English Grammar Test Package

151. intermediate-66
     English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Intermediate level # 66

Save Our Animals (2) First, read the lesson http://www.english-test.net/lessons/36/index.html

Q1 What her mother and father ....... to most was the endless tittle tattle (gossip) in the village about a young

woman working for this hot shot (well known entrepreneur),

(a) subjected (b) dejected (c) rejected (d) objected

Q2 who was also ....... by some as a bit of a wheeler dealer (someone who does business in an underhand way).

(a) looked (b) pictured (c) regarded (d) believed

Q3 Cathy didn't believe any of this and was delighted to be working for Geoffrey Winton if for no other ....... than

that living at home was very humdrum (boring).

(a) reason (b) cause (c) fact (d) decision

Q4 The rest of the organisation thought that she and Winton were a dream team (ideal partners) because she

was enthusiastic and he was very ........

(a) expertise (b) empirical (c) expert (d) experienced

Q5 After all she thought her brother was enjoying himself and had gone ....... to work in America as a result of the

brain drain (talented people leaving their own country to work for better pay in another).

(a) astray (b) abroad (c) alone (d) afar

Q6 One morning there was quite a hubbub (loud noise and activity) in the Fortune ....... when Cathy came rushing

into the sitting room helter skelter (running at great speed),

(a) housework (b) housebound (c) household (d) housetops

Q7 and announced what she thought was a cheerful earful (a good piece of news) and that was she had been

invited to attend a ....... in the capital.

(a) demarcation (b) denuciation (c) depression (d) demonstration

Q8 As far as her father was concerned this was ....... double trouble (two problems) — first working for Fortune

and now getting involved in a demonstration.

(a) simply (b) quite (c) entirely (d) quietly

Q9 As far as he was concerned this would be a ....... of time because the speakers at the rally would just talk

mumbo jumbo (nonsense).

(a) waist (b) wasting (c) waste (d) worst

Q10 But Cathy had made up her ....... and the next morning wham bam (very quickly) she caught the early train

and went off to the rally.

(a) brain (b) mind (c) thought (d) decision