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Sentence completion exercise

September 24th, 2012 in English Quiz

Each of the following sentences is incomplete. Complete them using appropriate word or phrase. Choose your answers from the options given below.

1. In 1998 I arrived in the town where I ……………………………………… spend the next ten years of my life.

a) will

b) would

c) would have

d) will have

2. Antibodies are special chemicals ………………………………………….. a specific kind of invading microbe or material.

a) tailored to fight

b) tailored to fighting

c) tailored for fighting

d) tailoring to fight

3. In ………………………………………… life, you don’t usually find an elephant in a supermarket.

a) everyday

b) every day

c) every day of

d) every days of

4. As red blood cells circulate throughout the body, iron latches onto oxygen ……………………………………… by the lungs.

a) brought in

b) brought out

c) brought on

d) brought down

5. We did an experiment in the chemistry lab …………………………………… we could get chlorine gas from salt.

a) for seeing if

b) to see if

c) to seeing if

d) to see

6. A single drop of blood …………………………………… millions of red blood cells shaped like tiny doughnuts with a depression instead of a hole in the center.

a) is containing

b) contains

c) contain

d) contained

Answers

1. In 1998, I arrived in the town where I would spend the next ten years of my life.

2. Antibodies are special chemicals tailored to fight a special kind of invading microbe or material.

3. In everyday life, you don’t usually find an elephant in a supermarket. (everyday = routine, ordinary etc.)

4. As red blood cells circulate throughout the body, iron latches onto oxygen brought in by the lungs.

5. We did an experiment in the chemistry lab to see if we could get chlorine gas from salt.

6. A single drop of blood contains millions of red blood cells shaped like tiny doughnuts with a depression instead of a hole in the center.