Question 1
The _____ for making this pudding are clearly written on the packet.
Directions are instructions that tell you how to do or make something, often printed on a packet: Read the directions before use. Not explanations, which tell you why something happens rather than the steps to follow.
Question 2
The main _____ of this drink are wine, vodka and orange juice.
Ingredients are the foods or liquids you mix together to make a dish or a drink. Not components, which is used for parts of machines or systems, not for food and drink.
Question 3
Their last cook was better than their _____ one.
Current means 'the one we have now'. The sentence compares the last (previous) cook with the present one. Not former, because 'former' means earlier, which is the same idea as 'last'.
Question 4
_____ that cold meat into neat, thin pieces.
To slice means to cut food into thin, flat pieces: slice the bread, slice the meat. Not slit, which means to make one long, narrow cut in something.
Question 5
Mr Butterlover spread the butter _____ on his bread.
We spread butter thickly (a lot, in a thick layer) or thinly (a little). His name, Mr Butterlover, is the clue that he uses a lot. Broadly, deeply and highly do not collocate with 'spread butter'.
Question 6
Coming from the kitchen was a wonderful _____ of cooking.
The smell of cooking is the usual phrase for what you notice from a kitchen. Not scent, which is used mainly for flowers and perfume, and not odour, which usually means an unpleasant smell.
Question 7
Our cook is quite _____ of cooking a meal for twenty-four people.
Capable of + -ing means having the ability to do something: She is capable of running a big kitchen. The preposition of is the clue; we say clever at, efficient at and expert at/in, not 'of'.
Question 8
I like my eggs soft _____, not hard.
Eggs cooked in their shells in hot water are soft-boiled (the yolk is still runny) or hard-boiled (the yolk is solid). The word hard at the end is the clue to the fixed pair soft/hard boiled.
Question 9
The meat must be cooked in the _____ for one hour.
Meat is cooked in the oven, the closed box of a cooker that bakes or roasts with heat. Not grill or stove, because we say under the grill and on the stove, not 'in'.
Question 10
I don't like my steak cooked too long. I like it _____.
Underdone means cooked for a short time, so the meat is still a little red inside (also called rare). This fits 'I don't like my steak cooked too long'. Not raw, which means not cooked at all.
Question 11
Try some of this cake, which I _____ especially for you.
We make or bake a cake. Fried, roasted and browned are other ways of cooking, but they are not used for cakes.
Question 12
Her sole _____ in the hotel kitchen was peeling potatoes.
A job can be one particular task that you have to do: Her job was to wash the dishes. Here her only task in the kitchen was peeling potatoes. Not career, which means the series of jobs a person does over many years. Not profession, which is a type of work that needs special training, like a doctor or a teacher.
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