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Complete Advanced Sentences

Subjects : english, grammar
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The airline customer service agent tried to _____ the angry passenger by offering her a seat in first class.






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






3. No matter how hard Darnell tried to lure the trout into taking the bait - the fish was too _____ to catch.






4. Flat prose and flat ginger are equally _____; both lack sparkle.






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






6. The attorney came up with several far-fetched arguments in a vain attempt to _____ his weak case.






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






8. The special prosecutor determined that the attorney general - though inept - had not intentionally set out to _____ the progress of the investigation.






9. Because the student body at their daughter's prep school was so _____ - they decided to send her to a school that offered greater cultural diversity.






10. The coming trip to France should provide a _____ test of the value of my conversational French class.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. We could tell we were in serious trouble from the _____ of the principal's expression.






20. Is an old-fashioned hairstyle an apt _____ for being out of step with the times and in need of change?






21. Towering over the nearby houses - the MacMansion looked wholly _____ in the historic neighborhood of small Craftsman bungalows.






22. The defense lawyer confidently listened to the prosecutor sum up his case - sure that she could answer his arguments in her _____.






23. Because a _____ examination of the ruins indicates the possibility of arson - we believe the insurance agency should undertake a more thorough investigation of the fire's cause.






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






25. After Ralph dropped his second try of drinks that week - the manager swiftly _____ him to a minor post behind the bar.






26. The recent corruption scandals have _____ many people's faith in the city government.






27. When Amanda said to the ticket scalper - 'One hundred bucks? What do you want - a pound of flesh?' she was making an _____ to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.






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






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






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






31. Though Huck was quite willing to _____ Tom's story - Aunt Polly knew better than to believe either of them.






32. To be low man on the totem pole is to have a decidedly inferior place in the _____.






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






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






35. Although Georgia O'Keeffe painted many subjects over the years - she had a definite _____ for painting flowers.






36. Although Alfred _____ in fulfilling his duties at work - he is less conscientious about meeting his obligations at home.






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






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






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






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






41. The headmaster's _____ demeanor tended to care off the more timid students - who never visited his study willingly.






42. When Johnny came down with a bad case of poison oak - the doctor recommended calamine lotion to _____ the itching.






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






44. An occasional glass of wine with dinner is relatively _____ and should have no ill effect on you.






45. A pragmatic politician - he was guided more by what was _____ than by what was right.






46. Although some girls were attracted by Mark's air of _____ - Judy was put off by it - for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness.






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






48. 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.






49. Although the University of California at Berkeley is just one part of the state university system - in many ways - Cal Berkeley is _____ - for it runs several programs that are not subject to state control.






50. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house - I decided to _____ my offer to let them use our summer cottage over spring break.