Passage Completion Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: I've stopped eating bread.

Reshma replies but it's not enough if you want to lose weight, so the blank must be a small step already taken towards losing weight, and Preeti confirms it is only a beginning. Giving up the gym would work against the goal, and the dietician's target is not itself a step.

Answer: C

Correct answer: I can't see the sentences on the board.

George's reply, then you should start wearing glasses, must follow a complaint about eyesight, and Sandra's next line about contact lenses continues it. The questions about an eye doctor or a grandmother would not draw that advice.

Answer: D

Correct answer: But it's very difficult to find a parking place near the bank

Nick has objected that the bank is five hundred metres away; Chris must therefore give a reason for leaving the car here anyway, and Nick's I don't care, I can't walk in this weather dismisses exactly such a reason. The remaining options change the subject or state something Nick has already said.

Answer: D

Correct answer: the larger hawks and eagles prey on small mammals, such as rodents

The sentence after the blank is a list of what each bird eats - ospreys and eagles fish, falcons insects, owls everything. The blank must therefore begin that list, and only the keyed option names prey. The other three describe feathers, eggs and flight, none of which leads into a catalogue of diets.

Answer: D

Correct answer: long ago, they called it Yaguara, the "cat that kills with a single spring"

The next sentence says both names convey the awe, so two names must already have been given. El Tigre is the first; the blank has to supply the second. Only the keyed option names one.

Answer: D

Correct answer: so individual monarchs only make the round-trip once

However, their life span is only a few months sets up a consequence, and the sentence after the blank speaks of their great-great-grandchildren making the return journey. The blank must bridge the two by saying that no single butterfly completes the round trip. The other options change the subject to birds or to other butterflies.

Answer: B

Correct answer: they are about 25 centimeters long

The sentence after the blank is that is the size of two of your hands, so the blank must state a measurement for that to refer to. None of the other options gives one.

Answer: D

Correct answer: while there are many hypotheses about Atlantis, the vast majority of scientists conclude that Atlantis never existed

The sentence after the blank begins they also added that Plato made up the story, so the blank needs a plural group who have already said something sceptical. Only the keyed option supplies one - the scientists - and only it is sceptical, which also requires.

Answer: D

Correct answer: A tsunami can be generated by any disturbance that rapidly moves a large mass of water such as volcanic eruption

However, the most common cause is an undersea earthquake narrows a wider claim, so the blank must make that wider claim about causes. The options about the word's Japanese origin, about tidal waves and about damage on land say nothing about causes, so however would have nothing to qualify.

Answer: B

Correct answer: first of all, wear clean clothes and protective apron

The two sentences after the blank begin besides and also, so they are the second and third items of a list of routines. First of all opens that list. The other options are statements about disease and preservation, and neither can be the first item of a list of things to do.