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Word Relationships
1.
arm : hand - leg : ___
2.
beautiful : beauty - young : ___
3.
swim : swimming - walk : ___
4.
baseball : bat - tennis : ___
5.
dog : dogs - woman : ___
6.
America : American - Japan ___
7.
man : boy - woman : ___
8.
I : my - you ___
9.
stomachache : doctor - toothache : ___
10. drive : drove - eat : ___
11. daughter : aunt - son : ___
12. pencil : write - gun : ___
13. big : bigger - important : ___
14. one : two - first : ___
15. yesterday : the day before yesterday - last month : ___
Miscellaneous
Book 2 Part A

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Find the synonym of the following words written in capitals.
1.
It was the voice of a born ORATOR.
A) addressee
B) speaker
C) talker
D) order
E) chatter box
2.
Boxing was his PROFESSION, people came and paid money to
see the fight.
A) subject
B) wish
C) trade
D) life
E) interest
3.
There was something CRUEL in his voice.
A) strange
B) severe
C) funny
D) fresh
E) worry
4.
One of the novels by Jack London was “Martin Eden”, in which
the writer DESCRIBED his life.
A) printed
B) depicted
C) pointed out
D) noticed
E) touched upon
5.
The whole excursion took APPROXIMATELY ten hours
A) exactly
B) about
C) precisely
D) apparently
E) respectively
6.
All the local residents spent that AWFUL night in a school.
A) awkward
B) average
C) terrible
D) insignificant
E) authentic
7.
The man was staring at him, and the boy began to TREMBLE.
A) find
B) move
C) shiver
D) share
E) escape
8.
The restaurant was SUPERB, and the prices were very low, we
enjoyed our holidays.
A) superficial
B) excellent
C) superior
D) supersonic
E) expensive
9.
Airline business is INCREASING nowadays.
A) enlarging
B) consuming
C) ratifying
D) consenting
E) investing
10. At last things began to IMPROVE.
A) injure
B) get better C) become worse
D) collect
E) change
11. Everybody PROTESTED to be examined again.
A) were for
B) were against
C) were after
D) were before
E) were like
12. Small children sometimes FEAR the dark.
A) are afraid of
B) are terrible
C) are angry
D) are in love
E) are fond
13. She thought that he was BRAVE.
A) coward
B) courageous
C) strong
D) quiet
E) powerful
14. The great Russian poet Pushkin was a REMARKABLE man.
A) careless
B) clever
C) hard
D) kind
E) extraordinary
15. The time will come, no doubt, when a man will BE ALLOWED to
be very angry only on special days.
A) be passed
B) be settled
C) be permitted
D) be taken
E) be given
16. I want you to accept the invitation of your English DOCTOR
friend.
A) boy
B) physician
C) physicist
D) girl
E) doctrine
17. You’ve made 2 BAD MISTAKES in your test.
A) wrong things
B) blunders
C) an error
D) misprints
E) slips of the tongue
18. When I met my friend she WAS VERY ANXIOUS about something.
A) took care of
B) was troubled
C) got angry
D) looked for
E) was glad
19. She was AWFULLY sorry for her.
A) respectfully
B) politely
C) terribly
D) cordially
E) correctly
20. Don’t paint IN A HURRY.
A) exactly
B) irritably
C) hastily
D) specially
E) really
21. An old man was their CONSTANT buyer.
A) popular
B) capable
C) clever
D) permanent
E) attentive
22. GRADUALLY that illness had broken me down.
A) steps
B) inch by inch
C) now and then
D) little by little
E) time after time
23. The achievements of science and technology of recent years have
influenced the CAREERS of many people.
A) marketing
B) trading
C) professions
D) hands
E) works
24. Somebody TAPPED ON the door at night.
A) knocked at
B) closed C) looked through
D) came up
E) took care of
25. When the police arrived the thieves TOOK TO FLIGHT leaving all
the stolen things behind.
A) ran away
B) take away
C) did away
D) got up
E) climbed on
26. Please, you are so nervous, do try to CONTAIN your anger.
A) hold back
B) consume
C) contact
D) consult
E) come back
27. It’s high time for the child TO GO TO BYE-BYES.
A) to say good bye
B) to play with toys
C) to go to sleep
D) to part with his parents
E) to see his friends off
28. I wonder how many similar days I should BE FORCED to spend
there.
A) be heard
B) be sent
C) be made
D) be continued
E) be rich
29. Shakespeare is sometimes called the BARD-of-the middle age.
A) poet
B) writer
C) poem
D) banner
E) song
30. After Columbus’s first voyage in 1492, the news of his DISCOVERY
spread across Europe.
A) death
B) treason
C) exploration
D) recovery
E) victory
31. The Endeavour ANCHORED in a wide bay to take water and food.
A) sailed
B) started
C) was seen
D) was on fire
E) attached
32. Columbus was CONVINCED that the earth was round.
A) reluctant
B) happy
C) hesitant
D) assured
E) told
33. The Greeks and other ancient Mediterranean people thought that
the earth was FLAT.
A) unlimited
B) oval
C) plane
D) bumpy
E) round
34. Arbuthnot’s work is HARDLY ever real today, but, J.Bull, whom
he created, is very much alive.
A) barely
B) always
C) constantly
D) happily
E) cheerfully
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