PRACTICE TEST 1.10

To stop Mark getting bored, Mother sent him on a(n) ____________.

• task

• mission

• errand

• service

I hope you realize that you will be ____________ responsible for your actions should you get caught.

• brought

• taken

• carried  

• held

Although he has been teaching for over twenty years, he is still ____________ to new ideas.

• eager

• keen

• open

• enthusiastic

I’ve had __________ debate about equality and the emergence of feminism.

• some of 

• much a

• many a

• none

A new generation of performers, ____________ those who by now had become household name, honed their skills before following the same path onto television.

 

• no less talented than

• together with talented with

• along with talented with

• having been more talented with

A new government report delivers ______ warnings about climate change and its impacts on the planet.

• ominous

• dire

• acute

• fateful

She refuses to resign, intending to weather the ___________.

• flood

• drought

• storm

• typhoon

They have not been able to ___________ the facts, so no one knows what really happened.

• settle 

• abscond

• attain

• ascertain

The statement was intended to shock them and _________.

• getting them thinking

• get them thinking

• get thinking

• get them thought

Every Christmas of my childhood was the same. My father _____ late for lunch, weighed down with presents for the family.        

• would arrive

• had arrived  

• was arriving

• was used to arriving