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Book 2 Part D
Test 24

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1.
The ________ outside the house said: ‘Private’.
A) advice
B) label
C) notice
D) signal
E) threat
2.
Are you going to ________ your house in London while you are
abroad?
A) dispose
B) hire
C) let
D) remove
E) sale
3.
How unkind of him to ________ to help you!
A) agree
B) admit
C) deny
D) ignore
E) refuse
4.
Close the door, please: I don’t like sitting in a ________.
A) blow
B) current
C) draught
D) vent
E) wind
5.
I had to stand in a ________ for hours to get the tickets for the
performance.
A) file
B) procession
C) queue
D) tail
E) turn
6.
When he was a boy his hobby was stamp ________.
A) assembly
B) collecting
C) finding
D) gathering
E) picking
7.
He lost his ________ and threw a book at me.
A) feeling
B) mood
C) sense
D) spirit
E) temper
8.
I learnt to ________ a bicycle when I was six years old.
A) conduct
B) drive
C) guide
D) ride
E) run
9.
Do as you think best. It doesn’t ________ whether he agrees or not.
A) care
B) decide
C) import
D) matter
E) mind
10. I don’t think you’ve ________ Mrs. Walker before I’ll introduce you
to her.
A) discovered
B) found
C) known
D) met
E) presented
11. If the boss sees you doing that, you’ll get into ________.
A) mess
B) nuisance
C) problem
D) struggle
E) trouble
12. My husband’s at ________. He’ll speak to you when he comes home.
A) busy
B) employ
C) job
D) work
E) works
13. It’s no good asking me to calculate the cost. I’m hopeless at ________.
A) characters
B) counters
C) figures
D) prizes
E) shapes
14. The road was so ________ that the car bounced up and down.
A) rare
B) sharp
C) steep
D) sudden
E) uneven
15. You should be ________ of yourself for behaving so badly.
A) ashamed
B) confused
C) disgusted
D) embarrassed
E) shameful
16. I ________ an answer to my letter in the next few days.
A) expect
B) hope
C) promise
D) suppose
E) wait
17. The car broke down but the ________ in the garage soon fixed it.
A) driver
B) machinist
C) manufacturer
D) mechanic
E) motorist
18. Why are you arresting me? I haven’t done anything ________.
A) crime
B) error
C) faulty
D) mistaken
E) wrong
19. Roses are quite ________ flowers in English gardens.
A) accustomed
B) annual
C) common
D) used
E) vulgar
20. Benjamin Franklin ________ the lightning conductor.
A) discovered
B) found
C) invented
D) resulted
E) solved
21. I didn’t know his ________ so I couldn’t write to him.
A) address
B) direction
C) letter
D) route
E) way
22. The only problem about sitting outside here in the evening is that
you are likely to be ________ by mosquitoes.
A) bitten
B) grasped
C) ground
D) murdered
E) picked
23. You must ________ facts and not try to run away from the unpleasant
truth.
A) eye
B) face
C) front
D) look
E) sight
24. There was a sudden ________ of lightning, which lit up the whole
street.
A) bum
B) fire
C) flash
D) splash
E) split
25. When he ________ he wants to be an engine driver.
A) ages
B) becomes
C) grows
D) grows up
E) increases
26. I just ________ to stop the child from running into the road.
A) achieved
B) controlled
C) could
D) managed
E) succeeded
27. As soon as his party came into ________ he raised the salaries of
Member of Parliament.
A) force
B) position
C) power
D) right
E) strength
28. There was an interesting ________ of the film in The Sunday Times
last weekend.
A) comment
B) remark
C) resume
D) review
E) revision
29. I didn’t realize you wanted to keep the letter. I’ve ________ it up.
A) broken
B) pulled
C) smashed
D) torn
E) wrapped
30. We’re sorry you’re ill and send you our best wishes for a speedy
________.
A) recovery
B) relief
C) repair
D) repose
E) survival
31. When he was young, all he ________ at the factory was £1 a week.
A) earned
B) gained
C) inherited
D) sacked
E) won
32. She ________ at me for a long time without saying anything.
A) glimpsed
B) saw
C) stared
D) viewed
E) watched
33. He threw the box out of the window and saw it fall to the ________
outside.
A) flat
B) floor
C) ground
D) plain
E) soil
34. You’ve made a very ________ decision. Any reasonable person would
have done the same thing.
A) sensational
B) sensed
C) sensible
D) sensitive
E) sentimental
35. The water here is very ________. You can get across the stream on
foot.
A) broad
B) flat
C) narrow
D) pure
E) shallow
36. I am staying in a youth ________ in the center of the town.
A) home
B) hostel
C) inn
D) lodge
E) pub
37. The little boy had blue eyes and fair hair so he ________ his mother.
A) took after
B) took down
C) took from
D) took off
E) took over
38. There’s no food left and the shops are shut so you’ll have to ________.
A) go for
B) go off
C) go on
D) go through
E) go without
39. You sometimes ________ quite valuable things in antique shop.
A) come across
B) come back
C) come into
D) come off
E) come round
40. I’ll ________ you at 8:30 and give you a lift to the office.
A) call at
B) call for
C) call in
D) call round
E) call to
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