Multiple choice:

1. In recent years, more and more people _____for things with credit cards.

A. pay             B. paid                       C. are paying                         D. have been paying

2. What people__Benetton stores is that the quality is always high.

A. like                         B. like very much     C. like about                         D. like a lot

3. Paolo would like to ____by the time he is 40.

A. travel         B. be traveling          C. be going to travel D. have traveled

4. Poverty is a problem in many cities_____whole families can only afford to live in one room.

A. when         B. where                    C. even                       D. if

5. The world would be a better place if everyone showed______cooperation as John.

A. as much     B. so much                 C. too much               D. much

6. He turned on the TV, ______I thought was rather surprising.

A. and                         B. so                            C. that                                    D. which

7. My car would not start, _______Jenny’s started immediately.

A. whereas    B. though                   C. however                D. nevertheless

8. They stayed for hours, which I was very _______ .

A. annoyed    B. annoyed about     C. annoying              D. annoying me

9. That was a very strange question _____ .

A. you ask      B. you are asking     C. for asking             D. to ask

10. ____a movie to be entertaining, it has to have an interesting story.

A. So that       B. In order that        C. In order for          D. In order to