How to answer
Sentence Completion: how to approach it
- 1
Check the word limit first: an extra word makes a correct answer wrong.
- 2
Predict the kind of word the gap needs, such as a noun, a number or an adjective.
- 3
Copy the words exactly as they appear in the passage, with correct spelling.
- 4
The completed sentence must be grammatical and must mean what the passage says.
115 drills
Sentence Completion drills
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All 115 Sentence Completion drills
- Designing Walkable Urban Neighbourhoods
- Enzyme Technologies for Plastic Waste
- Evolutionary Features of Human Distance Running
- Extracting Precious Metals from Electronic Waste
- Fair Trade Coffee Cooperatives
- Forest Schools and Child Development
- Fungal Biopesticides in Malaria Control
- Generating Electricity from the Night Sky
- Guaranteed Cash in Rural Communities
- Hand Hygiene in Modern Hospitals
- Handwriting, Keystrokes, and Cognitive Processing
- Hidden Hearing Loss
- How Farming Cooperatives Transformed Rural Economies
- How Plants Exploit Caffeine
- How Praise Shapes Childhood Development
- How Repetition Shapes Belief
- How Routines Become Automatic Behaviour
- Identifying Twice-Exceptional Learners
- Illuminating the Deep Past
- Managing High-Altitude Tourism
- Measuring Higher Education
- Methods in Home Education
- Music in Neurological Rehabilitation
- Preparing the Gut for Endurance Sport
- Preserving the Digital Commons
- Recycling Blended Textiles in Modern Fashion
- Robots in Residential Elderly Care
- Secrets of Deep-Sea Brine Pools
- Securing Air-Gapped Computer Networks
- Skill Acquisition and the Ageing Brain
- Sleep Loss and Pain Perception
- Teenagers and Digital Validation
- Tensegrity in Architectural Design
- The Architecture of Mental Time Travel
- The Architecture of Urban Soil
- The Biological and Cognitive Value of Play
- The Botanical Acoustics of Musical Cane
- The Campaign to Simplify English Spelling
- The Debate Over School Homework
- The Design of Modern Spectrum Auctions
- The Design of Virtual Learning
- The Development of Active Packaging
- The Development of Bioprinting
- The Dynamics of Karst Aquifers
- The Dynamics of Lunar Dust
- The Ecology of Biological Soil Crusts
- The Emergence of Shared Sign Languages
- The Emergence of Vitamin Science
- The Evolution and Impact of School Uniforms
- The Evolution of Computer Passwords
- The Evolution of Customer Loyalty Schemes
- The Evolution of Deposit Return Schemes
- The Evolution of Linoleum
- The Evolution of Minimalist Living
- The Evolution of Paper Money in Europe
- The Evolution of Philanthropic Endowments
- The Evolution of Rural Microcredit
- The Evolution of Tipping Customs
- The Evolutionary Roots of Human Curiosity
- The Global Rise of Short-Sightedness
- The Global Trade in Used Clothing
- The Gut-Brain Communication Network
- The Hidden Effects of Wildlife Tourism
- The Impact of Rewards on Motivation
- The Logistics of Packaging-Free Retailing
- The Long Battle Against Scurvy
- The Mechanics of Choice Overload
- The Mechanics of Giant Rock Avalanches
- The Natural Ecology of Antibiotic Resistance
- The Perils of Nocturnal Heat
- The Physics of Explosive Seed Dispersal
- The Physiology of Human Flexibility
- The Physiology of Inactivity
- The Psychology of Prosocial Rule-Breaking
- The Psychology of Queuing
- The Purpose of Boredom
- The Rise of Community Repair
- The Rise of Paper Money
- The Rise of the Illustrated Street Poster
- The Science and Evolution of Food Date Labelling
- The Science of Altitude Training
- The Science of Animal Self-Medication
- The Science of High-Temperature Composting
- The Science of Leisure Reading
- The Science of Professional Esports
- The Sensorisation of the Modern Workplace
- The Social Biology of Laughter
- The Technology of Early Coinage
- The Therapeutic Science of Gardening
- The Trial of the Shorter Working Week
- The Vegetal Architecture of Living Bridges
- The Worked Example Effect
- Touchscreens and Early Child Development
- Trade Before and Beyond Coinage
- Unconscious Processing in Creative Thought
- Understanding Head Injuries in Contact Sports
- Urban Infrastructure and Rapid Delivery
- Urban Nature and Psychological Recovery
- Urban Planning and Social Connection
- Video Games and Cognitive Adaptations
- Water Regulation in the Human Body
- What Ancient Teeth Reveal About Diet
- Why the Human Mind Procrastinates
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