English: Choose the Best Word: Easy Test 1
10 questions · 10 minutes
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In this passage you have to choose the best word, or group of words, to complete each numbered line so that it makes sense and is written in correct English. The ten numbered lines follow on from one another and make one short passage, so read them in order. Choose the best answer and mark its letter.
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- The doors of the sports centre swung open at last. ________ hour later, Mia was standing at the edge of the pool in a brand new swimming cap, waiting for her race to be called.
- Mia and her team-mates had been counting down to this day for months. ________ friends were leaning over the balcony rail above them, waving a banner they had spent the whole week painting.
- By the time she climbed onto the starting block, the other swimmers ________ already taken their places.
- Each of the eight swimmers ________ waiting for the whistle, with a number written in marker pen on the back of one hand.
- The water felt ________ than she had expected, and for a moment her whole body tensed.
Before you begin, remember
- Check the tense of the passage as a whole. If the story is told in the past, a present-tense answer is wrong however well it reads.
- Choose a or an by sound, not by spelling: an hour, a university.
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