English Language

Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

The teacher ___________over my marks in the exams.

  1. went down my throat

  2. broke down my throat

  3. moved down my throat

  4. jumped down my throat
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'To jump down someone's throat' means to criticize or attack someone verbally in an aggressive, sudden manner. Option D correctly completes the sentence. The idiom suggests an immediate, harsh verbal response, often overreacting to something someone said. The other options are incorrect variations.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

All boys __________at Rivera's habit of stammering.

  1. took a poke

  2. poked

  3. made a poke

  4. started poking
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is A because 'took a poke' is an idiom that means to mock, tease, or make fun of someone. The sentence context describes the boys' reaction to Rivera's stammering habit, which fits this idiomatic expression for teasing someone. The other options are incomplete or grammatically incorrect constructions.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

When I came back home late at night, my father__________.

  1. blew his top

  2. blew his hat

  3. blew his anger

  4. blew his back
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is A because 'blew his top' is a common idiom meaning to lose one's temper or become extremely angry. In the context of coming home late at night, this is the appropriate expression for a parent's angry reaction. The other options ('blew his hat', 'blew his anger', 'blew his back') are not standard English idioms.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

The subject of the vanishing job has special ________ when considering General Electric, partly because GE jobs were so ________ in another era and partly because the company has earned record profits while eliminating them.

  1. poignancy, plentiful

  2. repercussions, sporadic

  3. contrivance, deficient

  4. piquancy, sprinkling
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

As the statement shows no effects or plans, thus, 'poignancy' or 'piquancy', both indicate the intensity and they would be appropriate to replace the blanks. The explanation in the latter part of the sentence following 'because' also complies this. As the explanation highlights the positive side, hence, 'plentiful' would replace second blank. 'Sprinkling' means handful, few. Therefore, (1) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

When listening to a medieval Gregorian chant, the listener does not encounter the composer's individual personality, _____, the chant merely _____ both the musical and religious rules of the period.

  1. moreover, ricochet

  2. rather, embodies

  3. instead, belies

  4. in other words, reverberate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The operative word in this sentence is 'merely', which calls for a contrast between the first and second clause. The first blank should set up that contrast. Only (2) and (3) accomplish this. Of these two choices, only (2) makes complete sense, as the word 'belies' means 'misleads or deceives' and makes no sense here in tandem with the word 'merely'. Hence, (2) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

Shakespeare's ________ of Richard III is so ________ that it is difficult to imagine that the ruler had been dead for more than a century before the Bard cast him as the central character in one of his plays.

  1. caricature, inventive

  2. expression, droll

  3. depiction, vivid

  4. rendition, candid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The first part of the sentence (containing both missing words) must explain why it is difficult to imagine that Richard III had been dead for so long when Shakespeare wrote the play. A vivid (lifelike or realistic) depiction (characterization or description) of the ruler would provide such an explanation. Hence, (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

Many people believed that spices help ___________ food; however, nutritionists found that most spices were __________ of having any effect on the growth of microbes present in the food.

  1. preserve, incapable

  2. produce, impossible

  3. save, preventive

  4. spoil, probable
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence presents a contrast. Belief is they do some good; actually they don’t. Hence, we would use the words 'preserve' and 'incapable'.