HSC Complete the text with suitable prepositions exercises with Solutions

1. Complete the text with suitable prepositions.                                                                     5

Coleridge poem, a ballad, narrates the harrowing sea-voyage of an old mariner who (a) ——  one point of his journey didn’t have any water to drink because (b) ——  a curse. Cursed or not, we know how important drinking water is (c) ——  our lives. We know we cannot survive (d) ——  it. In fact, two-thirds of our body is made (e) ——  of water. Not for nothing is it said that the other name of water is life. Is there a crisis (f) ——  our time with regard to access (g) ——  clean drinking water? The United Nations in a meeting  (h) ——  the eve of the new millennium identified the drinking water problem as one of the challenges (i) ——  the future. But do we need to worry  (j) ——  the problem as ours is a land of rivers and we have plenty of rainfall?

Answers: at,of,in,without,up,in,to,on,for,about