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

This second paragraph completion test contains 25

multiple choice questions on the topic of paragraph 3. 3. Anthropologists used to believe that romantic love
completion of English language. Both English learners and was invented by Europeans in the Middle Ages. By
ESL teachers can use this online exercise as a revision to romantic love, they mean an intense attraction and
check the knowledge of paragraph completion. longing to be with the loved person. _____ . Others
thought that it may have existed in some other
cultures but only among the rich and privileged. Now,
1. 1. Shopping malls have produced a revolution in however, most antropologists agree that romantic
United States shopping and living habits in just 45 love has probably always existed among humans.
years. Before 1950, there were no malls, but now
almost every city or region has at least one. In fact, A) It’s not surprising, then, that stories of romance
shopping malls have become a part of daily life. exist only in the Oriental cultures
Many people even think of them as social centers. We
can say, malls have taken the place of main street. B) Romeo and Juliet' is an unusual example of this
Shops and services which were once spread over C) However, it has never taken place in history
several city householders can save time by doing D) Therefore, romance can be regarded as
their shopping at the mall. _____ . And people young
unnecessary as a literary type
and old, with time on their hands, often say, “Let's go
to the mall!” E) Some anthropologists believed that this kind of
love spread from the west to other cultures only
A) Thus, such handicaps as transportation and recently
location of the malls have limited the number of
people who go to the malls
B) And these factors make the explanation why there
are not so many people as there were in the past
4. 4. _____ . There are a number of reasons for this fear.
preferring shopping malls One reason is that the patient cannot see what the
C) Hence, you can always find any department you dentist is doing. Another reason is that the patient,
like in a mall who is lying back, may feel very helpless. Social
factors may also increase a person's fear. People may
D) In a way, shopping malls have changed United be influenced by the general belief that dentists are
States culture scary.
E) Because every mall is surrounded by a large
A) People like seeing the dentist's shiny instruments
parking area
B) Many people are afraid of going to the dentist
C) There is an ongoing research nowadays about why
people do not like to brush their teeth very often
D) I, myself, do not like the idea of instruments in my
2. 2. In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh tried to start the first
English settlement in North America. _____ . Many mouth
settlers became sick and others died of hunger or in E) Doctor visit is essential especially for the old every
battles with the Native Americans. When another six months
ship came from England a few years later, the
newcomers found that ail the settlers were dead.

A) The settlers were not glad to see the native

people
B) However, the settlement was not successful
C) Therefore, they all married Indians
D) The settlement had grown
E) He managed to fulfil the American dream in the
best way

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5. 5. Are you sometimes a little tired and sleepy in the 7. 7. _____ . Dishes of uncooked fish, called sushi or
early afternoon? If so, you are not the only one. Many sashimi, are prepared at most Japanese restaurants.
people feel this way after lunch. They may think that Japanese cooks use many kinds of fish or shellfish for
eating lunch is the cause of their sleepiness. Or, in their dishes. Whatever kind of fish they use, however,
summer, they may think it is the heat.______. At that it must always be very fresh. To prove that the fish is
time-about eight hours after you wake up your body fresh, some restaurants will even serve fish that is
temperature goes down. This is what makes you slow still alive
down and feel sleepy.
A) Many Asians want to eat the unusual kinds of
A) However, the real reason lies inside their bodies meat
B) They slept for one long period and then for one B) Europeans prefer a fish cooked on a grill
short period about eight hours later C) The Japanese love to eat raw fish
C) Scientists have tested sleep habits in D) Whole fish is only preferred by the seamen
experimental situations E) There are three kinds of fish
D) Therefore, lunch is alleged to be the sole reason
for taking naps in the middle of the day
E) Many working people, unfortunately, have no time
to sleep in the afternoon 8 . Where there are people, there are almost always
8.
mice or rats. This is true in all parts of the world.
These animals can be a real problem. They eat or
damage supplies of food. _____ . Finally, they can
carry many types of diseases to humans and other
6. 6 . The use of electric automobiles in the future will animals. Therefore, you should keep your home free
help reduce air pollution. This was the conclusion of a of mice and rats.
recent study by experts of a large area in th
northeastern United States. The area is highly urban A) Then, you must take measures to make them stay
and includes the cities of New York and Boston. At away
present, the air quality is poor. However, the use of
electric cars could improve the situation. By the year B) Another solution is to clean your clothes carefully
2015, there will be about 3,3 million electric cars on C) In this way, it tries to keep all the food at home
the road in the Northeast._____ . D) Eventually, they may wear out your accessories
A) If things go on like this, there’ll be more pollution E) They can also damage clothes and furniture in the
in the country home
B) According to the study, this will mean 20-50% less
pollution
C) That's why there has been a gradual increase in
the number of cars on the road 9. 9. On a narrow avenue in New York City's “Little Italy”
section in the early 1970s, hundreds of men, women,
D) Moreover, a sharp reduction of air quality in the and children stood in long lines, wearing traditional
northeast is expected Italian parade costumes- Many carried musical
E) That is to say, our future does not promise us good instruments which were stuffed behind ropes, with an
occasional police officer present to keep them from
news
running. _____ . Director Francis Ford Coppola was
filming a scene for The Godfather

A) Yet, this was no ordinary New York ethnic festival

B) What if a sociologist joined these spectators?
C) The movie seemed to be successful
D) Typically, when movies like this one are shot
during the day, huge crowds can never be gathered
to watch
E) But, the camera has not been placed yet

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10. 10. There are several ways to locate and record 12. 12. _____. In the United States, it is the most
important information as you read. Underlining the expensive health problem in the workplace. In all, it
material on a page is quickest, but taking notes costs people up to $ 60 billion in medical expenses
makes you reorganize the reading material into an and lost working time. Back pain is bad for business
easily understood form. Outlining helps you record as well. It is the cause of 40% of all lost work days.
the structure of the ideas in your reading. That means a total of about 93 million sick days a
Summarizing helps you to grasp the meaning of what year in the United States. Doctors now believe that
you read most fully and to restate that meaning in a exercise is the best treatment for back pain. For this
concise way_____ . reason, some companies have started special
exercise programs for employees.
A) Each of these study techniques helps you
understand the material better the first time you read A) People living in the big cities cannot find enough
it time for exercise
B) At first, you will often need to look back at what B) In the last few years, cancer cases increased so
you learned from your reading much that management departments of the big
C) Therefore, the more active a study technique is, companies tend to employ specialised doctors in
the more you'll like it their firms
D) Hence, underlining the most important ideas will C) Employees who suffer from fatigue are allowed to
help you find rapidly what you read rest more in their workplaces
E) These extra special marks will make you D) Four out of five people suffer from back pain at
remember your thoughts some time in their working lives
E) Exercising too much may lead to many health
problems especially if you are old

11. 11. Today, farmers in most of the industrialized

countries grow cash crops. This means that they
usually grow large amounts of only a few crops; such
13. 13. The tendency to help others begins quite early.
as soya, wheat, or corn. They sell these crops and Many children become sensitive to other people's
use the money to buy what they need for their emotional states at a very young age. As they grow
families and their farms._____ . Most farmers used to older, children's efforts at helping become more
grow lots of different kinds of crops. They sometimes elaborate. Their helping behaviours often follow the
sold some of the crops when there was extra. examples set by those around them and are usually
supported and encouraged by the norms
A) However, they spend the whole money for their communicated through the child's reference groups.
own needs In our culture, these norms result in praise and other
B) People in the city needed food, too rewards for helpfulness and scolding for
selfishness._____
C) In the past, farming was quite different
D) They didn't grow soya in those days A) Thus, an adult's tendency to help others appears
E) Therefore most of the crops are kept to feed the related to numerous characteristics
farmer's family B) Psychologists thought it unlikely that everyone in
the neighborhood was helpful
C) The clarity of someone's need for help has a major
impact on whether others provide help
D) Helping behavior is defined as any act that is
intended to benefit another person
E) Eventually, just as they internalize, or adopt, other
social norms, most children come to believe that it is
good to be helpful

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14. 14. The first step in reading for specific information is 16. 16. The amount of time people spend researching,
to look for the main idea. ____ . In a longer work, you checking prices, visiting stores and seeking advice
add up the main ideas of the various paragraphs in from friends tends to rise in proportion to the value of
order to figure out the main idea of the whole the product they're thinking of buying._____ . So why
selection. But the main idea does not give you all the are some people now walking into car showrooms
information you need. Facts and details may appear and ordering a vehicle without even asking for a test
within the paragraphs you read and help develop the drive? Or turning up at an electrical store and
main ideas of the paragraphs. pointing out the washing machine they want without
seeking advices from a sales assistant? Welcome to a
A) In a one-paragraph selection, you gather all the new style öf shopping shaped by the Internet.
sentences to find the main idea
A) Some companies are already adjusting their
B) To make the best use of these facts and details,
business models to take account of these trends
you have to be able to remember them
B) People should be careful about what people
C) And they may all be found out at the beginning, in
around them think of their new properties
the middle or at the end of the paragraph
C) A new car is one of the biggest purchases people
D) Readers used to separate major facts and details
make, and buyers typically spend four to six weeks
from the minor ones in order to determine the topic
mulling over their choices
E) A course that requires several books may demand
D) If you look at the internet's wider influence over
different kinds of reading for those several books
what people spend their money on, then the figures
escalate out of sight
E) According to America's Online Publishers
Association, more than 90% of people aged between
15. 15. To read well, you need a strong vocabulary. To 18 and 54 say online purchasing was a wonder of the
build a strong vocabulary, you need to read well.
These sentences are a paradox. _____ . Together, they 20th century
state the challenge facing anyone trying to improve
reading skills. In order to read confidently, you have
to know many words. Yet the best way to expand
your knowledge of words is to read often. As you
improve your skills in one, you improve your skills in 17. 17. The sheer number of vehicles on the roads of
the other. Western countries hugely lessened the appeal of
driving._____. Meanwhile, the country's road network
A) Most of us have vocabularies that allow us to read has expanded by nowhere near as much. With
widely from the everyday sources of information that increased traffic density has come tougher speed
surround us regulations. Motorists with what was described
jauntily in the 1960 s as a “brisk” driving style are
B) That is, they seem to express . opposite points increasingly feeling the heavy hand of the law closing
but, nevertheless, are both true over their driving licences
C) The first step to take in improving your vocabulary
A) Driving a car was no longer a liberating, life-
is to recognize that it is not possible for you to know
enhancing experience
the meaning of every word you see
B) When the magazine started in 1997, there were
D) But often you really need to find out exactly what
156 track days for cars in London
these two words mean
C) But the interest in driving has been decreasing
E) Then, why don't you learn to use the context?
gradually throughout Europe
D) A famous American company had opened a car
factory by 2001 in Dallas
E) In Britain, traffic density has grown by over 7%
during the past couple of decades

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18. 18. Dogs acting as guides for the blind are now a 20. 20 ._____ . Programme selection becomes easier with
familiar sight in most cities._____. In 1982 an a menu of channel options displayed on the screen-
innovative programme was established to provide like the index of track titles on a CD. Digital systems
deaf adults with dogs to alert them to sounds in the in general are also more robust than their analogue
home such as the doorbell, alarm clock, telephone or equivalents-for instance, a CD or DVD player can
smoke alarm. Instead of barking, they use a paw to make an old scratched disc work as well as a pristine
gain attention and then lead the deaf person to the one. A DTV receiver can do similar tricks by ignoring,
sound source. say, signals that arrive late at the antenna after
reflection from tall buildings. On an analogue set,
A) Many blind people who have dogs say that they such reflections create “ghost” images on the screen.
will find confidence and make new friends
A) Digital television has many advantages
B) The practical value of a hearing dog is
B) Television broadcasters are great fans of digital
immediately obvious but the • therapeutic value
transmission
should not be underestimated
C) Viewers do not care whether their ' favourite
C) Less familiar are “Hearing Dogs For Deaf People”
television show arrives at their television set as
but in Britain more than such 600 animals exist
binary digits or analogue waves
D) Although the programme is expensive to run, it
D) A DTV has its downsides in terms of its
has clearly made an enormous difference
discouraging expense, its huge size and its
E) The deaf person also needs time to adapt to the
demanding luxuries on the other furniture around it
dog with the help of the trainers
E) When you play a CD, the digital music you hear is
being delivered at a rate of 1,4 megabits a second

19. 19. Running out of exotic places to visit or more

extreme thrills for an even bigger adrenaline rush?
_____When it arrives, space tourism will offer the 21. 21. Today, there are many options for travel. The
ultimate in bragging rights. If things go as planned, poor travel by bus or, rather, they used to is one of
flights into suborbital space ought to be more or less them. If you don't mind arriving in Peoria, llinois, in
routine within three years-at least for those ready to the middle of the night at some crime-ridden
stump up the $200,000 fare. But despite the price, downtown terminal, there is no cheaper way of criss-
the jostling to be jostling to be front of the queue has crossing America. Nowadays, the poor travel is by air.
already begun. Low-cost airlines are great for those on a tight
budget. But in Europe and Asia, the premium way to
A) Space ship One is a rocket ship that's carried to a travel today is by train._____ .
high altitude beneath the belly of a mother jet
A) With low-cost airlines multiplying like rabbits, the
B) By the time the missions begin, many wealthy
options and the prices are remarkable
businessmen will take their turns for the flights
B) No self-respecting businessman in Frankfurt, Paris
C) Out of those billions of people on the planet, very
or Osaka would dream of enduring the tedium of
few have actually ventured across the boundary
even first-class air travel if there were an express
between the Earth's atmosphere and its surrounding
train available to get him to his destination more
space
quickly
D) For those who can afford it, a wholly new travel
C) Therefore, cars can no longer compete on
experience is coming up over the horizon
journeys of more than 200 miles with the airlines
E) The craft is what is known as a suborbital vehicle
D) Americans will have to put up with the air shuttle,
motor car or rattly old train
E) Nevertheless, predictions that speeds of 300 mph
will soon be common and are being made by
engineers in Asia in some leading rail companies

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22. 22 ._____ . In fact we still find lightning thrilling and 23. 23. Over the past 3500 years different civilisations
fascinating. It is now also an important area of and cultures across the world have created at least
research for scientists who are trying to uncover its 700 different forms of writing. To our eyes most of
secrets and are looking for ways to predict storms these scripts look quite distinct, and people who can
and protects people against lightning strikes. read only one script cannot understand another. _____
. Nearly all of them originated from just four sources;
A) In the eighteenth century people were given the ancient scripts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and
dramatic proof that lightning really can strike the Mexico.
same place twice A) This made it possible for central governments to
B) It's not surprising that people in the past were organise large populations and economies
afraid of lightning and thought that it was a sign of B) There is, however, still a lot of controversy about
anger from their gods which of the four ancient scripts came first
C) In March 1993, Florida and other states of America C) With it came the ability to keep administrative
were struck by driving blizzards-and severe lightning records and pass messages over long distances
storms D) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in fact combined
D) Even the most advanced forecasting systems can pictograms with logograms
sometimes be caught out when the weather springs E) However, if the evolution of the world's writing
one of its surprises systems is traced back through time, things become
E) Many people - including scientists - claim to have clear
seen ball lightning and are in no doubt about its
existence

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24. 24. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion all played a

part in the development of the tulip from a wild
flower of central Asia and the Caucasus to the
worldwide phenomenon it is today. When merchants 25. 25. Two epic poems are attributed to Homer, the Iliad
first brought it to the flower markets of Europe, it and Odyssey. Ranked among the great works of
caused a sensation. Thousands of intensely Western Literature, these two poems together
competitive tulip growers’ societies opened in constitute the prototype for all subsequent Western
England in the nineteenth century. _____ . Holland epic poetry. Scholars tried to analyse the two works
was another setting for perhaps the most mysterious by various tests, usually to show that they were
of the events. What might be called “Tulipmania strung together from older narrative poems_____ .
engulfed the country and has puzzled historians and
economists ever since A) Recent evidence suggests that the Iliad is the
work of a single poet and Odyssey belongs to a poet
A) Other buyers, taking the advice of contemporary
who lived slightly after the author of the Iliad
alchemists, laid powdered
B) Modern scholars generally agreed that there was a
B) The Dutchman Carolus Ciusius created a tulip
poet named Homer who lived before 700 B. C,
collection so fine that he couldn't bring himself to sell
probably in Asia Minor
it
C) Therefore, the study of Homer is required of all
C) There is no denying that the flower had an
Greek students
eventful history full of mystery and drama
D) In this way, Homer's heroes are worshipped in
D) Tulipmania is supposed to have ended when the
many parts of Greece because of their courage
firm brought an end to the three years of frenzied
E) Every scholar in Greece agrees that no other poet
trading in the flower
has been able to surpass Homer yet
E) On the other hand the tulip became the ultimate
status symbol in much the same way as a fast sports
car might be today

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Answer Key:

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

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