English: Choose the Best Word: Easy Test 2
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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- Our class had decided to raise money ________ the animal shelter on the edge of town, and by Friday morning the school hall was full of cakes.
- There were ________ cupcakes on the first table than anyone could count, every one of them iced in the same bright green.
- Ravi was carrying a tray of brownies so carefully that he hardly dared to breathe. ‘Mind the step, ________ going to drop the lot!’ called Miss Patel.
- The box of chocolate muffins ________ the first thing to sell out, and it had gone before the doors had been open for ten minutes.
- By eleven o’clock the queue stretched back into the corridor, and the hall was ________ crowded to move around in.
Before you begin, remember
- Choose a or an by sound, not by spelling: an hour, a university.
- Read the whole passage before answering. Several gaps depend on something mentioned a line or two earlier.
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