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Complete Advanced Sentences

Subjects : english, grammar
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1. At the protest rally - the students cheered the strikers and booed the dean with equal _____.






2. Stories in The New York Times often include _____ allusions to obscure people and events.






3. Violently disagreeing with the referees' ruling - Coach Ben became so _____ that they threw him out of the game.






4. In Tibet today - the common people still _____ their traditional spiritual leader - the Dalai Lama.






5. Someone mute cannot talk; someone _____ can hardly stop talking.






6. To revise a textbook properly - you must do more than make a few _____ changes to the manuscript.






7. The architect realized that her design for the new school had to be in _____ with the local building code.






8. Some of the newer - less formal passages on the SAT have a _____ tone that is intended to make them more appealing to students.






9. Although the movie star was no genius - she was sufficiently _____ to tell her true friends from the countless phonies who flattered her.






10. A doting mother - Emma was more likely to praise her son's childish finger paintings than to _____ them.






11. Although Nancy enjoyed Bill's _____ - lighthearted companionship - she sometimes wondered whether he could ever be serious.






12. Through the comments of the characters in his cartoon strip - Doonesbury - Gary Trudeau ridicules political corruption; his humor is _____ in nature.






13. To John - who had never missed a meal - hunger was an _____ concept - one he understood only in theory.






14. Michael's severe bout of the flue _____ him so much that for a week he was too tired to go back to work.






15. Though Aunt Bea at times had to _____ Opie for inattention in church - she believed he was at heart a God-fearing lad.






16. The infant Mozart's parents quickly realized that their son had an _____ gift for music.






17. When Elizabeth realized that Darcy considered himself too good to dance with his inferiors - she took great offense at his _____.






18. As far as I'm concerned - Apple's claims about its new computer are pure _____; no machine is that good!






19. In a brief essay - describe a person you admire - someone whose virtues and achievements you would like to _____.






20. When acacias are in bloom - the increase of pollen in the air _____ Richard's hay fever.






21. Thoroughly baffled by Holmes's _____ remarks - Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.






22. A miser hoards money - not because he is _____ - but because he is stingy.






23. Dirt poor and out of work - she did not give up but continued to fight against _____.






24. Cool - calm - and collected - James Bond shows remarkable _____ in the face of danger.






25. Politicians of both the extreme right and left annoy me because they do not sound like people but parrots mindlessly repeating _____ clich






26. The senator was _____ for behavior inappropriate to a member of Congress.






27. Although her _____ smile and gentle bearing made Miss Marple seem to be a sweet little old lady - in reality she was a tough-minded - shrewd observer of human nature.






28. The uncrowned queen of the fashion industry - Diana was famous for her _____ taste.






29. Although Eric knew the boss had no sense of humor - he couldn't resist making one _____ remark.






30. In providing college scholarships for economically disadvantaged youths - Eugene Lang performed a truly _____ deed.






31. You had better _____ your accounting errors before the auditors arrive.






32. The doctor assured the boy's parents that his fever would eventually _____.






33. Nothing could shake his _____ that his children would get the best education that money could buy.






34. Unlike Widow Douglas - who _____ Huck's minor offenses - Miss Watson did nothing but scold.






35. Paradoxically - _____ reasoning does not always produce incorrect results; even though your logic may be flawed - the conclusion you reach may still be correct.






36. Nobody minded when Professor Renoir's lectures wandered away from their official them; his _____ were always more fascinating than the topic of the day.






37. The president _____ the astronauts - whom he called 'the pioneers of the Space Age.'






38. Con artists take advantage of the _____ of inexperienced Internet users to gain access to their credit card information.






39. Thirty years after the war - she could not let go of the past but was still consumed with _____ against the foe.






40. Because she was a firm believer in old-fashioned courtesy - Miss Post _____ the modern tendency to address new acquaintances by their first names.






41. Denying that she advocated total _____ - Katya maintained she wished only to change our government - not to destroy it utterly.






42. Rather than live in the crowded city center - we chose to buy a house in one of the _____ suburbs ringing the metropolis.






43. When both Harvard and Stanford accepted Laura - she was in a _____ as to which school she should attend.






44. The store manager tried to _____ the angry customer by offering to replace the damaged merchandise or return her money.






45. Katya's _____ love of justice moved her to champion the cause of anyone she considered unfairly treated by society.






46. Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the _____ of objects around them.






47. Typically - partygoers are _____; hermits are not.






48. Without additional funding - it may not be _____ to build a new stadium for the team on the city's highly developed West Side.






49. The Beatles expressed themselves through capricious - flip humor and _____ displays of carefree abandon.






50. Don't just hint around that you're dissatisfied; be _____ about what's bothering you.