Practice practice practice 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 4

Quiz

For each question, choose which of the four possible answers fits the space best.

What angered me wasn't his resignation but the ________ in which he did it.

1. method
2. manner
3. aspect
4. bearing

If you can't make ________ what's written, change the zoom level and it'll become clearer.

1. for
2. off
3. up
4. out

There's a ________ range of issues that we need to discuss as soon as possible.

1. far
2. ample
3. wide
4. high

Despite being ________ in the battle, the solider fought on and was awarded a medal for bravery.

1. enraged
2. wounded
3. flawed
4. bruised

The rain will ________ for most of the morning, but we are expecting a brighter afternoon.

1. persist
2. insist
3. resist
4. consist

In the mating season, the male of the species calls out with a ________ gu-gu sound.

1. separate
2. distinctive
3. contrasting
4. individual

Marie Curie, one of the best-known ________ in working with radiation, died in 1934.

1. debutants
2. revolutionaries
3. pioneers
4. rebels

Deep sea oil exploration is a dirty and dangerous ________.

1. affair
2. situation
3. case
4. business

Open Cloze Exercise

For each space, choose ONE word which you think best completes the sentence. Look carefully at the words both before and after each space.

It was the sale ___ my first car that gave me enough money to go travelling for the first time.

I can't ask for help from anyone in my family. You know what they're ___.

Available flavours include ___ only the usual strawberry and chocolate, but also peach.

A collision ___ two satellites has filled the sky with debris.

Jane has so many cats, ___ only those she has rescued, but ones that friends have given her.

A hippopotamus can be just ___ dangerous as a lion.