Patentia Secondary School a) nervousness

In Class Worksheet b) amazement

Name: __________________________ c) ignorance

Sentence completion: Each of the d) apprehension

sentences below has one or two missing
words. Choose the best suited answer 5. The woman was most ______ by the
from the four options given. man’s unexpected arrival.

1. When the man arrived, the little girl a) put out

______ through the window to get a better b) put up
look at him.
c) put about
a) watched
d) put down
b) appeared
Reported Speech: Choose the best ending
c) peeped for each of the following sentence to
d) viewed reflect the reported speech.

2. The two boys _______ through the 6. I asked him

darkness, trying to find the right path. a) if he wanted me to call him for her.
a) peeped b) if he want me to call him for her.
b) peered c) if he wanted me to call her for him.
c) examined d) if he wants me to call her for him
d) gazed 7. A strange man arrived and
3. When the man arrived, the woman a) ask me if I am Ms. Gladdys’s son.
_______ in amazement: she could not
believe her eyes. b) asked me if I was Ms. Gladdys’s son.

a) peered c) asked me if I am Ms. Gladdys’s son.

b) steered d) ask me if I was Ms. Gladdys’s son.

c) stared 8. She asked me

d) glared a) who he is.

4. The boy stared at the man with ______: b) who he was?

he thought that his arrival meant bad news.
c) who he is.
d) who he was
9. The man replied that the shopkeeper
a) had told her address.
b) had told him her address.
c) had told her the address.
d) told him her address.
10. I said that I
a) had never see him before.
b) had never seen him before.
c) had never seen him again.
d) never seen him before.
Choose the correct word from the
brackets to complete the meaning of the
sentence.
11. The landlady expected the carpenter to
pay for the (board, bored) he had destroyed.
12. The (morale, moral) of the soldiers
needed boosting after their terrible defeat.
13. Some squirrels stacked away a (horde,
hoard) of nuts in the hollow tree.
14. This new building will have four
(storeys, stories); we need to install an
elevator.
15. I need to replace my old (sweet, suite) of
furniture.
16. It is exciting to see your kite (sore, soar)
into the air.
Fill in the blanks with a suitable
describing word taken from the given list.
Describing words: hungry, happy, lazy,
blue, clever, fearful, slippery, golden.
17. The ____________ workman fell asleep
at his work.
18. We were driven helplessly before the
______________ storm.
19. Her eye’s were as ___________ as the
deepest sea.
20. The old lady fell on the ___________
road.
21. The ____________ tramp ate the whole
cake.
22. First prize went to the ____________
girl.
23. We watched the ship sail into the
____________ sunset.
24. The ______________ child filled the
house with its laughter.
Choose the word or phrase that is MOST
NEARLY OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word or phrase.
25. Many parents and even some teenagers
do not approve of the extent of
permissiveness in today’s society.
a) strife
b) restrictiveness
c) competitiveness
d) cruelty
26. The belligerent school girl hurled a chair 30. The tourist brochure gave verbose
at the teacher who warned her not to leave accounts of the carnival festivities of last
the room without permission. year.

a) aggressive a) concise

b) boisterous b) pleasing

c) disobedient c) accurate

d) docile d) colourful

27. Thomas always displays a lackadaisical Choose the word or phrase that is
approach to his studies when his teachers are NEAREST in meaning to the underlined
absent. word or phrase.

a) calm 31. The children were scared by the

grotesque designs on the costumes which
b) careless were on display.
c) keen a) elaborate
d) casual b) hideous
28. We found her appreciative of the help c) strange
that we had given her on this matter.
d) intricate
a) unhappy about
32. Because of high gasoline prices,
b) displeased at motorists no longer flaunt large cars as
c) intolerant of status symbols.

d) ungrateful for a) possess

29. Being helpful and friendly is b) purchase

characteristic of most country folk. c) display
a) unreasonable of d) flout
b) unnecessary for 33. During the rainstorm yesterday, the wind
c) uncommon in blew incessantly across the island.

d) unworthy of a) constantly

b) furiously

c) occasionally
d) noisily uninhabited house where no one had lived
for many years.
34. The new employee seems to be a very
zealous worker. 37. The Chernobyl accident gave a grim but
timely reminder to our shrinking world that
a) untrustworthy no nation can hope to isolate itself from the
b) enthusiastic horrendous effects of a major nuclear
disaster.
c) skillful
38. The politician hammered the nail of his
d) awkward argument into the leafy minds of his
audience who had come to hear him speak
35. A citizen is expected to show complete
on the difficult subject of monetary policy.
allegiance to his native land.
39. Hardly had the document been approved
a) obedience
when several of the officials in the company
b) loyalty began to criticize.

c) homage 40. The angry parent was furious when his

son could not give him a reasonable excuse
d) respect for his unsatisfactory performance in the
examination.
Some of the following sentences are
unacceptable because they contain one of
the four kinds of errors; no sentence
contains more than one error. Some of the
sentences are acceptable as they stand.
Select the option as follows:

(A) If the sentence is too wordy, that is,

repetitive or contains redundancies
(B) If the sentence contains clichés or
misused metaphors
(C) If the sentence is incorrect
grammatically or faulty in diction
(D) If the sentence is acceptable as it
stands

36. Because of the many fruit trees which

distinguished the yard, the little boys
enjoyed playing in the yard of the