Multiple Choice Cloze Exercise 2

1. My company has just spent two million dollars, a world famous artist to paint a huge mural for the main entrance foyer.
a. asking
b. ordering
c. consulting
d. commissioning

2. During the riots, hundreds of people broke into the city's main department store and it. There was almost nothing left after the night had finished.
a. stole
b. looted
c. mugged
d. conned

3. The new government group will the effects of smoking on the academic abilities of people under 18 years of age.
a. report
b. research
c. inform
d. invent

4. This fruit has been in the fridge for over three weeks! It is all .
a. rotten
b. sour
c. bitter
d. mouldy

5. I don't think Jones and Marlowe should work together on this project. They have shown us before that they are quite as partners.
a. rebellious
b. disinterested
c. disagreeable
d. incompatible

6. You have been with first degree murder. How do you plea?
a. accused
b. charged
c. blamed
d. caused

7. That old house hasn't been lived in for nearly thirty years, hence the fact that it looks so .
a. decrepit
b. trashed
c. rotten
d. derelict

8. The great thing about this bank loan is that they give you so long to .
a. pay it in
b. give it up
c. pay it up
d. pay it off
e. give it out

9. We can't use this table as it isn't totally . The balls will roll to one side.
a. plane
b. flat
c. vertical
d. true

10. me another beer Des. Then I really must be going. It is quite late!
a. spill
b. trickle
c. pour
d. fill