Practice IELTS

Exercise - 13

Question: 1 What exercise do you like doing ....... of all?

Correct Answer : 1 [best]

Notes: What exercise do you like doing best of all?

Question: 2 That's a good question but I need ....... to think about it.

Correct Answer : 2 [time]

Notes: That's a good question but I need time to think about it.

Question: 3 Don't worry, there's no need to answer ....... I'm not in a hurry.

Correct Answer : 3 [immediately]

Notes: Don't worry, there's no need to answer immediately I'm not in a hurry.

Question: 4 There are so many things that it's difficult to ........

Correct Answer : 4 [choose]

Notes: There are so many things that it's difficult to choose.

Question: 5 Oh, come on it's ....... not that difficult.

Correct Answer : 5 [surely]

Notes: Oh, come on it's surely not that difficult.

Question: 6 Well, I think it is and I ....... it's an impossible question to answer.

Correct Answer : 6 [reckon]

Notes: Well, I think it is and I reckon it's an impossible question to answer.

Question: 7 Do you want me to ....... it easier for you?

Correct Answer : 7 [make]

Notes: Do you want me to make it easier for you?

Question: 8 Yes, I'd very much ....... that.

Correct Answer : 8 [appreciate]

Notes: Yes, I'd very much appreciate that.

Question: 9 All right let me ask you what you like doing least of ....... ?

Correct Answer : 9 [all]

Notes: All right let me ask you what you like doing least of all?

Question: 10 Oh, that's easy — ....... to answer this test!

Correct Answer : 10 [trying]

Notes: Oh, that's easy — trying to answer this test!

Question: 1 Never let the ....... grow under your feet.

Correct Answer : 1 [grass]

Notes: Never let the grass grow under your feet.

Question: 2 The grass is always ....... on the other side.

Correct Answer : 2 [greener]

Notes: The grass is always greener on the other side.

Question: 3 Everything is coming up ........

Correct Answer : 3 [roses]

Notes: Everything is coming up roses.

Question: 4 Poor Mary was a bit of a ....... at the dance.

Correct Answer : 4 [wallflower]

Notes: Poor Mary was a bit of a wallflower at the dance.

Question: 5 He led her up the garden ........

Correct Answer : 5 [path]

Notes: He led her up the garden path.

Question: 6 Everything in the ....... is lovely.

Correct Answer : 6 [garden]

Notes: Everything in the garden is lovely.

Question: 7 Money doesn't grow on ........

Correct Answer : 7 [trees]

Notes: Money doesn't grow on trees.

Question: 8 A bird in the hands is worth ....... in the bush.

Correct Answer : 8 [two]

Notes: A bird in the hands is worth two in the bush.

Question: 9 Come to the point and stop beating about the ........

Correct Answer : 9 [bush]

Notes: Come to the point and stop beating about the bush.

Question: 10 Don't trust him, he's a bit of a snake in the ........

Correct Answer : 10 [grass]

Notes: Don't trust him, he's a bit of a snake in the grass.

Question: 1 Do you have any idea what BASE jumping .......?

Correct Answer : 1 [means]

Notes: Do you have any idea what BASE jumping means?

Question: 2 Apparently it is an ....... where the letters in the word are the first letters of a group of words.

Correct Answer : 2 [acronym]

Notes: Apparently it is an acronym where the letters in the word are the first letters of a group of words.

Question: 3 In other words the letters ....... building, antennae, span and earth, all of which you can jump from.

Correct Answer : 3 [stand for]

Notes: In other words the letters stand for building, antennae, span and earth, all of which you can jump from.

Question: 4 Felix Baumgartner recently basejumped out of a plane 9,000 metres ....... Dover, a port on the south coast of England.

Correct Answer : 4 [above]

Notes: Felix Baumgartner recently basejumped out of a plane 9,000 metres above Dover, a port on the south coast of England.

Question: 5 He intended to ....... across the channel with a parachute and land on the coast of France near Calais.

Correct Answer : 5 [fly]

Notes: He intended to fly across the channel with a parachute and land on the coast of France near Calais.

Question: 6 He started very early in the morning so that he was able to ....... commercial flights.

Correct Answer : 6 [avoid]

Notes: He started very early in the morning so that he was able to avoid commercial flights.

Question: 7 During the flight his supporters ....... that he will have reached 200 kmh.

Correct Answer : 7 [claim]

Notes: During the flight his supporters claim that he will have reached 200 kmh.

Question: 8 The fact remains that he ....... and managed with the help of oxygen supplies to complete the crossing in ten minutes.

Correct Answer : 8 [survived]

Notes: The fact remains that he survived and managed with the help of oxygen supplies to complete the crossing in ten minutes.

Question: 9 He created a new ....... and joins Louis Bleriot, the first to fly across the channel in 37 minutes and Matthew Webb, the first to swim across in 22 hours.

Correct Answer : 9 [record]

Notes: He created a new record and joins Louis Bleriot, the first to fly across the channel in 37 minutes and Matthew Webb, the first to swim across in 22 hours.

Question: 10 These are amazing achievements but if like me you want comfort, warmth and food on the journey, take the ferry crossing ....... 90 minutes.

Correct Answer : 10 [lasting]

Notes: These are amazing achievements but if like me you want comfort, warmth and food on the journey, take the ferry crossing lasting 90 minutes.