- advanced-52
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 52
Verbal Test
Q1 In some 19th century novels you see the very poor conditions people lived in that can only be described as
....... misery.
(a) dejected (b) object (c) reject (d) abject
Q2 Television can give you a very good idea of how people live in different countries as it can ....... scenes from
every day life.
(a) deter (b) depict (c) delineate (d) defer
Q3 This is a sort of shortened version of what happened and has been ....... to fit into the newspaper.
(a) adopted (b) attuned (c) abbreviated (d) added
Q4 It was quite obvious from the secretive manner in which he left the shop and the ....... looks he kept giving that
he hadn't paid for the items of clothing.
(a) furtive (b) fugitive (c) furious (d) famous
Q5 It was a remarkable performance because the actor seemed to convey the whole range of human emotions ,
what you might call the complete ....... from beginning to end.
(a) gamble (b) grasp (c) granting (d) gamut
Q6 The telephone connection was very poor and we only heard a ....... account of what the reporter was
describing.
(a) gesticulated (b) gambled (c) garrulous (d) garbled
Q7 The teacher found it quite ....... to try and teach the children because they refused to listen to a word she was
saying.
(a) festive (b) futile (c) feeble (d) fatuous
Q8 The university decided to give their ....... an honorary degree because she had always been most generous in
her financial help.
(a) believer (b) benefit (c) benefactor (d) beholder
Q9 I've no wish to disregard or ....... your achievements but I think you could have done much more.
(a) belittle (b) bemoan (c) bereave (d) betoken
Q10 His attempt to make fun of the situation was considered to be in bad taste and ....... in the extreme.
(a) fertile (b) frequent (c) febrile (d) facetious
