SENTENCE COMPLETION B2

Mark the best choice to complete the sentences correctly.

____________ even though I haven’t quite managed to finish it yet.

• Tess is insisting that I should give her the book back immediately

  
  

• Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past is a massive book

• So many books do I have to read for my project

• I much prefer short novels to long ones

____________, bungee-jumping is really no more dangerous than any other sport.

• If you should fail to take the necessary safety measures

• As falling from such a height can be quite frightening

• Only a handful of deaths are known to have occurred

• As long as you do it under experienced guidance

Despite the great interest Robert has in quantum mechanics, ____________.

• he is constantly checking books on the subject out of the school library

• his interest began after reading a biography of Niels Bohr

• he understands almost none of the math which it uses

• which extends and corrects Newtonian mechanics

The history of the English language in the British Isles dates back to the 5^th century AD, ____________.

• while the invaders plundered city after city, driving the Britons even farther westward

• which was closely related to the Dutch dialects still spoken in Friesland

• when England was conquered by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

• that has been altered significantly ever since

Celtic peoples had been living in what is now England for about a thousand years ____________.

• just as the golden-haired Celtic queen Boudicca was leading an uprising against the occupying Romans

• that many experts hypothesized that the legendary King Arthur was actually a Celtic leader

• and their folk music is one of the oldest continuing musical traditions in the world

• before the ancestors of the modern English invaded the island in about 500 AD

_________, the managers waited to see if they would accept it or go out on strike.

• After they made a final offer to their employees

• As soon as the workers made the decision to start a strike

• As they were certain that their employees would be content

• Ever since the union and the management held their first meeting

Hybrid electrical vehicles use an electric engine _________.

• as well as using a standard petrol engine

• that it powers by means of rechargeable batteries

• such as the many different ways of protecting the environment

• nor does it pollute the already greatly endangered environment

_________, which hosted the congress to determine the new political map of Europe.

• As the Napoleonic Wars had ended

• There were many competing claims

• It was the capital of Austria, Vienna

• The main Austrian statesman was Klemens Metternich

Celtic peoples had been living in what is now England for about a thousand years _________.

• because today, Celtic languages are still spoken in certain areas

• before the ancestors of the modern English invaded the island in about 500 AD

• as their folk music is one of the oldest continuing musical traditions in the world

• that many experts hypothesised that the legendary King Arthur was actually a Celtic chieftain

Although the Netherlands ruled Indonesia for 350 years, _________.

• Dutch is now spoken hardly anywhere in the country

• the Indos are a people of mixed Dutch-Indonesian descent

• the Netherlands was a powerful country in the 17^th century

• they had replaced the Portuguese as the dominant foreign power in the region