November 7-13, 2005
Sentence Completion
The following questions are not complete sentences. One or more words have been left out of each sentence. Choose the word or phrase that completes the sentence correctly.

1. She had suspected it for quite some time but when she actually saw her husband embracing another woman, her fury _________ to the kitchen and the knives.
A. short way
B. has a short way
C. shortens the way
D. shortened the way

2. Dr. Michael will explain _________ .
A. you the device
B. to you the device
C. the device to you
D. you to the device

3. _________ the exception of some Asian countries like Japan for instance, most people find it difficult to emotionally attach themselves to species like insects.
A. With
B. Except
C. Despite
D. Although

4. Globalisation has meant a widening horizon to many but has also brought a sense of terrifying insecurity to _________ of their cultural identity.
A. ones assured of less self
B. the ones less self-assured
C. the lesser-self assured ones
D. assured of the lesser self ones

5. Her unexpected outbursts of anger had never been one of her social graces, and nobody blamed her groom _________ after what she did to the presiding priest.
  A. for running
B. running for it
C. for making a run for it
D. for it for making for a run

6. Any abandoned keyboard seems to exude an almost magic temptation _________ even by the most inexperienced of hands.
  A. touch of
B. touching of
C. being touched
D. of being touched

7. While anyone who dares to predict the future may be laughed at, we admire the people _________ themselves the laughingstock of their contemporaries only to be proven right by events hence.
  A. making
B. who made
C. are making
D. who can make


 
 

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