Multiple Choice Cloze Exercise 10

1. We won the part of two million dollars on the lottery.
a. most
b. best
c. largest
d. greatest

2 Hopes are of finding anyone else alive after a fishing boat went down off the Scottish coast late last night. Three men were picked up but another four are still missing.
a. dimming
b. dissolving
c. fading
d. reducing

3. You might have failed twice, but I think you should and you will eventually succeed.
a. insist
b. prevail
c. persuade
d. persevere

4. The police spokesman said he was to believe that the arrested man was the serial killer they had been looking for.
a. inclined
b. seemed
c. suspected
d. supposed

5. Even though the two men didn't commit any crime, the police were alerted to their suspicious behaviour outside the bank for nearly an hour.
a. waiting
b. hovering
c. loitering
d. lagging

6. The team threw on all their substitutes in the last five minutes, all to no as they lost the game narrowly by three points.
a. use
b. gain
c. avail
d. benefit

7. The of winter always brings reports of people getting caught out by inclement weather when they least expected it.
a. onset
b. starting
c. onslaught
d. early

8. Soldiers reported many of the prisoners of war to be drunk from the effects of vodka, used by the poorly equipped enemy soldiers to the pain of toothache.
a. lighten
b. lose
c. soothe
d. calm

9. There will be one general meeting per month, the usual section meetings every week.
a. besides
b. apart
c. moreover
d. as well

10. There is no chance of you getting the promotion after only two months working here, the great work you have done.
a. regardless
b. presuming
c. nevertheless
d. notwithstanding