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Sentence Completion

Sentence Completion

are the most common questions asked in IELTS. So go and practice lots of questions based on sentence completion.
Given below are five sentences with some blanks in them. Your task is to complete the sentence with the most appropriate word given in the options.

  1. Innovation would ___ in one trading hub for a while but then stagnate, sometimes because of external predators-roving pirates, invading barbarians but more often because of internal parasites.

    1. perish
    2. palliate
    3. flourish
    4. dramatize
  2. Boomers and their parents also spent their ___ years away from the cities, where newer immigrants tended to gather unlike today’s young people who have become more involved with immigrants.

    1. fantastic
    2. frenetic
    3. formative
    4. idyllic
  3. ____, shy dogs tend to live much longer that bold, aggressive dogs.

    1. febrile
    2. captivated
    3. docile
    4. ferocious
  4. When a mouse catches a whiff of a cat or a rat, it steps away from the direction of the scent, generally backward so it can keep an eye on the ______

    1. predator
    2. cannibal
    3. perfume
    4. swath
  5. Scientist have been able to formulate _ _______in the case of DNA, but definitive research has yet to provide a similar formulation for a finger print or a voice.

    1. fornesics
    2. nostrum
    3. distinctiveness
    4. therapeutic

Answers-:
1-3
2-3
3-2
4-1
5-3
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Vocabulary Questions For IELTS

VOCABULARY QUESTIONS 101-102

Given below are vocabulary questions that can help you increase your vocabulary.
Question 101-FIND THE WORD THAT IS THE BEST OPPOSITE

  1. CABALISTIC

    • artistic
    • exoteric
    • cryptic
    • acrylic
  2. TENEBROUS

    • unilateral
    • melodious
    • light
    • harsh
  3. IMBECILIC

    • fundamental
    • regular
    • populous
    • precocious
    4. Vocabulary Questions

    Vocabulary Words

  4. IMPUISSANT

    • potent
    • poignant
    • prevalent
    • placable
  5. SETACEOUS

    • barbed
    • disputations
    • unarmed
    • contagious

QUESTION 102
Knowing just the word is not going to help you in IELTS. You need to know their synonyms as well.
In the given sentences, find out the best synonym-:

  1. MAUNDER
    1. mishandle
    2. insult
    3. wander
    4. assault
  2. EXIGUOUS
    1. scanty
    2. irrelevant
    3. healthy
    4. proximate
  3. GOSSAMER
    1. filmy
    2. intractable
    3. snake-like
    4. wild
  4. CARTEL
    1. decoration
    2. syndicate
    3. official
    4. knowledge
  5. FEINT
    1. obscure
    2. feeble
    3. swear
    4. dodge
  6. MOROSE
    1. amiable
    2. sullen
    3. gorgeous
    4. jumbled
  7. INDITE
    1. accuse
    2. jumble
    3. compose
    4. arouse
  8. BRASH
    1. resonant
    2. plausible
    3. impetuous
    4. fragmented
  9. PRIVATION
    1. want
    2. privacy
    3. alienation
    4. eccentricity
  10. TENUOUS
    1. mushrooming
    2. slight
    3. vicious
    4. unlimited

ANSWERS 101-:
1-b
2-c
3-d
4-a
5-c
ANSWERS 102
1-c
2-a
3-a
4-b
5-d
6-b
7-c
8-c
9-c
10-b
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Understanding Native Speakers

Non-native speakers when preparing to go abroad, first learn their language i.e English. While preparing we often think that they speak the way we learn the language. But the truth is although they speak the same thing, they are so used to speaking it, that they no longer sound like we, non-native speakers sound. This is usually because they tend to speak fast and it sometimes so happens that you are unable to understand what they are trying to say. Given below are some sentences and how native speakers tend to speak them.

UNDERSTANDING NATIVE SPEAKERS

  • What are you doing?
    Wha cha doing?
  • Who do you like?
    Hodoya like?
  • When did you go?
    When did ja go?
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    Understanding Native Speakers

  • Where is she?
    Wherezshe?
  • Why did he do that?
    whyde do that?

So once who have prepared for your exam or may in between, try to learn how native speakers speak. This may not help you in exam but surely will help in your stay. Remember, this is a life time opportunity for you, make sure you get the best out of it.

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Learning The Expressions

Given below are some of the expressions that are verb, but are regarded as complete sentences in English. some of them are commands, some are request. 1. Cheer Up-: meaning-: to be happy. So if you see some one sad, you say cheer up, because you want them to be happy. 2. Wait up-: meaning-:It means wait for me. You

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