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Sentence Completion

1- ".............., it is still not clear to me or my classmates what it exactly means."

A- Although we are not prepared for the exam to be given the next day

B- Because we are all clever enough to understand a good explanation

C- Even though the teacher has explained the meaning of parameter twice

D- Soon after we have managed to determine all the parameters

E- When we talked to the teacher about the parameters of our evaluation

I said C


2- "Not only did the agency lie to us about the hotel's location............................"

A- but also there are a lot of good hotels in that destination

B- yet we knew they were going to make a very appealing offer to us

C- but charged us a lot more money than the hotel was worth as well

D- where there were the most beautiful beaches that I had ever seen

E- so that we could rely on the guidelines they provided for us

I said C


3- "Because the Hubble Space Telescope orbits 616 kilometers above the Earth, ................................"

A- they used to be clearer than those taken from most Earth-based telescopes

B- his interest in space technology will probably be reduced considerably

C- it is able to receive very clear pictures of distant stars

D- some students are more interested in space research than others

E- scientists are able to point the other telescopes in any direction

I said E

  

Top answer

1) C 2) C is clearly intended to be the right answer, but the resulting sentence needs to be worded like this. Not only did the agency lie to us about the hotel's location but it (also) charged us a lot more money than the hotel was worth as well. The agency not only lied to us about the hotel's location but also charged us a lot more money than the hotel was worth as well.

  • 1) C 2) C is clearly intended to be the right answer, but the resulting sentence needs to be worded like this.
  • Not only did the agency lie to us about the hotel's location but it (also) charged us a lot more money than the hotel was worth as well.
  • The agency not only lied to us about the hotel's location but also charged us a lot more money than the hotel was worth as well.
  • 3) C
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1) C

2) C is clearly intended to be the right answer, but the resulting sentence needs to be worded like this.


Not only did the agency lie to us about the hotel's location but it (also) charged us a lot more money than the hotel was worth as well.

The agency not only lied to us about the hotel's location but also charged us a lot more money

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