Error Exercise: Sentence Completion

1. It was an encouraging sign for the iconic marsupial, __________ now listed as vulnerable in the
states of New South Wales and Queensland, and in the Australian Capital Territory.
a. which is
b. which are
c. where is
d. where are

2. You can catch the train through the city or take the subway, but sooner or later you have to go
_______ foot, and walking in Kolkata is dangerous.
a. with
b. by
c. on
d. through

3. If the city ______ rickshaws, these men won’t have a job or an income.
a. bans
b. banning
c. banned
d. has banned

4. The water can rise as high as people’s waist. When it’s that bad, anything with an engine is
useless. But the rickshaw drivers never stop _______, even with water all around them.
a. work
b. to work
c. to working
d. working

5. It was known that ketamine was a _________ problem in China, but few had any idea that it was
made in Boshe.
a. rise
b. rising
c. risen
d. rose

6. Huskies might not be as ________ as a modern snowmobile, but they are better for the
environment.
a. fast
b. faster
c. fastest
d. fasting

7. For decades, this old drug was only manufactured by pharmaceutical companies. Technically, it
was too complicated _________ by amateur chemists.
a. to make
b. to making
c. to be made
 d. to be making

8. There is no specific threat, but travel firms _______ to fly Britons out over the next few days, and
some are repatriating their British staff.
a. seek
b. are seeking
c. will be sought
d. has sought

9. He is highly revered figure in the Japanese gaming scene and __________ leading figure behind
Nintendo’s successful turnaround after he joined the company in the year 2000.
a. consider
b. considerate
c. considering
d. considered

10. Last year, Mr Iwata said he would halve his salary for several months after the company _______
by rivals Sony and Microsoft in console sales.
a. is outpaced
b. is outpacing
c. was outpaced
d. was outpacing

11. Mainland Chinese shares continued their way higher as more measures to _______ the market
from its recent rout encouraged investors to return.
a. strong
b. strength
c. strengthen
d. stronger

12. Asian shares were higher on hopes for a deal for Greece _________ an emergency summit
ending again with no resolution and more deadlines in the debt crisis.
a. despite
b. through
c. because
d. however

13. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen has repeated her view that the central bank is likely
_______ interest rates this year.
a. start to raise
b. to start raise
c. to start raising
d. start raising

14. Recent weak economic data and a call from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to delay a
rise until 2016 had dampened _________ of a 2015 increase.
a. expect
b. expected
 c. expecting
d. expectation

15. We will be watching carefully to see if there is continued improvement in labour market
conditions, and we will need to be __________ that inflation will move back to 2% in the next few
years.
a. reasonable confident
b. reasonably confident
c. reasonable confidence
d. reasonably confidence

16. Authorities have rolled out ______ to boost activity in the economy such as cutting interest rates
for the fourth time since November just last month.
a. series of measure
b. a series of measure
c. series of measure
d. a series of measure

17. The company was found guilty of systematic bribery and fined $300m. He ______ by the contrast
between his punishment and theirs.
a. shocks
b. shocked
c. was shocked
d. was shocking

18. What we were doing for companies in the private sector was very similar ___ what the
government now seemed to be doing in the public sector.
a. by
b. to
c. of
d. in

19. ______ are being questioned at the Altiplano prison to find out how he could escape this time.
a. Dozen of prison guard
b. Dozens of prison guard
c. Dozen of prison guard
d. Dozens of prison guards

20. A calculation based on the ________ and extension of the tunnel estimates that the earth
removed would have filled 379 lorries.
a. high, wide
b. height, wide
c. high, width
d. height, width