Sentence Completion Questions

Tips and Tricks for Matching Sentence Ending

• The answers are in the same order in the text as they are in the questions
• Try to predict how each sentence will end before you look at the endings.
• Synonyms and paraphrasing will be used. You are matching meaning, not the exact words.
• Start with the incomplete sentences first before you look at the endings or the text. There are more endings than required, so looking at all of these in detail is a waste of time.
• All of the sentence endings appear in the text, but you don’t need to read all of them, just the ones that you decide to match with the incomplete sentences.
• When highlighting keywords, it is often a good idea to highlight any names, including place names, or dates. These are often easy to find in the reading text.
• Use a process of elimination to select the correct answers.
• Don’t read the text until you’ve studied the incomplete sentences and the sentence endings.
• All the sentence endings will appear in the text but not all will match one of the incomplete sentences.
• The grammatical structure of the two halves of the sentence must match. If they don’t, you have the wrong match.

What is matching sentence ends?

After a quick run through tips and tricks for matching sentence endings let’s understand what it is. There will be a list of sentences which are missing their endings. You’re required to match each of them with a possible ending given in another list. This is to build up full and correct sentences according to the reading text. The IELTS examiners want to test your comprehension of the way ideas are transferred in given sentences, how they are related to the reading text.

Example

Match the sentence endings with the given list of items.   Eventual exposure Being obese at a young age The dangerous circumstances surrounding obesity A. can lead to early death   B. are higher when a person’s BMI is immense C. can make it tough for a young person at school D. can lead to children struggling to breathe and other complications E. projects a future of obesity and ongoing serious health issues F. to the health issues caused by obesity can cause a number of diseases

Tips and Tricks for Matching Sentence Ending

The Process

To understand the process let’s take one passage and a question.

The monkey projects demonstrate that compared with control animals that eat normally. caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, and they retain more youthful levels of certain hormones that tend to fall with age.

Classify the following descriptions as relating to 33 caloric-restricted mimetic 34  control monkeys 35 neither caloric-restricted monkeys nor control monkeys   A  were less likely to become diabetic. B  experienced more chronic disease. C  have been shown to experience a longer than           average life span. D   enjoyed a reduced chance of heart disease. E   produced greater quantities of insulin

Step by step process

Step 1 Read the question and underline the key words.

A  caloric-restricted mimetic B  control monkeys C  neither caloric-restricted monkeys nor control monkeys

Step 2 Scan for the keywords or/and synonyms in the passage.

The monkey projects demonstrate that compared with control animals that eat normally. caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, and they retain more youthful levels of certain hormones that tend to fall with age.

Step 3 Read intensively, the sentence which has the keywords to understand the missing part of the sentence.

The monkey projects demonstrate that compared with control animals that eat normally. caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, and they retain more youthful levels of certain hormones that tend to fall with age.   Control animals is opposite to caloric restricted caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and lower levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, are more youthful which means Control animals = higher body temperatures and higher levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, less youthful

Step 4 Try matching your extracted idea to the idea of the given options

E   produced greater quantities of insulin Answer: E