Some practice questions with answer key
Contextual Passages
1. Choose the correct word from the brackets to complete the passage below:
Half an hour before daybreak three of the boys assembled, as they agreed, near
the old bridge. …………(A, An, The) fourth, a boy by the name of Tolly, had not
turned up. His absence did not make the others …………….(feel, to feel, felt)
greatly surprise. They knew that his mother did not want him to come ………..(at,
on, in) this expedition into the forest.
Charles, ……………..(where, who, whose) was the oldest and their accepted
leader, waded downstream to the place where their boat was tied up in the shelter of
some overhanging bushes. Then he rowed the boat back to the shallow water near the
bridge, where the boys loaded it with the provisions, blankets and other things that
they ………….(was, were, are) taking on their journey. Dawn was just breaking as
they climbed into their boat and pushed off from the bank. A swift current carried
them downstream, so there was no need to row. They took it in turns to keep the boat
in the centre of the river. Three hours later they ……………(entered, had entered,
would enter) the forest where they intended to spend the next few days. "Let's go
ashore now and make some tea," suggested Charles. "No one will see us
here,………..(won’t he, will they, won’t they)?." ………………..(It was forbidden,
People had forbidden, They forbid) to light fires in the forest, but people rarely came
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