Types of Exercises in Part 5 You should look ahead at the blank space to determine the position and the part of speech needed to fill it. In some cases, you need to translate the entire sentence to figure out what fits the blank. Here are some common types of exercises in Part 5 for your reference.

 

Type 1: Meaning The options often have similar structures or prefixes, suffixes, or are words that look alike. Examples: transfer, transmit, transport, transplant… or hearly, hardly, handly, healthy… For this type, there's no way around knowing or guessing the word meanings or checking the sentence for collocations. 

Example: This fax from Mr. Stevens was _______ at 11 a.m Eastern Standard Time.

A. Transplanted

B. Transferred

C. Transported

D. Transmitted

Answer: (D) Transmitted

 

Type 2: Preposition For this, rely on fixed phrases or idioms. Examples: eligible for, contribute to, interested in…

Example: All written proposals must comply ___ Wallnut Food’s internal document guidelines.

A. By

B. For

C. To

D. With

Answer: (D) comply with something

 

Type 3: Word Form This is a scoring opportunity, mainly covering:

- Prep + N/V-ing: after prepositions come nouns or V-ing

- a/the + (adv + adj + N) = a/the + N phrase

- To be + adv + V-ed/V-ing (between be and p.p/V-ing is an adverb)

- adv + Verb or Verb + adv

- Causative Verbs: Active: S + Make, Have, Let + SB + DO something. S + other V + SB + TO DO something. Passive: S + Causative Verb + O + Past Participle Example: I had my car fixed.

- Conditional sentences: Type 1: If do, will do (real present condition) Type 2: if did, would do (unreal present condition) Type 3: if had done, would have done (unreal past condition). Often, the verb is left blank, and you complete it based on the conditional type.

 

Type 4: Connecting Words and Adverb-clause Markers

- Coordinators: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Read for sentence meaning.

- Correlative Conjunctions: Both…and; not only…but also; either…or, neither…nor. Practice these fixed pairs.

- Adverb-clause Markers: Before, after, since, until, once/as soon as, as/when, while. Translate quickly to choose.

Because/since, Although/though/Even though/While/Whereas; if, unless, Whether…or…/ so that/in order that; so adj that + Clause Because of/Due to + Noun/V-ing Despite/In spite of + Noun/V-ing Pay attention to whether what's next is a noun/V-ing or a clause to pick the right connector.