Learning English Online

Advance Level 16

1. You're not getting enough to eat, Karen! Look at you! You're as thin as a ________.





2. It's none of your business: please don't ________ things that don't concern you.





3. There is a ________ of a thousand pounds offered for the capture of the murderer.





4. The eight vehicles in the sale-room can all lay some ________ to being bargains.





5. I realised it would be far too ________ to walk alone through those ill-lit streets after dark.





6. I do not ________ to be clever but I am not stupid.





7. The discussion quickly became a very ________ argument about increasing prices.





8. ________ of half-starving wolves were roaming the snow-covered countryside.





9. The noise was so ________ that only those with excellent hearing were aware of it.





10. His speech was careful and ________ but his words seemed to make no sense.





11. It is not as difficult to store the information as it is to ________ it quickly when it is wanted again.





12. A sudden movement caught the antelope's attention and he instantly became ________ and alert.





13. From the cheers and shouts of ________, I gathered that he was winning the race.





14. Until I heard Mr Barnes' amusing speech at the meeting last night, I had never realised he was such a ________ speaker.





15. Some doubt has been ________ on the reliability of the witness's statement.





16. The prisoner was ________ in custody for a medical report.





17. Unless you pack those trousers more carefully, they will ________.





18. Being left-handed the workman accidentally ________ the screws instead of tightening them.





19. The Sales Manager was not very interested in the proposed advertising ________.





20. When I return from holiday, I shall have to ________ with a lot of work.




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