June 27 - July 3, 2005
Sentence Completion
The following are not complete sentences. One or more words have been left out of each one. Choose the word or phrase that completes the sentence correctly.

1. The danger of an avian-flu pandemic puts bird lovers in the predicament of having to decide whether to endanger themselves and their families or to have a veterinarian ___________ the animals they have grown fond of.
A. put up
B. put off
C. put down
D. put through

2. Many Asian students may find it difficult ___________ to adjust to the different cultural norms in a Western host country.
A. finally
B. at first
C. reluctantly
D. concurrently

3. Recent wars have damaged or even destroyed a number of irreplaceable monuments of human civilisation that _____________ for centuries.
A. endure
B. are enduring
C. had endured
D. have endured

4. Noise, one of the more damaging kinds of pollution, _____________ equally difficult to eradicate or control.
A. seem
B. is seeming
C. seems is
D. seems to be

5. With all the progress that modern medicine has made, _____________ simple good old exercise is the greatest contributor to people's health.
  A. although
B. in contrast
C. contradictory
D. it appears that

6. One may only guess at what reason somebody might have to travel halfway around the world only to spend his or her holiday doing _____________ lying beside the hotel swimming pool.
  A. nothing but
B. constantly
C. lazily
D. only

 
 

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