Sentence Completion

Complete the sentence: 'She is so _____ that she always helps her friends.'

• Agenerous✓
• Bselfish
• Ccareless
• Danxious

Answer: Helping friends is a generous act. The other words describe the opposite or something unrelated.

Complete the sentence: 'The weather is very _____. We should bring an umbrella.'

• Asettled
• Bchangeable✓
• Cpleasant
• Dpredictable

Answer: An umbrella is needed when the weather might turn, which is what 'changeable' means.

Complete the sentence: 'Despite the cold, the _____ carried on with the match.'

• Aplayers✓
• Bweather
• Creferee's
• Dcoldness

Answer: The blank needs a plural noun that can carry on with a match.

Complete the sentence: 'The explorer _____ the summit after weeks of climbing.'

• Areached✓
• Barrived
• Ctravelled
• Dwent

Answer: 'Reached' takes an object directly — you reach the summit. 'Arrived' would need 'at'.

Complete the sentence: 'Although she was tired, she was _____ to finish her project.'

• Areluctant
• Bunwilling
• Cindifferent
• Ddetermined✓

Answer: 'Although' signals a contrast: being tired but pressing on anyway.

Complete the sentence: 'The ruins _____ us a great deal about the people who lived there.'

• Asay
• Bspeak
• Ctell✓
• Dtalk

Answer: 'Tell' takes a person as its object — tell us something. 'Say' does not work this way.

Complete the sentence: 'His argument was so _____ that nobody could disagree.'

• Aconvincing✓
• Bconfusing
• Ccomplicated
• Dunremarkable

Answer: If nobody can disagree, the argument must have been persuasive.

Complete the sentence: 'The instructions were _____, so we finished quickly.'

• Avague
• Bincomplete
• Clengthy
• Dclear✓

Answer: Finishing quickly follows from instructions that were easy to understand.

Complete the sentence: 'She spoke _____ so that the baby would not wake.'

• Aloudly
• Bsharply
• Cimpatiently
• Dsoftly✓

Answer: Not waking the baby calls for a quiet voice.

Complete the sentence: 'The evidence was _____; the case was dismissed.'

• Aoverwhelming
• Bdetailed
• Cinsufficient✓
• Drecent

Answer: The case being dismissed tells you the evidence was not enough.

Complete the sentence: 'He gave a _____ reply and refused to say more.'

• Alengthy
• Bcheerful
• Ccurt✓
• Ddetailed

Answer: 'Curt' means short to the point of rudeness, which fits refusing to say more.

Complete the sentence: 'The path was so _____ that we had to walk in single file.'

• Aspacious
• Bsteep
• Cmuddy
• Dnarrow✓

Answer: Walking in single file is caused by a lack of width.