Question 2: Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in each sentence.

1. There is now much _________ water in the lake than there was last year.

            A. smaller                  B. fewer                     C. less                         D. lesser

2. _____________ are used to kill insects and weeds so as to help crops grow better.

A. Pesticides             B. Dynamite              C. Exhaust fumes     D. Creatures

3. ___________ the pollution in that river is awfully bad, the water is too contaminated to drink.

A. Because of            B. Since                      C. When                     D. Although

4.___________ flowers are made by hand and by machine.

A. Natural                  B. Artificial               C. Tropical                D. Beautiful

5. When you see your friend off at the station, you say: “_____________!”

A. Lucky you                        B. Good night            C. Have a good journey       D. You’re welcome

6. Marie Curie harbored a dream of a__________  career which was impossible for a woman at that time.

            A. scientist                B. scientific               C. science                  D. scientifically

7. This computer isn’t capable ____________ running this software.

            A.  on                          B. of                            C. in                            D. for

8. When ______________ is not known.

            A. was the wheel invented                          B. inventing the wheel                    

C. the wheel was invented                          D. the invention of the wheel

9. I don't usually like staying at hotels but last summer we spent a few days at ______ very nice hotel by______ sea.

A. a; Ø                       B. a; the                     C. the; a                     D. Ø; the 

10. None of us knows her age, ____________ ?

A.do we                      B. don’t we                C. do they                  D. don’t they