CDS ENGLISH QUIZ - 18

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Question 1:

Improve the bracketed/underlined/bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, then select ‘No improvement’.

Nearly 60% of America’s population is fully vaccinated. State officials are (scrambling) to get more Hawaiians vaccinated as the infection rate climbs.

Question 2:

Direction: Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence.

Scientists have warned that a key group of leading G20 nations (are committed of) climate targets that can lead to disastrous global warming.

Question 3:

Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, then, select ‘No improvement’.

They have drawn lessons about some of the best ways to handle both: go early, go big, and don’t pretend you can strike some special (deal off) a lethal force.

Question 4:

Direction: Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence.

This dramatic discrepancy (revealing deeply division over) the energy and environment policies of the world’s richest nations.

Question 5:

Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, then, select ‘No improvement’.

I would (prefer go by there myself). I cannot trust anyone else for this new project.

Question 6:

Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, then, select ‘No improvement’.

Hardly (had I arrived home then) my phone rang in the kitchen.

Question 7:

Improve the bracketed/underlined/bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, then select ‘No improvement’. 

Some other giants have provided a bit more detail on (why Facebook vanished in the internet) .

Question 8:

Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘No improvement’.


The (cohort of people) who were potential targets at a time, does not indicate that the surveillance was necessitated by national security.

Question 9:

Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘No improvement’.

I was intrigued by two sentences in the story. One of them was: Government sources termed it an effort by the PM (to strike the balance in)  political messaging of MPs from urban and rural centres.

Question 10:

Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, then, select ‘No improvement’.

The Scottish government has no desire to spook the oil companies or voters in the north-east who (had already drifting) towards the Conservatives.