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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Phrases: Politics

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

  1. The current Prime Minister has been in   for almost ten years now but he is much less popular than he used to be.
  2. A group of people were   a protest about illegal whaling outside the Japanese embassy last weekend.
  3. In the UK, the politicians belong to one of the three main political   and to many minor ones as well.
  4. In the weeks leading up to the election, supporters of the various parties are out on the streets   to get their candidate elected.
  5. The senior politician   a major scandal when it was revealed that he had accepted bribes.
  6. Global warming and greenhouse gases are two of the   topics in politics at the moment.
  7. In UK politics, an elected politician who has a seat in government is known as an MP or '   '.
  8. Nowadays, many people criticise politicians for using   to dress up information to make it more appealing to the public.
  9. Senator Greenbanks has yet to confirm the rumours that he intends to run   president.
  10. International officials monitoring the polling saw nothing suspicious to make them believe that the election had been   .
  11. Friends Of The Earth are an international pressure   whose aim is introduce green issues into mainstream politics.
  12. George Hallibut, the MP for South Moulton has formerly announced that he will not be   in the next general election.

Your answers

 

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11. A B C D
12. A B C D