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Complete Advanced Sentences

Subjects : english, grammar
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. You had better _____ your accounting errors before the auditors arrive.






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






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






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






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






6. A born storyteller - my father loved to _____ anecdotes about his early years in New York.






7. Although defeat appeared inevitable - the general was _____ in his refusal to surrender.






8. Othello's false friend lago uses considerable _____ to trick Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him






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






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






11. Pointing out that the candidate consistently had voted against strengthening antipollution legislation - the reporter _____ her claim that she was a fervent environmentalist.






12. Even the best-mannered students have trouble behaving with _____ on the last day of school.






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






14. Uncertain which suitor she ought to accept - the princess _____ - first favoring one and then the other.






15. When you send a message on Twitter - be _____; a tweet cannot be more than 140 characters long.






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






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






18. Stop giggling and wriggling around in the pew; such _____ is improper in church.






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






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






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






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






23. Rumors of police corruption led the mayor to _____ an investigation into the department's activities.






24. The legendary athlete Jim Thorpe - who _____ all his competitors at the 1912 Olympic Games - made a name for himself in baseball - football - and track.






25. In a fiery speech - Mario _____ his fellow students to go out on strike to protest the university's anti-affirmative action stand.






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






27. My Uncle Henry can out-talk any three people I know. he is the most _____ man in Cayuga County.






28. At commencement - the dean praised Ellen for her _____ behavior as class president.






29. At the protest rally - the students cheered the strikers and booed the dean with equal _____.






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






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






32. Though Glenn was devout - he was no _____; he never tried to force his beliefs on friends.






33. The inquisitors used both physical and psychological _____ to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God.






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






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






36. Jealous of Cinderella's beauty - her _____ stepsisters expressed their spite by forcing her to do menial tasks.






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






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






39. A radical committed to social change - Reed had no patience with the conservative views _____ in the America of his day.






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






41. Despite airing her clothes for several hours - she could not rid them of the _____ odor of mothballs that clung to them.






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






43. With its worn-out dialogue and predictable plot - the sitcom struck me as unbearably _____.






44. The museum curator placed the Eskimo-carved wooden totem pole in _____ with two contemporary stone masks from Africa - creating a stunning effect.






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






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






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






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






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






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