III. Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following sentences.

1. ______ is normally used to refer to the treatment and training of the child within the home. 

A. Feeding            B. Mothering             C. Upbringing      D. Educating

2. Several important methods were ______ for preserving food in the nineteenth century.

A. seen                  B. covered                C. prepared                    D. invented

3. A man is walking towards me. ______ man is carrying ______ parcel.

A. A / the                  B. The/ a                        C. Ø/ the              D. The/ Ø

4. A few years after you buy it, a house is usually ______ much more than it originally costs you.

A. expensive             B. worth                        C. worthy             D. valueless

5. I will do anything but ______ the dishes.

A. wash                B. washed                  C. washing           D. will wash

6. I am so tired that I can't make ______ what you are saying.

A. up                         B.      in                                   C. out                            D. on

7. I remember ______ the letter some time ago but I can’t remember exactly when.

A. to post             B. posted                  C. posting            D. post                  

8. They warned us ______ to the seaside in that month.

A. to not go          B. not to go               C. not to going               D. not go   

9. “I really like your new shoes.”       - “And they cost less than I ______.”

A. expect              B. was expected                  C. had expected   D. am expecting

10. Those kids are always ______ trouble.

A. looking up to   B. getting into           C. finding about   D. putting with

11. It is essential that he ______ that contract.

A. refuse               B. refuses                  C. refusing           D. is refusing

12. Either of these buses _______ past the university.

A. go                    B. goes                      C. have gone                  D. going

13. _______ the flight’s delay, they did not attend the conference.

A. Because           B. Although              C. Because of                 D. As

14. It _______ that many people are homeless after the floods.

A. were reported  B. reports                  C. is reported                 D. reporting

15. This shirt is much prettier, but it costs _______ the other one.

A. so much as      B. as many as           C. twice as much as       D. twice as many

16. Don’t worry about her __________ .

A. complaintment B. complaination      C. complanation  D. complaint

17. Please forgive me. I didn’t want ________ you.

A. to upset           B. upsetting              C. to be upset                D. being upset

18. Vitamin C _______ by the human body, it gets into the blood stream quickly.

A. absorbs easily                                   B. is easily absorbed     

C. is being absorbed                              easily D. absorbed easily

19. What would you like to eat for lunch?        - _________, I don’t mind.

A. Nothing           B. Something            C. Every thing               D. Anything

20. 3/4  means _______ .

A. third quarters  B. three quarters       C. three fourth     D. thirth fourth