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TOEIC tests level 1 / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 1

Bearing Information

Q1 Try and be a little more cheerful because if you don't bear ....... soon, you'll make everyone else miserable.

(a) bear through (b) bear along (c) bear up (d) bear to

Q2 We were in a small rowing boat and were terrified that the steamer hadn't seen us as it was bearing ....... on us.

bear down

move forward in a threatening manner (e.g., "The cruise ship bore down on our canoe"); use utmost effort and concentration (e.g., "If you really bear down, you will success"); contract the muscles of the abdomen during childbirth in order to facilitate the delivery

(a) bear down (b) bear across (c) bear over (d) bear under

Q3 I fully understand your comments and bearing those in ......., I have made the appropriate decision.

(a) bear in brain (b) bear in mind (c) bear in thought (d) bear in sense

Q4 As we have all worked very hard this year, I'm hoping that our efforts will bear ........

(a) bear produce (b) bear benefits (c) bear yields (d) bear fruit

Q5 We all have our ....... to bear so I should be grateful if you would stop complaining all the time.

Cross to bear

    If someone has a cross to bear, they have a heavy burden of responsibility or a problem that they alone must cope with.

(a) problems (b) situations (c) crosses (d) results

Q6 There is really nothing much you can do to stop it and I'm afraid you'll just have to ....... and bear it.

(a)    scorn (b) grin (c) laugh (d) smile

Grin and bear it

    If you have to grin and bear it, you have to accept something that you don't like.

Q7 I hope you can be patient for a little longer and bear ....... me while I try and solve the problem.

(a) bear by (b) bear on (c) bear at (d) bear with

Q8 She has been proved right in everything she did as the report quite clearly bears ........

(a)    bear out / bail out (b) bear to (c) bear for (d) bear onto

bear out

show to be true, prove correct

Q9 The judge dismissed the new evidence completely because it had no bearing ....... the trial.

(a) bear to (b) bear on (c) bear into (d) bear by / bear on

 have to do with "This information may bear on this case."

Q10 Quite honestly the two cases are so completely different that they really don't bear ........

(a) bear confirmation (b) bear contrast (c) bear comprehension (d) bear comparison / bear comparison

undergo comparison, undergo a contrast of likenesses and differences

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