SENTENCE
COMPLETION TEST - 19
1. Since it suppresses the nausea induced by
anti-cancer drugs and relieves the pain of
multiple-sclerosis,..................
a) Europe's Food and Drug Administration permit
ophthalmologists to prescribe marijuana, a harmful
drug, to helpless patients
b) a team of AIDS researchers are preparing to
introduce a couple of new drugs
c) the sale of Marijuana is going to be banned in
drugstores
d) which cause burning sensations in patients' limbs
e) the federal government had lifted the ban on the
harmful drug before these two diseases were known
2. We have repeated many times................
a) that we would settle in a big hectic city
b) that mother had made a mistake in making her
decision to leave
c) our dismay at our mother’s having been stuck in a
small dull town
d) how happy we had been where we are
e) although my mother wasn't so deaf to hear us
3. Having been curious about what's in the pen for
hens,..................
a) the chickens walked towards their pen
b) the farmer decided to sell all the hens
c) the writer resolved to write a book about them
with a pen
d) my younger daughter nearly broke it
e) Jackie thrust his head into it to examine the
inside
4. The bank turned down her request for a loan;
therefore………….
a) the bank manager began to beg her to leave the
bank
b) she decided to come to the bank every day
c) she sold her house to pay her debts
d) she apologised for her demand for it
e) she was willing to live alone.
5. Having been dismissed from the
school,................
a) he decided to commit suicide
b) he passed her class successfully
c) he was transferred to another class
d) the boy felt deep gratitude for the headmaster
e) he will look for another job
6. I would naturally have felt extremely
disillusioned,__________.
a) since he must have been by far the best applicant
b) unless the competition has had very few entrants
c) even though the two teams were extraordinarily
well matched
d) If they hadn't sent us an invitation to the
concert
e) as the first prize went to a racist author
7. The speaker from China has stressed__
a) so that preserving agricultural land is his
government's primary economic policy
b) that terracing the soil is one conservation
method used widely in his country to control erosion
c) since urban renewal has completely changed the
look of the cities in his country
d) as regards the fact that a handful of industrial
nations monopolized deep sea fishing until the early
1970's
e) while rich tropical forests are vanishing at the
rate of some 11 million hectares a year.
8. The overall quality of life in today's world
cannot be improved____.
a) just as population growth would strain the global
urban environment
b) as the underdeveloped countries were ignored
completely by international
agencies like the United Nations and the World Bank
c) since the population of that part of the world
rose from 800 million in 1960 to 1.2 billion in 1985
d) if the developed countries are not prepared to
offer a helping hand to the underdeveloped
e) whenever the OECD declines to support a series of
projects for the development of poorer countries.
9. Some avalanches move no faster than 40 kilometers
per hour____.
a) while others have been estimated to have a speed
of about 300 kilometres per hour
b) even if the damage they did was minimal compared
with the destruction caused by hurricanes and
earthquake
c) in spite of the fact that snow lying on a steep
slope is always liable to avalanche
d) for the wind sometimes reaches a force almost
equal to that of a tornado
e) so that in such areas measures may be taken to
avoid large avalanches
10. _____that treatment policies suitable for one
age group may not be justified in another.
a) A controversy immediately arose
b) The article has considerable originality
c) A current study into cholesterol levels suggests
d) They had fully persuaded
e) The implications were not at first realized
11. ______how instantaneously and lastingly blacks
had affected American life throughout history.
a) Thomas Jefferson, one of the leaders of the
American Revolution, had opposed
b) In his paper on slavery in America he
demonstrated with impeccable scholarship
c) Whites in America have always objected
d) In colonial America, Virgins was the largest and
most populous colony where
e) The American slaves, often subject to arbitrary
punishment, learned to be hypersensitive
12. _____, however most of them don't see a doctor
because they think it's something they just have to
live with.
a) It was reported earlier in this decade that about
one third of all patients had received treatment for
impotence
b) Over 200 thousand men have received proper
medical treatment
c) Impotence is something we have learned to deal
with
d) Urologists and other doctors have always been
concerned with impotence
e) Impotence affects over 10 million men nationwide
13. Although free politics and free-market economics
go most happily together,______.
a) no new aid would be approved for six months
b) they could no longer blame the colonialists, who
had withdrawn from Africa two or three decades
before
c) five years ago, dictatorships proclaiming
socialist policies prevailed in Africa
d) one does not necessarily lead to the other, nor
guarantees its success
e) Africans have shown that they want multiparty
democracy and are beginning to achieve it
14. The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands is best
known to most of us through Anne Frank's
diary,______.
a) although another significant record of the era
was made by Dutch photographers, both professional
and amateur
b) while the Dutch government had banned the
publication of all newspapers
c) since most of the Jewish population in the
country were prepared to emigrate tothe United
States
d) that her description of the atrocities committed
by the enemy has provided historians with valuable
details
e) when her parents had hidden her in the attic of
their house
15. ______, the U.S. population, now 266 million,
will increase to 400 million by 2050.
a) Though the governments have encouraged large
families through tax reductionsand welfare subsidies
b) Although the growth rate has been among the
highest of the developed world
c) If current trends continue, and they seem likely
to do so
d) Since the birth rate has now outgrown the
country's agricultural capacity
e) Because stringent measures need to be introduced
to reverse population growth
16. The elderly gentleman sitting over there is an
artist__________.
a) whose many articles about their commitment to the
cause of human welfare and happiness in Africa would
be controversial
b) that he shares the vision of young people for a
peaceful and prosperous world in the next century
c) whose work has been exhibited widely in many
countries in Europe
d) as his awards include gold and silver medals
presented by various organizations
e) whereby he had commonly been elected an honorary
member of the Society of Modern Arts
17. He emphasized that the issue was simply_____.
a) in case the surgery recommended was approved by
the medical board
b) whether surgical intervention was right for this
particular patient
c) when the patient has been admitted for an
emergency operation
d) to what extent the treatment recommended for this
particular patient has been
successful
e) why the medical board is expected to refuse his
appointment
18. By the time the first European travelers on the
American continent began to record some of their
observations about Indians..........
a) the Cherokee people had developed an advanced
culture
b) the American Indians were fighting against
raiders.
c) the European immigrants poured into the States
d) Indian culture is entirely different from slave
culture
e) everyone realized the strength of the Indians
19. An infant, according to Birdwhistell,
learns____.
a) that he was not able to run as fast as his
brother
b) why he will not get along with his brothers
c) where to set the eyebrows by looking around
d) when he is born into a poor family
e) what the people around are talking about
20. _____that it has been a stable and relatively
fixed institution through history.
a) The general view of the family is
b) What he had been asked
c) The ideal observer view was discussed
d) The best lesson to learn
e) Why the experts question
21. Smallpox inoculation became popular_____.
a) that eventually this disease would have been
completely wiped out
b) although the success rate, according to recent
realistic, is still rather doubtful
c) even though it had not been a fatal disease that
brought death to all levels of society
d) however unlikely one is to come in contact with
the disease
e) only after Jenner's discovery that the less
dangerous cowpox material was an effective
immunizing agent
22. The helicopter can climb vertically, _ .
a) although the winds were blowing at gale force
b) if it can take off in a very restricted space
c) which, in certain circumstances, is its main
advantages over other types of aircraft
d) whenever the pilot felt himself obliged to make a
forced landing
e) if the cost of its uptake hadn't been a heavy
burden on the budget
23. ________if any one party decides to ignore the
obligations it has undertaken in the treaty.
a) Obviously, very serious problems will arise
b) They may have refused the offer
c) They were actually determined to be present at
the opening of the talks
d) The last speaker was quite adamant on the need to
resume fighting
e) The observers may have been very upset
24. _ , although many countries are stepping up
their own production.
a) This is just one of many developments in
international trade
b) England still imported a great deal of tropical
fruit
c) Turkey's exports of fruit and vegetables will
have dropped sharply
d) Steel remains an important item of international
trade
e) By the end of the month figures concerning the
dollar reserves will have been processed
25. Before the National Health Service Act came into
force in 1946 in England,_____.
a) the funding of hospitals was a major issue in
human politics
b) these people aren't able to afford medical advice
c) there have been angry debates about the necessity
for it
d) everyone realized that these were all, basically,
political issues
e) many doctors would feel that the transition had
been exceedingly painful
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