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150. intermediate-65
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Intermediate level # 65 (Answer Keys)
Save Our Animals (1)
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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

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