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258. advanced-15
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 15
One is always going to lose...
 
Q1
Building Societies currently find themselves in a ....... situation because they try to please the savers and also
the borrowers and yet one group is always going to lose.
(a) perfect
(b) precarious
(c) pretentious
(d) pertinent
Q2
Whenever there is a meeting between the finance minister and the governor of the bank, people start asking
questions and rumours ........
(a) abut
(b) about
(c) abound
(d) abide
Q3
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 ....... their affairs.
(a) mistaking
(b) misplacing
(c) misfiring
(d) mishandling
Q4
Chief executives then start making pleasant speeches and smile a lot because they want to ....... the concerns
of their borrowers.
(a) assuage
(b) assert
(c) assemble
(d) assent
Q5
Months go by and most people forget their problems and get used to the idea of paying more and then talks
....... and the whole process starts all over again.
(a) retake
(b) resume
(c) repeat
(d) return
Q6
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 ....... of both savers and lenders.
(a) supporting
(b) supporter
(c) supportive
(d) supported
Q7
The government next announces that measures are due to come into ....... that will change the whole process.
(a) forces
(b) forced
(c) force
(d) forcing
Q8
They say this but then the difficulty is trying to find out when the measures are coming into effect and when
they will be ........
(a) rated
(b) ratified
(c) rates
(d) rating
Q9
This is all very disappointing for the ....... house buyer who doesn't really know what's going to happen next
and how much the interest rate will be.
(a) would-go
(b) would-try
(c) would-see
(d) would-be
Q10 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 ....... comes of it all.
(a) note
(b) notice
(c) noting
(d) noted

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