Question 1
Doctors write a _____ for medicine which chemists or dispensers make up.
A prescription is the note a doctor writes that says which medicine you need. The chemist then prepares it. Not recipe, which tells you how to cook food.
Question 2
The _____ of the sugar is of course to sweeten the medicine.
Purpose means the aim, or what something is for: The purpose of the sugar is to sweeten the medicine. Not reason: a reason explains why something happened, and it is usually followed by for or why.
Question 3
_____ the bottle well before you pour out the medicine.
You shake a bottle by moving it quickly up and down, so the medicine inside mixes. Not stir: you stir a liquid with a spoon.
Question 4
A chemist always puts a _____ on a bottle of medicine.
A label is a small piece of paper on a bottle or package that gives information, for example the name of the medicine and how much to take.
Question 5
Don't lay that bottle on its side: the top might start _____.
Leak means that liquid comes out slowly through a hole or a loose part: The top might start leaking. Not spilling: liquid spills when a container falls over or is too full, not through a loose top.
Question 6
All medicines should be kept out of _____ of children.
The fixed phrase is out of reach of. It means too far away for someone to touch or take. The other words do not go in this phrase.
Question 7
Aspirin is generally _____ as the best remedy for a headache.
The pattern be regarded as means 'be thought of as': Aspirin is generally regarded as the best remedy. Thought, supposed and believed cannot be followed by as in this way. We say thought to be and believed to be.
Question 8
Put the _____ back in the bottle. You might spill the medicine.
A cork is a stopper that you push into the neck of a bottle, so you put it back in the bottle. Not lid: a lid goes on top of a jar or box, not inside a bottle.
Question 9
The doctor gave me some medicine to _____ my cold.
To cure an illness means to make it go away so you are well again. Mend and repair are used for broken things, not illnesses.
Question 10
He _____ the medicine quickly and then drank some orange juice.
To swallow means to make food or drink go down your throat. He took the medicine down quickly and then drank juice.
Question 11
That medicine was horrible! Give me a piece of chocolate to take the _____ away.
The phrase is take the taste away: the chocolate removes the horrible taste of the medicine. Bitter is an adjective, so it cannot follow the here.
Question 12
The doctor told him to keep the tablets in his mouth and _____ them slowly.
To suck something means to keep it in your mouth and let it dissolve slowly, like a sweet. Not swallow, because the tablets must stay in his mouth.
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