English Grammar Test Package

150. intermediate-65
     English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Intermediate level # 65 (Answer Keys)

Save Our Animals (1) First, read the lesson http://www.english-test.net/lessons/36/index.html

A1 From a very early age Cathy had been passionate about animals.

answer: (c) about

A2 She used to hob nob (socialise) with people who thought the same way as she did.

answer: (d) thought

A3 These people were not at all fuddy duddy (uninteresting) or indeed hoity toity (supercilious) and their main

interest in life was to ensure that all animals were well treated.

answer: (a) ensure

A4 She soon got to know one of the local big wigs (important people) in a local organisation aimed at stopping

cruelty to animals.

answer: (b) aimed

A5 He had been in his hey day (at his most successful time) an important figure in a government department for

agriculture.

answer: (d) figure

A6 In fact because he had refused to kow tow to (accept without question) some of the official regulations, he had

been forced to take early retirement.

answer: (c) early

A7 But as far as Cathy was concerned, he was the bee's knees (someone to admire) and when she left school,

she went to work as his assistant in the Society for the Protection of Animals.

answer: (d) as

A8 Her parents however were not at all pleased about where she had decided to work.

answer: (a) about

A9 They lived in a des res (very attractive house) and her father, John Fortune, who was really a bit of a fat cat

(wealthy businessman) thought that all this animal business was a lot of hocus pocus (nonsense).

answer: (b) business

A10 Cathy and her father had several pow wows (conversations) about her decision but it usually ended up with a

lot of argy bargy (arguments).

answer: (c) ended