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Modal Verbs - Test - 2

9. Due to the strong marketing strategies of the 13. The human traces on Göbeklitepe show that the
companies, people have filled their houses with lots hunter-gatherer human groups that lived 12,000
of useless tools and devices that they ----. years ago ---- a modest and simple life as there are
detailed stonework and rich content of motifs.
A) needn’t have bought
A) can’t have been leading
B) mustn’t buy
B) should have led
C) can’t have bought
C) must have been leading
D) didn’t need to buy
D) may have been leading
E) aren’t allowed to buy
E) needn’t have led

10. If we examine the causes of the French Revolution, 14. I do not believe that science will manage to exceed the
we see that the country’s rulers ---- attention to the speed of light in the near future, ----?
people’s problems for a long time.
A) will I
A) couldn’t have been paying
B) won’t it
B) needn’t have paid
C) will it
C) shouldn’t have been paying
D) don’t you
D) wouldn’t have paid
E) shall I
E) weren’t supposed to pay

11. While walking in the countryside, if you ---- a snake 15. Nobody can guarantee that egocentric navigation
pretending to be dead, do not get close because this will always be simpler and quicker than spatial
is a defensive behaviour that snakes display in case navigation, which basically relies on the features of
of danger. the landscape, ----?

A) dare to see A) can’t they
B) could have seen B) won’t it
C) are reluctant to see C) will it
D) happen to see D) can they

E) should be seeing E) can he

12. Hundreds of wild animals ---- their lives right now as 16. Neither of the students were in the class when the
the necessary measures to prevent poaching have teacher asked about them, ----?
not been fully taken so far.
A) did they
A) should be losing
B) were not they
B) must have lost
C) wasn’t they
C) may be losing
D) did not they
D) would have lost
E) were they
E) are supposed to lose

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