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Exercise 6

Some of the sentences in the following passage are incomplete. From the choices provided, select the word or word group that best completes each sentence.

Kevin and Marco sat in their classroom before school and talked about their (1) __________ with the pollution in the stream where they liked to fish. Kevin said, "That stream (2) __________ by the whole town. Why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
     "It's easy to put responsibility onto others," said Mr. Leery, their teacher. "But you'll get results (3) __________ if you take it upon yourselves to improve things."
     Kevin and Marco explained the situation to the other students in the class. Everyone volunteered to help clean the stream. By the end of the day, the trash (4) __________ from the stream, and the water looked much cleaner.

1. Kevin and Marco sat in their classroom before school and talked about their __________ with the pollution in the stream where they liked to fish.

 
irritate
irritation
irritating
irritated
 

2. Kevin said, "That stream __________ by the whole town."
 
are owned
have been owned
is owned
were owned
 

3. "But you'll get results __________ if you take it upon yourselves to improve things."
 
faster
more fast
fastly
most fast
 

4. By the end of the day, the trash __________ from the stream, and the water looked much cleaner.
 
has been removed
is being removed
had been removed
will be removed