Q7________, I received a call from a stranger offering me the best job I’d ever had. An old friend
who I hadn’t talked with for years referred me to him. It was nothing short of a miracle, It was
eerie.
Q1. A) part
B) share
C) number
D) quantity
Q2. A) to hire
B) to retire
C) to quit
D) to stop
Q3. A) interested
B) keen
C) worried
D) excited
Q4. A) basis
B) base
C) system
D) routine
Q5. A) expired
B) went
C) ran
D) ended
Q6. A) break
B) broke
C) broken up
D) broken-down
Q7. A) way
B) sudden
C) frame
D) blue
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LEXICAL & GRAMMAR COMPETENCE – TEST 25
Bill, Bingo and Bram
Bill Smith had a Q1_______ with dogs, a kind of power over them. They would sit in awe of
him, would listen to him and would slink away sheepishly if they had growled near him. It was a
skill I had cause to be thankful for once or twice. The odd thing was that Bram, the last dog Bill
owned, had died in 1925 — fifty years distant. Bill was a retired, Q2_______ bachelor. He lived
alone in the small terraced house next door but two from us. Q3_______ a number of occasions, I
visited Bill’s house, and it seemed that it hadn’t really changed much from the 50s. There were
hints that some articles had been undisturbed apart Q4_______ the occasional silverfish or visiting
woodlouse, since the 1930s. He had a picture of a dog in the small converted kitchen which housed
his huge solid pillowed chair, newspapers protruding from beneath its seat cushion. It was among
one or two other small photos, which Q5_____ closer examination were photos of seventeen
year old Bill. Almost forgotten amid the clutter of pipe cleaners, matches, spills, bits of wire, tea
coupons and old Yale keys was a very small dark photo of a black mongrel dog, lying in a
backyard. A white stripe down its nose and in between its ears was one of the few ways it was
distinguishable from the background gloom. This was Bram, Bill told me, his dog. Through the
years, my family had a total of four dogs. We actually had no photo graphs whatever of the first
two. Dogs had only played walkon parts in my family. As far as I was Q6_______, the all defining
object in a house was a television. There was one in Bill’s house. It stood like a lonely, redundant
sentinel in a dank corner of his empty living room and seemed cold and unused. When I asked Bill
what he watched, he answered that the set didn’t work, it needed a new plug, and he hadn’t
Q7______ to get it fixed. And what’s more, he didn’t miss it. To me this was unimaginable — how
could a person have a TV and not use it?
Q1. A) way
B) control
C) method
D) skill
Q2. A) long-lasting
B) long-term
C) long-life
D) lifelong
Q3. A) On
B) At
C) With
D) For
Q4. A) for
B) with
C) from
D) of
Q5. A) in
B) on
C) at
D) by
Q6. A) regarded
B) concerned
C) told
D) asked
Q7. A) suggested
B) succeeded
C) bothered
D) minded
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