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293. advanced-50
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 50
Improving Verbal Skills
 
Q1
You can tell that this car has been very well made and is certainly ....... to the other makes in this garage.
(a) better
(b) clearer
(c) above
(d) superior
Q2
It's quite obvious that whatever you like to call his remarks they are impolite and ....... to slander.
(a) same
(b) amount
(c) total
(d) extend
Q3
He ....... to have sailed single-handed round the world but personally I don't believe him.
(a) says
(b) believes
(c) claims
(d) intends
Q4
In this biography she is ....... as a kind sweet old lady but in reality she was a bad tempered old witch.
(a) depicted
(b) framed
(c) outlined
(d) caught
Q5
He had to be ....... from all the other patients in the hospital because he had a highly contagious disease.
(a) outcast
(b) eliminated
(c) extracted
(d) isolated
Q6
It's not that I don't trust you ....... I must have some evidence of your identity.
(a) although
(b) but
(c) also
(d) because
Q7
The General made absolutely sure his troops were ready for battle and ....... with the latest equipment.
(a) invested
(b) created
(c) provided
(d) tested
Q8
People used to think the cinema would be ....... by television but it never happened because people still go to
the pictures.
(a) supposed
(b) surrounded
(c) suppressed
(d) supplanted
Q9
She ....... to be very confident on stage but inside she was feeling very nervous.
(a) appeared
(b) supposed
(c) stood
(d) credited
Q10 There's little point in those two firms competing for the same market as they would be much better ....... with
one another.
(a) consuming
(b) convincing
(c) convening
(d) collaborating

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