March 20-26, 2006
Sentence Completion
The following questions are incomplete sentences. One or more words have been left out. Choose the word or phrase that completes the sentence correctly.

1. The preferred habitat of the blue-crested blossom cruncher ___________ the lush green forests in the east of the country before the great fire of Ő98, which destroyed most of them.
A. is
B. has been
C. used to be
D. will always be

2. Its venom ___________ glands in the oral cavity and spit onto the open wound that is inflicted on the victim with the animalŐs formidable mandibles.
A. produces
B. is producing
C. is produced by
D. is being produced by

3. Originally ___________ in virgin condition, new evidence suggests that the burial site had been disturbed at a much earlier time probably shortly after internment took place.
A. think
B. think it is
C. thought is
D. thought to be

4. ___________ used this beach for nuptial rituals until tourism drove them out making them unwanted trespassers on the very land that was sacred to their forefathers.
A. Island generations
B. Generation islanders
C. Generations of islanders
D. The generations of islands

5. The climb was steep and arduous, but nothing ___________ her so close to the summit and to the fulfilment of her dream.
  A. stops
B. would stop
C. is stopping
D. has been stopping

6. Gazing at HollandŐs beautiful fields of tulips, few bear in mind that ___________ had to be planted as a bulb.
  A. all single one of them
B. every one of them each
C. each one and every one
D. each and every one of them

7. Modern communications technology has take much out of the thrill and suspense people had when they ___________ to contact and be contacted.
  A. were not so readily able
B. not as able were as readily
C. were not as able as readily
D. had not been so readily able

 
 

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