English: Choose the Best Word: Medium 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.
- The long wet spring had not had the slightest ________ on our plans for the summer: Sam and I were going to build a tree house.
- Dad said we would have to ________ tying proper knots before he would let us carry a single plank up a tree.
- The ________ of planks we needed came to more than fifty, and we had twelve.
- We chose the old oak at the bottom of the garden, ________ nobody from the kitchen window could see what we were doing.
- That oak ________ there since my grandmother was a girl, and its lowest branch is thicker than my waist.
Before you begin, remember
- Read the line back with your chosen word in place, rather than judging the word on its own.
- Rule out the three options that are clearly wrong first - that turns five choices into two.
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