English: Choose the Best Word: Hard 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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Example questions from this paper
A preview of the wording. The answer options and full explanations appear once you begin.
- The crossing to the island ________ of a four-mile walk over wet sand, and it could be made only at low tide.
- No sooner had the guide raised his stick ________ the whole party set off across the flats.
- Little ________ how quickly the mist would come down over the flats that afternoon.
- ________ the thick mist, we could just make out the ruined chapel on the far shore.
- The sand was ________ soft in places that our boots sank in as far as the ankle.
Before you begin, remember
- Rule out the three options that are clearly wrong first - that turns five choices into two.
- 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.
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