English: Choose the Best Word: Hard Test 3
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.
- It was ________ a still evening that the smoke from the chimneys of Kestrel Row rose perfectly straight.
- A boy in the crowd asked the pilot how high the balloon ________ , and was told that nobody could say.
- The pilot, together with his two assistants, ________ the last to climb into the wicker basket.
- Having cast off the last rope, ________ into a sky the colour of weak tea.
- Only when the town lay far below ________ how fast they were travelling.
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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