- advanced-16
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 16
A Public Figure
Q1 Imagine an ....... public figure attacked by press and public, who is facing an inquiry into allegations of having
obtained money by deception.
(a) empowered (b) endangered (c) embattled (d) engrossed
Q2 Any arguments he put up in his defence were regarded as a ....... by people who were determined to see him
convicted.
(a) cloud (b) smokescreen (c) confusion (d) fog
Q3 People tended not to believe a word he said and maintained that his protestations of innocence were wearing
a bit ........
(a) scarce (b) bare (c) scant (d) thin
Q4 There was very strong support for the police who were determined to ....... this kind of crime.
(a) restrain (b) manage (c) curb (d) kill
Q5 The press had been ....... by an unknown source to make as much publicity about him as they could.
(a) prompted (b) picked (c) promoted (d) proposed
Q6 His agent spent a lot of time ....... the press on his background in the hope that they would present a balanced
view.
(a) training (b) briefing (c) showing (d) clearing
Q7 Views as to his guilt or innocence even before the trial started ....... from utter conviction that he was guilty to
wild support for his innocence.
(a) started (b) began (c) ranged (d) swept
Q8 Gradually however as the days went by even his greatest supporters were beginning to ....... him.
(a) destroy (b) desert (c) despair (d) destruct
Q9 Then two days before the trial was due to start, new evidence came to ....... proving he was totally innocent.
(a) light (b) see (c) show (d) indicate
Q10 By then of course it was too late because the damage had already been done to his career, which .......
everything else he did for the rest of his life.
(a) overtook (b) overcame (c) overran (d) overshadowed
