Q.1
Choose the most appropriate word or words to complete the blank/s in good English. 'Do not enter this area ... ... you wish to be arrested!'
  • ... if ...
  • ... unless ...
  • ... until ...
  • ... whenever ...
Q.2
Choose the most appropriate word or words to complete the blank/s in good English. ... ... her discomfort, she continued to the end of the performance.
  • Although ...
  • Unless ...
  • Nevertheless ...
  • Despite ...
Q.3
Choose the most appropriate word or words to complete the blank/s in good English. He stayed and worked on the family farm ... ... his brother emigrated to Australia.
  • ... despite ...
  • ... during ...
  • ... while ...
  • ... alongside ...
Q.4
Choose the most appropriate word or words to complete the blank/s in good English. During last weekend's successful charity concert, Jessica sang 'Cats' from memory ... ... her sister played a movement from Dvorak's Cello Sonata.
  • ... while ...
  • ... and ...
  • ... but ...
  • ... although ...
Q.5
Choose the most appropriate word or words to complete the blank/s in good English. Our elderly pet is coping better now than he used to, ... ... he sometimes has a Bad Day still.
  • ... and ...
  • ... although ...
  • ... despite ...
  • ... nonetheless ...
Q.6
Choose the most appropriate word or words to complete the blank/s in good English. Most of the world's motorists drive on the right, ... ... in Britain and many of her various former colonies, traffic keeps to the left.
  • ... and ...
  • ... while ...
  • ... whereas ...
  • ... unless ...
Q.7
Only ONE of these versions will NOT make clear sense as a completion of the sentence: which one is it? He was suffering with a heavy cold ... ...
  • ... ; nevertheless, he stayed in late and completed the work.
  • ... , yet he stayed in late and completed the work.
  • ... since he stayed in late and completed the work.
  • ... ; he still stayed in late and completed the work.
Q.8
Only ONE of these versions will NOT make clear sense as a completion of the sentence: which one is it? 'As it turns out, we didn't need the report until next week,' commented his line-manager the following morning, ... ...
  • ... 'but I am none the less grateful to you for putting in such an effort to get it ready ahead of time.'
  • ... 'but I am grateful to you regardless, for putting in such an effort to get it ready ahead of time.'
  • ... 'but I am nonetheless grateful to you for putting in such an effort to get it ready ahead of time.'
  • ... 'yet I am grateful to you all the same for putting in such an effort to get it ready ahead of time.'
Q.9
Only ONE of these versions will NOT make clear sense as a completion of the sentence: which one is it? 'You can go out after supper until ten o'clock ... ... '
  • ... until you've finished all your homework.
  • ... provided you've finished all your homework.
  • ... as long as you've finished all your homework.
  • ... since you've finished all your homework.
Q.10
Choose the most appropriate word or words to complete the blank/s in good English. 'What with the haphazard way he's playing today, if we end up winning this match, it'll be as much ... ... '
  • ... because of him as despite him.
  • ... in spite of him as because him.
  • ... despite him as because of him.
  • ... because of him than despite of him.
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