Paragraph Completion Advanced Level Test - Quiz (Online Exercise With Answers)

This first paragraph completion test contains 25 multiple

choice questions on the topic of paragraph completion 3. 3. It's essential for all creatures to keep themselves
of English language. Both English learners and ESL clean and free from parasites. _____ . Some species
teachers can use this online exercise as a revision to check are able to clean themselves. For those species that
the knowledge of paragraph completion. are not, it is obviously vital to find some other animal
to perform this cleaning function.

1. 1. The degree to which children feel more self- A) Nevertheless, there's no point in doing this
confident as they grow older depends mainly on their cleaning process
relation with their mothers and fathers. Children
always need to be reassured by their parents._____ . B) The vast majority of cleaners are fish; at least 45
This kind of trust is essential in reducing young species are known as cleaners
children's anxiety. C) Some fish species are known to change colour
while being cleaned
A) They need to believe that their parents will love
D) Some animals depended on others to do this
them no matter what they do
E) If they do not, they will probably fall ill from
B) Anxieties are common even in the early years of
infected wounds
childhood
C) They may begin to cry if one of the parents goes
away even for a short while
D) Any suggestion of forcing children to overcome a
fear will only make it last longer 4. 4. _____ . Within five years, 4,5 million Americans had
taken it at least once. This was the fastest
E) So parents should scold their children whenever acceptance ever for a psychiatric drug. It seemed to
they want go beyond treating illness and actually improve
people's lives; a sort of facelift for the character.
However, reports emerged that some patients
actually felt more suicidal on Prozac

2. Ocean waves may seem like a fanciful source of A) There was a very negative reaction towards
2.
energy._____ . In August, a 750-kilowatt power plant pharmacy in the U. S. A
off the coast of Scotland began delivering ocean - B) Lawyers in USA claim that even murders can be
wave power for the first time to the local electricity
grid. The plant consists of four linked floating done under the influence of some drugs
cylinders which use wave motion to drive a hydraulic C) Technology and medicine have improved so much
pump and turn a turbine. This is such an inexpensive in Europe that people don't go to the USA any more
and clean process that engineers are quite optimistic
D) Some psychiatric drugs in the U.S.A. were
about its future.
accepted very slowly in the past
A) Engineers, on the other hand, say ocean power is E) Within two years of its introduction, pharmacies in
far behind wind and solar power the United States were filling 65.000 Prozac
B) A recently constructed power plant will change the prescriptions per month
perception soon
C) Thanks to the rising and falling water level, its
cost would be quite low
D) Technicians have already started delivering power
to many electricity networks
E) Everybody is against plant construction in this
area

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5. 5. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in 7. 7. _____ . İn Western medicine, all the ingredients are
Moscow, which at the time was not the Capital of single compounds, making it much easier to quality
Russia. Dostoevsky's mother died when he was control, and the mode of function can be analyzed. In
sixteen and he became a student in the Military Chinese medicine, howewer, because it is a mixture
Engineering School in the then-capital, St. that is used, it is very difficult to investigate how it
Petersburg. --------- —. And therefore, resigned his works. One of the ways that pharmaceutical
commission after just over a year. In later years, he companies are looking at bringing traditional Chinese
became a radical socialist and, after having written medicine into line with Western Standards is to
two novels and some other shorter works, was identifiy the active ingredients in the herbs that are
arrested in 1848 and sentenced to death for his used.
political activities.
A) There may be some leading compounds to be
A) Nevertheless he hated politics all his life discovered in Chinese medicine
B) Being a patriot and a devoted member of the B) Modern Chinese medicine rejects using mixtures
army was his greatest ideal since it has single compounds
C) Dostoevsky was an emotional man so he fried to C) European medicine is regarded as sophisticated
keep away from radicalist movements but many researchers say— that~ the Americans
D) However, after graduating, he preferred the idea have proceeded much further
of writing to working in the military D) Pharmaceutical companies have realized that
E) His other famous books are “Notes from the traditional medicines tend to have a better effect on
Underground” and “The Gambler their area's local patients
E) In analyzing traditional Chinese medicine and' its
Western counterpart, the main difference lies in
identifying the active ingredients in the drugs
6. 6 . A virus can be regarded as a self replicating
program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into
other executable code or documents in computer
technology. ______. Extending this comparison, the
insertion of the virus into a program is termed g 8. 8 . The olive is possibly the most important fruit of
“infection”, and the infected document or code is the Mediterranean and Near Eastern region so much
known as a “host”. that according to Greek mythology, it helped to give
Athens its name. This was because when the gods
A) Hackers benefit a lot from entering bank computer Poseidon and Athena clashed over whose name the
systems city would get, it was decided that the honour would
B) Therefore, a computer virus behaves similarly to a go to the one who could offer the most precious gift
to it. _____ . The olive even gets important mentions
biological virus, which spreads by inserting itself into in the religious books of the area. According to the
living cells Bible, after Noah's Ark is left high and stranded on a
C) The first virus was created by an American in the mountain, he sent out a dove, and when it returned
with an olive leaf in its mouth, Noah knew that God's
20th century wrath had passed.
D) Some computer viruses can even do away with
company or school computer networks A) Today, the Mediterranean countries of Spain and
E) Nowadays, viruses are also named as worms and Italy are the world leaders in commercial olive
trojan horses protection
B) Other important gods and goddesses in the period
were Zeus, Hera, Artemis and Aphrodite
C) Poseidon offered a salt water spring, but Athena
won with an olive tree
D) And Poseidon won the bet with Narcissus flower
E) But some people think this is just mythology and
people who believe in it must be crazy

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9. 9. Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges was born in 11. 11. Lichen are one of the few kinds of life that can
Buenos Aires on 24 August 1899. His father was a survive in the mountains of Antarctica. These tiny
lawyer, a psychology teacher, and an anarchist who plants live in small holes in the rocks. Outside, the
was part of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and British, extreme cold and strong winds do not allow any life
while his mother was a translator of Spanish and at a il._____ . However, much of the time they are
Catalan descent. At his home, both Spanish and frozen. This fact means that the lichen function very
English were spoken._____ . And in fact he learned to slowly, and live a very long time.
read in English before Spanish. He grew up in a
suburb of Buenos Aires called Palermo, in a large A) Inside the holes, these lichen manage to find
house with a comprehensive library, for which he enough water and warmth to keep alive
began writing stories at the age of 6 .
B) Scientists believe that lichen may remain alive for
A) Therefore, from early childhood on, Borges was only several years
effectively bilingual C) Therefore, they never die
B) But before that could happen, however, two D) Because they're among the oldest forms of life on
tragedies had to be lived through earth
C) Borges embarked on his career as a writer there E) Nevertheless they may not survive another
by publishing poems and essays Antarctic winter
D) As a result, he was married to his Japanese-
Argentinian personal assistant
E) Miquel de Cervantes' Don Quixote has long been
regarded as a masterpiece by the Spanish 12. 12. Sociologists and psychologists have argued for
centuries about how a person's character is formed.
The argument has long been known as “Nature
versus Nurture”, for the two main opposing theories.
The first theory says that character is formed
genetically before birth. _____ . The other theory says,
10. 10. The author Alfred Jarry is best known for his play
King Ubu, in which the title character is a gross satire on the contrary, that a person's character is formed
on bourgeois stupidity and greed. In fact, the after birth.
character became so famous at the time that Jarry
himself often pretended he was Ubu, especially in his A) herefore, the most important factors are cultural
later years. _____ . He was, for example, the inventor and environmental
of an “imaginary science” known as “pataphysics” B) Since the theoretical approach approves of none
and he also wrote an essay about a time travel
machine. of them
C) According to this theory, nature - through
A) One of his funniest short stories was the slightly genetics-determines what a person will be like
scandalous story containing the life and death of D) In this view, it's been claimed an individual's
Christ character-is-formed after he's born
B) Jarry, however, deserves to be known for other E) As regards this theory; exercise is the best
things as well treatment
C) He was an alcoholic throughout all his adult life
D) Pataphysics -is -the- same-thing as quantum
mechanics
E) Jarry was thus, an author of French origin

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13. 13. Money has not always been made of metal or 15. 15. Supermarket managers have all kinds of tricks to
paper. In many parts of the world people have used encourage people to spend more money. Their aim is
other materials. Precious stones, valuable cloth (silk), to make customers go more slowly through the
and rare spices (saffron) have all been used as supermarket. _____ . They also make the corridors
money at times. But people have also given special near the cash registers more narrow. Then customers
value to other kinds of objects. For example, in with large shopping carts will get stuck or have to
Ethiopia, blocks of salt have been used as slow down. In some supermarkets, the floor is even
money._____ . In India and in North America, special slightly uphill for people going towards the exits.
kinds of shells have been used
A) In this way, they decide not to buy anything more
A) The trader can lose the money, he invested B) That's why all the customers get angry and go
B) In America, the citizens used to barter one thing home
for another C) They place colourful displays in surprising places
C) Thus, that money was worth at least one dollar to catch the customers' attention
D) Because money is a very important means of D) The supermarket prices are really high in big cities
buying cheap things if you want to rent one
E) In Malaysia, people have used large bronze drums E) But then they realized that things weren't going on
like that

14. 14._____ . This expression can be true in a very literal

sense. The Luo people from Kenya often cook and eat
the leaves of a plant called black nightshade. This 16. 16. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a basketball star in the
plant serves as an effective treatment for many United States. When he was born in New York City in
stomach problems. The Luo eat it regulary from 1947, his parents named him Ferdinand Lewis
childhood and do not suffer any negative effect from Alcindor, Jr. He studied at the university of California
it. However, when one American researcher ate just a at Los Angeles (UCLA) in the late 1960s. At that time,
small amount, she felt quite ill afterwards. In fact the he led the university's basketball team to three
plant contains a substance called solanine that can championships._____. He changed his name to
be poisonous. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In 1969, Kareem began his
professional basketball career as a center on the
A) There is a substance that benefits the digestive Milwaukee Bucks team. Later, in 1975, he joined the
Los Angeles Lakers.
system in great amounts
B) African cuisine resembles to that of Asia in many A) When he retired in 1989, Kareem held several all
ways time records in basketball
C) Now that pluralism has beaten .£communism, B) He had also been named “most valuable player”
they say the next battle is between Islam and others six times
D) One man's medicine is another man's poison C) He had many difficulties during his childhood in
E) In order to be healthy, you should have more Los Angeles
vegetables in your diet D) He provided a loving and stable home for his
family
E) It was also during his college years that he
converted to the Muslim faith

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17. 17. Making orange juice concentrate from fresh 19. 19. Scientists believe that the earth's climate may be
oranges is done entirely by machines. First, oranges warming up. This trend probably began thousands of
are dumped onto a moving belt They travel into a years ago. Many areas of the earth used to be
machine which washes them with detergent Next covered with ice that has now melted. _____ .
they are rolled into juicing machines, where seven Scientists think that part of the reason for this may
hundred oranges per minute are split and squeezed. be carbon dioxide pollution from industry and
Then the rinds are thrown out the end of a long automobiles. The carbon dioxide mixes with other
tube._____. Next, the juice goes into another machine gases. This pollution covers the earth like a blanket
called the finisher. And the process is over. and keeps it warmer. Another reason for the warming
may be the fact that the earth is losing its forests.
A) Last, the juice goes into large tanks, where most
of the water is removed A) Forests are an important part of the . 5 earth's
B) This hand-made nectar is then manufactured and system for keeping the air temperature cool
put on the marke B) Therefore, violent storms cause damage and
C) By the help of detergents and soaps the fruit is deaths all over the world
washed thoroughly C) However, in recent years, the warming trend has
D) At the same time, the juice goes through small speeded up
holes in the bottom of the tube D) It's also important to keep yourself cool by
E) Finally, the seeds and other tiny objects are wearing loose, light clothes
removed E) Now, millions of people live here and suffer from
the floods

18. 18 ._____ . Some people like to go for long walks in

the forest, where they won't see anyone for days. 20. 20. The first guitarist to become known worldwide
Others prefer to spend their holiday in an exciting was Andres Segovia, born in 1893 in Spain._____ .
city. There they can visit museums, theaters, and Most people thought that the guitar was suitable only
good restaurants. Still others enjoy the fresh air at for popular music or folk music. Few classical
the seashore. They can spend their days at the beach composers wrote music for the guitar, and it was
and listen to the ocean waves at night. never included in classical concerts. But Segovia
classical instrument, and he' was a great musician.
A) A few people decide to stay at home and do some
major household projects during the weekend A) Segovia used his genius to prove he could produce
B) People have many different ideas about what beautiful classical music with every instrument
makes a great vacation B) The Spanish were glad to have such a great
C) Life in a small apartment would sound as terrible composer
to many C) Guitar was extremely popular in classical music at
D) There are many similarities between a sea-side the time
holiday and camping D) Classical music contributed to guitar positively in
E) Working in a big company has many making it worldwide
disadvantages E) Before the 20th century, the guitar was not taken
very seriously as a classical instrument

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21. 21. Many studies have shown that it is better to wear 23. 23. In the past few years, scientists have found
your seat belt when you are traveling in a car. Seat several new fuels to replace gasoline for automobiles.
belts greatly reduce the risk of death or injury in an _____ . It can be used in many cars in almost the
accident. This fact is widely recognized and many same way that gasoline is used. Natural gas is
governments have passed laws requiring seat belt another alternative fuel for cars. However, cars that
use. _____ . Researchers have found several reasons burn this fuel must be equipped with special tanks of
for this. Some people feel uncomfortable with the natural gas. A third alternative, and perhaps the best,
seat belt. They are afraid of being trapped in the car is electricity. Cars fueled by electricity have no
in an accident. Others do not think that the seat belt engine at all, though they do have to carry large
can protect them. They believe that people have no batteries.
power over their fate.
A) One of these fuels is methanol, a form of wood
A) Therefore, people think that wearing a seat belt or alcohol
not will make no difference B) Electricity fueled cars are the most striking ones
B) On the other hand, fate will decide whether one C) Unfortunately, there are only two alternatives to
will have an accident gasoline
C) Some cars must now be equipped with seat belts D) In fact, gasoline was a very efficient form of fuel
D) In this respect, it’s unavoidable for the drivers to for vehicles
get injured or die E) Cars fueled by solar energy are also popular,
E) However, many people still do not wear seat belts nowadays

22. 22 ,_____ , The main cause of this is loneliness. In the 24. 24. Both New York City and Paris depend on vast
past, older people usually lived with other members subway lines to transport their millions of
of the family. They usually had responsibilities around commuters. In both cities, the subways are often
the home. For example, older women could help take crowded, especially at rush hours. Another likeness is
care of the children. And older men could help their the terrible noise level in the trains. A further
sons at work. These days, married children often similarity is that two subway systems both cover a
prefer to live on their own, sometimes ^ far away wide area at little expense for commuters. However,
from their parents. Thus, m older people may be cut the differences between the two are quite striking.
off from p family ties. They may feel cut off from g _____ . Many of the French stations are filled with
the world around them. works of art. In Paris, the subway trains are clean. On
the other hand, New York's trains can sometimes be
A) In industrialized countries today, >many elderly less clean.
people suffer from depression
B) Some elderly people felt the world .has changed A) New York trains also run every few minutes
too quickly B) Both trains are unreliable in terms of their rail
C) The average age of the population of many system
countries is getting older C) While subway stations in New York range from
D) A great many elderly and lovely people would feel plain to ugly, Paris stations are generally attractive
pressure on them D) For example in New York, passengers are fond of
E) Businesses in a country must adjust to older eating sandwiches during their journey
customers E) Similarly French subway stations have less crime
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25. 25. When people move from one city or country to

another, the spread of diseases may result. People
often bring in germs which may not have been
present there before. These new germs can spread
quickly and cause previously unknown diseases._____
. They become ill more easily and die more often. In
turn, newcomers may catch diseases which were not
present where they came from.

A) If they had gone back, they would have started an

epidemic
B) Such changes may result in enhancing conditiqns
for people in big cities
C) If a germ is completely new to a region, people
have no natural protection against it
D) Pollution can also lead to the spread of disease
E) This infected bacteria can stick to ships, which
then carry the cholera germs all around the world

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Answer Key:

1: A 14: D
2: D 15: C
3: E 16: E
4: E 17: D
5: D 18: B
6: B 19: C
7: E 20: E
8: C 21: E
9: A 22: A
10: B 23: A
11: A 24: C
12: C 25: C
13: E

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