Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences

Câu 1: I wish I _________ how to control the tsunami.

A. knew

B. know  

C. to know    

D. to have known

Câu 2: We went by sea, but we'd rather _________ by air.

A. went

B. go   

C. to have go    

D. have gone

Câu 3: I requested that first year students _________ to change their courses in the first two weeks.

A. are permitted

B. be permitted

C. were permitted    

D. would be permitted

Câu 4: Bill would rather that his wife _________ him.

A. didn't divorced

B. hadn't been divorced  

C. had not divorced   

D. doesn't divorced

Câu 5: If only my motorbike _________ broken down again, I would have arrived on time.

A. wouldn’t

B. hadn't   

C. didn't   

D. wasn't

Câu 6: Tomorrow’s difficult. I'd rather you _________ next week.

A. came

B. come   

C. have come   

D. to come

Câu 7: He behaves as though he _________ the place.

A. to own

B. had owned   

C. has owned   

D. owned

Câu 8: Would you rather _________ in ink or in pencil?

A. write

B. writing   

C. to write   

D. wrote

Câu 9: Is it essential that we _________ there?

A. were

B. are    

C. be    

D. have been

Câu 10: It’s time for her _________ to bed.

A. went

B. go    

C. goes   

D. to go

Câu 11: It is our wish that she _________ in her life.

A. succeeds

B. succeed   

C. succeeded   

D. will succeed

Câu 12: Yesterday, John told me that he wished he _________ harder in high school because then university might not be so difficult for him.

A. studied

B. would study  

C. had studied   

D. studies

Câu 13: Mary would rather _________ to class yesterday.

A. not have gone

B. didn’t go   

C. hadn’t gone   

D. haven’t gone

Câu 14: It's high time we _________ these  mice.

A. are getting rid of

B. are going to get rid of  

C. get rid of   

D. got rid of

Câu 15: It is necessary that he _________ his course.

A. taking  

B. take    

C. takes    

D. took

Câu 16: Mary would rather that she _________ the test yesterday.

A. didn't fail

B. doesn't fail   

C. hadn’t failed  

D. hasn’t failed

Câu 17: _________ I had learnt English when I was at high school.

A. Unless  

B. Even if    

C. If     

D. If only

Câu 18: He talked as if he _________  the test last Monday successfully.

A. had done   

B. have done   

C. did    

D. has done

Câu 19: He _________ spend a lot of money on his trip to Europe.

A. would prefer not to

B. prefers to not

C. prefers not  

D. wouldn't prefer

Câu 20: Dr. Smith asked that Mark _________ his research paper before the end of the month.

A. to submit

B. submit   

C. submiting   

D. submited

Câu 21: I wish I _______ you some money for your rent, but I’m broke myself.

A. can lend

B. would lend   

C. could lend   

D. will lend

Câu 22: I told your mother that you had left your job. – Well, I wish you _____ her. It’s none of

A. wouldn’t tell

B. didn’t tell           

C. hadn’t told   

D. doesn’t tell

Câu 23: I wish you _____ making that noise. It’s bothering me.

A. would stop

B. are going to stop          

C. stop    

D. can stop

Câu 24: Mary demanded that the heater____ immediately. Her apartment was freezing.

A. repaired          

B. be repaired     

C. being repaired      

D. been repaired

Câu 25: Congress has decreed that the gasoline tax ____.

A. abolish          

B. abolished    

C. be abolished         

D. been abolished

Câu 26: Look! You’ve broken the vase. If only you ______ more careful.

A. would be

B. had been           

C. will be     

D. have been

Câu 27: Tom has never been to Madrid, but he talks as if he _____ there himself.

A. were

B. is            

C. has been   

D. had been

Câu 28: I’d rather you _____ say anything to John about this conversation.

A. don’t

B. won’t   

C. didn’t   

D. can’t

Câu 29: I’d rather you _____ absent from the meeting yesterday. Things might have been different.

A. not be

B. weren’t   

C. hadn’t been   

D. haven’t been