English quesitons: He felt he had at last ... his ambition (reached...

[Mosiiniut]

Hi my friend,

Since I believe your English is perfect , I wanted to ask you some questions that seemed abit strange to me while I was taking a not very standard test,

so here they are and I hope you'll answer them patiently and give me enough explanation on the reason to choose the choise and why not the alternatives,although they might seem ridiculous:

1-He felt he had at last ........ his ambition(reached-accomplished-obtained-achieved)==(my choice:achieved)

2-The world is ...........a serious energy problem (meeting-heading-confronting-facing)==(my choice:confronting)

3-I'm very .....to know the result of the test. PLease tell me,doctor(worried,anxious,disturbed,alarmed)==(my choice:anxious)

4-One thing is certain. He is ....... to have robbed one Bank. He may have robbed more.(known-believed-said-thought)==(my choice:believed)

5-It should be .... that students aer expected to attend classes regularly(marked-reminded-noted-perceived)==(my choice:reminded)

6-Enough money has been raised to ........ the hospital's survival(enable-ensure-endow-empower)==(my choice:enable)

7-We will get married as soon as we have....... the problem of where we are going to live.(resolved-achieved-managed-settled)==(my choice:resolved)

Thanks alot,

yours.

[Alan]

Hi,

My comments:

1-He felt he had at last ........ his ambition(reached-accomplished-obtained-achieved)==(my choice:achieved) AGREED

2-The world is ...........a serious energy problem (meeting-heading-confronting-facing)==(my choice:confronting) I WOULD CHOOSE 'FACING' SINCE 'CONFRONT' INDICATES AN AGRESSIVE ATTITUDE, WHICH IS NOT SHOWN IN THE TEXT

3-I'm very .....to know the result of the test. Please tell me,doctor(worried,anxious,disturbed,alarmed)==(my choice:anxious) AGREED

4-One thing is certain. He is ....... to have robbed one Bank. He may have robbed more.(known-believed-said-thought)==(my choice:believed) I WOULD SUGGEST 'KNOWN' BECAUSE OF One thing is certain
5-It should be .... that students are expected to attend classes regularly(marked-reminded-noted-perceived)==(my choice:reminded) I WOULD SUGGEST 'NOTED'

6-Enough money has been raised to ........ the hospital's survival(enable-ensure-endow-empower)==(my choice:enable) I WOULD SUGGEST 'ENSURE'

7-We will get married as soon as we have....... the problem of where we are going to live.(resolved-achieved-managed-settled)==(my choice:resolved) AGREED

Alan
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[Molly]

It often helps to look at common collocations, mosiiniut.

Let's take "ambition" for starters.

In The British National Corpus (BNC) we get these hits from a search of verb + pronoun + ambition:

ACHIEVED HIS AMBITION 9
ACHIEVED HER AMBITION 1
REACHED HER AMBITION 1
ACHIEVED THEIR AMBITION 1
ACHIEVED THAT AMBITION 1
ACHIEVED MY AMBITION 1
ACHIEVED ITS AMBITION 1
TOTAL 15

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