- advanced-13
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 13
Flying across the Channel
Q1 Do you have any idea what BASE jumping .......?
(a) signifies (b) means (c) says (d) tells
Q2 Apparently it is an ....... where the letters in the word are the first letters of a group of words.
(a) abbreviation (b) addition (c) anomaly (d) acronym
Q3 In other words the letters ....... building, antennae, span and earth, all of which you can jump from.
(a) stand up (b) stand in (c) stand for (d) stand by
Q4 Felix Baumgartner recently basejumped out of a plane 9,000 metres ....... Dover, a port on the south coast of
England.
(a) up (b) above (c) higher (d) at
Q5 He intended to ....... across the channel with a parachute and land on the coast of France near Calais.
(a) fly (b) flee (c) flew (d) flow
Q6 He started very early in the morning so that he was able to ....... commercial flights.
(a) evict (b) avoid (c) eject (d) abject
Q7 During the flight his supporters ....... that he will have reached 200 kmh.
(a) attain (b) argue (c) claim (d) dispute
Q8 The fact remains that he ....... and managed with the help of oxygen supplies to complete the crossing in ten
minutes.
(a) lived (b) continued (c) achieved (d) survived
Q9 He created a new ....... and joins Louis Bleriot, the first to fly across the channel in 37 minutes and Matthew
Webb, the first to swim across in 22 hours.
(a) record (b) recorder (c) recording (d) records
Q10 These are amazing achievements but if like me you want comfort, warmth and food on the journey, take the
ferry crossing ....... 90 minutes.
(a) during (b) lasting (c) duration (d) while
