September 05-11, 2005
Complete the sentences correctly.
The following questions are not complete sentences. One or more words have been left out of each. Choose the word or phrase that completes the sentence correctly.

1. The weather forecast for this week __________ scattered showers and thunderstorms.

A. predicts
B. predicted
C. is predicted
D. is predicting

2. Generally the new purchasing procedures were received well __________ two or three notoriously quarrelsome members of staff.
A. exception
B. but exception of
C. although excepting
D. with the exception of

3. New findings that moderate alcohol consumption is actually __________ have had no response so far from leaders of religions that frown upon or even outlaw alcoholic beverages.
A. health benefit
B. health beneficial
C. beneficial to health
D. beneficial for healthy

4. Not by doing the expected, but by __________, are we remembered.

A. unexpected doing
B. doing unexpectedly
C. doing the unexpected
D. the deed of the unexpected

5. While many admire the ingenuity and work that was put into the production of ancient utensils for hunting, many overlook that it was __________ that provided the staple diet and was the actual source of a family's survival.

  A. womenÕs plant food collection
B. women collected plants as food
C. women collecting the plant food
D. the women's collecting of plant food

6. To ensure save operation of the equipment, __________ on the underside of the base plate after mounting the device.

  A. fasten the screw
B. fastening the screw
C. you fasten the screw
D. the screw is fastening

7. Studying boring subjects at school __________ for todayÕs students with the ready availability of such distraction as Gameboys and video phones.

  A. is much more difficult than
B. made difficult that much more
C. is made that much more difficult
D. that very much more difficult is made


 
 

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