How to answer
Matching Sentence Endings: how to approach it
- 1
Sentence starts follow the passage order, so locate each one before you look at the endings.
- 2
Check grammar first: some endings cannot follow the start at all.
- 3
Then check meaning: the full sentence must agree with the passage, not just sound right.
- 4
There are more endings than you need, so expect distractors that repeat passage words.
85 drills
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All 85 Matching Sentence Endings drills
- Decoupled Systems in Modern Aquaponics
- Destruction of Stars by Black Holes
- Detecting Planets Beyond Our Solar System
- Floral Nutrition and Wild Bee Survival
- Geographic Elevation and Human Phonology
- Hand Preference and Brain Lateralisation
- Harnessing Ambient Evaporation for Electricity
- Hospital Hand Hygiene and Human Behaviour
- How Children Acquire Speech
- How Early Societies Domesticated Wild Cereals
- How Family Names Survive and Disappear
- How Gut Bacteria Alter Modern Medicines
- How Languages Absorb Foreign Words
- How Plant Tissues Turn to Stone
- How Punctuation Transformed the Written Word
- Internal Heat Across Jupiter's Moons
- Language and Memory in Bilingual Speakers
- Life at the Ocean Surface Interface
- Locomotor Roles of Dinosaur Feathers
- Managing Honeybee Colonies on City Rooftops
- Mapping Galactic Halos and Invisible Mass
- Maritime Medicine and the Scurvy Paradox
- Mechanisms of the Production Effect
- Microorganisms and Cave Mineral Formations
- Non-Exhaust Emissions and Urban Health
- Preserving Amber in Museum Collections
- Reviving Sleeping Languages
- Safeguarding the Soundscapes of Historic Cities
- Screen Translation in Global Cinema
- Secrets of the Resurrection Plants
- Silica Formations in Geyser Landscapes
- Spacecraft Demise in the Upper Atmosphere
- Subterranean and Urban Hydroponic Farming
- The Agronomy of Hermetic Grain Storage
- The Archaeology of Early Horse Control
- The Architecture of Domestic Automation
- The Biological Transformation of the Dog
- The Brain's Nocturnal Cleaning Mechanism
- The Commensal Rise of Felines
- The Development of Alphabetical Order
- The Documentation of Historical Slang
- The Dynamics of Glacial Cryoconite
- The Ecology of Mountain Rice Terraces
- The Eradication of Cattle Plague
- The Establishment of Dark-Sky Reserves
- The Evolution of Early Scripts
- The Evolution of Tactile Literacy
- The Evolutionary Biology of Bitter Taste
- The Final Refuges of the Woolly Mammoth
- The Hidden Costs of Self-Management
- The Hidden Flow of Submarine Groundwater
- The Identification of Essential Nutrients
- The Interpretation of Digital Pictograms
- The Making of Astronomical Mirrors
- The Mechanics of Asymmetric Dominance
- The Mechanics of Self-Explanation
- The Mechanics of Thanatosis
- The Microclimates of Urban Canyons
- The Mystery of Vitrified Forts
- The Navigational Cairns of the Pacific
- The Renaming of Urban Places
- The Rise and Fall of Casein Plastic
- The Rise of Chain Navigation
- The Rise of Free-Threshing Wheat
- The Science of Campanology
- The Science of Indigo Fermentation
- The Science of Olfactory Memory
- The Science of Sourdough Bread
- Tidal Bores in Coastal Rivers
- Uncovering Exoplanetary Remains in Dead Stars
- Underground Agriculture in Repurposed Infrastructure
- Understanding Caldera Resurgence Dynamics
- Wastewater Treatment and Microbial Resistance
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