Chapter 23 Sentence Check

Chapter 23 Sentence Check

Multiple Choice

Halloween offers everyone the chance to look as ______ as possible.

• bizarre

• repertoire

• falter

• conducive

• gist

Multiple Choice

Al Pacino's _____ includes both modern dramas and Shakespearean plays.

• bizarre

• repertoire

• falter

• conducive

• gist

Multiple Choice

When a reporter asked Senator Drake a difficult question, the senator ______(e)d for a moment.

• bizarre

• repertoire

• falter

• conducive

• gist

Multiple Choice

For snails, heat is _____ to sleep. In fact, desert snails may sleep three or four years at a time.

• bizarre

• repertoire

• falter

• conducive

• gist

Multiple Choice

The _____ of Kelly's essay was that school should be open only four days a week, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• bizarre

• repertoire

• falter

• conducive

• gist

Multiple Choice

Since ordinary clothes may _____ movement, sweat suits and leotards are recommended for the exercise class.

• hamper

• viable

• paradox

• frenzy

• flaunt

Multiple Choice

This morning, the staff could not come up with a _____ plan to improve business. Every suggestion had a drawback.

• hamper

• viable

• paradox

• frenzy

• flaunt

Multiple Choice

When Chun's parents said they worried when he didn't call home, he said, "Remember that well-known _____ ---no news is good news."

• hamper

• viable

• paradox

• frenzy

• flaunt

Multiple Choice

Delia was in a _____ because she had locked her keys in the car and was already twenty minutes late for work.

• hamper

• viable

• paradox

• frenzy

• flaunt

Multiple Choice

Lucas belived the only way he could get a date was to _____ his wealth by wearing thick gold chains and driving expensive sports cars.

• hamper

• viable

• paradox

• frenzy

• flaunt

Multiple Select

The joking at today's staff meeting wasn't _____ to finding a way to alleviate the town's parking problems. No one could think of a _____ plan to increase the number of parking spaces.

• viable

• conducive

• gist

• frenzy

• paradox

Multiple Select

The _____ of the lecture was that although the United States encourages free trades, some other countries _____ it.

• gist

• hamper

• paradox

• flaunt

• conducive

Multiple Select

Although Jenny chose the songs from her _____ that she knew best, she wasn't complacent about being prepared. Afraid she would _____ the night of the concert, she practiced the songs over and over.

• repertoire

• falter

• conducive

• frenzy

• bizarre

Multiple Select

Bob is so prone to changing his mind that his rapid shifts of opinion sometimes make me furious. Once, in a _____ of anger, I shouted this _____: "You're always the same --- always changing your mind!"

• frenzy

• bizarre

• paradox

• falter

• viable

Multiple Select

My mother took me aside at the party and said, "That looks more like a strange costume than a dress. It's bad enough your clothing looks so _____, but do you have to mortify me and ______ it in front of all my friends?"

• flaunt

• bizarre

• gist

• repertoire

• falter