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English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Intermediate level # 135
American Presidents - William Jefferson Clinton
 
Q1
Bill Clinton, whose father ....... a few months before he was born, wanted to be President from a very early
age.
(a) passed out
(b) passed through
(c) passed away
(d) passed up
Q2
Clinton defied his critics by surviving an ....... of personal scandals.
(a) arraign
(b) array
(c) arrant
(d) arrow
Q3
Clinton ....... himself as a "New Democrat" and has frequently been referred to as the "Comeback Kid."
(a) fashioned
(b) dressed
(c) clothed
(d) clad
Q4
In 1978, at the age of thirty-two, Bill Clinton became the youngest governor in the ....... and in Arkansas
history.
(a) nation
(b) native
(c) nativity
(d) national
Q5
As President-elect, Clinton vowed to focus on economic issues like a "laser beam," working especially to
overcome the ....... growth of the American economy.
(a) slugger
(b) sluggish
(c) slummy
(d) slurry
Q6
Clinton suffered two major ....... during his administration.
(a) quarterbacks
(b) outbacks
(c) setbacks
(d) comebacks
Q7
Clinton's partner in his political ....... and marriage, Hillary Rodham Clinton, emerged as a key player in his
administration.
(a) career
(b) job
(c) trade
(d) work
Q8
Future history books may well begin by noting that Bill Clinton was the second President to have been ....... by
the U.S. House of Representatives.
(a) beseeched
(b) reached
(c) impeached
(d) preached
Q9
Clinton had a significant influence on the ....... of the Democratic Party.
(a) road
(b) path
(c) direction
(d) course
Q10 Clinton succeeded in brokering peace negotiations in Northern Ireland between ....... Catholics and
Protestants.
(a) sparring
(b) warring
(c) barring
(d) jarring

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