Passage Completion Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: But I've used it before and it did not help at all.

The doctor's reply is are you sure? It's the best on the market, which is a defence of the medicine, so the patient must have objected to it. The patient then asks for a different prescription, which confirms it. The two questions about dosage and side effects would not provoke a defence, and the third option puts the doctor's words in the patient's mouth.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Then you wouldn't recommend it, would you?

Karen answers certainly not. Do not waste your time, which is the answer to a question about recommending. A tag question inviting agreement fits both the answer and Karen's lukewarm verdict. A question about reviews would be answered with a yes or a no about reading them, not with advice.

Answer: C

Correct answer: But it wasn't my fault. You've got to believe me.

The father replies I'm sure it wasn't, which can only follow a denial of fault, and he backs it with the count of accidents. An apology would not be met with that sarcasm, and the two questions about the car and the money do not fit a son who has just crashed it.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Can you help me prune the roses in the garden at the weekend?

Mary's reply - are you kidding? We are in June - objects to the timing, and her last line gives the right time for trimming roses. So Tom must have proposed doing it now. The option asking what the right time is would make her answer redundant, and the one about planting concerns a different job.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Why are you always complaining about your parents?

Mark's reply, that's because they never stop criticizing me, needs a why question about a habit of his, and they must be his parents, whom Nina names in the next line. The other three questions are about other people entirely.

Answer: D

Correct answer: You had better go home and take a rest.

Amit answers no, I'm okay, I can wait until the end of the meeting, so Rosy must have suggested leaving. Rosy then insists, and Amit gives in with I'll see you tomorrow, which only makes sense if he is going home. The option asking whether he can wait would be answered yes, not no, I'm okay.

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.