three ___, Barbara, Helen and Peter.   children

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: _____ a year or so, people will be shopping via their Web pages.   Within

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: _____ I like Caroline personally, I don?t think she is the person best qualified for the job.   Although

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: After the ____ of John Paul II, hundreds of thousands of people went to Rome for the funeral.   death

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Are there ____ CDs in stock?   any

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Barbara went to bed early because she _____ really tired.   felt

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Did you see the____ for a Sports Journalist in yesterday?s Independent newspaper?   advertisement

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Do you prefer to _____ the air conditioning on while you are working?   keep

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Do you think that the government will ever _____ back capital punishment?   bring

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Door-to-door _____ will involve a 10% surcharge on the price of the purchased goods.   delivery

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Fasten seat belt _____ seated.   while

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: For tax purposes, declared annual _____ should also include interest on investments and revenue from rented properties.   income

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: From what I?ve heard, the Board of Directors ____ him resign.   made

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: He met her grandparents in their country home ____ Christmas.   at

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: He was ____ in a car accident at the weekend but fortunately it?s nothing serious.   injured

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: He?s so ____ he doesn?t lift a finger, and expects everyone else at the office to run around doing all his work for him as well as their own.   lazy

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I _____ haven?t seen the film that won the Cannes Film Festival this year.   still

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I _____ my office with another colleague.   share

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I am no longer satisfied with my job, and I would really like to find something more ____.   challenging

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I congratulated him _____ his promotion.   on

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I really like ____ to foreign countries.   going

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I regret to inform you that we have received no further details about the product you have ____.   requested

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I studied Economics and Modern Languages at university and have travelled ____ since I left university four years ago.   widely

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I?d like to take six months off work and go on a ____ round the world.   journey

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: I?m sorry, I?m afraid I can?t give you ____.   that information

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: If the goods are faulty on arrival, you are entitled to receive a ____.   refund

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: It may be necessary to _____ taxes some time next year.   raise

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Let?s pay the _____ and go home ? I?m tired.   bill

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Mark writes for a ____ newspaper.   Dutch

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: My boss ____ me that the report was due in by Friday.   reminded

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: My friend Judy's going to have her fiftieth birthday party ____.   quite soon

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: New technology will help detectives obtain computer images of fingerprints and ____ them find out more about the person who left them.   let

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Now I?ve heard a lot about your background and experience, which certainly makes you a suitable candidate for this job, but can you tell me a little about any particular ____, like computing or technical drawing, that may be relevant to this post.   skills

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: On my first trip abroad, I lived for a month _____ a German family.   with

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Our website explains how crime victims should ____ to the police what has happened to them.   report

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Sales of the book will probably be _____ than 10 million by breakfast time today.   more

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Samuel Pepys was a civil servant famous for ____ diaries.   his

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: She only gave us one week?s notice, _____ I thought was very inconsiderate.   which

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The airline ____ he works for is expanding at the moment.   that

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The areas close to the University have a _____ student population.   large

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The book is selling at a rate _____ 13 a second.   of

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The budget for next year hasn?t been finalised ____ .   yet

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The Careers Officer didn?t have ____ helpful advice to offer.   any

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The Civil Service Code can _____ used to stop the publication of a book.   be

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The composer Christian Fischer has just ____ at the age of 87.   died

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The department _____ he works for will soon be closed.   that

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The first thing we need to do is to find ____ location.   a suitable

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The government?s ____ policy is not working.   economic

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The Government?s___ priority is the improvement of public services.   top

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The hotel was run by a lady who ____ up in the village and had never been away.   grew

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The insurance pays ____ the medical bills.   all

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The majority of people _____ like that.   aren't

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The only effective way to tackle poverty in the developing world is to ____ off the debts that these countries owe to the West.   write

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The passing of this law marks the first step on a road that we hope will ____ to greater prosperity for all.   lead

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: The police are rewriting _____ official manual.   their

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: There is an excellent ____ of Vermeer?s paintings on at the Royal Academy at the moment.   exhibition

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: There will soon be wireless computers in _____ office.   every

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: They _____ us with stationery for the last ten years.   have been supplying

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: They have ____ to take legal action if the delivery is not made within 30 days.   threatened

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Translation can be a lucrative full- or part-time _____.   job

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: Unfortunately, the Evening Chronicle is ____ to contact Mr Assam for comment.   unable

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: We are ____ the office redecorated at the moment.   having

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: We have to wait until they have ____ the contract before we can start the new project.   signed

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: We saw a terrible road accident ____ we were driving back from the mountains.   when

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: We usually go to the supermarket _____ car.   by

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: You can invest your money in stocks and ____.   shares

- Choose the best word to complete this sentence: You know there?s such a lot of work to do at the office these days that I end up working two or three hours _____ nearly every day.   overtime

- Choose the best words to complete this question: You won't be coming to the office on Saturday, _____?   will you

- Choose the best words to complete this sentence: He's very good at his job, but I don't ____ with him at a personal level.   get on

- Choose the best words to complete this sentence: I?d invite him to my dinner party if he _____ too much.   didn?t drink

- Choose the best words to complete this sentence: Sorry. Sandra isn?t here at the moment. She?s _____.   gone out

- Choose the best words to complete this sentence: To place an order using Internet just____ the form and complete your credit details.   fill in

- Choose the correct answer for this question: Did you get the job?   Yes, I did

- Choose the correct answer for this question: Is the food in this restaurant good?   Yes, it is

- Choose the correct answer for this question: What do you do?   I?m an engineer

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: "If I could explain it to the average person, I __________ the Nobel Prize.".   Wouldn't have been worth.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: _________ , you have no time for tears!   Stop complaining.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: A human being is part of a ______, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space.   Whole.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: Don't worry about the car, the most important thing is that we are safe and ____ .   Sound.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: I am ____ to leave, I can't help you now.   About

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: If you just told me _______ , I wouldn't worry that much!   Where you are.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: I'm having troubles with my car, I think there ______ something wrong with the engine.   Could be.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: Jane, you ought ____ for help.   To ask.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: Please Renée look _____ the children, I have to go to the post office.   After.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: Ronny and I are really on the same ____ , we get along pretty well!   Page

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: She really dropped a ___ when she said to Mark that she can't stand politicians! Doesn't she know that he's a deputy?   Brick.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: When I was a child, I _______ the whole summer in the mountain.   Used to spend.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: When I was a kid, I loved going to the beach: I _______ all day playing in the ocean with my sister.   Would spend

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: While I _____ my homework I heard a strange noise from the garden.   Was doing.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: Word on the ____ is that Donald is in prison again.   Street.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: You can go out and play as soon as ______ your homework.   You finish.

- Choose the correct option to complete the following sentence: You can go out and play as soon as ______ your homework.   You finish.

- Choose the correct option to complete the sentence: A person who kills another person can be called a ____.   Murderer.

- Choose the correct option to complete the sentence: Police are now _____for anyone with information about the two surviving suspects to come forward.   Appealing.

- Choose the correct option to fill the gap in. My sister Jamie is interested in modelling, new styles, futuristic trends and so on. She has got plenty of ______ in her room.   Fashion magazines.

- Choose the correct option to fill the gap in. Pietro always complains about everything, for instance: I want to go the cinema? They are not playing good movies. I want to go out for dinner? There are no good restaurants. I want to visit a Museum? The ticket is too expensive. He is ____.   A grump.

- Choose the correct option. You should go home. It's late and your parents____.   Will be worrying.

- Choose the correct option: "sfacciato".   Whippersnapper.

- Choose the correct option: A woman whose job is to serve customers at their tables in a restaurant is called ______ .   Waitress.

- Choose the correct phrasal verb to complete this sentence: The technical staff have to _____ all the electronic equipment and devices, and to order new equipment when it can no longer be repaired.   look after

- Choose the correct phrase to complete the following: Have you ____ paid regularly this month? You never seem to have enough money at the end of the week.   been getting

- Choose the correct phrase to complete the following: You _____ in an election, but I think you should. If you have the right to vote, you should take advantage of it. After all, you?re lucky. I can?t vote because I?m a foreigner.   don?t have to vote

- Choose the correct phrase to complete this sentence. The manager said that all personal telephone calls ____.   had to be paid for

- Choose the correct phrase to complete this sentence: English people _____ cooking with butter or margarine, rather than olive oil.   are used to

- Choose the correct phrase to complete this sentence: He was ____ answer the phone.   too busy to

- Choose the correct preposition. (coprire di) cover   With.

- Choose the correct preposition. (dipendere da) depend   On.

- Choose the correct preposition. (scusarsi di) apologise   For.

- Choose the correct preposition. (soffrire di) suffer.   From.

- Choose the correct preposition: (coprire di) cover.   With.

- Choose the correct preposition: (dipendere da) depend.   On.

- Choose the correct preposition: (incriminare q.uno di) charge s.o.   With.

- Choose the correct preposition: (insistere per) insist.   On.

- Choose the correct preposition: (scusarsi di) apologise.   For.

- Choose the correct question for this answer: She's a film director.   What does your sister do?

- Choose the correct question for this situation: You need to borrow some money from a colleague.   Could you possibly lend me some money please?

- Choose the correct spelling: 0.5.   Nought point five.

- Choose the correct spelling: 101° (centunesimo).   One hundred and first.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: canteen.   Mensa.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: comprehensive.   Completo.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: diffident.   Insicuro.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: firm.   Azienda.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: ostrich.   Struzzo.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: patent.   Brevetto.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: tendon.   Tendine.

- Choose the correct translation of the following word: villain.   Malvivente.

- Choose the correct translation: Aggrapparsi.   To cling.

- Choose the correct translation: Andare in rosso.   To overdraw.

- Choose the correct translation: Implorare.   To beg.

- Choose the correct verb form to complete the following: Whatever job you have, for your first days at work try to wear something clean, smart and simple. You need to look as if you ____ an effort, even if the actual job entails getting your hands and face dirty, or wearing overalls.   have made

- Choose the correct way to begin this sentence: that a lot of people carry something to read with them on the underground (or the Tube) in London.   It is strange

- Choose the correct way to complete this sentence: During the Middle Ages the island was a place of exile _____ they sent anyone who dared to disagree with the government.   to which

- Choose the correct word to complete this sentence: I think that watching television is a complete _____ of time.   waste

- Choose the correct word to fill the gap in. Dario has caught his wife red handed with another man. He wouldn't have expected that at all. He's very _____ .   Crestfallen.

- Choose the right translation: They are around 35 years old.   Hanno circa 35 anni

- Choose the right translation: Vorrei comprare un computer nuovo.   I'd like to buy a new computer

- Choose the wrong sentence:   We use the zero article (no article) with musical instruments like "he plays piano".

- Choose the wrong sentence:   We use the indefinite article with superlatives.

- Chose the best expression to complete this sentence: ?Eternal Sunshine? is ____ experimental movie.   quite an

- Chose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: This artist is _____ to create a personal universe.   trying

- Chose the best word or phrase to complete this sentence: When roles ____ our personal value systems are also transformed.   change

- Chose the best word to complete this sentence: The author, ____ lives in New York, will be coming to Bologna to present his new novel and sign copies of the book.   who

- Cindy wanted to quit college and become an actress. Her parents talked her into staying in school while she pursues her acting career. That way, if she never makes it as an actress, she can always fall ____________on her education.   Back.

- Come si può tradurre: "he's in an appalling temper"?   È di umore nero.

- Completare la seguente frase, scegliendo la risposta giusta."I'm getting worried. She hasn't come back ...".   yet

- Complete each sentence with the correct option. I have to be back home by midnight and the bus drivers are on strike. ......?   Can you give me a lift.

- Complete each sentence with the correct option. Mary ...... to Laura when it comes up to singing, she's much more in tune and her voice is far better.   Can't hold a candle.

- Complete each sentence with the correct option. You need to ...... before being respected by your colleagues, everyone starts from the very bottom and then rise through the ranks.   Cut your teeth.

- Complete the following conversation.A: How long ...?B: I've been working here since last spring.   have you worked in this company

- Complete the following sentence with the correct option. "Experience is the name everyone gives to ____ mistakes.".   Their.

- Complete the following sentence with the correct option. "Suspects are being charged with membership of an armed terrorist organisation and of attempting to ____ the government, using force and violence.".   Overthrow.

- Complete the following sentence with the correct option. Arja comes from Helsinki, in Finland, so she's a ____.   Finn.

- Complete the following sentence with the correct option. As today it's very ____ you should go out and play with your kite.   Windy.

- Complete the following sentence with the correct option. Last summer I ____ to England and I ____ a very good time.   Went-had.

- Complete the following sentence with the correct option. Nearly two decades after the $200 billion settlement to compensate the public for health consequences of smoking, the industry still ____ in Washington.   Wields clout.

- Complete the following sentence with the correct preposition. Guess what? I'm coming and visit you next Sunday! I'm really looking forward__ spending some time together!   To

- Complete the following sentence with the correct preposition. I dropped ___to 3rd then very quickly the 4th and 5th runners were close behind.   Back.

- Complete the following sentence with the correct preposition. Janet is standing ____ the car.   Beside

- Complete the following sentences: "Although she won the spelling bee, some thought she didn't deserve the _______ because she may have cheated"?   Medal.

- Complete the following sentences: "The knot he tied in the rope was very _______ and kept coming undone"?   Loose.

- Complete the sentence with one of the following options. Greg (......) her to marry him if she didn't have to move to South Africa next month.   Would ask.

- Complete the sentence with one of the following options. I (......) better if my little brother didn't make so much noise with his toys.   Could study.

- Complete the sentence with one of the following options. My English teacher told me I (......) the exam if I had studied a little more.   Would have passed.

- Complete the sentence with one of the following options. My father told me he (......) a surprise party for my birthday if he hadn't been busy at work.   Would have organised.

- Complete the sentence with one of the following options. Our relationship (......) better if we spoke more about our problems instead of ignoring them.   Would be.

- Complete the sentence with one of the following options. You know what? Your song (......) a great hit if the rhythm were just a bit faster.   Would be.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). He didn't agree with me at first, but soon he came (....) and followed my advice.   Round.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). Maria blew (....) the 20 birthday candles on the cake.   Out.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). My flight was called (....) so I had to spend four hours at the airport.   Off.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). No one helps her: she has to live (....) her salary, which is not easy.   On.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). Nowadays families are not the same as in the past, my great-grandparents brought six children (....).   Up.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). The development of aviation is brought (....) by the development of the aerospace industry.   About.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). The police are looking (....) the murder.   Into.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). The police pulled me (....) to check my papers and then they let me go.   Over.

- Complete the sentence with the correct preposition (referring to the context). The secretary did overtime and worked (....) a lot of letters.   Off.

- Complete with the correct option: "Outworn is the antonym of ______ .".   Up to date.

- Complete with the correct option: "Remarkable is the antonym of ______ .".   Insignificant.

- Complete with the correct option: "Stately is the antonym of ______ .".   Humble.

- Complete with the correct option: You should read the book that you see someone on the train reading and trying to ___ that they're laughing.   Hide.

- Could you give me a ____ to the airport?   lift

- Could you tell me where the nearest bank is, please?   Mi potrebbe dire dov'è la banca più vicina, per favore?

- Could you tell me your surname?   Would you like me to spell it?