How Advanced is English? Test your level pt. 1

Hardly ______ the speech begun when the fire alarm rang.

Rarely ______ such a convincing argument.

No sooner ______ the door than she realized her keys were inside.

Were he ______ the proposal, it would likely be rejected.

If only she ______ more assertive, the negotiations might have succeeded.

He maintained his innocence, despite ______ evidence against him.

I wish I ______ to that conference last year.

Which sentence is grammatically correct?
(AmE)

The committee are divided in their opinions.

The committee is divided in their opinions.

The committee were divided in its opinions.

The committee is divided in its opinions.


The more you practice, ______ you will become.

Which idiom means to stop delaying and do something decisively?

“He’s burning the candle at both ends” suggests he is: