- advanced-15
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 15 (Answer Keys)
One is always going to lose...
A1 Building Societies currently find themselves in a precarious situation because they try to please the savers
and also the borrowers and yet one group is always going to lose.
answer: (b) precarious
A2 Whenever there is a meeting between the finance minister and the governor of the bank, people start asking
questions and rumours abound.
answer: (c) abound
A3 Invariably if interest rates go up, the building societies pay more to their savers and borrowers complain at the
increase they have to pay and maintain the societies are mishandling their affairs.
answer: (d) mishandling
A4 Chief executives then start making pleasant speeches and smile a lot because they want to assuage the
concerns of their borrowers.
answer: (a) assuage
A5 Months go by and most people forget their problems and get used to the idea of paying more and then talks
resume and the whole process starts all over again.
answer: (b) resume
A6 The government then has to show that it is involved in the whole business of saving and lending and tries to
convince everyone that it is supportive of both savers and lenders.
answer: (c) supportive
A7 The government next announces that measures are due to come into force that will change the whole
process.
answer: (c) force
A8 They say this but then the difficulty is trying to find out when the measures are coming into effect and when
they will be ratified.
answer: (b) ratified
A9 This is all very disappointing for the would-be house buyer who doesn't really know what's going to happen
next and how much the interest rate will be.
answer: (d) would-be
A10 Our poor potential buyer reads the papers, watches the television news and gets excited at the prospect of
another meeting of the financiers but in the end nothing of note comes of it all.
answer: (a) note
