Sentence Completion

1. La camisa de mi novia es hecha de ------- .

(A) rosas
(B) algodón
(C) madera
(D) azul
2. Buscaba las medicinas para mi abuelo en la ------- de la esquina.
(A) librería
(B) farmacia
(C) oficina
(D) panaderí a
3. Estaba ------- porque mis empleados llegaron tarde por cuarta vez en la misma semana.
(A) furioso
(B) encantado
(C) contentísimo
(D) abierto
4. Una buena manera de mejorar las notas en la escuela es ------ mucho.
(A) enseñar
(B) entender
(C) hablar
(D) practicar
5. Es un hombre sumamente vanidoso; siempre se estámirando en el ------- .
(A) espejo
(B) cristal
(C) gafas
(D) mismo
6. Los viejos tienen más ------- que los jóvenes, porque han tenido más experiencias.
(A) tiempo
(B) que comer
(C) sabiduría
(D) apetito
7. Es bastante evidente que a Alejandro le gusta hacer sus tareas; siempre las hace ------- .
(A) de mala gana
(B) con entusiasmo
(C) muy despacio
(D) sin gusto
8. Pedro ------- muy contento cuando naciósu hijo.
(A) se cambió
(B) se dio
(C) se hizo
(D) se puso
9. Quiero que ------- apuntes sobre la lectura.
(A) tomas
(B) tomes
(C) tomabas
(D) tomaste
 1. B Translation: My girlfriend’s shirt is made of ------- .
(A) roses
(B) cotton
(C) wood
(D) blue
The key words in the sentence are camisa (shirt) and hecha (made of). Rosas (roses) andmadera (wood) do
not work; azul (blue) could describe the color of the shirt, but not what the shirt is made of.
Therefore, algodón (cotton) is the correct answer.

2. B Translation: I was looking/looked for medicine for my grandfather in the ------- on the corner.
(A) bookstore
(B) pharmacy
(C) office
(D) bakery
The clue in this question is a cognate (remember those?), medicinas, so that even if the rest of the sentence
was a blur you could tell that the answer had something to do with medicine. The answer also happens to be
a cognate and is the only choice that relates to medicine.

3. A Translation: I was ------- because my employees arrived late for the fourth time in the same week.
(A) furious
(B) delighted
(C) very happy
(D) open
Unless you were some sort of lunatic, you’d be pretty peeved if your staff was late all the time. Although
three of the answers are emotions, only one of the three is a negative emotion.

4. D Translation: A good way to improve your grades in school is ------- a lot.

(A) to teach
(B) to understand
(C) to speak
(D) to practice
The key words in the sentence are mejorar (to improve) and notas (grades). Practicar(to practice) is the
best answer choice. Enseñar (to teach), entender (to understand), and hablar (to speak) all have to do with
school, but they don’t quite fit in with what is described.

5. A Translation: He is an extremely vain man; he’s always looking at himself in the ------- .
(A) mirror
(B) glass
(C) glasses
(D) self
Vanidoso is one clue in this one, but that’s a pretty tough vocabulary word (add it to your list). You’ve also
got mirarse (to look at oneself) later in the sentence to tell you that the best answer is espejo. Cristal means
plain old glass, as in a window or a bottle, or fine glass.

6. C Translation: Old people have more ------- than young people because they’ve had more
experiences.
(A) time
(B) to eat
(C) wisdom
(D) appetite
Older people probably have more of everything than young people, but what might they have more of based
on experience? Not time, food, or appetite, which leaves you with only (C). We know this is a hard word,
but you could have used POE to get this question right without knowing sabiduría.

7. B Translation: It’s evident enough that Alejandro likes doing his homework; he always does it
------- .
(A) reluctantly
(B) with enthusiasm
(C) very slowly
(D) without taste
“Likes” implies a positive answer, such as (B). The others are all negative things, and if you could determine
that much, you could eliminate them without knowing their precise meanings.

8. D Translation: Pedro ------- very happy when his child was born.
(A) changed
(B) gave himself
(C) made himself
(D) became
Choices (A) and (B) are really awkward, and although (C) seems like it could work, the verb ponerse is
generally used to indicate a change of emotions. Hacerse is not.

9. B Translation: I want you to ------- notes about the lecture.

(A) take (simple present)
(B) take (present subjunctive)
(C) used to take (imperfect)
(D) took (preterite)
The phrase that starts the sentence, “Quiero que,” tells you that you should use the subjunctive. Choices (C)
and (D) both refer to the past, so if you at least know you need to stay in the present tense, then you can
eliminate two choices.