16. Complete the sentences with suitable words/phrases given in the box :

a. __ your family __? Our family is not so big. It’s comparatively small.

b. Today is a raining day. You _ not go to office today.

c. I have a bad headache. I __ go to doctor.

d. _ lived an old man in a village. He was very wise.

e. My sister is acting __ she were all in all. She always acts like this way.

f. I’ll call you __ I arrive. Then we will go to market.

g. Prabha can’t afford to buy a cell phone, __ a laptop. Actually she is very poor.

h. Punctuality is the habit of doing things exactly in time. _ is, of course, a good habit.

i. Tajuddin Ahmed, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, __ in 1925. He was a wise man.

j. Rina : __ we miss the bus? Mina : We will take a taxi then.

Answer : (a) what’s ---like (b) had better (c) would rather (d) there (e) as if (f) as soon as (g) let alone (h) it (i) was born (j) what if

17. Complete the sentences with suitable words/phrases given in the box :

a. Baby : __ a dinosaur __ ?

Mother : Sorry dear, I have no idea about it.

b. ___ working in the government office? You seem to be very happy with your govt. service.

c. Pzthagoras was a great Greek philosopher. He __ in 570 BC.

d. You had missed the bus. You __ get a taxi to reach in time.

e. I studz at a private college. __ are about two thousand students in our college.

f. My car is totally new. You can take my car ___ you don’t damage it.

g. The officer manages the office with great skill. He __ appoint any man to help him.

h. A : There is foul smell in the room.

B : __ opening the windows?

i. Many students are very weak in English. They cannot read English __ write it freely.

j. Sadik went to London. There he adjusted himself with English people __ he were a British.

Answer : (a) what does—look like (b) what’s it like (c) was born (d) had better (e) there (f) providing (g) need not (h) would you mind (i) let alone (j) as if

18. Complete the sentences with suitable words/phrases given in the box :

a. The teacher was in the class. He left the class room__ the bell rang.

b. We must not play in the rain. __ the rain continues?

c. I entered the classroom. Everyone in the room started at me __ I were new to them.

d. I will go to London tomorrow. I __ buy a ticket.

e. He likes delicious food. He __ starve than eat ordinary food.

f. __ making a garden on the roof? I have a plan to make one within a few days.

g. He __ to be a teacher. His attitude says so.

h. You __ do what I say or else you will get into trouble.

i. I went to my friend’s house. But __ was nobodz in the house.

j. Rita is very idle. She cannot boil potato, __ prepare a dinner for eight persons.

Answer : (a) as soon as (b) what if (c) as if (d) have to (e) would rather (f) what’s it like (g) is born (h) had better (i) had better (j) let alone.

19. Complete the sentences with suitable words/phrases given in the box :

a. It was raining heavily. It seemed __ the rain would not stop.

b. The patient was given medicine. __ he taken medicine than he began to vomit.

c. He lives in a village where __ is no electricity. It is completely a remote area.

d. I __ take a taxi. I need to go there soon.

e. In most of the schools of our country students __ wear uniform.

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