December 19-25, 2005
Sentence Completion
The following questions are incomplete sentences. One or more words have been left out. Choose the word or phrase that completes the sentences correctly.

1. While the deregulation of the school system has provided opportunities for a plethora of educational institutes, it has also raised the spectre of ________ .
A. sufficiently controlled quality
B. quality meticulously controlled
C. reliable and extensive quality control
D. insufficient and unreliable quality control

2. The recent, unseasonably warm temperatures ________ of a summer as parched as the previous one.
A. fear raising
B. raising fears
C. had fears raising
D. have raised fears

3. Despite their good intent, government campaigns to increase reading amongst the population often overlook that hardworking parents ________ for this pursuit.
A. rarely have the time
B. simply have the time
C. have too much time
D. hardly simply have the time

4. Not only for the money ________ the race, but also for the glory of representing his country.
A. enter
B. entered
C. did he enter
D. he didnŐt enter

5. A movie industry ________ if there are sufficient numbers of paying customers regularly going to cinemas.
  A. can be expect to thrive
B. can thrive be expected
C. can be expected to thrive
D. can be expected to thrived

6. Producers of computer games ________ fight to compete against an ever-increasing number of free online games.
  A. fight again and
B. have an ever-harder
C. fight increasingly
D. have a harder fight to

7. With bird flu, mad-cow disease and the chronic overuse of pesticides, ________ to ignore all the risks or stop eating altogether.
  A. the temptation
B. you must be tempted
C. one might be tempted
D. there is to be temptation

 
 

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