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Complete Advanced Sentences

Subjects : english, grammar
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stop giggling and wriggling around in the pew; such _____ is improper in church.






2. Compared to Jo - who was perfectly ready to chat with anyone about anything - Beth was _____ about what she considered personal matters.






3. Since both interpretations seemed possible - the judge could not decide which way to interpret a particularly _____ passage in the law.






4. The airline customer service agent tried to _____ the angry passenger by offering her a seat in first class.






5. Covering the Olympic Games - the sportscasters _____ every American victory and grumbled about every American defeat.






6. Uninterested in philosophical or spiritual discussions - Max talked only of _____ matters - such as the daily weather forecast or the latest basketball results.






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






8. Josh is such a greedy _____ that - as soon as the earthquake struck - he tripled the price of bottled water at his store.






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






10. When you place a phone call from an airplane - _____ is essential; you are charged for every minute.






11. This alleged fiscal crisis is no crisis at all. it is based on _____ claims about financial institutions and on scare stories about impending economic ruin.






12. There's no point to what you're saying. Why are you bothering to make such _____ remarks?






13. On certain issues of principle - the senator refused to take a _____ stand - but let her conscience be her guide.






14. Even though she knew she would be burned at the stake as a witch - Joan of Arc refused to _____ her belief that her voices came from God.






15. Judy's great fear was that she might _____ omit a question on the exam and mismark her entire answer sheet.






16. The defense called several respectable witnesses who were able to _____ the lying testimony of the prosecution's sole witness.






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






18. Whenever Sue was angry - she tried to avoid raising her voice because she had no wish to sound _____.






19. Tina was still angry despite Tony's soft and _____ words.






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






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






22. Instead of delivering a spoken _____ at Genny's memorial service - Jeff sang a song he had written in her honor.






23. The boss prefaced his speech by telling a pointless _____ about an encounter he'd had with former President Bush.






24. His coarse - hard-bitten exterior _____ his inner sensitivity.






25. Because Webster's dictionary had grown so large and unwieldy - the publishers decided to _____ it and bring out a condensed version.






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






27. The reviewers heaped _____ on the novice playwright - ridiculing his pretentious dialogue - flat characters - and simple-minded plot.






28. The wealthy - self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict - _____ lifestyle practiced by members of some monastic orders.






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






30. The stereotypical cowboy is a _____ soul - answering lengthy questions with a simple 'yep' or 'nope.'






31. Noticing the _____ glance the customer gave the diamond bracelet on the counter - the clerk wondered whether he had a potential shoplifter in the store.






32. Using only a few descriptive phrases - Austen manages to _____ the character of Mr. Collins so deftly that we can predict his every move.






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






34. Matilda thought it was somewhat _____ of the young man to have addressed her without first having been introduced. Perhaps manners were freer here in the New World.






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






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






37. In the film Funny Face - the bookish heroine _____ fashion models for their lack of intellectual interests.






38. After a decade of popularity - Hurston's works had fallen into _____; no one bothered to read her novels and short stories any more.






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






40. Although you can still hear _____ outbursts of laughter and signing outside - the Halloween parade has passed; the party is over till next year.






41. In class - she tried to stay alert and listen to the professor - but the stuffy room made her _____; she felt as if she were about to nod off.






42. Despite Tom's _____ of innocence - Aunt Polly suspected he had eaten the pie.






43. To win his audience - the speaker used every _____ trick in the book.






44. 'Judicial activism' is the alleged tendency of some judges to _____ the power of elected legislatures by making the law rather than merely interpreting it.






45. Shrewdly purchasing valuable plots of land for small sums - John Jacob Astor gained a reputation as an _____ investor.






46. Suppose you are accepted by Harvard - Stanford - and Yale. Which one would you attend? Remember - this is only a _____ situation.






47. It is _____ that his success came when he least wanted it.






48. Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage the _____ of countless get-rich-quick schemes.






49. Because Sal once had fallen asleep while reading War and Peace - he thought that all Russian novels were _____.






50. After separating from Tony - Tina announced that she would _____ all debts incurred by her soon-to-be-ex-husband.