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Advanced Level Synonym Questions (Wordpower) Test 01
1. Find the synonym of the underlined word. I

hope you are not going to abandon your project. 6. Panthotenic acid is abundant in eggs, peas and
potatoes.
A) give up completely
B) change A) plentiful
C) modify slightly B) scarce
D) postpone C) inadequate
E) complete D) insufficient
E) analogous
2. The abandoned boat was found miles away from the

shore; they never found out who had been on it. 7. Adrenalin has the effect of strengthening and
accelerating the heartbeat.
A) cherished
B) deserted A) diminishing
C) shabby B) aborting
D) austere C) quickening
E) unabashed D) abolishing
E) adopting
3. The pilot changed direction abruptly, causing great

panic in the plane. 8. There was no access to the large garden of the
house except a well-hidden gate.
A) anticipated
B) foreseen A) entrance
C) unexpectedly B) seizure
D) intended C) attack
E) reasonably D) rapture
E) turn
4. Larry was so absorbed in his novel that he forgot

about his dinner cooking in the oven. 9. The Turners are looking for a little cabin in the woods
where they won’t be accessible to their relatives.
A) engrossed
B) obliged A) acceptable
C) enlivened B) probable
D) excelled C) reachable
E) devastated D) accessory
E) approachable
5. The only cure for alcoholism is complete abstinence

from alcohol.
A) absence
B) avoidance
C) sickness
D) prescription
E) pretension
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10. When Mrs. Bell was the director of the firm, her first
accomplishment was to bring about better working
conditions.
15. Nobody knows where and how the son of the
A) accumulation deceased politician acquired all his wealth.
B) achievement
A) gained
C) defeat
B) lost
D) job
C) hid
E) sermon
D) stole
E) deposited
11. A treasurer must account for every penny that he

spends.
16. He is proud of his son who is an active and athletic
A) evaluate youth.
B) classify
A) awkward
C) explain
B) agile
D) allot
C) ponderous
E) reckon
D) inept
E) timorous
12. Artificial insemination accounts for the birth of over

half of dairy cows in the U. S. today.
17. The musicians graduated from that school are adept
A) makes it impossible at playing at least four instruments.
B) is responsible for
A) proficient
C) leads to
B) adjustable
D) is the result of
C) awkward
E) endangers
D) careful
E) proverbial
13. During the ten years he worked in Germany, he

accumulated a fortune.
18. The human ear admits only a very limited range of
A) made frequencies.
B) concentrated
A) confesses
C) expanded
B) gives off
D) increased
C) forces in
E) intensified
D) lets in
E) enters
14. I hope the weatherman has predicted accurately. If

he has, we will have a perfect picnic tomorrow.
A) astutely
B) correctly
C) carefully
D) acutely
E) miraculously

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19. The refusal of sole nations to participate in the 20. Martin Luther King, influenced by Mahatma Gandhi,
Olympic Games in Moscow was an admonishment made many adversaries in his nonviolent quest for
to the Soviets. equality.
A) admission A) friends
B) admiration B) advances
C) rebuke C) improvements
D) stigma D) atrocities
E) adornment E) foes

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Answer Key:
1: A 11: C
2: B 12: B
3: C 13: A
4: A 14: B
5: B 15: A
6: A 16: B
7: C 17: A
8: A 18: D
9: C 19: C
10: B 20: E

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5. Workers have ample time for recreation and

1. Affluent nations have an obligation to help their educational pursuits because the workweek consists
neighbours; however, they quite often do just the of only 40 hours.
opposites causing poor countries to be even poorer.
A) too many
A) sophisticated B) hardly any
B) wealthy C) nearly enough
C) advanced D) plenty of
D) powerful E) a little
E) industrialized
6. During the flight from Turkey to Moscow, Marilyn

2. Frequent minor ailments keep Mrs. Collins from amused herself by reading comic books.
work.
A) fooled
A) irritations B) tired
B) young children C) bored
C) sicknesses D) beguiled
D) falls E) enjoyed
E) excuses
7. Jacks appetite has diminished since his girlfriend

3. His mother’s alert mind caught Billy’s lies. once said she hated fat people.
A) alarming A) desire for exercise

B) vigilant B) desire for visitors
C) sluggish C) desire for sleep
D) oblivious D) desire for food
E) wry E) desire for play
4. There is ample rain and intense sunlight in tropical 8. A progressive tax applies greater tax rates to larger
climates; consequently, plant life is luxuriant and incomes than to smaller ones.
varied.
A) forecasts
A) scant B) wastes
B) abundant C) devotes
C) hard D) employs
D) detrimental E) involves
E) licentious
9. There are at least 500 kinds of fish that generate

appreciable amounts of electricity.
A) negligible
B) insignificant
C) measurable
D) inconseque

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10. Why argue? There is no alternative; the president 15. Network employees of associated companies are
must approve the bill if Congress passes it. not allowed to participate in TV quiz games.
A) admonish A) subsidiary
B) criticize B) social
C) endorse C) connected
D) condemn D) member
E) censure E) introductory
11. River, valleys and coastal plains constitute 16. The news of the President Kennedy’s death
approximately a third of the country. astonished the world as it was really unexpected.
A) more or less A) alerted

B) decreasingly B) admonished
C) minimally C) atoned
D) precisely D) astounded
E) outlandishly E) avenged
12. Many writers write satires that expose the arrogant 17. His selling a painting for 100,000 dollars has been
nature of the newly-rich people. the highest attainment of his career.
A) subservient A) desire
B) masterful B) spectacle
C) delightful C) achievement
D) inferior D) joy
E) conceited E) expectation
13. The man felt ashamed because he knew that he had 18. Psychologists believe that the attraction of
been wrong to steal. gambling stems from the thrill and tension of taking a
chance.
A) disgraced
B) worried A) action
C) tempted B) manner
D) phony C) repulsion
E) impudent D) appeal
E) advance
14. The new manager’s greatest asset was his

reputation for honesty.
A) deception
B) advantage
C) liability
D) pride
E) weakness

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19. The actor raised his voice in order to be audible in 20. Many countries nowadays restrict the exportation of
the balcony. authentic artefacts.
A) musical A) particular
B) dramatic B) rare
C) solitary C) tentative
D) heard D) costly
E) appreciated E) genuine

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: A
2: C 12: E
3: B 13: A
4: B 14: B
5: D 15: C
6: E 16: D
7: D 17: C
8: E 18: D
9: C 19: D
10: C 20: E

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1. The department chairmen refused to authorize the

requisition. 6. Some hotels in the United States have imposed a
ban on cigarette smoking.
A) request
B) transfer A) restriction
C) grant B) guarantee
D) project C) fin
E) invalidate D) Punishment
E) prohibition
2. The notices on the wall at the airport are not

available for the passengers’ perusal. 7. All students should bear in mind that these books
must be read by mid-semester.
A) offered
B) accessible A) remember
C) acceptable B) memorize
D) accountable C) decide
E) arbitrary D) overlook
E) declare
3. The driver tried to avert the accident by bringing the

car to a sudden halt, but to no avail. 8. The Arabic term from which the word “coffee’ derives
originally referred to the bitter quality of the
A) cause beverage itself.
B) control
A) plant
C) minimize
B) substance
D) prevent
C) drink
E) witnessed
D) infusion
E) liquid
4. Avid pop music lovers stand in lines for hours to get

a ticket to a jazz concert.
9. Autistic people usually have unexpected and bizarre
A) bored responses to their environment.
B) lunatic
A) inconspicuous
C) eager
B) ordinary
D) tedious
C) usual
E) crazy
D) passionate
E) strange
5. Reading daily newspapers makes us aware of what

is going on in the world.
A) knowledgeable
B) ignorant
C) alike
D) dependent
E) related

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10. If you never do any work, you’ll only have yourself to

blame when you cannot live comfortably.
A) accuse 15. The young man earned the reputation of a brilliant

lawyer during two fabulous law cases.
B) approve
C) to appreciate A) remarkable
D) deplore B) shining
E) pity C) studious
D) mediocre
E) promising
11. Some of the main roads will be closed until the

blizzard ends.
A) snowstorm 16. Before taking a test on vocabulary, one had better

brush up on his or her vocabulary.
B) hurricane
C) tornado A) outline
D) thunderstorm B) translate
E) disorder C) revise
D) evaluate
E) memorize
12. The enemy’s attempt at a blockade of the port was

unsuccessful.
A) expedition 17. We were shocked by the brutality of the hooligans.

They were simply like a herd of violent animals.
B) opening
C) landing A) politeness
D) closure B) foolishness
E) probe C) eagerness
D) happiness
E) cruelty
13. The use of fertilizers and improved methods of

controlling plant and animal diseases has boosted
farm product.
18. The bulk of the wheat exported from Brazil comes
A) exaggerated from the southern part.
B) supplemented
A) majority
C) increased
B) surplus
D) extended
C) best
E) submitted
D) profitability
E) unity
14. I hate people breaking in on a conversation without

waiting for the speaker to stop talking.
19. George Washington’s great grandfather came to live
A) Interrupting in America by accident.
B) withdrawing from
A) due to a calamity
C) seizing
B) unintentionally
D) regarding
C) adversely
E) allowing
D) decisively
E) unwittingly

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20. Further arms limitations talks were called off when

Congress failed to ratify the treaty.
A) cancelled
B) postponed
C) scheduled
D) interrupted
E) announced

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: A
2: B 12: D
3: D 13: C
4: C 14: A
5: A 15: A
6: E 16: C
7: A 17: E
8: C 18: A
9: E 19: B
10: A 20: A

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1. A careful teacher spends hours preparing for classes

and correcting students papers. 6. The judge let the university student off with
clemency and a stern warning.
A) creative
B) leading A) vengefulness
C) skillful B) revenge
D) conscientious C) brutality
E) honest D) mercy
E) culmination
2. The monetarist case has been vividly expressed by

Milton Friedman. 7. For order to grow out of the chaos of the universe
took millions of years.
A) issue
B) argument A) adjustment
C) example B) change
D) strongbox C) confusion
E) oddment D) oscillation
E) nebulosity
3. The hurricane that hit the city had a catastrophic

effect because most of the buildings were 8. The cost of imported products can be increased with
constructed of wood. a special charge called a tariff.
A) categories A) rate
B) disastrous B) debt
C) frightening C) regulation
D) blowing D) fee
E) strenuous E) currency
4. I have a cavity that causes me a lot of pain. 9. The charges brought against the old politician finally
hurt nothing but his vanity, as suggested by his
A) burn on the arm supporters.
B) hole in a tooth
A) assumptions
C) cut on the leg
B) prospects
D) bruise on the body
C) accusations
E) injury on the body
D) images
E) defenses
5. Picasso was a celebrated Spanish painter.
A) artistic
B) colorful
C) well-known
D) knowledgeable
E) elusive

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10. The two leaders had a chat before beginning formal

negotiations.
A) disagreement 15. Finding the missing paper on Frank’s cluttered desk

is almost impossible.
B) serious discussion
C) heated argument A) refurbished
D) friendly, unimportant talk B) well-organized
E) high-level conference C) tarnished
D) luminous
E) littered
11. A nursery school is a school chiefly for three or four-

year-old children.
A) primarily 16. Sometimes the most unlikely people manage to

collaborate successfully.
B) exclusively
C) originally A) put together
D) designed B) judge
E) certainly C) stand together
D) precipitate
E) work together
12. We were asked to list the chronology of events in

the War of Independence on our history test.
A) catastrophe 17. The collapse of the stock market last year signalled
the beginning of the economic crisis.
B) time sequence
C) disaster A) rise
D) discrepancy B) failure
E) revolution C) rebirth
D) debt
E) revival
13. Martin is no good at sports; is too clumsy; it is no

wonder he does not participate in any sports
activities.
18. Taoist principles are presented in Lao Tzu, a
A) timid collection of essays from several unknown authors.
B) weak
A) assortment
C) awkward
B) method
D) unhealthy
C) entity
E) angry
D) conspiracy
E) editorial
14. Generally our memories cluster around certain

topics.
19. The general told the soldiers to commence firing as
A) flee soon as they saw the enemy.
B) pilfer
A) stop
C) loaf
B) cease
D) meddle
C) begin
E) bunch
D) evoke
E) spurn

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20. Television, which made its first serious appearance in

1939, did not become common until the early
1950s.
A) competitive
B) affordable
C) popular
D) ordinary
E) unique

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: A
2: B 12: B
3: B 13: C
4: B 14: E
5: C 15: E
6: D 16: E
7: C 17: B
8: D 18: A
9: C 19: C
10: D 20: D

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1. The officer compelled the suspect to lead him to the

scene of the crime. 6. The heaviest concentration of niacin is in natural
sources such as beans, whole-grain cereal products,
A) allowed liver and fish.
B) hired
A) mass
C) beseeched
B) recollection
D) forced
C) scattering
E) helped
D) decency
E) instantaneous
2. The feeling of competition in the classroom is

noticeable to all teachers, which is not surprising at
all. 7. The newscaster gave a concise account of the
hurricane.
A) conquest
B) discovery A) long and detailed
C) rivalry B) sad and depressing
D) cooperation C) up-to-date
D) short and clear
E) complicated and intricate
3. I was told that the instructions were easy, but I found

them extremely complicated.
8. Bones of the skull are capable of conducting sounds
A) distinct of the human voice to the inner ear.
B) irrelevant
C) intricate A) receiving
D) extraordinary B) transmitting
E) ridiculous C) creating
D) adjusting
E) convenes
4. I didn’t comprehend the nature of the project until I

had read your brief report.
9. Mabel feels confident about her grade on the test
A) follow she has just taken.
B) contend
C) embrace A) depressed
D) placate B) sure
E) understand C) ecstatic
D) uncertain
E) staunch
5. Mathematics is a compulsory subject in Turkish high

schools.
A) difficult
B) easy
C) required
D) despised
E) forcible

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10. That matter is so confidential that it must not be 14. The coach congratulated Stella on her outstanding
discussed outside the office of chief inspector. display of leadership.
A) important A) alluded
B) secret B) scolded
C) intricate C) praised
D) alarming D) contacted
E) boring E) admonished
11. It was the English physicist Henry Cavendish who first 15. Conscientious researchers always pay attention to
confirmed that water is a combination of hydrogen details while carrying out research.
and oxygen.
A) clever
A) doubted B) meticulous
B) proposed C) fearless
C) researched D) hasty
D) arranged E) intellectual
E) verified
16. The consensus among her family members was that

12. Recent border confrontations between the two she ought to get married.
countries lend credence to the rumours of an
impending war. A) agreement
B) survey
A) enterprises
C) statistics
B) consequences
D) survey
C) conferences
E) prohibition
D) disputes
E) interim
17. Crying is a healthy way to bring relief from anxiety,

and it even prevents a headache or other physical
13. The congestion on the streets when everybody consequence.
heads home from work at quitting time make mass
transport very desirable in big cities. A) cause
B) origin
A) crucial
C) source
B) faux pas
D) outcome
C) crowding
E) destruction
D) recreation
E) contamination
18. The bulbs of the daffodil are poisonous if consumed.
A) touched
B) smelled
C) eaten
D) conformed
E) torn

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19. The Department of Security notified the town council 20. After several near disasters and especially the one in
that the water supply was contaminated due to Chernobyl, a controversy has raged over the safety
nuclear leakage. of nuclear energy.
A) polluted A) dispute
B) tinted B) seminar
C) diluted C) colloquium
D) diverted D) conversation
E) purified E) collaboration

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: E
2: C 12: D
3: C 13: C
4: E 14: C
5: C 15: B
6: A 16: A
7: D 17: D
8: B 18: C
9: B 19: A
10: B 20: A

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5. Innovative approaches to manufacturing, coupled

1. The speaker tried to convey her feelings concerning with the tremendous size of the domestic market,
the urgency of a favourable decision. led to the emergence of the United States as an
industrial giant.
A) summon
B) usurp A) followed by
C) impose B) combined with
D) communicate C) deriving from
E) assuage D) mixed with
E) by doubling
2. Teaching provides the chief means of conveying

knowledge from generation to generation. 6. A number of animals in Aesop’s fables are portrayed
as being crafty.
A) reviewing
B) mastering A) dexterous
C) passing on B) talented
D) preserving C) artistic
E) speculating D) cunning
E) ferocious
3. To perfect the book, the writer, the artist and the

editor cooperated. 7. Arthur’s family have lived for years in a village near
one the many creeks flowing into the part of the
A) kept in touch Mississippi River.
B) worked in their offices
A) streams
C) came together
B) ponds
D) studied methods
C) lakes
E) collaborated
D) swamps
E) pools
4. There isn’t any known cure for dyslexia, but

neurologists have developed ways to help Sufferers
cope with it. 8. An increase in criminal behaviour and lost
productivity are two common results of high
A) retard unemployment.
B) dispense with
A) fault
C) deal with
B) error
D) eradicate
C) conduct
E) cure
D) mistake
E) crime

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9. It has just crossed my mind that they might want to

accompany us.
A) occurred to me 14. The daring young man drove through the dark and
filthy back streets of the city looking for her lost dog.
B) made me anxious
C) happened A) bold
D) reminded B) cowardly
E) escaped my attention C) persistent
D) captured
E) frightened
10. George Ravencroft’s invention of lead crystal in the

late 17th century was crucial to the development of
optical lenses.
15. Dauntless men and women with their children
A) essential to crossed America in covered wagons.
B) prior to
A) foreign
C) dependent on
B) fearless
D) instructive for
C) penniless
E) propitious for
D) adventuresome
E) pitiable
11. Gardening is the cultivation of plants, usually in or

near home.
16. Mrs. Callaghan’s natural intelligence and her
A) germination experience always enables her to deal with
problems.
B) growing
C) classification A) grow
D) sowing B) play
E) grafting C) cope
D) stay
E) avoid
12. Since 1970’s, all governments efforts to curb

inflation in Turkey have been unsuccessful.
A) resist 17. The design of wildlife refuges is still a matter of

considerable debate.
B) control
C) sustain A) significance
D) induce B) controversy
E) reverse C) urgency
D) concern
E) coincidence
13. The current edition of the magazine discusses the

ancient civilizations of Anatolia.
A) latest
B) first
C) running
D) special
E) succinct

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18. The warranty guarantees that all defective parts will

be replaced with no charge.
A) lost 20. John was as deft at handling complaints as he was at

teaching.
B) imperfect
C) unused A) intelligent
D) dorsal B) angry
E) loathed C) skillful
D) crude
E) awkward
19. Deficiency of vitamin B1 causes a dysfunction of the

nervous system and beriberi.
A) overdose
B) too much
C) lack
D) wrong use
E) side effects

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: B
2: C 12: B
3: E 13: A
4: C 14: A
5: B 15: B
6: D 16: C
7: A 17: B
8: E 18: B
9: A 19: C
10: A 20: C

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1. We should delete some parts of this article.

6. The speaker demonstrated her knowledge of the
A) omit subject by an excellent speech.
B) rewrite
A) corrected
C) change
B) created
D) improve
C) repeated
E) include
D) showed
E) proved
2. Samantha deliberately let Tom know that she was

dating someone else.
7. Although Margaret tried to deny the fact, all her
A) purposely friends were sure that she dyed her grey hair red.
B) hastily
A) encode
C) adroitly
B) envy
D) tactfully
C) assemble
E) delicately
D) convene
E) reject
3. The commander delivered his speech asking for

“liberty or death” just before the attack.
8. The departed lying here gave their lives for their
A) made country.
B) wrote
A) dead
C) announced
B) travelers
D) brought
C) adventurers
E) repeated
D) knaves
E) vagabonds
4. An ultimatum given by one country to another

usually includes a demand for action.
9. I hope that club does not deprive poor children of
A) shipment the opportunity to participate in sports.
B) understanding of
A) deny
C) request for
B) retract
D) burden of
C) improvise
E) tolerance on
D) dilute
E) fret
5. An ultimatum given by one country to another

usually includes a demand for action.
A) shipment of
B) understanding of
C) request for
D) burden of
E) tolerance on

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10. It has almost been a tradition for artists not to

receive the attention they deserve before they die.
A) expect 15. Gradually, the sound of the music and laughter died
down, and the whole campus went to sleep.
B) long
C) merit A) became louder
D) demand B) became softer
E) consumed C) was forgotten
D) became more cheerful
E) became more irritating
11. The gas company is evacuating all the people living

in the building because they detected a gas leak in
the mainline.
16. Coffee consumption by Turkish coffee drinkers will be
A) discovered diminished to 1.06 cups per day by next year due to
increasing prices.
B) smelled
C) expected A) encouraged
D) predicted B) improved
E) maintained C) dropped
D) hindered
E) forbidden
12. Floods often devastate the rice crop, the area’s

principal export, resulting in a year of great torture
for the inhabitants.
17. The Red Crescent arrived at the disaster area within
A) fracture five hours.
B) scatter
A) calamity
C) destroy
B) destruction
D) fertilize
C) departure
E) enhance
D) hurricane
E) isolated
13. An odometer is a device for measuring the distance

travelled.
18. He knew very well that his father would discipline
A) instrument him for his actions; therefore, he was quite reluctant
to go home.
B) figure
C) item A) reward
D) machine B) reprove
E) tool C) congratulate
D) punish
E) socialize
14. Dennis devised a few computer games and sold

them to one of the computer companies.
A) played
B) bought
C) invented
D) divided
E) clinched

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19. The new government regulation disallows disclosure 20. Mrs. Allison is such an energetic woman that she is
of personal tax information. not discouraged even by the illness that crippled
her.
A) announcement
B) public revelation A) disturbed
C) opening B) impoverished
D) closing C) disheartened
E) discredit D) alienated
E) devalued

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Answer Key:
1: A 11: A
2: A 12: C
3: A 13: A
4: C 14: C
5: B 15: B
6: D 16: C
7: E 17: A
8: A 18: D
9: A 19: B
10: C 20: C

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5. Dogs were kept as domestic animals by early

1. The boy felt disgraced because he knew that he had nomadic hunters.
been wrong to cheat on the exam.
A) foreign
A) ashamed B) exotic
B) Worried C) alien
C) tempted D) tame
D) cunning E) hazardous
E) relieved
6. It is said that brown genes are dominant and blue

2. The circus performer asked for the safety net to be ones are recessive.
taken down during the performances thinking that in
this way he would display his skill more effectively. A) controlling
B) docile
A) generate
C) dormant
B) improve
D) doleful
C) deform
E) barren
D) obscure
E) avert
7. Manufacturers are planning to donate computers to

schools in poor areas.
3. He disregarded his wife’s feelings in the matter,
which made her furious enough to think of divorce. A) dedicate
B) go
A) did not ignore
C) load
B) paid no attention to
D) salute
C) discharged
E) give
D) considered
E) was careless
8. The public seems doubtful about the government’s

last plan on the economy.
4. The fact that economists are able to distinguish
virtually all of the causes of recessions does not A) debit
mean they can accurately predict them. B) delightful
A) prevent C) delirious
B) discern D) dubious
C) promote E) rational
D) define
E) confound
9. Millions of Americans were down and out in the

'30s.
A) illiterate
B) imprudent
C) divided
D) impoverished
E) querulous

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10. The government took some drastic measures 15. The earliest watches were actually small decks hung
against reckless drivers to be able to decrease the from a strap around the neck.
number of traffic accidents.
A) first
A) moderate B) timely
B) compromising C) most unusual
C) radical D) fastest
D) sensible E) most accurate
E) wild
16. My uncle is not crazy. He is just a bit eccentric.

11. During the 1940’s, a long period of drought turned
the great Texas plains into a dustbowl. A) intelligent
B) strange
A) violent winds
C) lunatic
B) dry weather
D) ordinary
C) rain and sleet
E) dense
D) flash floods
E) earthquakes
17. In spite of being economical in most things, he

spends a lot of money on ties.
12. Most businessmen are dubious about predictions of
a speedy economic recovery in Turkey. A) extravagant
B) awkward
A) assured
C) thrifty
B) enthusiastic
D) careless
C) happy
E) profitable
D) doubtful
E) worried
18. The plant has an edible, bulb-shaped stem.
13. The captives were thrown into a dark, damp, filthy A) eatable
dungeon and were given almost nothing to eat. B) rotund
A) hut C) convex
B) tunnel D) sizable
C) station E) poisonous
D) cell
E) cabin
19. The detectives use various means to elicit a

confession from murderers.
14. Can this be a duplicate of the document? A) make

B) force
A) summary
C) frame
B) revision
D) temper
C) outline
E) draw out
D) copy
E) paraphrase

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20. He worked hard for the enlightenment of his

people.
A) lavishness
B) brightness
C) qualification
D) abuse
E) education

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Answer Key:
1: A 11: B
2: A 12: D
3: B 13: D
4: B 14: D
5: D 15: A
6: A 16: B
7: E 17: C
8: D 18: A
9: D 19: E
10: C 20: E

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5. The speaker emphasized that cooperation in the

1. The residents of the small town looked for an project we were to undertake was of utmost
eloquent civil servant to give the welcoming address importance.
in the ceremony.
A) accentuated
A) a friendly person B) downplayed
B) a kind person C) discussed
C) a good speaker D) displayed
D) a calm speaker E) bragged
E) a serious speaker
6. The most frequently employed technique for the

2. Imagine my embarrassment when I realized that purification of solid substances is crystallization.
the man I thought was a waiter was the president of
the company. A) used
B) enjoined
A) chagrin
C) belabored
B) indifference
D) added
C) surprise
E) fused
D) anger
E) rapture
7. So engrossed in his writing was the young writer

that he barely noticed the passing of time.
3. Which country emerged as a world power after
World War II? A) delighted
B) frustrated
A) surrendered
C) approached
B) came forth
D) involved
C) fought
E) detached
D) dismissed
E) lurked
8. Modern methods of movie-making such as the

widescreen, colour film and improved song, have
4. We place emphasis on mutual aid and cooperation enhanced realism and audience enjoyment.
in this organization.
A) elaborated
A) reward B) flattered
B) work C) improved
C) stress D) transcended
D) pressure E) challenged
E) suspense
9. Psychology has always been an enigma to me.
A) energy
B) problem
C) mystery
D) trial
E) draft

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14. Today a great number of new medicines eradicate

diseases before they become too widespread.
10. Enraged by being overcharged, Mr. Thompson A) wipe out

refused to pay the bill.
B) identify
A) disappointed C) prolong
B) infuriated D) suspend
C) alienated E) exploit
D) endangered
E) alleviated
15. The theory that business could operate totally

without the aid of government has proved to be an
erroneous belief.
11. This vitamin is abundant in enriched and whole-
grain bread, cheese, lean meats, eggs, leafy A) authentic
vegetables and liver.
B) argument
A) adored C) false
B) admired D) asset
C) fortified E) feasible
D) enhanced
E) concise
16. Experienced mountaineers usually escorted the

amateurs.
12. Cooperative education is regarded as a valued A) organized

educational enterprise.
B) financed
A) blender C) accompanied
B) venture D) tracked
C) fraud E) trained
D) revenue
E) prelude
17. Since essential causes of schizophrenia are not yet

known, current treatment methods are based on both
clinical research and experience.
13. Both a person’s heredity and his environment help
to shape his character. A) accessory
B) basic
A) family
C) massive
B) education
D) resolute
C) nationality
E) impartial
D) surroundings
E) genes

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18. The civil Defense officers evacuated all inhabitants

from the area where the earthquake was predicted to
strike.
20. By means of a new technique developed in his
A) aided laboratory, the scientist examined the fossils closely
to determine their age.
B) warned
C) notified A) processed
D) removed B) cleaned
E) acknowledged C) compared
D) inspected
E) treated
19. Even the richest nations will eventually have to

adapt to smaller, more economical automobiles.
A) never
B) better than never
C) reluctantly
D) gradually
E) sooner or later

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: D
2: A 12: B
3: B 13: D
4: C 14: A
5: A 15: C
6: A 16: C
7: D 17: B
8: C 18: D
9: C 19: E
10: B 20: D

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5. Aristotle believed that a thrown ball travelled in a

1. Excavation for the first atomic power plant started straight line until the force that impelled it was
officially in 1954. exhausted.
A) planning A) used up
B) preparations B) debilitated
C) exploration C) diverted
D) digging D) tired out
E) surveys E) accelerated
2. Excessive exposure to sunlight is one of the most 6. Please let me sit down; I’m exhausted.
common causes of skin cancer.
A) worn down
A) wasteful B) worn off
B) extreme C) worn out
C) extravagant D) worn away
D) exclusive E) energetic
E) exceptional
7. No one can exist for very long without water.

3. Biologists believe that hair is found exclusively in
mammals. A) indicate
B) reproduce
A) particularly
C) prosper
B) commonly
D) transcend
C) exceptionally
E) survive
D) only
E) occasionally
8. Mr. Steed was not promoted because his work did not
meet the director’s expectations.
4. Kitaro is often described by critics being an
exemplary man of creative music. A) anticipations
B) expenditures
A) atypical
C) expertise
B) extraordinary
D) gauziness
C) unusual
E) means
D) best
E) model
9. The principal threatened to expel her from school if

she didn’t behave herself.
A) excise
B) exert
C) send out
D) try out
E) exhale

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14. The Olympic Games are held in different countries in

turn. The host country provides vast facilities
including a stadium swimming pools and living
10. The new tax law is explicit; there can be no doubt accommodation
that type of computers is tax-exempt.
A) incompetence
A) definite B) dexterity
B) deficient C) cleverness
C) vague D) equipment and services
D) imprecise E) aptness
E) unfair
15. The detective looking for the lost woman heard a

11. Hazel nuts are extensively grown in most parts of voice, but it was so faint that it was impossible to be
the Black Sea region. sure what it was or even where it came from.
A) widely B) hardly A) frightening

B) permanently B) pale
C) increasingly C) loud
D) gradually D) indistinct
E) weird
12. The extinction of some animals changed the history

of early nomadic hunters.
16. The first ice-boxes were quite fancy pieces of dining-
room furniture.
A) extermination
B) bellow A) whimsical
C) avarice B) delightful
D) plea C) elaborate
E) exclusion D) delicate
E) tiny
13. Daniel is very extravagant, he is always buying

clothes he can’t really afford.
17. The clown in the circus fascinates not only the
children but their parents as well.
A) expensive
B) mean A) charms
C) stingy B) bans
D) extrovert C) repulses
E) wasteful D) divulges
E) frustrates

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18. In spite of the medical advances of recent years,

AIDS is basically as fatal as ever before.
A) curable 20. The Turkish athlete got a gold medal for the feat of
lifting 300 kilos.
B) painful
C) deadly A) accomplishment
D) disabling B) fear
E) long-lasting C) trial
D) event
E) plaudit
19. Istanbul enjoys a favourable geographical location.
A) preferential
B) pleasing
C) exceptional
D) advantageous
E) profitable

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: A
2: B 12: A
3: D 13: E
4: E 14: D
5: D 15: D
6: C 16: C
7: E 17: A
8: A 18: C
9: C 19: D
10: A 20: A

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5. The man neglected to file his income tax form and

1. The old man was too feeble to sit down at his table therefore had to pay a fine.
and write his letter, so his nephew wrote down what
he wanted to say. A) penalty
B) failure
A) tired
C) promise
B) weak
D) refusal
C) timid
E) praise
D) blind
E) crazy
6. Gasoline is fired by spark plugs in the engine.
2. This animal has a ferocious appearance and A) excited

sometimes a combative nature. B) ignited
A) grim C) scorched
B) harmful D) struck
C) savage E) extinguished
D) harsh
E) docile
7. The fitness of a person depends upon the amount of

food, exercise, and rest he gets.
3. Spies generally use fictitious names when they deal A) readiness

with the enemies. B) eligibility
A) foul C) health
B) false D) preparation
C) real E) offence
D) foreign
E) cogent
8. Supporters of no-fault automobile insurance believe it

corrects flaws in the older system, which requires
that blame be determined before claims are settled.
4. Students have to fill out many forms before
beginning classes. A) amenities
B) defects
A) complete
C) discrepancies
B) eliminate
D) ingredients
C) produce
E) instruments
D) distribute
E) apply for
9. It is useless to attempt to flee from every danger;

some risks must be taken, be it an individual or a
nation.
A) hide oneself
B) run away
C) protect oneself
D) hesitate
E) deal with

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10. Earth is just the right distance from the sun to 15. A tapestry is functional as well as decorative in that
maintain the conditions for life to flourish. it serves to insulate rooms.
A) commence A) satisfactory
B) thrive B) ornamental
C) flounder C) enormous
D) vegetate D) useful
E) wither E) irreplaceable
11. Although the price of gold fluctuates daily, it is quite 16. Miss Ford became furious when she received the
safe if you want to invest in it. insulting letter.
A) increases A) ghastly
B) changes B) resentful
C) stabilizes C) fugitive
D) decreases D) irate
E) pleases E) spry
12. The focus of economics is the production and 17. The chemist tried to fuse the two wires, but he failed
distribution of goods and services. to do so.
A) fixation A) separate
B) dissipation B) unite
C) result C) bend
D) concern D) straighten
E) output E) jerked
13. The founder of the Turkish Republic is Ataturk. 18. It is usually futile to argue with a person once he has
made up his mind.
A) leader
B) backer A) unpleasant
C) discoverer B) encouraging
D) originator C) helpful
E) donor D) useless
E) harmful
14. Blackberries are very fragile, but they are also

delectable to eat.
A) delicate
B) poisonous
C) spicy
D) salty
E) sour

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19. Nobody has the faintest idea where the politician

gained all his wealth. All that is known about his is
that he was leading a humble life not long ago.
20. A hush fell over the guests who had gathered for
A) confiscated the graduation ceremony.
B) obscured
A) witnessed
C) purloined
B) gaped
D) conquered
C) participated
E) acquired
D) assembled
E) sweltered

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: B
2: C 12: D
3: B 13: D
4: A 14: A
5: A 15: D
6: B 16: D
7: C 17: B
8: B 18: D
9: B 19: E
10: B 20: D

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5. Only recently has more attention been paid in the

1. The only successful control of weather has been the United States to providing special facilities for gifted
seeding of clouds to generate rain. children.
A) accumulate A) adopted
B) channel B) talented
C) accomplish C) maltreated
D) conduct D) severely handicapped
E) induce E) emotionally disturbed
2. Genetic components are often responsible for some 6. The government got nowhere with its plan to curtail
phases of learning disabilities. housing shortage.
A) hereditary A) moved nowhere

B) inert B) became obsessed
C) precise C) fooled no one
D) leisure D) accomplished nothing
E) generic E) succeeded completely
3. The jeweller reported that the stolen diamonds were 7. The sales representatives were asked to go over the
not genuine, which comforted the insurance figures in their reports before the conference.
company more than anybody else.
A) relate
A) perfect B) revise
B) imitations C) review
C) real D) calculate
D) valuable E) ignore
E) expensive
8. Vicky is such a good-natured person that his friends

4. Some musicians have a special gift for melodious sometimes take advantage of her.
interpretation.
A) accessible
A) regression B) affable
B) talent C) wealthy
C) tendency D) weak
D) tune E) assertive
E) instrument

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9. After struggling hard, the young politician gradually

succeeded in having people accept the truth of his
theory,
14. Efforts to ameliorate housing conditions for the old
A) slowly and the poor were halted because government
funds were cut off.
B) momentarily
C) suddenly A) increased
D) graciously B) improved
E) presently C) examined
D) stopped
E) accelerated
10. In some primitive cultures, a person who touches a

forbidden object will suffer grave injury.
A) unexpected 15. The writer states that not being born black but being
born a female was a handicap she faced.
B) frequent
C) critical A) ailment
D) explosive B) enhancement
E) sufficient C) advantage
D) burden
E) wrath
11. When people heard the news of Christopher Reeve’s

death, almost everybody was overcome with grief.
A) sorrow 16. Children can learn how to handle paints and brushes
by starting with simple drawings.
B) rage
C) terror A) touch
D) emotion B) hide
E) holiness C) manipulate
D) be creative
E) impede
12. Price, ease of maintenance, a guarantee of accuracy

and appearance are important when we buy a watch.
A) innovation 17. By now everybody knows that smoking is harmful to

the health.
B) brink
C) warranty A) fundamental
D) ordeal B) hazardous
E) extension C) lethal
D) deplorable
E) deadly
13. Under the guise of asking the way to the station, the
detective approached the suspicious-looking young
man.
A) assistance
B) clad
C) secrecy
D) outfit
E) pretense

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18. All the cleaning products are hazardous to the skin

and eyes; therefore, keep them out of reach of
children.
20. According to latest findings, both a person’s
A) dangerous heredity and his environment help to shape his
character.
B) liquefied
C) enjoyable A) obstacles of life
D) arduous B) qualities by birth
E) incomprehensible C) social status
D) intelligence
E) terminal behavior
19. Icy roads and poor visibility are familiar traffic

hazards in this region.
A) chances
B) dangers
C) condition
D) occurrences
E) sessions

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Answer Key:
1: E 11: A
2: A 12: C
3: C 13: E
4: B 14: D
5: B 15: D
6: D 16: C
7: B 17: B
8: B 18: A
9: A 19: B
10: C 20: B

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5. The president was given no hint regarding the new

1. Handicraft skills are part of the heritage of many project.
persons who live in the mountainous areas of the
district. A) details
B) authority
A) lifestyle
C) explanation
B) patrimony
D) indication
C) employment
E) details
D) adage
E) traditions
6. The Galapagos Islands are host to a variety of

strange creatures.
2. The boy scouts took a long hike on their first
morning at camp, which exhausted all of them. A) guest
B) horde
A) horseback ride
C) home
B) walk
D) swarm
C) bicycle ride
E) tenant
D) swim
E) jogging
7. The Uffizi Palace of Florence houses one of the finest

art collections in the world.
3. The movie critic said that the film 007.5, the parody
of James Bond movies, was more hilarious than A) contains
most comedies produced lately. B) promotes
A) suspenseful C) resides
B) very funny D) creates
C) realistic E) boards
D) cumbersome
E) extremely foolish
8. After the tremendous improvements in size in recent

years, the hugeness of the first computers is almost
shocking to us today.
4. The play was so hilarious that it set all of us to
laughing. A) slowness
B) primitive appearance
A) melancholy
C) ugliness
B) solemn
D) vast size
C) mournful
E) influence
D) hideous
E) laughable
9. Most wealthy men of our day are known to have been

born in humble homes.
A) poverty-stricken
B) modest
C) promising
D) merry
E) trouble

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10. I hate people who are idle and do nothing all day. 15. Fortunately our country is free from such terrible
hurricanes causing incalculable damage.
A) slothful
B) patent A) minor
C) futile B) very little
D) strenuous C) abusive
E) brisk D) very calculating
E) great
11. Ignoring something will not make it go away; you

must see a doctor for that pain in your chest. 16. Modern architecture seems incompatible in a city
rich in history.
A) taking an interest in
B) looking closely at A) unlikely
C) taking care of B) unwitting
D) studying the causes of C) incongruous
E) paying no attention to D) unkempt
E) unsearchable
12. The serum supposedly made the patient immune

from further infection. 17. The detective said the suspect’s replies were
inconsistent with her previous testimony.
A) contagious
B) not susceptible A) contradicted
C) open B) incorporated
D) sick C) admitted
E) subject to D) enhanced
E) were compatible with
13. The candidates’ final speeches had a tremendous

impact on the crowds. 18. It’s incredible to see him in such good health after
the accident.
A) effect
B) collision A) creditable
C) uplift B) unthinkable
D) uproar C) increasing
E) insight D) imperative
E) corruptive
14. Punctuality is imperative in your new job.

19. Since his qualifications for the graduate assistantship
A) impossible are indisputable, he is sure to get the post.
B) likely
A) fraudulent
C) irrelevant
B) invalid
D) tentative
C) outstanding
E) indispensable
D) unquestionable
E) overwhelming

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20. The government’s developing a new jobs program

seems an indisputable fact.
A) indefinite
B) indispensable
C) indefinable
D) unquestionable
E) outlandish

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: E
2: B 12: B
3: B 13: A
4: E 14: E
5: D 15: E
6: C 16: C
7: A 17: A
8: D 18: B
9: B 19: D
10: A 20: D

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1. Tankers are so-called because they consist of a series

of walled sections forming individual tanks. 6. The cunning politician is infamous for accepting
bribes from business circles.
A) private
B) subjective A) notorious
C) personal B) dreaded
D) separate C) loathed
E) objective D) investigated
E) praised
2. That the smaller companies should merge with the

larger ones is inescapable. 7. It may seem unbelievable, but Walter’s enthusiasm,
laughter and confidence are really infectious.
A) urgent
B) unavoidable A) dangerous
C) important B) contagious
D) necessary C) beneficial
E) arduous D) prone to relapse
E) subject to quarantine
3. It is inevitable that smoking will damage your

health. 8. Tides are caused by the gravitational influence of
the moon on ocean level.
A) invading
B) unhealthy A) evolution
C) fallacious B) coercion
D) intriguing C) uninvolvement
E) unavoidable D) levitation
E) impact
4. Nobody can fight the inevitable.

9. E. C. Stanton and her friends held the famous
A) inaccurate convention in New York in 1848 to publicize the long-
B) improper standing injustice to women.
C) inescapable A) indifference
D) inestimable B) unfairness
E) inhabitable C) equity
D) impartiality
E) apathy
5. The minister preferred to resign rather than be

accused publicly of infamous conduct.
A) outstanding
B) unprecedented
C) mysterious
D) disgraceful
E) meritorious

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10. There are many innovations in teaching a foreign

language which really makes learning easier.
A) new machines 15. The capable leaders instilled a spirit of nationalism

in most African peoples.
B) new prohibitions
C) new instructors A) deterred
D) new methods B) extinguished
E) new interpretation C) implanted
D) extracted
E) yielded
11. The inquiry concerning the accident on the highway

was handled by the chief of police.
A) enticement 16. The detectives have been interrogating the

suspects for five hours.
B) inquisitiveness
C) investigation A) baiting
D) recording B) watching
E) survey C) questioning
D) infiltrating
E) dominating
12. It is ridiculous to become angry about so

insignificant matter as football.
A) sinful 17. Since they have completely different cultural

backgrounds it is difficult for them to have an
B) tragic
intimate relationship.
C) absurd
D) unpardonable A) cordial
E) trivial B) detached
C) fresh
D) snug
E) remote
13. Editorial cartoons inspire readers to form opinions
on current affairs.
A) motivate
B) bore 18. Steven suffers from stage fright and he is easily
intimidated by a large audience.
C) discourage
D) dismay A) inspired
E) appall B) applauded
C) frightened
D) expelled
E) prevailed
14. After she discussed the matter with the president of
the bank, the businesswoman instantly received the
loan.
A) casually
B) finally
C) soon
D) immediately
E) disdainfully

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19. Not everyone is qualified to be a teacher; some great

scholars in the world are completely inept when it
comes to passing on their knowledge to others.
20. The introduction of Henry Ford’s ideas
A) incompetent revolutionized the automaking industry.
B) marvelous
A) implementation
C) unwilling
B) publication
D) reluctant
C) production
E) inspiring
D) presentation
E) imposition

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: C
2: B 12: E
3: E 13: A
4: C 14: D
5: D 15: C
6: A 16: C
7: B 17: A
8: E 18: C
9: B 19: A
10: D 20: D

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1. The stroke left the famous writer an invalid.

6. The lack of rain caused irreparable damage to the
A) marshal sunflower crop.
B) sick person
A) irresolute
C) proprietor
B) irresponsible
D) tutor
C) irrecoverable
E) devoted
D) irregular
E) irrelevant
2. Registering a patent involves a number of expenses.
A) includes 7. Unless the crops are irrigated soon, the harvest will
B) saves be sparse.
C) entails A) watered
D) precludes B) plowed
E) ravages C) planted
D) fertilized
E) inflated
3. Little Cecily cannot speak well because she has a

speech impediment.
A) skeptic 8. The politician’s conviction for tax fraud jeopardized

B) defect his future.
C) imposition A) jettisoned
D) aspect B) jettisoned
E) grit C) rejuvenated
D) endangered
E) jubilated
4. Some language students find studying vocabulary an

irksome task.
A) easy 9. The Kangal, the national dog of Turkey, has a keen

B) pleasant sense of smell.
C) tedious A) sharp
D) irate B) outstanding
E) creative C) aggressive
D) enviable
E) slight
5. This matter is totally irrelevant to the discussion we

have just had.
A) suitable
B) alien
C) uninviting
D) disappointing
E) terse

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10. Diving is known to be the leading cause of spinal 15. Holiday crowds litter picnic areas in such a way that
cord injuries. they look like a junkyard.
A) primary A) dirty
B) ultimate B) fill
C) conducive C) clean
D) conducive D) leave
E) restrictive E) empty
11. According to a Turkish legend, Turks once had to 16. The city is at an elevation of 1200 meters, which
made their way through a mountain of iron. makes it one of the loftiest cities in the area.
A) report A) mildest
B) myth B) highest
C) history C) largest
D) narration D) flattest
E) anecdote E) coldest
12. Since I have been ill for a week, my appetite has 17. The police took measures to prevent looting.
lessened and I eat almost nothing.
A) signing
A) risen B) espionage
B) diminished C) smuggling
C) extended D) escaping
D) increased E) plundering
E) acclaimed
18. Tennis wear is a very lucrative business for

13. A gun is a lethal weapon, not a toy; therefore, manufacturers because tennis somehow attracts
children should never be allowed to play with one. wealthy people.
A) dangerous A) illegal
B) enjoyable B) circumstantial
C) deadly C) expansive
D) expensive D) profitable
E) costly E) enviable
14. Only one of the world’s ten highest peaks lies 19. We don’t think we will be able to make the
outside the Himalayas conference in Japan.
A) rises up A) construct
B) is located B) do
C) originates C) attend
D) is discernible D) decide
E) occur E) hold

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20. Recently more and more men have begun to use

make-up products.
A) artificial
B) diet
C) cosmetic
D) health
E) unisex

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: B
2: C 12: B
3: B 13: C
4: C 14: B
5: B 15: A
6: C 16: B
7: A 17: E
8: D 18: D
9: A 19: C
10: A 20: C

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1. It is imperative that you deliver the merchandise on

the arranged date; otherwise, we will refuse to pay 6. The two companies are going to merge by the first
for your service. month of the year.
A) mandatory A) become one

B) suggested B) divide into two
C) hoped C) dissolve
D) intended D) change owners
E) recommended E) compete
2. The rule states that if a boxer is knocked down, he 7. A minute crack in the motor block can ruin a car.
must stay down for a mandatory eight seconds.
A) long-lasting
A) long B) multiple
B) delayed C) short
C) obligatory D) very small
D) crucial E) frequent
E) optional
8. Technicolor, originally a two-colour process, was

3. The martial music roused everybody to a peak of modified in 1932 to become a three-colour process.
excitement.
A) designed
A) pertaining to marriage B) manipulated
B) peaceful C) altered
C) seasoned D) invented
D) warlike E) acquired
E) country
9. The groundnut is found in moist places in some parts

4. Doctors may prescribe massive dozes of penicillin of Turkey.
for patients with pneumonia.
A) various
A) daily B) damp
B) heavy C) fertile
C) double D) sandy
D) adequate E) arid
E) deadly
10. Stock-market analysts monitor a great variety of

5. We are merely here to help you. financial indicators.
A) only A) come up with

B) willingly B) look into
C) often C) keep track of
D) always D) take charge of
E) inadvertently E) over-rate

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11. She is such a moody person that her husband never 16. Mrs. Taylor is exhausted today because all her
knows what really makes her sad or happy. students have been naughty all day long.
A) vigilant A) inquisitive
B) timid B) disobedient
C) reserved C) silent
D) passionate D) passive
E) temperamental E) curt
12. The death toll is believed to mount to 60 after the 17. Rachel thinks she is overweight, so she will go on a
earthquake. crash diet.
A) fly A) fatal
B) dismantle B) obese
C) support C) greasy
D) increase D) monstrous
E) descend E) fake
13. Granite is light-coloured, and its crystals are large 18. The objective of any government should be
enough to be seen with a naked eye. protecting the rights and freedoms of the people.
A) undressed A) intention
B) unaided B) inception
C) uncensored C) premise
D) bespectacled D) origin
E) near-sighted E) exertion
14. We must not neglect to file our income tax if we 19. She is a student who understands her obligations
don’t want to pay a fine. and attends to them.
A) hope A) restrictions
B) forget B) annoyances
C) promise C) observations
D) refuse D) duties
E) remind E) acquaintances
15. The jury found that the manufacturer was negligent

in installing safety devices.
A) carefree
B) careless
C) careworn
D) careful
E) haggard

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20. Some people think that discussions of the dangers of

cigarette smoking obscure the real issue of
restricting smokers’ rights.
A) clarify
B) simplify
C) mask
D) explain
E) expand

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Answer Key:
1: A 11: E
2: C 12: D
3: D 13: B
4: B 14: B
5: A 15: B
6: A 16: B
7: D 17: B
8: C 18: A
9: B 19: D
10: C 20: C

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5. The word” Christmas,” which is derived from the Old

1. Her swollen tonsils are obstructing the doctor’s English for “Christ’s Mass” is believed to occur for
view of her throat. the first time in the eleventh century.
A) encouraging A) vanish
B) assisting B) vanish
C) aiding C) appear
D) impeding D) suggest
E) revealing E) revive
2. He has always been too obstinate to admit he had 6. In animal communication, odour is substituted for
been wrong. sound as a main form of language.
A) stubborn A) smell
B) frightened B) aroma
C) selfish C) perfume
D) cautious D) awareness
E) inert E) fragrant
3. If the information we need is easily obtainable, we 7. Your application will be returned to you if you omit
will find it immediately. any answers.
A) acceptable A) include
B) accessory B) insert
C) accessible C) introduce
D) probable D) leave out
E) incessant E) infuse
4. The Scottish kilt is a checkered skirt worn by men for 8. Ballet is believed to originate in the courts of Italian
both formal and informal occasions. royal families in the 1400s.
A) purposes A) develop into

B) events B) begin in
C) probabilities C) be supported by
D) clothing D) coexist with
E) ceremonies E) be forbidden
9. There were a number of limiting factors on the

output of consumer durables in 1973-74.
A) outflow
B) production
C) income
D) reduction
E) stability

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14. As the saying goes, those who live by the sword will
perish by the sword.
10. Your outrageous behaviour was more shocking than A) breathe

entertaining.
B) survive
A) diminutive C) vanish
B) sinful D) win
C) tentative E) flourish
D) offensive
E) atrocious
15. Tattooing involves putting permanent designs on

the body by pricking holes and filling them with ink.
11. Perhaps you have overlooked your mistakes in your A) lasting

last test and that is why you made the same
B) colorful
mistakes on this test.
C) visible
A) perused D) short-lived
B) confused E) skin-deep
C) neglected
D) not received
E) browsed
16. Everybody should read periodicals which are related
to his profession.
A) appropriate
12. It was no surprise when they were told that their B) apparent
great-grandmother had passed away.
C) perceptive
A) survived D) discriminating
B) slipped E) exceptional
C) died
D) gone on a tri
E) dozed off
17. While they were away on vacation, they allowed their
mail to pile up at the post office.
A) be delivered
13. Watermelon crops must be rotated periodically with B) accumulate
other crops to avoid fungal disease.
C) get lost
A) constantly D) be returned
B) simultaneously E) dispel
C) regularly
D) rarely
E) eternally
18. A Japanese company pioneered the use of the
Bessemer process for making steel and improved the
quality of steel.
A) hid
B) initiated
C) explored
D) disguised
E) illustrated

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19. Share prices on the Stock Exchange plunged sharply 20. The toxic material coming out of the factory chimney
in the morning. polluted the atmosphere.
A) fell A) contaminated
B) retrieved B) intoxicated
C) skyrocketed C) congested
D) recovered D) cremated
E) fluctuated E) littered

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: C
2: A 12: C
3: C 13: C
4: B 14: C
5: C 15: A
6: A 16: A
7: D 17: B
8: B 18: B
9: B 19: A
10: E 20: A

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1. The doctor was forced to postpone his vacation

because so many of his patients were ill. 6. If a pilot prevents a plane crash by making a safe
emergency landing he may laugh later as he
A) expand describes his experience.
B) schedule
A) defends
C) limit
B) permits
D) put off
C) averts
E) cancel
D) allows
E) obscures
2. We were forced to postpone the meeting when one

of the managers had a traffic accident.
7. Most meat-eating animals use their teeth to seize
A) call off and kill prey.
B) do without
A) attackers
C) put off
B) nourishment
D) see about
C) enemies
E) announce
D) victims
E) carcass
3. During the war, the shipping lanes proved prone to

attacks, so measures had to be taken to deter them.
8. The superintendent was the principal speaker at the
A) futile school board meeting.
B) dangerous
A) sole
C) susceptible
B) main
D) feasible
C) outstanding
E) impossible
D) director
E) last
4. The praiseworthy rescue of the men stranded on

the mountaintop was really a creditable deed.
9. Many of the old people do not get housing benefits
A) hard to believe because the government is slow in processing
B) daring applications.
C) unusual A) providing
D) risky B) working on
E) challenging C) raising
D) trying
E) justifying
5. Peace will soon prevail in spite of those who want

the war to continue.
A) fail
B) surrender
C) triumph
D) collapse
E) comprise

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10. The 1950s were one of the most distinguished and

productive periods in the history of American
poetry.
15. Today only a few countries enjoy prosperous
A) tactful economies.
B) fertile
A) static
C) profitable
B) stable
D) talented
C) flourishing
E) proficient
D) poor
E) parsimonious
11. Her mother tried in vain to wake Ann from a

profound sleep.
16. Mr. Brown is a provident person who saves
A) permitted something each month.
B) light
A) punctual
C) drowsy
B) rash
D) deep
C) thrifty
E) sweetproper
D) adventurous
E) considerate
12. Smoking has already been prohibited in many

government offices in the United States.
17. Professor Smith said that punctuality was
A) permitted imperative at the university.
B) taught
A) being efficient
C) banned
B) being courteous
D) revoked
C) being on time
E) encouraged
D) being cheerful
E) being flawless
13. Although most Politicians would like to think they are

infallible, they are prone to error, like the rest of us.
18. He purchased some antique furniture, paintings and
A) disgusted with statues and shipped them to America.
B) afraid of
A) picked out
C) disposed to
B) exchanged
D) inclined to
C) sold
E) attracted to
D) bought
E) mended
14. Many properties of the atmosphere affect the

amount of solar radiation that reaches the earth.
19. The basic drive in the philosopher’s life was the
A) belongings pursuit of knowledge and of happiness.
B) impurities
A) glorification
C) levels
B) communication
D) characteristics
C) quest
E) layers
D) dissemination
E) examination

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20. She tells all kinds of queer stories, and she enjoys a
large audience.
A) interesting
B) boring
C) strange
D) clever
E) confusing

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: D
2: C 12: C
3: C 13: D
4: B 14: D
5: C 15: C
6: C 16: C
7: D 17: C
8: B 18: D
9: B 19: C
10: B 20: C

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1. The quest for the cure for AIDS is still going on in

many Countries. 6. Fear of pirate raids caused some countries to fortify
their coastline.
A) hypothesis
B) search A) invasion
C) margin B) ships
D) prelude C) arms
E) absence D) investigations
E) quests
2. She said even her doctor's warnings would not

compel her to quit smoking. 7. The people they interview for the survey are selected
randomly.
A) condemn
B) prohibit A) carefully
C) stop B) carelessly
D) extol C) indiscriminately
E) prosecute D) thoughtfully
E) rashly
3. Unconscious learning is now considered to be of

questionable worth. 8. A sense of taste is triggered when the tongue
touches a wide range of chemical substances.
A) invaluable
B) dubious A) chain
C) superficial B) span
D) secondary C) series
E) primary D) variety
E) sort
4. The young politician radiates goodwill when he

speaks of projects to help the poor. 9. Economic profit ranks as a chief reason for a nation
to seek foreign territories.
A) hates
B) exposes A) is classified
C) emits B) outweighs
D) hides C) describes
E) loathes D) achieves
E) is depicted
5. Most energy from an earthquake radiates out from

the epicentre in the form of seismic waves.
A) explodes
B) devastates
C) spreads
D) reverts
E) reflects

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10. His works rank among the most significant studies of 15. The boys were refused admission to the cocktail
the twentieth century. party for not wearing formal clothes
A) share A) granted
B) establish B) denied
C) stand C) acquiesced
D) conceal D) appealed
E) are exhibited E) pestered
11. In the history of the New York Stock exchange, 1929 16. He is generally regarded as the founder of the
must be rated as the most shattering year. Green Peace Organization.
A) condemned A) condemned
B) quoted B) punished
C) ranked C) concerned
D) impugned D) viewed
E) calculate E) respected
12. The indecisive man was readily persuaded to 17. Pain is relayed to the brain through the nervous
change his mind again. system in the form of electrical impulses.
A) easily A) devoted
B) hardly B) carried
C) subtly C) compared
D) abruptly D) accustomed
E) punctually E) provided
13. What a red letter day it was! Five victories in five 18. Everybody should read periodicals which are related
events! to his profession.
A) colorful A) appropriate
B) forgettable B) apparent
C) neon C) perceptive
D) memorable D) discriminating
E) marvelous E) exceptional
14. The dog started barking at his reflection in the pool. 19. Before the 1700s, most European cities relied on
pamphlets, handwritten newsletters, and town criers
A) image for news.
B) bone
A) focused on
C) imagination
B) scanned
D) leash
C) depended on
E) caption
D) browsed through
E) tangled with

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20. Kurt Cobain, the renowned member of the world-

famous rock group, Nirvana, committed suicide in
April 1994.
A) obscure
B) famous
C) anonymous
D) unrecognized
E) impotent

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: C
2: C 12: A
3: B 13: D
4: C 14: A
5: C 15: B
6: A 16: D
7: C 17: B
8: D 18: A
9: A 19: C
10: C 20: B

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5. Scientists have found Surprising evidence of a

1. A virus is a lifeless particle that cannot reproduce response in plants to physical abuse.
outside a living cell.
A) reaction
A) redistribute B) warning signal
B) function C) disposition
C) reactivate D) trigger mechanism
D) multiply E) movement
E) survive
6. Students must restrain their urge to talk during the

2. Distinguishing between two forms of science is lectures.
important. Pure science involves research while
applied science involves technology. A) impel
B) spur
A) skills
C) encourage
B) theory
D) limit
C) investigation
E) stimulate
D) chemistry
E) concern
7. The world recession and conservation measures are

expected to restrict demand for oil.
3. The ancient people generally represented gold with a
solar symbol thinking that it resembled the sun. A) inquire
B) involve
A) derived from
C) spread
B) introduced
D) affect
C) reflected
E) curb
D) symbolized
E) looked like
8. After a long lunch hour, business resumes as usual.
4. Having lost all his investment in his new business, he A) responds

resolved to act more wisely in the future. B) delay
A) promised C) continues
B) hoped D) resurfaces
C) consented E) assume
D) decided
E) renounced
9. At the battle of Gallipoli, the British forces had to

retreat in the face of the Turkish offensive.
A) attack
B) pursue
C) withdraw
D) intercept
E) move fast

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14. It is believed that the ritual of bedtime stories can

stimulate a child’s imagination
10. The reporter promised not to reveal any of the A) rite

information he got.
B) ceremony
A) recall C) formality
B) divulge D) custom
C) retrain E) recital
D) redirect
E) revere
15. The rivalry between the two construction companies

was obvious since it had led to more affordable house
prices.
11. Property taxes are assessed on homes as a source of
revenue. A) competition
B) cooperation
A) funds
C) compromise
B) collection
D) campaign
C) readjustment
E) enmity
D) bonus
E) donation
16. While on vacation, the group of boys roamed the

countryside on their bikes.
12. The political leader was revered by the people of his
country. A) rounded
B) rocked
A) loved
C) wandered
B) feared
D) rustled
C) distrusted
E) inhabited
D) abandoned
E) surpassed
17. Agriculture, one of the world’s oldest industries, has

its roots in Anatolia.
13. Deciding that the terrible accident was largely due to
his reckless driving, the police revoked his drivers A) origin
license.
B) problems
A) reconsidered C) growth
B) exorcised D) development
C) canceled E) seeds
D) investigated
E) examined
18. It takes roughly 4000 pounds of petals to make a

single pound of rose oil.
A) as much as
B) amazingly
C) more or less
D) relatively
E) at least

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19. The chairman did not rule out the possibility of an 20. Most people would agree that life in rural areas is
agreement however remote it sounded. always peaceful.
A) promise A) urban
B) reject B) country
C) accept C) citified
D) forestall D) plausible
E) command E) arid

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: A
2: C 12: A
3: E 13: C
4: D 14: D
5: A 15: A
6: D 16: C
7: E 17: A
8: C 18: C
9: C 19: B
10: B 20: B

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1. As the minute hand approaches the hour, hordes of

students throughout the campus rush towards gates. 6. The attempt made to salvage the ship and its
contents was unsuccessful.
A) move
B) scatter A) stalk
C) hurry B) surface
D) ascend C) sink
E) march D) submerge
E) save
2. Savage enemy swept across the region and

ruthlessly killed everybody in their way. 7. His understanding of basic mathematics puts
advanced physics beyond his scope.
A) without stopping
B) without weapons A) memory
C) without pity B) telescope
D) without warning C) view
E) without purpos D) hollow
E) range
3. Mr. Simon’s treatment of his employees is ruthless.

8. Backed by the full faith and credit of the French
A) rash government, savings bonds are considered to be
B) without mercy secure investments.
C) rational A) dependable
D) liberal B) unreliable
E) sluggish C) affluent
D) hazardous
E) tricky
4. The ancient Egyptians viewed cats as sacred and

honoured them in art forms.
A) holy 9. Computer firms are seeking ways of cramming more

B) pure bits of information onto tiny silicon chips.
C) intact A) finding
D) haughty B) looking for
E) haughty C) staking out
D) revealing
E) propelling
5. Immigrants have always been prepared to work hard

and in appalling conditions for the sake of their
descendants.
A) benefit
B) benefit
C) property
D) entertainment
E) recognition

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10. Martin Luther King fought to put an end to 15. An important population shift in Turkey during the
segregation in the United States. second half of the 20th century has been from rural
to urban areas.
A) integration
B) education A) rotation
C) separation B) explosion
D) torture C) movement
E) desertion D) transition
E) alteration
11. Scott seized the opportunity to present his proposal

to the director 16. The Caspian Sea has been shrinking over the years
due to a number of negative factors.
A) realized
B) grasped A) receding
C) rendered B) migrating
D) delivered C) expanding
E) manifested D) revitalizing
E) evaporating
12. Though it can sense the slightest touch anywhere on

the body, the brain itself is insensitive to pain. 17. It is no simple matter for chimpanzees accustomed
to living with human beings to return to the wild.
A) intellectualize
B) reveal A) foolish
C) sensualize B) easy
D) feel C) common
E) seize D) unique
E) unusual
13. That house on the hill has a mysterious air of

serenity about it. 18. it is generally believed that child-care centers should
be situated on the ground floor of a building.
A) melancholy
B) joy A) barricaded
C) sadness B) destroyed
D) calmness C) synchronized
E) calamity D) concocted
E) founded
14. That big house surrounded with great trees had

served as a hospital during the war. 19. None of the members of the cabinet is sceptical
about the success of the economic measures of April
A) functioned 5.
B) exerted
A) confident
C) moaned
B) anxious
D) reconciled
C) indifferent
E) placated
D) doubtful
E) informed

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20. Prices skyrocket when there is a severe shortage of

any product.
A) tower
B) slow
C) fall
D) soar
E) decrease

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: B
2: C 12: D
3: B 13: D
4: A 14: A
5: A 15: C
6: E 16: A
7: E 17: B
8: A 18: E
9: B 19: D
10: C 20: D

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5. It was sound advice but the researchers paid little

1. The university students are starting a campaign attention to it.
against the hunters slaughtering the baby seals
mercilessly. A) good
B) sensitive
A) netting
C) noisy
B) capturing
D) disruptive
C) killing
E) vital
D) skinning
E) surviving
6. Mr. Cater’s new spacious new office overlooking the

city gives him ample space to do things.
2. Soaring rates of interest have recently made it
difficult for young couples to buy their own homes. A) quiet
B) colorful
A) rapidly rising
C) roomy
B) very expensive
D) comfortable
C) slowly rising
E) lucrative
D) extremely painful
E) erroneous
7. Life expectancy is the measure of the average life

span of a particular group of people.
3. It is a pity that we often forget the invaluable adage
that a soft response frequently turns away wrath. A) age
B) range
A) pleasant
C) condition
B) loud
D) mortality
C) impolite
E) trait
D) angry
E) odious
8. BBC has a program called “Sesame Street”, which is

designed specifically for young children.
4. Mrs Dylan’s sole objective is to open a small bakery,
where she will bake and sell homemade cakes, A) distinctly
cookies and pies. B) individually
A) only C) completely
B) principal D) artistically
C) important E) specially
D) foul
E) immediate
9. Accidental oil spills due to a number of causes are a

major source of pollution of the earth’s oceans.
A) barters
B) shortages
C) transactions
D) misfortunes
E) releases

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10. Niacin is one of the most stable of all vitamins 15. Learning how to relax is the best strategy for
avoiding stress.
A) vacillating
B) fluctuating A) tactic
C) secure B) jeopardy
D) tenuous C) segment
E) dazzling D) plateau
E) purpose
11. At the end of the race my stamina gave out and I

lost the race. 16. A kite is a light wooden framework over which paper
or cloth is stretched.
A) vision
B) decision A) confined
C) determination B) pulled
D) vigor C) wrapped
E) imagination D) contracted
E) fused
12. The basketball game started at 4:00 p.m.

17. Everybody was stunned by the election news;
A) transpired nobody had expected Prosperity Party to do so well.
B) commenced
A) elated
C) ended
B) excited
D) continued
C) deserted
E) was postponed
D) delighted
E) astounded
13. The professor tried to stimulate interest in

archaeology by taking his students on expeditions.
18. Sonar devices can determine the location of
A) oppress submerged objects through echoes.
B) fake
A) lost
C) encourage
B) joined
D) diminish
C) irregular
E) subdue
D) underwater
E) buried
14. When he was challenged, the salesman stood up for

his product.
19. Carol, who used to be quite submissive, suddenly
A) defended turned rebellious for reasons unknown to us.
B) sold
A) sullen
C) spoke of
B) conscientious
D) fought
C) permissive
E) imported
D) timid
E) obedient

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20. Subsequent events proved the old politician to be

right.
A) Few
B) Later
C) Earlier
D) Many
E) Some

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: D
2: A 12: B
3: A 13: C
4: A 14: A
5: A 15: A
6: C 16: B
7: B 17: E
8: E 18: D
9: E 19: E
10: C 20: B

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5. I do not want to suggest by this criticism that there

1. The first wallpaper was used as a substitute for is something fundamentally wrong with your
tapestries, which had been used for centuries. argument.
A) precursor of A) conceal
B) accomplice of B) claim
C) associate of C) assert
D) alternative to D) assume
E) contribution to E) imply
2. When the General Director resigned a younger 6. She cleaned the house superficially but a close look
person succeeded him in the company. at the furniture showed she had done very little.
A) fulfilled A) on the surface

B) rotated B) in the corners
C) replaced C) inside
D) attained D) from a distance
E) reached E) successively
3. Only after her third attempt, she succeeded in 7. Superstition may easily lead a great many people
selling one of her paintings at a reasonable price. astray.
A) assisted A) irrational belief

B) quoted B) succession
C) accomplish C) logic
D) expected D) misdirection
E) renounced E) stipulation
4. A thousand dollars today will suffice to buy a 8. The ancient Scandinavians venerated the mistletoe
personal computer with amazing power. because it supposedly brought good luck and
fertility.
A) be insufficient
B) induce A) doubtfully
C) seduce B) presumably
D) be enough C) actually
E) necessitate D) hopefully
E) fortunately

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9. The attendance at the music festival surpassed all

expectations.
A) overwhelmed 14. As a professional sport, women’s basketball has

taken off in recent years.
B) overestimated
C) increased A) distributed
D) overcame B) removed
E) excelled C) grown
D) leveled
E) been introduced
10. There is a large area of swamp that will have to be

cleared before construction can begin.
A) forest 15. Most wild animals are easy to tame.

B) soft, wet land
A) domesticate
C) dry, sandy soil
B) catch
D) prairie
C) identify
E) huge forest
D) feed
E) take care of
11. Digital watches that display time electronically are

swiftly replacing analogue watches.
16. A report is usually tangible proof that the research
A) gradually has been completed.
B) eventually
A) evasive
C) previously
B) concrete
D) rapidly
C) vague
E) steadily
D) inevitable
E) ambiguous
12. The symptoms of “senility” include serious

forgetfulness, confusion, and certain other changes in
personality and behaviour. 17. Her friends tried to tempt her to go to the movies
although they knew she had to study.
A) diagnosis
B) signs A) trace
C) anomalies B) enervate
D) retorts C) implore
E) claims D) entice
E) long for
13. The manager is always tactful when he deals with

angry customers. 18. All the tenants in our apartment building are
complaining about the lack of hot water.
A) firm
A) old people
B) sensitive
B) landlords
C) outspoken
C) superintendents
D) rude
D) settlers
E) cunning
E) occupants

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19. Professor Fox has a thorough knowledge of Turkish 20. Tina thwarted her brother’s every effort to sell the old
history. house which they grew up in.
A) complete A) assisted
B) hazy B) blocked
C) wonderful C) reported
D) scientific D) hoped
E) trite E) supplicated

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: D
2: C 12: B
3: C 13: B
4: D 14: C
5: E 15: A
6: A 16: B
7: A 17: D
8: B 18: E
9: E 19: A
10: B 20: B

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1. Dictators do not tolerate opposition of any kind.

6. Many minor tremors cart be felt before an
A) understand earthquake hits an area.
B) permit
A) temptations
C) justify
B) noises
D) execute
C) vibrations
E) specify
D) beatings
E) voices
2. Sandy is still touchy on this subject; be careful not to

mention the matter to her.
7. Among certain groups, drug-taking has become the
A) handy latest trend. Actors pop singers and people
B) sensitive prominent in the entertainment industry have
certainly set the fashion.
C) manual
D) ill-mannered A) situation
E) inclement B) gist
C) drift
D) fad
E) tradition
3. There was no trace of poison in the coffee the
chemist analyzed, which disappointed the police.
A) indication
B) taste 8. Scientists have long discovered that emotions
trigger physiological reactions- and vice versa.
C) color
D) smell A) blunt
E) sediment B) activate
C) encounter
D) obscure
E) impede
4. The elegant decorations transformed the garage
into a ballroom.
A) reverted
B) changed 9. At first, the incident seemed to be trivial, giving no
hint of the terrible consequences it would lead to.
C) sustained
D) interrupted A) significant
E) retained B) momentous
C) unimportant
D) critical
E) of great importance
5. Some plants thrive if you transplant them from
indoors to the garden in the hot weather.
A) transfer
B) substitute
C) trade
D) dig
E) plant

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10. A quiet moment, spent alone, often takes one out of 15. She is quite an unlikely candidate for the position.
turmoil of a stressful situation.
A) amicable
A) tranquility B) admirable
B) peace C) improbable
C) chaos D) unqualified
D) inspiration E) irreproachable
E) gloom
16. His unsophisticated manner caused him severe

11. The country is plagued by turmoil. problems when he went to Istanbul to do business.
A) revolution A) experienced
B) earthquakes B) naive
C) utter confusion C) knowledgeable
D) fuel shortages D) cosmopolitan
E) contagious disease E) profuse
12. Nearsightedness is a defect of sight in which distant 17. The human urge to express feelings through
objects that should be seen clearly are unclear. rhythmic motion is expressed in dance.
A) marred A) repulse
B) unrecognizable B) addiction
C) invisible C) sensation
D) blurred D) desire
E) tiny E) collaboration
13. It is undoubtedly true that the Watergate scandal 18. The wool of a cashmere goat is valued for its fine,
was the worst of all in U.S. political history. silky texture.
A) considerably A) charged
B) arguably B) raised
C) indecisively C) exploited
D) without question D) prized
E) sternly E) sought
14. Our company possesses unique research 19. The alien spacecraft hovered over the cornfield for a
capabilities. while, and then it vanished, never to be sighted
again.
A) only
B) solely A) landed
C) unequaled B) disappeared
D) unbalanced C) attacked
E) uniform D) rose
E) engulfed

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20. In early summer, Mexico’s vast wheat fields look like

golden seas of grain.
A) pregnant
B) boundless
C) swift
D) teeming
E) cultivated

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: C
2: B 12: D
3: A 13: D
4: B 14: C
5: A 15: C
6: C 16: B
7: D 17: D
8: B 18: D
9: C 19: B
10: C 20: B

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5. The candidate’s victory at the polls was

1. After listening to the testimony, the members of the overwhelming.
jury delivered their verdict.
A) treachery
A) sentence B) defeat
B) cross-examination C) triumph
C) decision D) popularity
D) foreman E) certificate
E) speech
6. Views regarding private education appear to be

2. The 1961 missile crisis brought the world to the changing.
verge of all-out war.
A) forecasts
A) horror B) predictions
B) brink C) opinions
C) prospect D) proponents
D) danger E) advocates
E) security
7. Some parts of the world, such as the Arctic and

3. The ambassador verified the report before he called Antarctica, remain virtually unexplored.
the State Department to make sure he wasn’t
causing unwarranted anxiety. A) actually
B) partially
A) canceled
C) superficially
B) confirmed
D) practically
C) proofread
E) completely
D) purloined
E) hid
8. As I expected, I did not have to say much. He had

actually agreed to the plan voluntarily.
4. A forest is a vibrant, complex community of many
forms of life, and it should be protected at all costs. A) to his benefit
B) enthusiastically
A) active
C) unwillingly
B) fatal
D) unhesitatingly
C) slick
E) of his own accord
D) fabulous
E) fierce
9. Will their vows be made publicly or privately?
A) opening remarks
B) thoughts
C) promises
D) emotions
E) trials

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10. The army was out in the open and therefore 15. That railroads were the ultimate mode of transport
vulnerable to the enemy attack. was a widespread belief before the 20th century.
A) exposed A) contagious
B) eager B) expansive
C) closed C) common
D) remote D) broad
E) attainable E) esteemed
11. Only wealthy people can maintain such a big yacht. 16. The city managed to withstand the years-long siege
by Serbian forces.
A) fearless
B) gifted A) resist
C) mechanical B) rise against
D) affluent C) prepare for
E) imbecile D) predict
E) overw
12. Mr Moore’s behaviour was often considered weird,

even by his friends. 17. Only a small number of the wounded people in
Gorazde were carried to the aircraft by the soldiers of
A) strange the United Nations.
B) foreign
A) unconscious
C) cold
B) injured
D) unknown
C) deceased
E) shameless
D) inept
E) distressed
13. Having spent all his money on clothes, Laura is not

well-off enough even to buy a loaf of bread.
18. He yearns to ask his girlfriend to marry him, but he
A) destitute is too bashful to do so.
B) arrogant
A) hopes
C) wealthy
B) wants
D) afraid
C) plans
E) peevish
D) refuses
E) discourages
14. Whenever she reads a good mystery, it whets her

appetite for more books by any author.
A) waits
B) cajoles
C) sharpens
D) resolves
E) idles

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19. My aunt worked in her garden with such zeal that 20. A cave is a natural opening in the ground extending
she grew more vegetables than she could possibly beyond the zone of light, and large enough to permit
eat. the entry of man.
A) fertilizers A) region
B) garden tools B) hamlet
C) unwillingness C) refrain
D) enthusiasm D) aversion
E) vanity E) articulation

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: D
2: B 12: A
3: B 13: C
4: A 14: C
5: C 15: C
6: C 16: A
7: D 17: B
8: E 18: B
9: C 19: D
10: A 20: A

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Advanced Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
5. Police rescued the two minors who were .......... by

1. He admits ............... that he is a bit of a womanizer. their former nanny last week.
A) plumply A) adulated
B) usurpingly B) adorned
C) genealogically C) abashed
D) unabashedly D) augmented
E) fastidiously E) abducted
2. The farmers are obviously eager to adopt any means 6. I find it truly ............... that scientific knowledge and
to ............... the salinity levels back down to some of our best human resources should be wasted
acceptable levels. on researching and developing new ways to maim
and kill one another.
A) crab
B) sprout A) augustan
C) abate B) admirable
D) contaminate C) avaricious
E) counterfeit D) avant garde
E) abominable
3. How or when my great rage began to abate I cannot

say. Somehow it began to wane, and it waned quite 7. A civilized man respects all life and ............... cruelty
rapidly. I ............... my composure within a few to animals.
minutes.
A) appeases
A) appealed B) abhors
B) indulged C) atones for
C) fidgeted D) assimilates
D) regained E) attests
E) cured
8. Spherical ............... is an optical effect occurring

4. Due to his general frail health, the king may soon when the oblique rays entering a lens are focused in
.......... the throne in favour of his son. a different location than the central rays.
A) abdicate A) abomination
B) advocate B) abduction
C) agitate C) abstraction
D) abbreviate D) aberration
E) assume E) abrogation
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9. To ............... something is to renounce it or abstain 13. About three kilometers from Mordoğan, the road
from it, with the implication that this is done publicly. takes an ............... left hand turn and goes down into
a valley teeming with lush olive trees.
A) simulate
B) astound A) lascivious
C) augment B) abrupt
D) abjure C) improper
E) condone D) abstruse
E) interminable
10. Organic chemistry, as a science, I truly esteem and

admire; but memorising all those lengthy formulas I 14. ARGUMENT: "______ is the most effective solution to
really ............... and abhor. unwanted pregnancy and sexual disease."
COUNTER-ARGUMENT: "In which case, I'd rather
A) abominate choose death."
B) adulate
A) Over-indulgence
C) adorn
B) Strict absorption
D) accost
C) Complete abstinence
E) adjourn
D) Horrid abhorrence
E) Abrupt aberration
11. Ancient literature ............... prose and poetry

concerned with homosexual love. They are
everywhere. 15. No one in the world could solve such an abstruse
problem. Abstruse means ______.
A) teams with
B) abounds in A) complex and difficult to understand
C) commemorates B) simple and easy for mathematicians
D) is bereft of C) lucid enough for the thoughtful
E) betrays D) absurd in the highest degree possible
E) laggard and leisurely
12. Following a heated debate in the Parliament, the

defence treaty signed last year was finally ratified. 16. Just point a ............... in the right direction, will you?
To ratify means to ______. All I am asking for is a little help in getting this
program started.
A) appease
B) abrogate A) vagrant
C) give formal sanction to B) courier
D) annul C) pedestrian
E) send to the Constitutional Court D) novice
E) messenger

17. Friedrich Engels himself was a capitalist who later in 21. The sanctions are to continue until Israel ...............
life became a(n) ............... opponent of capitalism. the UN resolutions, one of which calls for a peaceful
settlement in Palestine.
A) retrospective
B) impenetrable A) aggravates
C) generous B) abides by
D) ambiguous C) violates
E) outspoken D) proclaims
E) pays lip service to
18. Even though I was quickly sinking into a(n) ...............

of despair, something in me was not ready to give 22. At the age of 64, he was now at the ............... of his
up. career as an influential and outspoken member of
parliament.
A) glee
B) mirth A) abyss
C) euphoria B) nadir
D) hilarity C) acme
E) abyss D) ebb
E) nether
19. Berbat Süleyman, one of the most bloodthirsty

hoodlums in the underworld, was unforgiving toward 23. He now acquiesced in every directive he received
his adversaries. He did not hesitate to order the from his boss, just as he once acquiesced to all his
murder of Yedibela Yusuf, his arch ______. parents' wishes. Acquiesce means: ______.
A) bambino A) comply with

B) accomplice B) balk at
C) foe C) disagree with
D) cherub D) dissent from
E) confederate E) dissuade from
20. A young man was ______ by some ruffians on a lonely 24. I think one would be justified in saying that today we
street. "Galatasaray or Fenerbahçe?" he was queried live in an acquisitive society. Acquisitive means:
in a threatening manner. Not knowing which group ----------------.
had stopped him, the young man cleverly replied,
"Beşiktaş" -- and received a few knuckle sandwiches A) greedy, covetous and materialistic
anyway... B) technologically developed but with low morale
A) whimpered C) with humane and charitable feelings in the fore
B) giggled D) incredibly altruistic -- utterly and thoroughly
C) shrieked E) as self-denying and self-sacrificing as can be
D) accosted
E) blubbered

25. Some say kımız has a ---------------- aftertaste. It 28. Collaborative divorce uses negotiation and
seems that they find it somewhat "acrid". Needless cooperation to achieve a settlement with minimal
to say, I quite disagree with them. acrimony between the parties involved. Acrimony
means: ______.
A) bitter and sourish
B) deliciously savoury A) civility
C) rotten and putrid B) bitterness
D) exquisitely palatable C) decency
E) sweet and sour D) deference
E) urbanity
26. Animal ............... is the agricultural practice of

breeding and raising livestock. 29. His business acumen was such that with the passing
of the years he rose to be a director of the company.
A) husbandry Acumen means: ______.
B) heraldry
A) oblivion
C) wifery
B) ineptness
D) protection
C) obtuseness
E) manufacturing
D) astuteness
E) naïveté
27. The boss flew into a rage at the janitor's stupidity and
it took a lot of tact to ............... him.
30. According to an old adage in medicine, “if you don’t
A) lure look for it, you will never diagnose it.” Adage means:
B) soothe ______.
C) brace A) neophyte
D) chafe B) maxim
E) nudge C) syllogism
D) paradox
E) shibboleth

Answer Key:
1: D 16: D
2: C 17: E
3: D 18: E
4: A 19: C
5: E 20: D
6: E 21: B
7: B 22: C
8: D 23: A
9: D 24: A
10: A 25: A
11: B 26: A
12: C 27: B
13: B 28: B
14: C 29: D
15: A 30: B

5. Can you imagine a film star not craving for public

1. We are seeking client management personnel who adulation? Adulation means: ______.
are truly ............... in oral and written
communications. A) flattery
B) pliability
A) unyielding
C) denunciation
B) avaricious
D) stigmatization
C) adept
E) detachment
D) vulnerable
E) maladroit
6. The ............... of electronic mail made it possible to

share information quickly and more effectively.
2. Is there any objection to my ............... this meeting
here and now? A) impromptu
B) advent
A) assimilating
C) prelude
B) improvising
D) bluntness
C) adjourning
E) felicity
D) facilitating
E) abstracting
7. The visitors pretended that they had not noticed the

insult, but it was a(n) ............... that was not likely
3. A parliamentary committee severely ............... the ever to be forgotten or forgiven.
Minister last year for accepting personal gifts from
foreign companies. A) affront
B) adultery
A) abominated
C) feat
B) approved of
D) geek
C) admonished
E) appeasement
D) detached
E) decelerated
8. ................... : Action undertaken to increase one's

own power and influence or to draw attention to
4. Our new men are particularly adroit in handling this one's own importance.
type of machinery. Adroit means: ______.
A) Self-aggrandisement
A) adamant B) Self-diminishment
B) vulnerable C) Self-sufficiency
C) dexterous D) Self-aggravation
D) awkward E) Self-impression
E) clumsy

9. Please, please don't aggravate the situation! 'Tis

already bad enough! Aggravate here means ______.
A) appease 14. Being mentally alert or quick: That is what having "an
............... mind" means.
B) tranquilize
C) palliate A) agile
D) worsen B) sluggish
E) extenuate C) inert
D) lethargic
E) inept
10. The security forces were instructed to step in and

disperse any aggregation which they deemed ill-
intentioned. Aggregation means ______.
15. By the time they got on the plane he was ...............
A) enactment beyond control and his friends were constrained to
tell him quite openly to pull himself together.
B) impoverishment
C) gathering A) lulled
D) abrogation B) placated
E) provocation C) soothed
D) agitated
E) subdued
11. Colonel Cesurhan tried to ............... his soldiers to

stand fast in the face of overwhelming odds.
A) mitigate 16. The ............... effects of alcohol on the liver have long
been known by medical authorities.
B) palliate
C) obliterate A) pernicious
D) juxtapose B) alleviating
E) exhort C) jubilant
D) putative
E) hermetic
12. Apparently, the boy felt no ............... about telling on

his friends.
A) qualms 17. To me, the recording and release of Gencebay's

album "Give Me a Consolation" back in the 70s
B) astuteness
has been the ______ of his brilliant musical career.
C) lampoon
D) façade A) abyss
E) juxtaposition B) nadir
C) apex
D) ebb
E) nether
13. We may never know what really might be taking
place in the ............... depths of the schizophrenic
mind.
A) obliterated
B) impenetrable
C) ribald
D) ingratiating
E) opulent

18. My uncle's tastes in music are rather ______. He keeps 22. Mr. İzbul's ............... criticism of the management's
buying all sorts of classical music, jazz, rock-and-roll, mishandling of the funds drew enthusiastic support
and hip-hop CDs. from the shareholders.
A) histrionic A) trenchant
B) ubiquitous B) odious
C) pejorative C) lethargic
D) eclectic D) repugnant
E) officious E) obnoxious
19. The colonel warned his men that he expected his 23. The book is on such a(n) ............... subject that I am
orders be carried out with zeal and swiftness by certain no one understands what it's all about.
all concerned. With zeal and swiftness means
with ______. A) palpable
B) esoteric
A) lethargy
C) ostensible
B) apathy
D) reprehensible
C) blunder
E) auspicious
D) hibernation
E) alacrity
24. The townspeople were worried about the new dam;

but their fears were ................... by the authorities
20. All through the rest of the summer, small enemy who reassured them that even an earthquake of
units kept ............... the upland villages. more than 9.5 on Richter scale could cause it no
harm.
A) tillaging
B) refurbishing A) palpated
C) pillaging B) aggravated
D) repudiating C) prevaricated
E) brandishing D) tantalized
E) allayed
21. Many TV programs are in fact commercials ...............

as good advice on this, that or the other aspect of 25. Trouble had long been ............... between the rival
our lives. gangs in the neighbourhood before the final
confrontation of last Saturday.
A) pleading
B) acquiring A) curtailing
C) masquerading B) mortifying
D) assigning C) brewing
E) miscalculating D) mortgaging
E) confounding

26. I suspect that these plants aren't ............... to the

Aegean region. At least, I've never seen them before.
A) indigenous 29. Islam does not condemn the allurement between

the two sexes. However, it sees it fit to forbid its
B) ingenuous
consummation until proper unification within the
C) egregious framework of marriage. Allurement means ______.
D) pejorative
E) intolerable A) aversion
B) allusion
C) attraction
D) estrangement
E) confrontation
27. Reporters are advised to refrain from using clichés or
............... terms when describing individuals who
are overweight or obese.
A) pensive
B) assimilating 30. A group of youths stood momentarily, surveyed the
old man with disparaging eyes, made some rude
C) pejorative allusions to his bare feet, and then marched off
D) decelerating giggling to themselves. Allusion means ______.
E) saturated
A) insane flattery
B) lethal ailment
C) immature illusion
D) indirect reference
28. The Pope's visit to Turkland seems to have abated E) crude ointment
some of the anger caused by his ............... remarks
about Islam some time ago.
A) agonized
B) discreet
C) palpable
D) disparaging
E) pensive

Answer Key:
1: C 16: A
2: C 17: C
3: C 18: D
4: C 19: E
5: A 20: C
6: B 21: C
7: A 22: A
8: A 23: B
9: D 24: E
10: C 25: C
11: E 26: A
12: A 27: C
13: B 28: D
14: A 29: C
15: D 30: D

General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers - Advanced Level Exercise 07
5. Being considered a hardened criminal, I failed to find

1. Gone -- but ............... forgotten. any character witness to testify on my behalf. The
jury simply believed that I could never be ...............
A) by all means by any such feelings of guilt.
B) by everyone
A) investigated
C) by fate
B) imprisoned
D) by no means
C) empowered
E) by common consent
D) compensated
E) troubled
2. It has been ............... that at present there may well

be over 2 billion web documents, with over 1 million
web sites added daily. 6. Chinese internet censors were reported in
yesterday's press as ______ their grip on foreign
A) outlined political websites. As for the local ones, well, nobody
B) constructed /kıns-TRAKT-id/ dares start one anyway.
C) estimated /ES-timeytid/ A) loosening
D) constrained /kıns-TREYND/ B) unlocking
E) persuaded /PÖ-sueydid/ C) hacking
D) disordering
E) downloading
3. Producing quality fertilizers begins with reliable, low-

cost supply of ............... materials, such as natural
gas, phosphate rock, and elemental sulphur...
7. Don't mumble. Don't swallow your words. Don't talk
A) rude in a monotone. Don't use jargon or undefined terms.
B) raw /RO:/ Avoid mannerisms that will distract your audience
from what you are saying. In a word, please stop
C) scrap speaking ______.
D) crude
E) vulgar /VAL-gı/ A) unintelligibly
B) vividly
C) humorously
D) explicitly
Fadime and her husband Hüsam lived in the E) rashly
4.
............... secluded village of Minikköy on the Taurus
Mountains in southern Anatolia.
A) agricultural
B) tiny /TAY-ni/ 8. Gold prospecting is entirely a lottery: there are
myriad examples of industrious, persevering, ______
C) enormous /i-NO:-mıs/ men, working hard for years and years, but ending up
D) tidy /TAY-di/ poorer than they had ever been before.
E) local /LOU-kıl/
A) extravagant
B) spendthrift
C) wasteful
D) thrifty
E) happy-go-lucky
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9. When he died at the age of eighty, the townsfolk 13. Radio telescopes have one big advantage over
gave him a ............... funeral and had an enormous ............... ones in that they can operate in all weather
statue of him on his horse erected in front of the conditions. They can also pick up signals coming from
town hall. very distant stars.
A) relevant A) vigorous
B) swift B) remote
C) huge C) graduated
D) focal D) calibrated
E) worn-out E) conventional
10. There are myriad examples of grotesque injustices, 14. Radio and television have made it possible for
including the sentencing of innocent defendants to advertisers to ............... the attention of millions of
death, the deliberate ______ of evidence, and the people in many novel ways.
routine misuse of so-called expert testimony.
A) inhibit
A) protection B) capture
B) falsification C) acquaint
C) inclusion D) surrender
D) confirmation E) inhabit
E) exploitation
15. The Turkish Human ............... Foundation, funding as

11. The security forces knew it would not prove difficult it does programs and projects that promote human
to ................ the culprits in such a small village. rights, equal treatment and tolerance, aims at
achieving and safeguarding social justice for all.
A) witness to
B) rush into A) Sanity
C) trace down B) Wisdom
D) refrain from C) Maturity
E) conjure up D) Humility
E) Dignity
12. "Transsexual" is a term applied to any individual who

exhibits, to varying ______, the appearance, 16. Can we say that the soul is the " ............... " of our
behavioural characteristics and feelings associated inner world? Can we believe in its immortality?
with the opposite sex.
A) infidel
A) heights B) putrefication
B) states C) inhibition
C) terms D) exhibitionist
D) opinions E) inhabitant
E) degrees

17. Suspended from the ceiling, these spheres had been 19. No ............... journalist would ever stoop to
______ so that they attracted or repelled one another fabricating or distorting his news for political or
all the time. financial gain.
A) pressurized A) self-conscious
B) crystallized B) self-respecting
C) juxtaposed C) self-indulgent
D) suspended D) self-sacrificing
E) magnetized E) self-governing
18. In the normal brain, a large number of substances 20. An area of gradual transition from marsh to firm
were ______ that were later found to be abnormal in ground is generally known as a(n) ............... or
quantity or metabolism in a substantial variety of seasonal marsh. The edge is ................ and the
neurological disorders. vegetation is similar to that of the surrounding
ground.
A) identified
B) deviated A) unfamiliar
C) overtaken B) infernal
D) appointed C) indistinct
E) experimented D) intensified
E) stimulated

Answer Key:
1: D 11: C
2: C 12: E
3: B 13: E
4: B 14: B
5: E 15: E
6: A 16: E
7: A 17: E
8: D 18: A
9: C 19: B
10: B 20: C

5. They were, in fact, having such a good time on their

1. In a speech he made today, the President of little desert island that -- when a passing tanker
Passagonia advocated the ______ of nuclear arms and rescued them a few days later -- both men were
said that his country was ready for "urgent and ............... sorry that they had to leave.
effective measures to ______ the arms race."
A) outwardly
A) expansion / hinder B) repulsively
B) propulsion / end C) reluctantly
C) escalation / curtail D) ambiguously
D) acceleration / stop E) genuinely
E) elimination / curb
6. Inviting the fire-brigade to put out an imaginary,

2. The traditional bonds that exist between the two non-existent fire is a crude form of deception which
countries, as well as the mutual respect they hold for no .............. person would ever indulge in.
one another, will ............. a firm basis for further
development of their economic ties. A) self-conscious
B) self-respecting
A) compromise
C) self-indulgent
B) compensate
D) self-sacrificing
C) contribute
E) self-confident
D) constitute
E) capitulate
7. He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and

died in ............... in 1993.
3. Naim Süleymanoğlu, born of Turkish descent and one
of the world's top weight-lifters then, .............. to A) rags and riches
Turkey some twenty years ago while he was B) severity and pain
competing in Australia.
C) wealth and health
A) immigrated D) rigidity and fear
B) interrogated E) poverty and obscurity
C) defected
D) conspired
E) emigrated
8. City born and city-bred, I have always ______ the
country as something you look at through a train
window, as somewhere you occasionally visit during
a weekend.
4. If you can do without the few .............. pleasures of
the country, you will find the city can provide you A) derived from
with the best that life has to offer. B) dominated
A) rational C) evacuated
B) pastoral D) regarded
C) humorous E) concerned
D) scornful
E) satiric

9. These sentimentalists fail to mention the long and 13. We often read in novels how a(n) ..............
friendless winter evenings which are only interrupted respectable person or family has some terrible secret
by a(n) ............... visit to the local cinema -- virtually which has been concealed from strangers for years: it
the sole form of entertainment. is often called "a skeleton in the cupboard".
A) occasional A) seemingly
B) sophisticated B) improperly
C) steady C) improbably
D) retrospective D) instinctively
E) apathetic E) suspiciously
10. Three days after the disappearance of their ever so 14. People become quite ............... when it comes to
precious little dog, the family received a(n) ______ discussing what can be eaten and what cannot.
note, stating that it was in safe hands and would be
returned immediately if a ransom of one million A) illogical
dollars was paid. B) illiterate
A) authentic C) illegible
B) anomalous D) illegal
C) illiterate E) illegitimate
D) anonymous
E) illegible
15. Much as we may pride ourselves on our good taste,

we are no longer free to choose the things we want,
for advertising exerts a(n) .............. influence on us.
11. In the 1960s, certain cults imported from the Far East
______ great popularity and had great numbers of A) subtle /SA-tıl
followers especially among the young. B) hostile
A) enjoyed C) contradictory
B) represented D) invaluable /in-VÆL-yubıl/
C) obeyed E) indifferent
D) reproduced
E) sheltered
16. In their efforts to ............... us to buy this or that

product, advertisers have made a close study of
human nature and have classified all our little
12. She was too excited to do any housework that weaknesses.
morning, for in the evening she would be going to a
.............. with her husband. A) proclaim
B) persuade
A) political party
C) publicize
B) search party
D) pursue
C) third party
E) praise
D) fancy dress party
E) firing party (= firing squad)

17. ............... it may be just possible to measure the 19. Some ............... "modern" pieces of sculpture have
value of material goods in terms of money, it is been on display in public places for at least a
extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the hundred years.
services that people perform for us.
A) heroic
A) In spite of B) self-conscious
B) Accordingly C) so-called
C) However D) incredible
D) While E) unfounded
E) Nevertheless
20. One would expect an actor to know his part

18. He has ............... chosen to lead the life he leads and ............... and never make a mistake with his lines.
is fully aware of the possible consequences. Yet, this is not always the case.
A) pitifully A) by luck
B) deliberately B) on purpose
C) eternally C) by heart
D) unknowingly D) under obligation
E) impotently E) by design

Answer Key:
1: E 11: A
2: D 12: D
3: C 13: A
4: B 14: A
5: E 15: A
6: B 16: B
7: E 17: D
8: D 18: B
9: A 19: C
10: D 20: C

5. Newspapers and magazines offered him huge sums

1. All heavy vehicle drivers must participate in training of money for the ............... rights to publish his story.
courses on the safe transportation of ...............
materials, dangerous goods, solids and wastes. A) exclusive
B) compulsory
A) satiric
C) fascinating
B) hazardous
D) humiliating
C) mediocre
E) imperative
D) blasphemous
E) laconic
6. To lead normal lives -- it is an impossible dream

existence all victims of commercialization must
2. Precautions of this sort are necessary, for it is perforce ............... as long as their names carry a
impossible to ............... the exact nature of the market value.
difficulties which will confront us.
A) reproach
A) forewarn B) validate
B) forbid C) exasperate
C) foretell D) abandon
D) fortify E) disintegrate
E) foreshadow
7. There will come a day when this country will be the

3. This is a(n) ............... book in which he further envy of all nations for her ............... social policies.
expands his innovative approach, challenging
traditional theories of supply and demand. A) enlightened
B) conscripted
A) plausible
C) crooked
B) sacred
D) heinous
C) senseless
E) submissive
D) ostensible
E) provocative
8. As long ago as the 1930s, the Turkish Parliament

______ and passed some crucial legislation to advance
4. The book contains some excellent libel and ............... and safeguard women's social and political rights.
law information, all told in easy-to-understand legal
terms. A) illuminated
B) interpreted
A) complacency
C) incited
B) astonishment
D) introduced
C) blunder
E) inflicted
D) banality
E) slander

9. There was nothing in the records to show that the 13. Even in ............... poverty the family did not sacrifice
allegations were ______, as the defence attorney was its self-respect.
quick to point out.
A) abject
A) perceptible B) delirious
B) justified C) imaginary
C) ornamental D) indulgent
D) reprehensible E) deceptive
E) incomprehensible
14. There is every reason to suppose that ______ must be

10. The newcomers were ............... if -- having views and an extremely degrading way of making a living for a
attitudes that were widely diverging from those in the woman. I daresay no self-respecting woman would do
neighbourhood -- they didn't fit in with the it willingly. Or, am I being too naive in my assessment
community. of human nature?!
A) ascertained A) embezzlement
B) persecuted B) sedition
C) comprehended C) prostitution
D) repealed D) trickery
E) trespassed E) arson
11. In democratic countries, any efforts to restrict the 15. To ............... slavery on its own is meaningless;
freedom of the Press are rightly ______. freedom from want is the real thing.
A) relegated A) accomplish
B) condescended B) alternate
C) victimized C) abolish
D) retrieved D) augment
E) condemned E) desiccate
12. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the 16. Are you acquainted with the new theories pertaining
greatest ______. Some people never seem to be able to this area? You need some knowledge of nuclear
to cure themselves of that irritating habit all through physics to understand the ............... mechanisms
their lives. involved in this project.
A) proximity A) taciturn
B) pretence B) deplorable
C) anachronism C) meticulous
D) nuisance D) intricate
E) lottery E) ascetic

17. Students will define their own learning objectives and

thus come to better appreciate the ______ of their
own role in shaping their educational endeavours.
19. That he would get himself involved in this sort of a
A) significance situation was ............... from the very beginning.
B) suppression
A) improbable
C) sensuality
B) impossible
D) suspension
C) unexpected
E) hostility
D) inevitable
E) unfamiliar
18. Beauty in itself is a rather ______ quality.
A) tangible 20. She was fined for ______.

B) phlegmatic
A) abusive language
C) abstract
B) being garrulous
D) repulsive
C) loquaciousness
E) commonplace
D) verbosity
E) lisping

Answer Key:
1: B 11: E
2: C 12: D
3: E 13: A
4: E 14: C
5: A 15: C
6: D 16: D
7: A 17: A
8: D 18: C
9: B 19: D
10: B 20: A

5. Even after listening for an hour and a half to

1. Even more ............... conditions of hygiene became evidence – ............... evidence – of a concerted effort
apparent as the siege tightened. on Iraq's part to delay and deceive the UN weapons
inspectors, the response of France, Russia, and China
A) zealous /ZE-lıs/ was that inspections must continue.
B) zealous /ZE-lıs/
A) affectionate
C) disparaging /dis-PÆ-rıcin/
B) irrefutable /ir-REF-yutıbıl/
D) deplorable /di-PLO:-rıbıl/
C) disparaging
E) deplorable /di-PLO:-rıbıl/
D) spurious
E) malodorous /mæ-LO-dırıs/
2. You mustn't ............... the role of oil prices for the

Russian economy.
6. The saline waters of the Tuzla Kuş Cenneti nearby the
A) predispose city of Izmir provide a ______ for large numbers of
B) hinder flamingos and other migrating water birds.
C) belittle A) dungeon
D) eclipse B) ghetto
E) apprehend C) dormitory
D) gymnasium
E) sanctuary
3. He was himself a former slave who later in life

became a(n) ............... opponent of the slave trade.
A) retrospective 7. The day before the ............... body of the victim was

B) impenetrable /im-PE-nıtribıl/ found in a suitcase near the central station, he had
called his girlfriend and had told her he would be
C) generous catching the 9:15 train.
D) ambiguous /æm-BİG-yuwıs/
E) outspoken A) dismembered /dis-MEM-bırd/
B) intrinsic /in-TRİN-zik/
C) inoccuous /i-N@K-yuıs/
D) desolate /DE-sılit/
On August 25, 1992, the Serbian army began shelling E) ridiculous /ri-DİK-yılıs/
4.
the National Library of Bosnia-Herzegovina in
Sarajevo. Their goal was the eradication of a people
and all evidence of that people's culture and
existence. Within no more than six months, gone was
almost all ______ evidence of over 500 years of 8. Legal experts point out that any move by either side
intercultural/interreligious life in Bosnia. to ............... the treaty would fly in the face of
international law.
A) incongruous
B) pompous A) aggravate
C) lamentable B) acclaim
D) palpable C) abrogate /ÆB-rıgeyt/
E) ostentatious D) surpass /sö-PA:S/
E) disparage /dis-PÆ-ric/

9. Please, note that articles containing gross ______ and/ 13. The idea that the victors have a perfect right to bring
or indecency will not be approved. the ............... to trial is not new.
A) dereliction A) ambushed /ÆM-buşd/

B) vivaciousness B) pillaged
C) lethargy C) vanquished
D) profanity D) plagiarized
E) clergy E) abominated
10. Extreme depression and extreme ______ caused by 14. I would like to urge the traffic police or the
the stigma associated with HIV positive results, even department concerned with the traffic signs and rules
though false, may reduce immunity drastically and to ensure that all signs on the road are ............... and
cause AIDS and early death in the affected persons. that they are functional.
A) fraudulence A) malevolent
B) dejection B) conspicuous /kıns-PİK-yuwıs/
C) indolence C) appalling /ı-P@-liN/
D) discretion D) contemptible /kın-TEMPT-ibıl/
E) pomposity E) diminutive /di-MİN-yıtiv/
11. A(n) ______ reason is the apparent, exhibited, 15. Speaking of sibling relationships, one study in 1998
declared, avowed or professed reason and the found that 95 per cent of the participants had either
concept is normally used to denote that it is not, in intimate, loyal, and ______ relationships, while the
fact, the real or actual reason, motive or aim. remaining 5 per cent were apathetic.
A) random A) congenital
B) laconic B) incongruous
C) miraculous C) obligatory
D) ostensible D) congenial
E) epicurean E) venomous
12. All of these ______ and aggressive speeches made by 16. Too busy enjoying the colourful life of a handsome
Bush, Rumsfeld and Powell provide excellent young officer, he remained ............... to politics
examples of US sabre-rattling -- a witness to their through the 1980s and '90s.
intention to spread the fight to other countries.
A) aloof /ı-LU:F/
A) submissive B) hostile
B) belligerent C) bigoted /Bİ-gıtid/
C) taciturn D) inimical /i-Nİ-mikıl/
D) prudent E) pious /PA:-yıs/
E) ambidexterous

17. Economic globalization will face ______ hindrances

during the course of deregulation, privatization and
direct foreign investment -- unless the legislative
bodies and juridical structures lend their support to it 19. Based on 25 years of ______ research, this method
in every nation-state. has proven to be extremely effective in helping
young children learn to resolve interpersonal
A) self-revelatory problems and prevent antisocial behaviours.
B) fragrant
A) aberrant
C) dilapidated
B) meticulous
D) expository
C) calamitious
E) formidable
D) overbearing
E) courteous
18. Other changes that have impacted the working world

are an ............... stream of technological
advancements and the ensuing enhancements, 20. It is my ______ that love, friendship, hope, kindness,
steady employee turnover and a business world that responsibility, knowledge are eternal, and so there
not only moves fast forward but is in constant flux as probably will be someday an interdisciplinary field of
well. study, comprising science, humanities, philosophy,
sociology, anthropology, history, and all.
A) busybodyish
A) replenishment
B) sublime /sıb-LAYM/
B) aptitude
C) vagrant
C) complacency
D) incessant /in-SE-sınt/
D) endorsement
E) reverent /RE-vırınt/
E) conjecture

Answer Key:
1: D 11: D
2: C 12: B
3: E 13: C
4: D 14: B
5: B 15: D
6: E 16: A
7: A 17: E
8: C 18: D
9: D 19: B
10: B 20: E

5. It has been said that we live in a period of the

1. The .............. "biological revolution" happens to have greatest change ever .............. by humankind -- a
come along at precisely the same moment we are all change that is powered by the engine of science and
caught up in what has been called a "crisis in values". technology.
A) deliberate A) endangered
B) punctual B) interchanged
C) current C) domesticated
D) continuous D) experienced
E) disapproved E) recommended
2. What values should guide the biologist's explorations 6. There is a rich and attractive opportunity for the
into the nature of human life or the physician's world's scientific and technological community to
treatment of the .............. ill? institutionalize and perfect a(n) .............. of
interlinked centres addressing their problems.
A) finally
B) assumingly A) paradox
C) recurrently B) network
D) deadly C) catalogue
E) terminally D) detachment
E) omission
3. The .............. over recombining genes to produce

new life forms is only one of the knotty ethical, 7. Our times call for a(n) .............. rethinking of the
philosophical and even religious questions raised by relationship of science and technology with society.
the current "biological revolution".
A) shallow
A) controversy B) unconscious
B) aptitude C) glamorous
C) contradiction D) profound
D) pretense E) inexpensive
E) acknowledgement
8. During the 1960's, some developing countries

4. Other scientists are quick to point out that we need became .............. concerned about negative impacts
not only better maps of genes but a better of technology transfer involving multinational
understanding of the ______ between genes as well. corporations.
A) definitions A) improbably
B) substitutes B) increasingly
C) confirmations C) instantaneously
D) conquests D) reciprocally
E) connections E) gigantically

9. The new international economic order should, in the 13. One scheme for genetic engineering which has
developing countries, mean measures to help the attracted wide interest is the cure of genetic
poor become more productive and to .............. .............. in man.
minimum human needs for food and nutrition, health
care (including family planning services), education, A) optimism
skills, and productive jobs. B) brutality
A) crush C) pessimism
B) pollute D) dilemma
C) overlook E) deficiencies
D) satisfy
E) exploit
14. Mankind as we know it today probably could not have

evolved or ______ without tools.
10. We need new international efforts to help all A) elevated

countries move from almost total reliance on B) survived
shrinking sources of nonrenewable energy to the
greatest .............. reliance on renewable sources. C) revolved
D) exited
A) feasible E) suffocated
B) significant
C) liberal
D) generous
E) gradual
15. It is not surprising, therefore, that some
anthropologists define the human .............. on the
basis of tool-using and tool-making, or to be more
exact, tool-dependency.
11. As nonrenewable sources, specifically petroleum and A) snobbery

natural gas, become scarcer and more expensive, B) suitability
new attention is being focused on green plants as
a(n) .............. energy supply. C) representation
D) species
A) alternative E) emphasis
B) luminous
C) affectionate
D) slippery
E) deliberate
16. Only over the past few decades have we come to
understand how surprisingly much of what we do
may be ______ by the kind of creatures we are and
especially by the information stored in our genes.
12. We must come up with a new .............. to the old A) swollen

debate about nature versus nurture, or genetic make- B) influenced
up versus environmental influences.
C) avoided
A) deception D) enlarged
B) approach E) gestured
C) fidelity
D) donation
E) interruption

17. Scientists have become increasingly .............. with

the fact that genes not only govern physical
characteristics but they also play a large role in
behaviour. 19. In the normal brain, a large number of substances
were ______ that were later found to be abnormal in
A) critical quantity or metabolism in a substantial variety of
neurological disorders.
B) impressed
C) indistinct A) overtaken
D) specialized B) butchered
E) generalized C) identified
D) launched
E) undertaken
18. Most biologists now recognize that it is virtually

impossible to separate the .............. genetic from the
.............. environmental influences.
20. Severe difficulties must be .............. before cloning
A) purely can be done with mammals and humans.
B) regrettably
A) alerted
C) malignantly
B) intensified
D) popularly
C) concluded
E) majestically
D) carved
E) overcome

Answer Key:
1: C 11: A
2: E 12: B
3: A 13: E
4: E 14: B
5: D 15: D
6: B 16: B
7: D 17: B
8: B 18: A
9: D 19: C
10: A 20: E

5. Providing structures, facilities and services, and

1. .............. population growth in less developed coping with unemployment, pollution, congestion,
countries is widely regarded as a major obstacle to crime and social alienation are formidable ______.
their material progress and a major global economic
and political problem. A) treasures
B) triumphs
A) Timely
C) festivities
B) Hasty
D) challenges
C) Leisurely
E) satisfactions
D) Rapid
E) Retarded
6. The Ministry of Agriculture experts cannot ..............

when the new technology will arrive or how it will
2. The recent rapid increase in population in less affect international commerce in foodstuffs.
developed countries reflects a .............. fall in
mortality. A) predict
B) combat
A) steep
C) delay
B) superficial
D) admit
C) shrewd
E) offend
D) tight
E) tame
7. In the last 40 years alone, modern farming methods

have .............. or even tripled yields per land unit for
3. Thomas Malthus predicted in the late 18th century major food grains such as wheat, rice and corn.
that world population would inevitably rise above the
ability of the land to nourish it, and that the result A) aroused
would be mass .............. and war. B) multiplied
A) controversy C) quadrupled
B) avoidance D) doubled
C) starvation E) saluted
D) pollution
E) sarcasm
8. To many people in industrialized countries, with their

incomparably more .............. populations, food is
something that comes from the supermarket;
4. The population problem has global .............. , but agriculture is a dusty and mysterious process of
action to cope with it is mainly a national interest only to a group of people known as farmers.
responsibility.
A) affluent
A) penalties B) impoverished
B) attitudes C) imperfect
C) diameters D) inferior
D) legends E) modest
E) dimensions

9. In some cases, the more prosperous groups have 13. To shy back in .............. from knowledge when we are
been relatively recent immigrants, who mostly came at the threshold of knowing so much more would, in
in empty-handed but were ______, ambitious, my view, be tragic.
energetic, and resourceful.
A) fear
A) tangible B) toil
B) industrious C) sweat
C) exaggerated D) joy
D) talkative E) temper
E) feeble
14. Evolution, along with other theories and discoveries

10. Another development has been the scientific- in biology, seems to .............. the materialist position.
technological industrial revolution which has since
World War II changed social and environmental A) humiliate
.............. so rapidly that many persons have lost their B) accumulate
traditional role in society.
C) degrade
A) settlements D) reinforce
B) impressions E) suffocate
C) penetrations
D) prayers
E) conditions
15. The building blocks of living molecules have been
produced in the laboratory by subjecting ..............
materials to the simulated conditions presumed to
have existed in the earth's early atmosphere.
11. Biology has much to tell us about our nature and our
origins -- though, admittedly, not too much about the A) shabby
reasons for our ______. B) inanimate
A) occurence C) false
B) guaranties D) convertible
C) existence E) ventilated
D) contentment
E) unwillingness
16. Chemical companies are speculating that the next

.............. of chemicals will come, not from petroleum,
but from genetically engineered plants.
12. This is legitimate investigation of reproductive
biology, indispensible for birth control on the one A) contractions
hand and treatment of infertility on the other, with a B) contamination
more .............. possibility that it can contribute to
efforts to prevent genetic defects. C) generation
D) confrontation
A) ancestral E) shortage
B) insane
C) exhaustible
D) remote
E) hysterical

17. The days when the farmer produced almost

everything the farm needed from potatoes to pork,
kept what was .............. and sold the rest, are long
gone. 19. Developing countries are becoming increasingly
.............. on food imports from two countries - the
A) necessary United States and Canada.
B) necessarily
A) negligible
C) needy
B) conventional
D) necessity
C) impartial
E) needless
D) dependent
E) near-sighted
18. Even with the recent succession of better-than-

average harvests, world food reserves today
.............. only 19 percent of annual world 20. Present and foreseeable increases in world
consumption. population will call for increases in materials and
energy unlikely to be .............. if present practices,
A) mediate policies and lifestyles persist.
B) purchase
A) conceived
C) frustrate
B) concealed
D) cancel
C) met
E) equal
D) trusted
E) convinced

Answer Key:
1: D 11: C
2: A 12: D
3: C 13: A
4: E 14: D
5: D 15: B
6: A 16: C
7: D 17: A
8: A 18: E
9: B 19: D
10: E 20: C

SYNONYMOUS WORDS MCQ Test With Answers - Advanced Level Vocabulary
Exercise 1
1. To abolish slavery on its own is meaningless;

freedom from want is the real thing. 6. I don't quite follow what you're getting at. Will you
further clarify your position on this issue?
A) approve of
B) speak against A) re-consider, re-evaluate
C) neglect B) make obscure, nebulous, ambiguous
D) put an end to C) make (crystal) clear
E) turn a deaf ear to D) classify, categorize
E) purify, remove the impurities of
2. You need some knowledge of nuclear physics to

understand the intricate mechanisms involved in 7. Holding the door open for a moment for the person
this project. coming right behind you is the conventional thing
to do.
A) complex and complicated
B) imperfect and defective A) customary
C) flawless and perfect B) optional
D) incisive, penetrating and probing C) voluntary
E) insane, mad, crazy D) vindictive
E) compulsory
3. That model, I'm afraid, is now considered obsolete.

8. One may well ask if it is fair to attempt to inhibit a
A) impartial, unbiased, fair, just person's natural impulses. But such is our cultural
B) immortal, undying, deathless milieu...
C) moderate, reasonable, within sensible limits A) alter and change
D) immoral, sinful, wicked; unchaste B) condition, mold and modify
E) outdated, superseded, disused, discontinued C) curb and restrain
D) penalize publicly
E) endanger, imperil, jeopardize
4. Poor health prevented him from accomplishing the

great task he had started.
A) getting rid of 9. It's high time we all went aboard the ship.

B) leaving undone
A) outside
C) giving up in despair
B) across
D) finishing with success
C) alongside
E) employing an expert to do
D) on
E) away from
5. I'm afraid you have completely missed the

significance of his last remarks.
A) meaning and importance

B) relevance
C) emotional effects
D) rationality
E) sensitiveness
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Exercise 1
10. It is a beautiful picture, but I must say the concept of

beauty in itself is related to a rather abstract feeling
one has.
A) intangible
B) difficult to believe in
C) indescribable
D) heavenly
E) repulsive

Exercise 1
Answer Key:
1: D 6: C
2: A 7: A
3: E 8: C
4: D 9: D
5: A 10: A

Exercise 2
1. That he would get himself involved in some accident,

in the end, was inevitable from the very beginning. 6. The captain wouldn't abandon the sinking ship until
the very last moment.
A) improbable
B) impossible A) stay on and go down with
C) unexpected B) save and sail
D) inescapable C) mend, repair and fix
E) unfamiliar D) inspect and report
E) quit and leave
2. She vaguely reminds me of my first wife, and this is

certainly a great disadvantage on her part! 7. You might borrow money from a friend, but not from
an ordinary acquaintance.
A) hatefully
B) joyfully A) a bosom friend
C) stupidly B) old age pensioner
D) slightly C) enemy agent
E) carelessly D) member of the family
E) somebody you happen to know
3. She was fined for abusive language.

8. He wrote a remarkable book towards the end of his
A) swearing life.
B) useful expressions
A) illegible
C) needless words
B) unintelligible
D) excellent oration
C) noteworthy
E) a foreign accent
D) inconsiderate
E) illegitimate
4. This is a complete edition; it is not abridged.
A) censored 9. Everyone says that Ali and Güneş resemble their

B) unfinished father, both in nature and nurture.
C) shortened A) eulogize
D) in manuscript form B) imitate
E) censured C) take after
D) perceive
E) pretend
5. His doctor recommended that he abstain from

alcohol.
A) drink more and more

B) stay away from
C) hate without reason
D) consume enormous quantities of
E) sell and make a profit from

Exercise 2
10. The Social Democrats are going to appeal to the 15. Corrupt political elites in the developing world,
Supreme Court for the repealing of the new police working hand-in-hand with greedy business people
laws. and unscrupulous investors, are putting private gain
before the welfare of citizens and the economic
A) confirmation development of their countries.
B) transformation
A) patriotic and humanitarian
C) cancellation
B) industrious, diligent, hard-working
D) approval
C) truthful, honest, sincere
E) applause
D) conscientious, high-principled
E) dishonest, crooked, chracterize by improper
conduct (e.g. bribery)
11. The minister was having an affair with his

undersecretary's ex-wife.
A) enterprize
16. There're very few left now of the Australian
B) mission aborigines still following their traditional way of life.
C) love relationship
A) veterans
D) business
B) archetypes
E) contract
C) natives
D) primitives
E) prototypes
12. Your excuses are all beside the point.
A) disrespectful
B) irreverent 17. I will not accept his services as a go-between. He has
C) irrelevant been ever so biased all through this case.
D) indifferent A) prejudiced
E) irresponsible B) impartial
C) bigoted
D) mindful
E) bad-tempered
13. I can see that you've terribly neglected your
husband all through these years.
A) refused and removed

B) forgotten and disremembered 18. Do I have to stay here and witness all this
C) not cared enough for absurdity?
D) accused and blamed A) great drama
E) obstructed and distracted B) nonsense and foolishness
C) tragic event
D) memorable occasion
E) incredible mystery
14. Most people hate and are disgusted by cruelty to
defenceless animals.
A) disprove
B) overlook
C) approve of
D) detest
E) abolish

Exercise 2
19. I want you to give me an accurate account of what

really happened there.
A) erroneous 20. Charity begins at home.

B) suitable
A) Being considerate and helpful
C) insincere
B) Bringing up children alone
D) harmonious
C) Callousness and wickedness
E) correct
D) Reciprocal violence
E) Indifference to others' miseries

Exercise 2
Answer Key:
1: D 11: C
2: D 12: C
3: A 13: C
4: C 14: D
5: B 15: E
6: E 16: C
7: E 17: A
8: C 18: B
9: C 19: E
10: C 20: A

Exercise 3
6. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have to put off

1. I can't quite pin down your general attitude on this the meeting to some future date.
issue. It's so ambivalent.
A) reflect upon
A) ambitious and aspiring B) cancel
B) ambiguous, vague and equivocal C) get rid of
C) emphatic but not empathic or empathetic D) convene
D) amphibian E) postpone
E) amorous
7. Thus the mystery was solved and he was found not

2. He wasn't alone in this. He had two accomplices. guilty.
A) armed robberies A) arrested for the crime

B) partners-in-crime B) acquitted
C) men of law C) taken into custody
D) high-ranking officials D) condemned without evidence
E) bands of outlaws E) held responsible for the deed
3. Send for the doctor at once! It's an urgent case! 8. If you could do a little repairing around the house,
we wouldn't have needed to call in a plumber in the
A) an emergence first place.
B) superfluous
A) mending
C) an anomaly
B) replacing
D) unusually sporadic
C) constructing
E) an emergency
D) furnishing
E) unfixing
4. The word "February" is often abbreviated to "Feb".
A) shortened to 9. They ran round the corner and then simply vanished

B) subsituted for out of sight.
C) transferred to A) decayed
D) preferred to B) disappeared
E) translated into C) blurred
D) deteriorated
E) reappeared
5. He was considerate enough to stand by her when

she found herself in that terrible fix.
A) passionate 10. He was acclaimed by all as the new world champion.

B) callous
A) refused and dismissed
C) consistent
B) accepted and recorded
D) thoughtful
C) cheered and applauded
E) cowardly
D) envied and antagonized
E) deceived and agonized

Exercise 3
15. A pretentious person is neither liked nor respected

-- nor, indeed, tolerated.
11. This is only a tentative arrangement. We'll decide on A) miserly

a permanent course of action later on.
B) reticent
A) inexperienced C) talkative
B) temporary D) showy
C) consecutive E) hideous
D) elaborate
E) disappointing
16. He was much disliked for his belligerent ways even

as a child.
12. You'll have to accustom yourself to their strange A) hostile and aggressive
ways of life.
B) weird and frightening
A) pay the penalty for C) repulsive, but still pushy
B) look forward to D) self-confident, but also self-centred
C) get used to E) smug and affected
D) ask yourself about
E) make yourself absent from
17. After two hours of intensive search, the police began

to suspect that it all had been a hoax.
13. Why should anyone have any respect for him? He's A) divine intervention
so unbelievably rude to everyone else himself, isn't
B) chance happening
he?
C) sporadic behaviour
A) impolite D) deceitfully false alarm
B) inconsiderate E) surprise development
C) wicked
D) insincere
E) courteous
18. I must say she's quite odd in her ways.
A) disgusting
B) punctual
14. You're not going to release him, are you? He is a
dangerous criminal. C) eccentric
D) pitiful
A) idolize E) incredible
B) execute
C) approve of
D) condemn
E) set free
19. His younger sister is married to a well-known
architect.
A) notorious
B) renowned
C) infamous
D) noble
E) atrocious

Exercise 3
20. She may be naive, but you'd be wrong to think that

she's stupid in any sense of the word.
A) sophisticated and cosmopolitan

B) willing and enthusiastic
C) young and juvenile
D) inexperienced and quite credulous
E) kind and compassionate

Exercise 3
Answer Key:
1: B 11: B
2: B 12: C
3: A 13: A
4: A 14: E
5: D 15: D
6: E 16: A
7: B 17: D
8: A 18: C
9: B 19: B
10: C 20: D

Most Common Adjectives In English MCQ Test 4 With Answers - Really Difficult
5. One must remember, every now and then, the

1. The ............... rules about the form and content of ............... remark once made by Leon Trotsky on the
term papers will apply to all written homework as realities of war: "You may not be interested in war,
well. but war is interested in you".
A) attentive A) dizzy
B) secure B) witty
C) existing C) giddy
D) coarse D) drowsy
E) responsible E) drowsy
2. My ankle is ............... from yesterday's injury. 6. Your ............... servant I am, Madam. I just receive
and follow my orders.
A) sore
B) blank A) generous
C) thorny B) costly
D) stale C) urban
E) grieving D) obedient
E) insane
3. The patient was quite ............... when I saw him in

the emergency room. 7. Yedikule Zindanı was a(n) ............... prison in
Ottoman times.
A) choral
B) youthful A) humorous
C) lucid B) previous
D) beautiful C) infamous
E) repulsive D) blushing
E) vulnerable
4. The ............... characteristic of a centrally planned

economy is, of course, the existence of a central 8. There is a huge difference between strong language
planning authority. and ............... language. ............... language for the
sake of ............... language is just ...............
A) mutual
B) double A) breezy
C) immense B) shaky
D) dominant C) filthy
E) mature D) weary
E) drowsy
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9. By the time she arrived at the emergency room of a 10. What justice can we speak of when we see all those
nearby hospital, the right side of her face had got ............... men living happy long lives in their
swollen and her vision was ______. evildoing.
A) blurred A) robust
B) lethal B) wicked
C) mixed C) abrupt
D) luring D) sober
E) bruised E) harsh

Answer Key:
1: C 6: D
2: A 7: C
3: C 8: C
4: D 9: A
5: B 10: B

Advanced Level Vocabulary Exercise - MCQ Test 1
5. The recent recovery in palm oil production in

1. Sponsorship is being increasingly allowed in schools Southeast Asia has led to a/an ----- decline in all
provided it is regarded as being ------- with vegetable oil prices.
educational curricula.
A) dense
A) considerate B) tentative
B) predictable C) clumsy
C) decisive D) abstract
D) compatible E) dramatic
E) provocative
6. At present, the rate of economic growth is very

2. As the new field worker will be working in close ------- satisfactory, but ------ when foreign competition
with several others, make sure you select someone makes itself felt, this will not be the case.
with agreeable personality.
A) enthusiastically
A) uniformity B) eventually
B) suspicion C) considerably
C) collaboration D) effectively
D) discretion E) preferably
E) productivity
7. Serbian ------ in Bosnia has been strongly condemned

3. The discovery of a ------- cancer-causing chemical in by the civilised world, but little serious action has
foods like crisps, chips and cereals caused been taken against it.
shockwaves around the world when it hit the
headlines earlier this year. A) conduct
B) settlement
A) completely
C) investment
B) potentially
D) treaty
C) constantly
E) compliment
D) radically
E) remarkably
8. In view of the severe economic recession, his

appointment to this office was regarded as highly
4. The study of the situation covers a great deal of ------.
relevant material but does not tackle the real issues
------ enough. A) refutable
B) persuasive
A) disturbingly
C) compulsory
B) outrageously
D) appropriate
C) vaguely
E) considerable
D) adequately
E) currently
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9. In a child, curiosity normally suggests intelligence

and is welcomed; but an ------ adult is best avoided.
A) indefinite 14. The objective of this project is to increase the depth

of awareness and understanding in the world about
B) indulgent
the causes and consequences of the HIV epidemic
C) indecisive through ------ policies and programmes.
D) impartial
E) inquisitive A) innovative
B) decadent
C) meagre
D) ambiguous
E) poignant
10. I am not ------ that the proposal actually will lead to
an improvement in the situation.
A) impressed
B) deterred
15. Launched as the new regulatory authority for the
C) convinced country’s banking and financial sector, the National
D) refrained Financial Services Management will extend its
E) intrusive activities so as ------ to cover more than 40% of the
national economy.
A) exceptionally
B) ultimately
11. It is a society that is ------ to waging war on all forms C) inherently
of environmental pollution. D) fluently
E) apparently
A) regarded
B) preferred
C) referred
D) committed
E) upheld 16. To the ------ of those who believe that the new policy
will help the company to get over the long-lasting
recession, it proved to be far worse than the previous
one.
A) competition
12. Many of the pictures sent from outer space are
presently on ------ in the public library. B) optimism
C) respect
A) duty D) sanction
B) display E) despair
C) account
D) exchange
E) reinforcement
17. In what is viewed as a major diplomatic ------ by

Turkey, Syria agreed to Turkish demands that it
abandon its support for Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)
guerrillas.
13. Organizations are often said to be theatres in which
people ------ roles in dramas, and psychic prisons, or A) distinction
political arenas.
B) execution
A) perform C) failure
B) allege D) victory
C) reinforce E) pretension
D) presume
E) betray

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18. Governments throughout the world ------ that the

welfare of their people depends on the economic
strength and wealth of the community.
20. He devised an ------ scheme whereby the rate of
A) enlighten unemployment in the country could be brought down
sharply.
B) commence
C) assume A) irrelevant
D) castigate B) unstable
E) accomplish C) ingenious
D) unfamed
E) illegible
19. Many early peoples who had not yet learned to catch
fish, hunt game, or till the soil ------ lived chiefly on
roots, berries and nuts.
A) undoubtedly
B) inconsistently
C) supremely
D) exceedingly
E) randomly

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: D
2: C 12: B
3: B 13: A
4: D 14: A
5: E 15: B
6: B 16: E
7: A 17: D
8: D 18: C
9: E 19: A
10: C 20: C

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5. Space research is largely a branch of pure science,

1. Due to the far-reaching research and the speedy independent of any applications which ------ from it.
innovations during the past few years, the computer
system we bought only last year is now ------, and A) enforce
therefore we have to purchase a new one. B) reduce
A) unmatched C) insure
B) obsolete D) restore
C) temporary E) stem
D) transitional
E) deceased
6. The most effective way to reduce the destructiveness

of earthquakes is to design and construct buildings
and other structures capable of ------- strong shaking.
2. In the 19th century, the mechanization of printing
------ the means for meeting the increased demand A) withstanding
for books in industrialized societies. B) upholding
A) prevailed C) embittering
B) alluded D) suspending
C) provided E) swaying
D) achieved
E) predicted
7. When the author moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1992,

his ------ was retirement in a climate less harsh than
his native, Chicago.
3. Although the Germanic tribes that forcibly migrated
into southern and western Europe in the 5th century A) withdrawal
were ------ converted to Christianity, they retained B) prosperity
many of their customs and ways of life.
C) rate
A) extremely D) goal
B) likely E) avidity
C) ultimately
D) indispensably
E) favourably
8. It is a curious ------ that the moon exactly does cover
the sun’s disk during a total eclipse seen from the
earth.
4. She is the oldest person in the village, 92 years to be A) coincidence

precise, and has a ------ word of advice for everyone. B) opportunity
A) fanciful C) convenience
B) credible D) resemblance
C) faithful E) comparison
D) futile
E) kindly

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9. It now appears that while US leaders are still willing 13. As he has persistently withstood all kinds of political
for the nation to exert itself abroad and give large coercion on this issue for so long, it is unlikely that he
amounts of foreign assistance, the American public is would ------ at this stage.
------ to go along with these policies.
A) reinforce
A) spontaneous B) dispose
B) unsteady C) compete
C) reluctant D) graduate
D) competitive E) relent
E) deliberate
14. There are many ways of ------ the incapacitated from

10. The range of measures permitting workers to reduce buildings: by lift, carrying or putting people in
their working hours or to take a career break is ------ temporary refuges to await rescue.
broad in Belgium; most measures are non-obligatory
and are based on incentives. A) refuting
B) exempting
A) relatively
C) evacuating
B) unequivocally
D) undermining
C) respectively
E) confirming
D) successively
E) sarcastically
15. The Civil War came as a climax to a long series of

quarrels between the North and South over the ------
11. Microstructural features in metals ------ affect what of the United States Constitution.
happens on a larger scale, particularly when systems
are pushed to their limits. A) occurrence
B) interpretation
A) randomly
C) equivalence
B) profoundly
D) reference
C) cautiously
E) liability
D) thoughtfully
E) recklessly
16. Even allowing the inflation, the prices are ------ more
expensive than last year, and as a result, I'm certain
12. English is quite an easy language to ------; that almost no one will be able to afford them.
nevertheless, several other languages, including
Dutch and Latin, ------ characteristics which make this A) slightly
far more difficult. B) scarcely
A) practice / exclude C) elaborately
B) exempt / undermine D) considerably
C) reproach / cover E) completely
D) automate / contain
E) verify / appreciate

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17. Amongst the issues causing bridge engineers much 19. Since words alone may fail to convey an idea,
difficulty, the most significant ones are those of ------ teachers often ------ such visual aids as pictures,
and repair. charts, and films.
A) maintenance A) facilitate
B) enhancement B) employ
C) evaluation C) exhaust
D) perception D) acquire
E) peculiarity E) amend
18. Until the introduction of the practice prepared by 20. As both private industry and government
DETR, there was ------ in the environmental departments tend to concentrate on ------ results,
monitoring of chemical accidents, with different there is a steady shift of scientists from pure to the
methodologies producing variable results. applied field.
A) acclimatisation A) lawful
B) expenditure B) optional
C) redundancy C) partial
D) precaution D) immediate
E) inconsistency E) harmonious

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: B
2: C 12: D
3: C 13: E
4: E 14: C
5: E 15: B
6: A 16: A
7: E 17: A
8: A 18: E
9: C 19: B
10: A 20: E

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5. According to the newspaper, the parliament is

1. Many members of the medical profession are of the working on a ------ that will abolish all higher
opinion that laughter, a common element of education entrance exams.
everyday life, has ------ therapeutic effects on the
body. A) refusal
B) proposal
A) hilarious
C) disposal
B) ridiculous
D) hindrance
C) awkward
E) horizon
D) morbid
E) valuable
6. One major aim of the new constitution is to prevent

the ------ of power by any majority.
2. The fact that safety belts save lives is both ------
obvious and also supported by an impressive amount A) misuse
of evidence. B) compromise
A) permanently C) completion
B) purposefully D) issue
C) conclusively E) existence
D) appropriately
E) excessively
7. I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture; it wasn't ------, but it

wasn't too scholarly, either.
3. Founded to promote the art, science, and practice of A) oversimplified

rehabilitation care for the people with disabilities, the B) underestimated
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM)
was ------ called the American College of Radiology C) overemphatic
and Psychology. D) underrated
E) overdue
A) originally
B) imaginatively
C) adequately
D) obscurely
8. As far as we are concerned, the evidence put before
E) eventually the court was not ------ enough to convict the man.
A) subsequent
B) conclusive
As we approach the challenge of the millennium date C) adamant
4.
change, more information is emerging about the D) earnest
potential ------ and pitfalls that might face the country. E) consecutive
A) perils
B) guards
C) aides
D) comrades
E) protections

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9. His poetic output may not be large but, nevertheless,

Ted Hughes is generally regarded as one of the ------
poets of our time.
14. People who are constantly in the public eye must
A) distinguished learn to remain ------ in the face of criticism.
B) excessive
A) composed
C) prolific
B) resultant
D) extensive
C) appreciated
E) futile
D) outrageous
E) restored
10. Through the winter, the bank rates were reasonably

steady, but they have started to ------ again.
15. They raised no ------ to his prolonged leave of
A) fluctuate absence since they didn't want to lose him
altogether.
B) exchange
C) improve A) refutation
D) incline B) refusal
E) intensify C) objection
D) refund
E) compulsion
11. The criticism he made concerning the annual fiscal

report was ------ to the point.
A) remarkably 16. As the conditions of the expedition are likely to be

severe, you had better take necessary ------.
B) immediately
C) incessantly A) trials
D) preferably B) precautions
E) incompetently C) efforts
D) objections
E) attempts
12. We will repeat the experiment twice in order to ------

the results.
A) vanish 17. It was felt that the EU had ------ on a programme of

economic change that the member states could not
B) spill
sustain.
C) verify
D) sneak A) surpassed
E) pinch B) relieved
C) embarked
D) specified
E) retired
13. Diplomatic relations between the two countries,
which were ------ during the war, have not yet been
restored.
A) defeated
B) established
C) severed
D) determined
E) featured

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18. To be a leader, it is not enough to be hardworking 19. The two major political parties in Britain are currently
and knowledgeable; one must also be able to inspire ------ to extreme and radically different approaches to
------. the solution of Britain's economic problems.
A) denial A) referred
B) restraint B) obsessed
C) discretion C) committed
D) confidence D) implied
E) reservation E) meant
20. I have looked through the report, but I must admit,

only ------.
A) carefully
B) thoroughly
C) superficially
D) seriously
E) experimentally

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Answer Key:
1: E 11: B
2: C 12: C
3: A 13: C
4: A 14: A
5: B 15: C
6: A 16: B
7: A 17: C
8: B 18: D
9: C 19: C
10: A 20: C

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5. Foot and mouth disease, also called aftosa, is a

1. The rise in energy ------ has led to a reduction in the highly contagious viral disease affecting ------ all
amount of fossil fuels that the world must use. cloven-footed mammals, including cattle, sheep,
goats, and swine.
A) redundancy
B) efficiency A) practically
C) consumption B) haphazardly
D) suitability C) secretly
E) conformity D) hardly
E) swiftly
2. I believe that leaders must make an effort to stay

open-minded and try to ------ another person's point 6. Industry as a whole was badly affected by the
of view. restrictions, but it was the high technology sector
that suffered most ------.
A) deplore
B) recover A) blatantly
C) forecast B) randomly
D) insist C) reasonably
E) appreciate D) tightly
E) acutely
3. We must find some way to give them a fairly

complete and realistic picture of the situation, but 7. The stars visible at night are ------ distant, which is
without ------ them too much. why they appear only as tiny points of light.
A) depressing A) commonly
B) intimidating B) eventually
C) restricting C) immensely
D) complementing D) intensively
E) embittering E) specially
4. Any child left to its own devices for too long is likely 8. Her parents spend their summers in the south, but
to ------ on some dangerous enterprise. their ------ residence, a luxury apartment, is in
Istanbul.
A) assert
B) entice A) favourable
C) embark B) traditional
D) reproach C) previous
E) reduce D) permanent
E) ordinary

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9. One defect seems inherent in a purely classical

education – namely, a too ------ emphasis on the past.
A) recurrent 14. Although the partners seem to be in full agreement

on matters of management, there is actually a ------
B) repressive
difference of opinion among them.
C) coherent
D) exclusive A) smooth
E) deceptive B) abundant
C) flexible
D) vast
E) relentless
10. The Kodak Company now faces stiff ------ both from
abroad and from rival firms at home.
A) renovation
B) competition 15. Admittedly, the engineer's report was relatively
unimaginative, but it was, on the whole, ------.
C) investment
D) commerce A) accurate
E) recession B) irrelevant
C) vacant
D) deceptive
E) wealthy
11. Many people think of the United States as a young
country, yet it has the oldest written ------ among the
major nations of the world.
A) involvement 16. He has behaved ------ on many occasions, so this

instance of impoliteness is hardly surprising.
B) concession
C) proposition A) shyly
D) treaty B) endearingly
E) constitution C) sensitively
D) readily
E) inconsiderately
12. A few people enjoyed the exhibition, but the majority

were clearly -----.
A) restrained 17. At the meeting, even though he spoke well, he was

unable to ------ the other members.
B) admirable
C) impartial A) complete
D) disappointed B) persuade
E) relieved C) reinterpret
D) agree
E) dispute
13. Thanks to various advances in modern medicine,

certain diseases that were seemingly incurable now
------ treatment.
A) consist of
B) yield to
C) interfere with
D) stem from
E) result from

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18. The United States has long prided itself on being a

melting pot of culturally ------ peoples.
A) diverse 20. As a result of the continuing economic recession, a

huge ------ in the budget seems inevitable.
B) redundant
C) incoherent A) redundancy
D) entire B) improvement
E) substantial C) profit
D) distinction
E) deficit
19. It is ------ ten years since AIDS caught the world's

attention.
A) formidably
B) generously
C) pertinently
D) roughly
E) inevitably

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: E
2: E 12: D
3: B 13: B
4: C 14: D
5: A 15: A
6: E 16: E
7: C 17: B
8: D 18: A
9: A 19: D
10: B 20: E

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5. If we are serious about suppressing terrorism, we

1. When the rate of exchange began to rise again, he shall have to ------ stronger measures than those
felt ------ to call a meeting of the financial staff. currently in practice.
A) obliged A) require
B) blamed B) revise
C) consumed C) adopt
D) omitted D) abduct
E) rewarded E) suspend
2. The new ceramics, which have little in common with 6. I am horrified at the turn things have taken and am
the chinaware we use in our kitchens every day, are convinced that he is ------ of much better treatment
being used ------ in engines and electronics. than that which he is receiving.
A) depressingly A) rebutting
B) seemingly B) deserving
C) increasingly C) defending
D) discouragingly D) safeguarding
E) obligingly E) indulging
3. When they called Mr. Smith to head office, I am quite 7. When an unknown but gifted artist is finally
sure it was not their ------ to promote him to branch recognized, his paintings can become valuable ------
manager. in the future.
A) avidity A) rates
B) impression B) accounts
C) prediction C) sales
D) disposition D) interests
E) intention E) assets
4. Locke Hobbes and Rousseau were concerned in their 8. The journalists asked the Prime Minister so many
writings with the question of a proper ------ between questions that finally he felt it necessary to ------ the
the public good and the right of individuals to statement.
exercise free will.
A) propose
A) balance B) refrain
B) demonstration C) clarify
C) responsibility D) undermine
D) interest E) exempt
E) solidarity

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9. Geological activity in this region has produced a 13. The argument he has put forward is hardly ------ with
landscape that is at once ------ and forbidding. the information we have so far received on the case.
A) wasteful A) reflective
B) cautious B) representative
C) discreet C) arbitrary
D) susceptible D) resistant
E) rugged E) compatible
10. The medieval struggle between secular and religious 14. If the situation in Somalia improves, a significant part
power came to a ------ in the 14th century with the of the allied forces will be ------.
rise of nationalism and the increased prominence of
lawyers, both royalist and canon. A) enclosed
B) withdrawn
A) influence
C) encouraged
B) popularity
D) recruited
C) climax
E) sustained
D) summit
E) dedication
15. More than 4,500 years ago, the ------- Egyptians

prepared the first paper from the fibrous stems of
11. It is ------ surprising that the art of ancient America papyrus, a grass-like plant.
remains the most mysterious and the least
accessible. A) ancient
B) outdated
A) urgently
C) fallacious
B) vaguely
D) mystical
C) indifferently
E) communal
D) elaborately
E) hardly
16. Few, if any, of the statements made could be ------

substantiated by concrete experimental evidence.
12. Bartok was influenced as much by the musical
innovations of Debussy and Stravinsky as by East A) intentionally
European, ------ Hungarian, folk music. B) successively
A) exceedingly C) restrictedly
B) notably D) impressively
C) appropriately E) conclusively
D) vehemently
E) adequately
17. The British entry into the European Community has

------ a new line of policy.
A) negotiated
B) confined
C) resented
D) constituted
E) refunded

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19. When the world population ------ the 5-billion

milestone in 1987, the United Nations estimated that
it would not stabilize until the record mark was
18. Dependence by primitive humans on their doubled late in the 21st century.
environment would not have permitted them to be
------ the effects of the surrounding world on them. A) surpassed
B) defeated
A) intrigued by
C) remarked
B) protected from
D) conceded
C) indifferent about
E) generated
D) surprised by
E) knowledgeable about
20. At the opening night of the new production of Aida

the guest soprano gave a superb, a truly ------
performance.
A) dazzling
B) declining
C) disappointing
D) recalling
E) degrading

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Answer Key:
1: A 11: E
2: C 12: B
3: E 13: E
4: A 14: B
5: C 15: A
6: B 16: E
7: E 17: D
8: C 18: B
9: E 19: A
10: C 20: A

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5. The allocation made by the budget committee can be

1. The topics included in the conference programme are used ------ to finance work on child health.
not as ------ as one might have hoped.
A) plainly
A) obsessed B) excessively
B) illuminated C) extremely
C) preoccupied D) remarkably
D) varied E) solely
E) disposed
6. Since the firm has been found negligent by the court,

2. Throughout most of human history, people's his claim for ------ for the accident has been accepted.
movements on land were ------ to those speeds and
distances that could be attained by walking. A) compensation
B) reduction
A) affiliated
C) employment
B) acquired
D) relevance
C) promoted
E) cooperation
D) restricted
E) inclined
7. I don't approve of the methods he is using, but his

------ aim, as regards the project, is admirable.
3. The French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet is ------ with
the earliest recorded observation of osmosis in 1748. A) conclusive
B) ultimate
A) fortified
C) controversial
B) credited
D) convenient
C) satisfied
E) deplorable
D) competed
E) detained
8. If he gets this ------, it will help him to recover his self-

confidence.
4. On the third day after the shipwreck, they gave up all
hope of finding any ------. A) accuracy
B) exposure
A) deserters
C) promotion
B) conclusions
D) activity
C) survivors
E) procedure
D) suppliers
E) discrepancies

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9. In 1883, before the electron was discovered, the 13. An election in which all members of a political party
Swedish physicist and chemist Svante August are ------ to select candidates is called a direct
Arrhenius ------ the existence of ions in solutions in primary.
order to explain electrolysis.
A) excluded
A) improved B) separated
B) reassessed C) distinguished
C) awakened D) entitled
D) alleged E) assessed
E) postulated
14. The most common type of government in the 20th

10. The testimony of the last witness ------ the accused century, representative democracy ------ in Western
off all suspicion. Europe, North and South America, Australia, New
Zealand, Egypt, and Japan.
A) induces
B) removes A) prevails
C) clears B) reinforces
D) surmounts C) commits
E) exposes D) enacts
E) stabilizes
11. By all means, give all the medical details but do ------
from giving any names. 15. President Bush's special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, has
stressed that any military movement or combat in
A) relent Northern Iraq should be under the overall ------ of the
B) excuse USled coalition.
C) deny A) supply
D) refrain B) reliance
E) respect C) priority
D) phase
E) command
12. Mark's warm and humorous personality ------

everyone at the conference.
A) enhanced 16. Although balloons had been used for military

B) frightened purposes for some time, the ------ use of the
aeroplane as a weapon during World War I was
C) confirmed especially troubling.
D) captivated
E) disgusted A) prevalent
B) equivalent
C) indifferent
D) resultant
E) resistant

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17. The mirrors used in Greco-Roman antiquity and

throughout the European Middle Ages were simply
------ convex disks of metal, either bronze, tin, or
silver, that reflected light off their highly polished 19. Even when his reputation was in ------, almost
surfaces. everyone was willing to admit that he had genius.
A) instantly A) retaliation
B) densely B) eclipse
C) slightly C) ascendancy
D) utterly D) differentiation
E) steadily E) rebuttal
18. The behaviour of light seems to have interested 20. No one can say for sure how ------ the awards have
ancient philosophers, but without ------ them to been.
experiment.
A) determined
A) disbanding B) effective
B) discouraging C) reducible
C) damaging D) effervescent
D) stimulating E) inborn
E) frustrating

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: D
2: D 12: D
3: B 13: D
4: C 14: A
5: E 15: E
6: A 16: A
7: B 17: C
8: C 18: D
9: E 19: B
10: C 20: B

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5. The theme of that play is quite complicated, but the

1. On the foundry, liquid hydrogen must be stored in actual ------ of the story is quite simple.
large stainless steel tanks with double walls filled
with ------ and evacuated to a high vacuum. A) summary
B) stage
A) grit
C) abbreviation
B) device
D) surrounding
C) insulation
E) frame
D) instrument
E) sediment
6. When Newton arrived in Cambridge in 1661, the

movement now known as the scientific revolution
2. That is our firm's ------ that the new law should be was well advanced, and many of the works ------ to
implemented immediately. modern science had appeared.
A) proficiency A) basic
B) consensus B) indulgent
C) struggle C) intrinsic
D) aggression D) brave
E) regulation E) strict
3. As she suffered from digestive troubles after too 7. Physically speaking, the Pacific Basin includes not
much eating and drinking during the holiday, the only all those countries bordering on the Pacific coast
doctor insisted on a strict ------. but also the Pacific island nations ------ across the
ocean.
A) diet
B) plot A) adopted
C) dent B) based
D) rife C) grafted
E) deck D) scattered
E) expanded
4. One should never ------ in the disputes of neighbours;

the best policy is to keep out of other people's affairs. 8. At the beginning of the 20th century, Albert Einstein
developed the theory of relativity, ------ that
A) interact Newtonian mechanics could not be applied to bodies
B) leave moving at speeds close to the speed of light
C) interfere A) alleviating
D) entail B) demonstrating
E) implicate C) admonishing
D) regarding
E) E) expanding

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9. The ambitious staff of the language learning centre 13. Census taking was not a widespread practice before
have shown great ------ in performing their duties. 1800, so it is impossible to trace the history of world
urbanization with any ------ until the 19th century.
A) gaiety
B) efficiency A) expansion
C) vitality B) observance
D) outcome C) rejection
E) consistency D) precision
E) capacity
10. In the operation of nuclear reactors, great care is

exercised to protect personnel in the area and to ------ 14. It is a book rich in ideas and beauty, a material that
instruments that are sensitive. ------ and tries to answer great fundamental questions
and demands the most active reading one is capable
A) persist of.
B) creep
A) raises
C) anticipate
B) attains
D) eliminate
C) casts
E) safeguard
D) alludes
E) accomplishes
11. The field of statistical thermodynamics provides a

deeper understanding of such ------ as temperature,
vapour pressure, and diffusion. 15. By the time the ------ child enters school today, he
has already spent more hours learning about his
A) resolutions world from TV than he will spend in a classroom
B) applications learning a college degree.
C) reductions A) parsimonious
D) spectacles B) average
E) phenomena C) transitional
D) temporary
E) vulnerable
12. Today's social security system is ------ popular, partly

because it is universal and partly because retirement
benefits are related to contributions, so most people
feel the system is fair. 16. Judging from her recent speeches to the public, the
Prime Minister seems to be trying to ------ the
A) extremely confidence of her people.
B) likely
A) execute
C) eventually
B) remunerate
D) indispensably
C) dispatch
E) favorably
D) regain
E) affect

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17. In the 1990s and early 21st-century, chemical

weapons became a growing ------ among many
nations, as a result of which an international
agreement called the Chemical Weapons Convention 19. Because he had researched the subject so ------, he
came into force in 1997. was able to answer all the questions he was asked
effortlessly.
A) concern
A) permanently
B) defect
B) practically
C) altitude
C) exhaustively
D) notice
D) unequivocally
E) feature
E) genuinely
18. Many local authorities are ------ opposed to the

introduction of comprehensive schooling despite the 20. The authors tried to meet the ------, nevertheless,
disadvantage of having undereducated people. there were only twenty-four hours remaining and
they knew that it would be impossible to complete
A) bitterly the novel.
B) deliberately
A) deadline
C) abruptly
B) circulation
D) conventionally
C) illiteracy
E) sardonically
D) entertainment
E) donation

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: E
2: B 12: A
3: A 13: D
4: C 14: A
5: E 15: B
6: A 16: D
7: D 17: A
8: B 18: A
9: B 19: C
10: E 20: A

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5. The ozone layer may still act like a protective

1. Architectural pressure groups fought unsatisfactorily blanket, but scientists continue to worry about the
to save a terrace of 18th-century houses from ------. sun’s ------ lethal effects.
A) construction A) potentially
B) evolution B) equivalently
C) maturation C) indifferently
D) enlargement D) approximately
E) demolition E) abruptly
2. A complete reconstruction of the origin and 6. They have had to agree to provide free lunches, but
development of the atmosphere would include details obviously, they have done so ------.
of its size and composition at all times during the
4,500,000,000 years since the ------ of the Earth. A) faultlessly
B) precisely
A) formation
C) exceedingly
B) distribution
D) reluctantly
C) hesitation
E) extraordinarily
D) redemption
E) occurrence
7. Unfortunately, few children behave in such a ------

manner towards the elderly and infirm.
3. Some analysts ------ that a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq
without Turkey would not only substantially weaken A) ridiculous
administration claims of international support but B) considerate
also do critical long-term damage to relations with an
important NATO and Muslim-populated ally. C) restricted
D) fragile
A) maintain E) progressive
B) disapprove
C) compliment
D) finalize
E) validate The development of the experimental method to
8.
verify theories had the ------ effect and there was a
rapid increase in scientific knowledge.
A) adverse
4. The government has recently made one million B) reluctant
dollars ------ for research grants concerning the
prediction of earthquakes. C) appropriate
D) erroneous
A) condition E) partial
B) available
C) suitable
D) consideration
E) vulnerable

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9. We will have to hire more workers soon; we can’t put 13. People from rural Asia, where breast and colon
it off ------ . cancers are rare, ------ get more likely to contract
those diseases after moving to the United States.
A) plainly
B) supremely A) widely
C) emphatically B) totally
D) intensely C) gradually
E) indefinitely D) extensively
E) exceedingly
10. When births outnumber deaths, the population

increases; when the ------ occurs, then it falls. 14. In 1990, the ------ of HIV infection in South Africa and
Thailand were both less than one per cent; however,
A) opposite today, Thailand's rate is 2.15 per cent; South Africa's
B) growth is 19.94 per cent.
C) share A) measurement
D) rate B) derivation
E) decrease C) establishment
D) extension
E) frequency
11. Industry is slowly realising that the manner in which

waste products are ------ of is of vital importance to
the environment.
15. Champions of the green movement regard the
A) forwarded internal combustion machine as one of the biggest
B) exposed ------ in history.
C) composed A) disasters
D) disposed B) rejections
E) restored C) admissions
D) denials
E) sensations
12. Discourse analysis is ------ labour intensive and time-

consuming, transcription of audio tapes alone being a
challenging task.
16. It shouldn't be forgotten that, notwithstanding the
A) extremely great prosperity of the people, Canada's initial
B) radically political problem remains the relationship between
her English and French-speaking ------.
C) reluctantly
D) coherently A) surroundings
E) incessantly B) combinations
C) circumstances
D) communities
E) personalities

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17. The general feeling in the court was that several of 19. Today, a wide spectrum of biological scientists are
the witnesses were ------ information that could have needed to develop the biotechnology of the next
a direct bearing upon the case. millennium and to ensure the ------ of life on our
planet.
A) expressing
B) avoiding A) explanation
C) withholding B) process
D) disrupting C) exhaustion
E) declining D) duration
E) conservation
18. The river Danube rises in Germany and ------ through

central Europe and into the Black Sea. 20. The distinction between a language and a dialect is a
------ difficult one.
A) cruises
B) spreads A) precisely
C) flows B) notoriously
D) conducts C) compulsively
E) covers D) suitably
E) flexibly

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Answer Key:
1: E 11: D
2: A 12: A
3: A 13: C
4: B 14: E
5: A 15: A
6: D 16: D
7: B 17: C
8: C 18: C
9: E 19: E
10: A 20: B

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5. While some smaller EU countries have roughly halved

1. Prior to the first European settlement of Australia, the their official gold reserves, the three with the largest
Aborigines numbered about 300.000, whereas their holdings —Germany, France and Italy— have
------ populace is estimated to be about 125.000 maintained theirs ------ unchanged, as have Spain and
130.000. Portugal and also the UK.
A) versatile A) exhaustively
B) current B) fundamentally
C) mutual C) indispensably
D) rigid D) indubitably
E) erratic E) virtually
2. The move toward a press free of partisan ------- 6. Theories ------- the nature, origin, and extent of
started in France with the founding of La Presse in human knowledge make up the area of philosophy
1836 by Émile de Girardin. called epistemology
A) sentiment A) consisting
B) emotion B) submitting
C) movement C) devising
D) validity D) respecting
E) prosperity E) concerning
3. I was ------ beyond words when I saw the picture of a 7. According to experts, many of the chemicals used in
baby elephant in National Geographic magazine. conventional waste treatment ------ add to the
pollution of the water supply.
A) moved
B) lost A) accurately
C) relieved B) daringly
D) struck C) actually
E) alerted D) considerately
E) relevantly
4. Poor countries lack well-developed clusters; they

compete in the world market with inexpensive labour 8. If we are to ------ the essence of today's new
and natural ------ . economy, we must look at it from a perspective that
reaches further back than the experiences of the past
A) resources few years.
B) requirements
A) propound
C) intellects
B) compel
D) distresses
C) advocate
E) solicitations
D) grasp
E) submit

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9. Until the invention of printing, the public had to be 13. In earlier times, when human population sizes were
------- with whatever information it was given by small and modern technology was developing, the
official sources, or it had to make do with hearsay effects of human activities on natural populations
and rumour. seldom seemed ------.
A) dedicated A) persuasive
B) satisfied B) respectable
C) thrilled C) arguable
D) amazed D) significant
E) stunned E) unfailing
10. Until recently, psychiatrists ------ that there must be a 14. Many of the critics clearly regarded several of the
single reason for drinking alcohol and therefore paintings on ------ as of poor quality.
looked first for differences between those who drank
and those who did not. A) discovery
B) display
A) distributed
C) occasion
B) embellished
D) approval
C) resolved
E) account
D) assumed
E) discharged
15. It was decided at the board meeting that more funds

should be allocated to getting the firm’s products
11. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ------ more widely.
seeks an individual to launch a research project on
the information revolution and its ------ on A) publicised
international affairs. B) priced
A) impact C) curtailed
B) involvement D) expanded
C) reference E) confirmed
D) linkage
E) comparison
16. The report issued by the National Health Council

draws attention to the hazards of ------ to rays.
12. Unlike Europe’s stone castles and cathedrals, A) resistance

America’s historical buildings are often wood-framed B) involvement
and so subject to ------ from moisture and insects.
C) confinement
A) caution D) exposure
B) deficiency E) implication
C) damage
D) obsession
E) frustration

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17. In every culture throughout recorded history, human

beings have ------ powerful tales to help explain the
inexplicable.
19. What really surprised everybody was that he saved
A) sought the company from bankruptcy quite ------.
B) departed
A) decidedly
C) sprung
B) relatively
D) woven
C) scarcely
E) revealed
D) unhurriedly
E) competently
18. There’s nothing very brilliant about the report, but he

has ------ collected all the data needed.
20. Russia has a fleet of 250 nuclear submarines, 170 of
A) infectiously which are ------ out of service.
B) recklessly
A) radically
C) considerably
B) explicitly
D) restrictively
C) indiscriminately
E) conscientiously
D) currently
E) conclusively

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: A
2: A 12: C
3: A 13: D
4: A 14: B
5: E 15: A
6: E 16: D
7: C 17: E
8: D 18: E
9: B 19: E
10: D 20: D

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5. The findings indicate that there is a lower ------- of

1. The first great theorist of dramatic art was Aristo, cancer among vegetarians.
whose ------ of tragedy in “The Poetics” has
dominated critical thought ever since. A) incidence
B) disturbance
A) solution
C) decline
B) reference
D) reversal
C) discussion
E) replacement
D) recognition
E) allusion
6. Scientists are ------- biotechnology to develop highly

effective drugs in the fight against currently incurable
2. Their state assets were ------ to foreign capital at diseases.
bargain prices.
A) invading
A) available B) justifying
B) unreliable C) exerting
C) recurrent D) retaining
D) constant E) utilizing
E) ultimate
7. ------ its focus on how language is used to achieve

3. The whole of society may suffer if its government is goals, discourse analysis may also be useful in
attacked; ------- the entire body is harmed if the brain exploring areas of persuasion, ideology, and conflict.
is damaged.
A) On account of
A) otherwise B) On behalf of
B) similarly C) In connection with
C) on the other hand D) In addition to
D) nevertheless E) By dint of
E) however
8. The relationship between smoking and lung cancer

4. Osteoclasts are cells that ------- bone in the normal has been heatedly discussed for many years, but
course of bone replenishment. until recently the evidence about it has been both
------- and conflicting.
A) show off
B) pull through A) exemplary
C) break down B) susceptible
D) put out C) compatible
E) cut off D) fragmentary
E) confident

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9. Medical science is advancing at such a pace that it is

virtually impossible to ------- all the latest
developments even within one's own specialist field.
14. He was discharged from the hospital but was advised
A) take up to return after a month for further -------.
B) keep up with
A) treatment
C) carry out
B) recovery
D) pull out of
C) admission
E) look down on
D) diagnosis
E) expansion
10. Patients seeking to ------- scars have several options,

depending on the depth of the scar.
15. Science requires the testing of its ideas or theories to
A) get rid of see if its predictions are ------- by experiment.
B) sort out
A) made up
C) take back
B) borne out
D) get along with
C) closed in
E) fold over
D) put off
E) sorted out
11. Atoms are ------- of electrons and a nucleus containing

protons and neutrons.
16. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by Becquerel,
A) joined who noticed that salts containing uranium -------
radiations.
B) linked
C) composed A) got off
D) kept B) held up
E) completed C) sent off
D) came up with
E) turned away
12. Visibility depends ------- upon the concentration of

water or dust particles in the air.
A) rapidly 17. In the past, too, people relied on plant substances to

------- a wide range of illnesses
B) obstinately
C) instantly A) recover
D) suitably B) undermine
E) chiefly C) infect
D) cure
E) restrain
13. This magazine is designed to help satellite equipment

buyers make more ------- purchasing decisions and
keep ahead of new developments.
A) representative
B) obscure
C) foreseen
D) informed
E) indifferent

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18. Some women are ------- troubled with backache as

they get older.
A) relevantly 20. The subject of statics is ------- the calculation of the

forces acting on and within structures that are in
B) consecutively
equilibrium.
C) continually
D) sufficiently A) taken care of
E) reluctantly B) turned up
C) kept off
D) given rise to
E) concerned with
19. A poorly-planned vegetarian diet will typically be
------- in iron, zinc and calcium.
A) unhealthy
B) deficient
C) varied
D) nutritious
E) essential

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: C
2: A 12: E
3: B 13: D
4: C 14: A
5: A 15: B
6: E 16: C
7: D 17: D
8: D 18: C
9: B 19: B
10: A 20: E

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1. I don't know how the nurse ------- the constant

demands of that elderly patient. 6. The latest figures concerning the company's sales are
certainly very ---------.
A) thinks over
B) changes over A) determined
C) turns on B) intensive
D) wakes up C) emphatic
E) puts up with D) reluctant
E) disturbing
2. As he has taken those antibiotics, it will be very

difficult to ------- just what the problem is. 7. On Tuesday, I'll be able to let you know ----- how
many people will be attending the conference.
A) turn up
B) give up A) mostly
C) put down B) fortunately
D) find out C) comparatively
E) look up D) precisely
E) immensely
3. The brain and spinal cord ------- the central nervous

system. 8. From the evidence, it seems pretty obvious that
someone --------- the office sometime during the
A) stand for night.
B) turn down
A) found out
C) make up
B) took after
D) get on
C) broke into
E) count on
D) made out
E) ran up
4. Air pollution is obviously one of the major --------- of

city life.
9. If it rains, the football match will be --------- until next
A) references week.
B) disadvantages
A) given out
C) attempts
B) put off
D) definitions
C) turned off
E) expressions
D) run through
E) taken on
5. The lawyer submitted to the court several documents

to --------- his point of view.
A) support
B) overcome
C) refrain
D) improve
E) alienate

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10. For the chemists of the 18th and 19th centuries, an

understanding of the chemical nature of food was a
major -------.
15. Many of the lesser developed countries find it hard to
A) objective ------- the more developed ones, due to the rapid
advances in technology there.
B) agreement
C) submission A) make up for
D) significance B) keep up with
E) estimation C) look out for
D) turn upon
E) run through
11. The green button on the far left of the machine -------
the volume.
A) interferes 16. Many experiments ------- blood composition are

carried out in this laboratory.
B) discloses
C) regulates A) related to
D) allows B) led from
E) arises C) followed through
D) contained in
E) denied by
12. You should have attended that lecture on durability

testing of fibres; it really was most -------.
A) irrelevant 17. --------- obesity results basically from an excess of

calories, in some instances, the genetic background
B) stimulating
may be a contributing factor.
C) dull
D) reluctant A) Since
E) feasible B) However
C) Nevertheless
D) Even though
E) Unless
13. His forecast turned out to be ------- accurate
considering how little information he had to work on.
A) lately
B) effortlessly 18. It may have something to do with the rising price of
medicines, but certainly --------- people are beginning
C) intentionally to show an interest in natural remedies.
D) surprisingly
E) heavily A) as many more
B) the more
C) the most
D) as many
E) more and more
14. The new engineer is highly knowledgeable, but can
we ------- him to lead the team successfully?
A) run on
B) put on
C) make on
D) take up
E) rely on

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19. Each year, large amounts of carbon monoxide are 20. The first two paragraphs --------- the particular
--------- into the atmosphere by automobiles and requirements of the digital environment as the source
factories. of data and as a means of producing maps and other
visualisations.
A) absorbed
B) emitted A) lay emphasis on
C) exchanged B) run out of
D) repulsed C) break through
E) compelled D) stop short of
E) look down on

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Answer Key:
1: E 11: C
2: D 12: B
3: C 13: D
4: B 14: E
5: A 15: B
6: E 16: A
7: D 17: D
8: C 18: E
9: B 19: B
10: A 20: A

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5. I'm sure the boy is not really backward, but it is

1. Syndicalism embodies the idea that workers, through certainly difficult for him to --------- the other students
direct action, --------- a general strike, should seize in his class.
control over the means of production and hence gain
political power. A) pull up
B) make up for
A) especially
C) keep up with
B) previously
D) turn down
C) tremendously
E) take over
D) respectfully
E) consistently
6. Every community in the world recognizes certain

activities as crimes and has developed its own way of
2. Even in developed countries, it is not unusual to see --------- them.
wage and job -------- against women.
A) depending on
A) separation B) looking after
B) difference C) breaking into
C) discrimination D) making for
D) insurance E) dealing with
E) diversity
7. The visitors were taken to the airport, and there they

3. The origins of stress vary from person to person, and were --------- by the assistant manager.
people --------- differently to stressful events.
A) made off
A) refer B) seen off
B) rely C) put through
C) adopt D) turned out
D) react E) looked over
E) appeal
8. The top research universities in the U.S.A. are -------

4. This hotel certainly offers a high standard of service the fact that women researchers are encountering
at --------- rates. substantial barriers to career advancement.
A) contemporary A) waiting for

B) competitive B) pulling out of
C) relative C) facing up to
D) conceivable D) trying out
E) reliable E) turning up

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9. His doctor ------- advising him to take it easy for a

while and stop all overtime but he didn't listen.
A) made up 14. As regards the proposals for the treaty on economic

cooperation, my government has certain ---------
B) kept on
concerning them.
C) ran through
D) left out A) complications
E) played down B) reservations
C) disturbances
D) restrictions
E) predictions
10. I'm afraid I can't ------- the signature on this painting,
but it has been signed.
A) make out
B) take out 15. The ------- concerning total disarmament have broken
down without leading to any fruitful results.
C) find out
D) turn back A) intentions
E) put down B) complaints
C) negotiations
D) commitments
E) involvements
11. Our understanding of the development of behaviour
has long been hampered by the tendency to -------
sharply between "innate" and "acquired" behaviour.
A) exclude 16. A well-organized company that knows its products

are of a high standard does not fear -------.
B) separate
C) distinguish A) conversion
D) infer B) concentration
E) assess C) competition
D) departure
E) pretension
12. Owing to the shortages in some building materials

and labour ------- in some trades, the building industry
began to make more use of prefabricated.
17. Nearly half of the world's countries have ----- capital
A) components punishment in law or in practice, and some two
dozen of them have done so formally since the
B) immunity
1980s.
C) reliably
D) cavity A) accused
E) scarcity B) abolished
C) executed
D) entailed
E) frustrated
13. In a blizzard, the ------- of very low temperatures,
strong wind and suffocating snow often proves fatal.
A) expectation
B) endurance
C) engagement
D) consistence
E) combination

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18. A hundred years ago the chestnut ------ a quarter of

the hardwood trees in America.
A) turned down 20. You should ------- this treatment for a further week by
which time recovery will be complete.
B) got through
C) made up A) take off
D) made out B) bring in
E) put down C) run on
D) put up with
E) keep to
19. Fats can only be ------- for energy by aerobic

metabolism.
A) set up
B) cut out
C) put on
D) broken down
E) turned off

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Answer Key:
1: A 11: C
2: C 12: E
3: D 13: E
4: B 14: B
5: C 15: C
6: E 16: C
7: B 17: B
8: C 18: C
9: B 19: D
10: A 20: E

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5. In his fiction, William Faulkner uses a complex literary

1. The main focus of the study that will be ------ by a style that seems to ------- his intricate themes of good
multidisciplinary team will be the genes and proteins and evil.
of organisms within the context of their informational
pathways or networks. A) fit in with
B) clear out
A) looked for
C) put up with
B) carried out
D) make out
C) made out
E) take after
D) let down
E) brought up
6. The government has ------- a set of new policies and

measures which are designed to combat violence in
2. During the measles epidemic, it was observed that big towns.
the disease had developed a ------- to certain drugs
that had once been effective. A) got off
B) found out
A) resistance
C) let down
B) risk
D) taken down
C) denial
E) worked out
D) scheme
E) condition
7. The judge quickly ------- his notes before sentencing

the accused.
3. Our metabolism ------- most of the carbohydrates we
have either into glucose or into glycogen. A) took over
B) made up
A) breaks
C) looked through
B) deducts
D) put off
C) converts
E) found out
D) destroys
E) collaborates
8. When Shakespeare died in Stradford in 1660, no

collected ------- of his plays had been published.
4. It is a fact that moderate amounts of sugar are
usually not harmful but, taken in excess, sugar can A) title
be ------ to our health. B) edition
A) vulnerable C) section
B) nutritious D) print
C) preferable E) manuscript
D) preventive
E) detrimental

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9. British supermarkets have more political influence

than ------- any other corporate sector in Britain.
A) often 14. Water and air pollution could one day endanger the
world's -------- of oxygen.
B) immediately
C) almost A) recovery
D) fairly B) supply
E) quite C) extinction
D) exploitation
E) decline
10. Several international treaties and conferences have

-------- the prohibition of chemical warfare.
A) put up with 15. The physicians are ------- pleased with the progress
the patient is making, and she may leave the hospital
B) looked down
tomorrow.
C) turned off
D) filled in A) randomly
E) dealt with B) slowly
C) successfully
D) carefully
E) nearly
11. Reflex behaviour is -------; it arises automatically in
response to an appropriate stimulus.
A) insignificant
B) invalid 16. When he referred in his speech to "biocomplexity",
most of the audience were surprised and -------- what
C) insufficient that word meant.
D) involuntary
E) inadequate A) expected
B) suspected
C) wondered
D) improved
E) rejected
12. To increase its exports, the company is ------ highly
motivated professionals with experience in
international trade.
A) applying
B) replacing 17. No plan is ever perfect, and strategists are -------
trying to refine their plans for future technological
C) agreeing innovations.
D) holding
E) seeking A) uniformly
B) formerly
C) mentally
D) constantly
E) equally
13. Iron is one of the most abundant minerals and the
most ------ to weathering.
A) resistant
B) reliable
C) convenient
D) reluctant
E) indifferent

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18. The proposal put forward by the research assistant

was immediately -------- by the committee and the
studies will shortly go into effect.
20. If the ------- of profits falls in one area of activity,
A) made for entrepreneurs may move their resources to an
industry where the returns are higher.
B) taken up
C) ruled out A) phase
D) put off B) liability
E) turned back C) level
D) supply
E) policy
19. Over one million wheat farmers in France have been

-------- business following the import of heavily
subsidised wheat from Italy.
A) put out of
B) brought up to
C) made up for
D) played down to
E) shown up to

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Answer Key:
1: B 11: D
2: A 12: E
3: C 13: A
4: E 14: B
5: A 15: E
6: E 16: C
7: C 17: D
8: B 18: B
9: C 19: A
10: E 20: C

test-13/
5. Evidence of racial bias in sentencing helped to

1. Almost all the villages in New Guinea are surrounded convince certain states in America to ------ capital
by shrubby zones where people have -------- the punishment in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
original rain forest and planted gardens.
A) keep down
A) kept out B) rule against
B) wrapped up C) put out
C) made up D) point out
D) cleared away E) break through
E) sealed off
6. In Britain the prime minister is still appointed by the

2. In many countries training for the industry has sovereign, but the latter's ----- in the selection
always been considered to be ------- the concern of process may now be said to be merely nominal.
industry itself, not of the state.
A) explanation
A) socially B) process
B) primarily C) exhaustion
C) suitably D) conservation
D) firmly E) participation
E) reputedly
7. He admits that he has not yet fully -------- the true

3. Recent studies have shown that smokers are more implications or the logical conclusions of his startling
------- to common colds and flu than non-smokers. discovery.
A) feasible A) given back

B) susceptible B) thought out
C) applicable C) played down
D) reliable D) taken over
E) responsible E) backed out
4. Even quite late in the twentieth century, many men 8. ------- populated, rural Northumberland is one of the
assumed that entry into certain professions was their most unspoiled countries in England.
------- right.
A) Sparsely
A) independent B) Nearly
B) exclusive C) Primarily
C) adequate D) Suitably
D) excessive E) Efficiently
E) confidential

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9. Anti-lock brakes (ABS) help you to maintain steering

control of your car even while braking on ------- roads.
A) lonesome 14. Bacteria have remarkable capacity for ------- tolerance

to previously lethal drugs.
B) fast
C) reckless A) acquiring
D) slippery B) denouncing
E) stagnant C) deceiving
D) repudiating
E) recovering
10. Few would ------- that corporations, especially the

multinational ones, are enormously powerful.
A) involve 15. If you want that post you'd better apply quickly; the
last day for ------- applications is Friday.
B) resume
C) promise A) reversing
D) disdain B) withholding
E) deny C) enforcing
D) submitting
E) committing
11. No -------- authority has the right to dictate whether a

state shall adopt a socialist or a capitalist economic
policy.
16. In this paper I should like to report some of the
A) comprehensive results of an ------- study of two hundred London
families.
B) outside
C) reputable A) extreme
D) irresponsible B) intrinsic
E) compulsive C) intensive
D) emphatic
E) apparent
12. Natural disasters have been defined as ecological

disruptions exceeding the adjustment capacity of a
community and ------- outside assistance.
17. For the present, the party is expected to put its
A) stepping up differences aside and campaign ------- for a victory at
the forthcoming elections.
B) putting up with
C) look after A) vigorously
D) calling for B) awkwardly
E) dealing with C) precisely
D) distinctly
E) reluctantly
13. A basic ------- of amphibious warfare is undoubtedly

command of the sea.
A) withdrawal
B) involvement
C) determination
D) concession
E) requirement

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18. Industry has developed rapidly in certain countries as

raw materials are ------- available there.
A) repeatedly 20. The problem of how to ------- the vast quantities of

waste we produce requires our urgent attention.
B) scarcely
C) consequently A) bring up
D) abundantly B) win over
E) indefinitely C) find out
D) put off
E) deal with
19. I wasn't at all impressed by the ------- he gave me.
A) distribution
B) explanation
C) determination
D) complication
E) negotiation

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: B
2: B 12: D
3: B 13: E
4: B 14: A
5: B 15: D
6: E 16: C
7: B 17: A
8: A 18: D
9: D 19: B
10: E 20: E

test-14/
5. The 1990s have seen a general ------- in aid to poor

1. Once the children have grown up I shall start countries, largely because of fiscal pressures in many
travelling again, and I'm really ------- that. rich countries.
A) passing on to A) consumption
B) waiting up for B) decline
C) looking forward to C) contingency
D) making up for D) conviction
E) going along with E) expenditure
2. The United Kingdom has made significant 6. The whole business of having meals at fixed ------- is
contributions to the world economy, ----- in nothing but a social convention and, in modern life, a
technology and industry. matter of convenience.
A) especially A) approaches
B) likely B) substances
C) eventually C) intervals
D) indispensably D) requirements
E) favourably E) proportions
3. Our challenge is to ------- our clients with the best 7. The ------- was not a happy one at the time, but
possible advice and support, enabling them to take looking back on it I suppose I’m glad it occurred.
the right direction at both strategic and operational
levels. A) improvement
B) regression
A) expand
C) encounter
B) consult
D) intention
C) improve
E) compromise
D) provide
E) respect
8. Questions of race, ethnicity, and religion have been a

------- source of conflict in American education.
4. Since most of the world’s commercial apples lack
genetic diversity, they are unable to ------- a disease A) previous
or a pest. B) perennial
A) put away C) vulnerable
B) hold up D) naughty
C) fight off E) casual
D) get off
E) break out

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9. The contemporary world economy differs ------- from

what the traditional economic theorists of the 1930s
envisaged.
14. In recent years ------- complex and persistent
A) primarily problems in economic and social fields have led
people to wonder why once comfortable answers no
B) likely
longer seem adequate to today’s questions.
C) conversely
D) profoundly A) generously
E) intimately B) inadvertently
C) increasingly
D) ingeniously
E) leisurely
10. When the rate of exchange began to rise again, he
felt --------- to call a meeting of the financial staff.
A) obliged
B) blamed 15. I was greatly impressed by the way the judge
conducted the trial, --------- when it came to summing
C) consumed up the case.
D) omitted
E) rewarded A) particularly
B) completely
C) sufficiently
D) effectively
E) respectively
11. Since the 1950s modern dance in Europe and
America has ------- a vigorous process of creativity.
A) cast
B) explored
16. Asthma is a common ------ in which the airways lining
C) constituted the lung become inflamed.
D) relaxed
E) followed A) diagnosis
B) disease
C) fury
D) patient
E) recovery
12. The assassination by terrorists of Signor Aldo Moro,
five times Prime Minister of Italy, in May 1978 was
------- by everyone as an act of barbarism.
A) applauded
B) appealed 17. I was astonished to learn how such an experienced
man as Dr Foster could be ----- by her tricks.
C) reiterated
D) condemned A) looked up
E) restrained B) found out
C) run over
D) made up
E) taken in
13. The recent economic figures --------- that the country
is slowly coming out of the crisis.
A) commit
B) imply
C) incur
D) evolve
E) invoke

test-15/
18. After that last incident, even the manager admits

that we can ------ their services.
A) go on 20. People curious to get some idea of what it is like to

be black in a country ----- by whites need look no
B) do without
further than Dennis Williams’s new novel
C) put out “Crossover”.
D) show off
E) break into A) tempted
B) undermined
C) perpetrated
D) run
E) deemed
19. Because of their high toxic contents, none of these
chemicals can ----- be permitted for export to any
country.
A) fruitfully
B) adequately
C) presently
D) notoriously
E) E) equivocally

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Answer Key:
1: C 11: E
2: A 12: D
3: D 13: B
4: C 14: C
5: B 15: A
6: C 16: B
7: E 17: E
8: B 18: B
9: D 19: C
10: A 20: D

test-15/
5. Progress in materials research is ------- to overcoming

1. From the report released today, it appears that oil such problems as the finiteness of the world’s
tankers suffer their major ------- on their return resources and possible shortages of strategic
journeys. materials.
A) spills A) crucial
B) costs B) inexpensive
C) repairs C) adamant
D) drills D) subversive
E) crews E) subsequent
2. It is plain that the United Nations will not lift the 6. I don’t know how we are going to ------- the expected
sanctions unless the Iraqi government fully ------- with surge of immigrants into the country.
the Security Council resolutions.
A) run through
A) matches B) cope with
B) elaborates C) put out
C) complies D) take down
D) resumes E) look over
E) accomplishes
7. He was rather ------ when he learned that his proposal

3. When the chairman tried to explain his views to the had been turned down.
shareholders at the ------- general meeting, he was
shouted down by them with cries of “Resign!”. A) hurried on
B) sent away
A) annual
C) found out
B) minimal
D) seen to
C) essential
E) put out
D) ultimate
E) recurrent
8. At the board meeting, his suggestion was ------ as it

seemed politically controversial.
4. The Jewish immigrants, who ------- the boat in
England, formed the bulk of the ethnic groups A) put out
arriving in a country historically wary of foreigners. B) taken out
A) took after C) held in
B) got off D) burst into
C) turned up E) cast aside
D) made up
E) showed off

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9. Despite the gusty wind, they were able to put out the
fire before it ------.
A) fell off 14. The operation weakened him, but he’ll shortly ------
now that he knows he is coming out of the hospital.
B) was taken into account
C) was held out A) watch out for
D) got out of hand B) put through
E) broke up C) keep up with
D) made up
E) pull through
10. Following the bomb explosion in the shopping centre,

the police have been warning people to ------ any
suspicious-looking parcels.
15. If a part of the city is ------- residential use, no one
A) rely on may build a factory there.
B) run through
A) borne down
C) take over
B) made for
D) watch out for
C) taken out
E) send for
D) zoned for
E) checked with
11. I can’t ------ the signature of the oil paint, but it has
been signed.
16. One of the disadvantages of growing older is that you
A) make out never seem to have the opportunity to ------ all of the
sports you would like to.
B) turn out
C) turn over A) catch sight of
D) find out B) make room for
E) take up C) lose track of
D) take part in
E) set sail to
12. Before I send this article to the editor, I would be

grateful if you could ------ it for me.
A) watch out 17. Aristotelianism ------ a geocentric view of the universe

and dealt with nature in qualitative rather than
B) look up
quantitative terms.
C) break through
D) take over A) held out
E) go through B) got about
C) rested on
D) sorted out
E) worn off
13. I had my doubts about her when I took her on, but
now I’m pleased to say that she has ------ to be a
talented executive.
A) taken up
B) run over
C) turned out
D) made out
E) carried on

test-16/
18. No one knows when the oil wells of the world will
------, but what is certain is that before they do,
alternative sources of energy must be developed.
20. The manager who was said to have revealed the
A) dry up plans so as to get financial benefit ------ after the
criticism from the shareholders.
B) run up
C) back off A) set up
D) drop off B) stood for
E) lay over C) stepped down
D) got over
E) broke up
19. The Congress have ------ a big problem in their

economic policy: the unions won’t cooperate, and
management doesn’t approve of what they are trying
to do.
A) looked down upon

B) cut down on
C) fit up to
D) got away with
E) come up against

test-16/
Answer Key:
1: B 11: A
2: C 12: E
3: A 13: C
4: B 14: E
5: A 15: D
6: B 16: D
7: E 17: C
8: E 18: A
9: E 19: E
10: D 20: C

test-16/
5. I heard that this morning someone ------, but you were

1. It has become a fashion among famous people to use out and they left.
some of their money to ------ needy people.
A) paid in
A) comply with B) joined in
B) run for C) called by
C) call off D) got by
D) provide for E) passed out
E) sort out
6. Among the Maori of New Zealand, each community

2. In our national policies, we should ------- growth of all has developed its own way of ------ crimes and has
sectors of our economy and not just the export chosen a number of different punishments to match
sector. them.
A) keep pace with A) holding up

B) run out of B) coming along
C) lay emphasis on C) dealing with
D) take advantage of D) paying for
E) bear in mind E) taking over
3. Medical professionals have always ------ visual 7. The population of the underdeveloped countries is
analysis to provide clues about a patients condition. growing so fast that the agricultural activities there
are unable to ------ the progressively rising demand
A) run through for food.
B) relied on
A) keep up with
C) caught up with
B) make sure of
D) watched out for
C) look out for
E) put out
D) bring up
E) sort out
4. Before the meeting begins, it'd be advisable to

remind him that he's not, on any account, to ------ the
subject of unemployment. 8. When sulfur dioxide emissions from electric power
plants ------- particles of water in the atmosphere,
A) look through they fall to ground as acid rain or snow.
B) take back
A) combine with
C) bring up
B) range from
D) break out
C) rely upon
E) make out
D) compose of
E) put ahead

test-17/
9. The two archaeologists have tried hard to read the

inscription in old Latin, but I do not suppose they
have ------ what it literally means.
14. Babies of our age are healthier and better ------ than
A) got away with those of the past and far fewer of them die in infancy.
B) written off
A) disposed of
C) taken after
B) fed up
D) made out
C) rounded up
E) brought up
D) looked into
E) cared for
10. It is hard for a tiger, especially an inexperienced one,

to ------ how to attack an animal that is facing it.
15. Before the plane ------, the flight attendant told
A) figure out everyone to fasten their seat belts and put their
chairs in an upright position.
B) keep away
C) rule out A) borne out
D) fall back B) closed in
E) run over C) turned up
D) took off
E) got down
11. I will be calling in at their office tomorrow, so I can

------ those documents for you if you like.
A) cut down 16. The atmosphere ------ the earth as if it were a huge
roof.
B) bring about
C) put across A) breaks up
D) pick up B) makes for
E) wipe out C) hangs over
D) puts off
E) runs over
12. Because critical periods occur throughout pregrancy,

a woman should continuously ------ her health.
A) keep in with 17. Popular protest and extensive media coverage finally
helped ------ change in the country's environmental
B) put up with
policies.
C) find out
D) take good care of A) keep off
E) look up to B) rule out
C) bring about
D) point out
E) break up
13. His theory seems, at first, to be plausible, but the
facts in his research don't ------.
A) turn up
B) add up
C) take after
D) make up
E) back out

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18. In the introduction to this book, the writer ------ a 19. This radio station is based in Chicago, which is 60
foreign policy that makes world peace the top miles from here. That is why the broadcast doesn't
priority. ------ clearly.
A) calls for A) turn down

B) holds out B) get through
C) keeps up C) come in
D) puts on D) make off
E) brings about E) put down
20. Whatever the pressures put upon him, I think it is

highly unlikely that James would ever ------ anyone.
A) walk away with

B) give in to
C) make up for
D) get away with
E) fall through

test-17/
Answer Key:
1: D 11: D
2: C 12: D
3: B 13: B
4: C 14: B
5: C 15: D
6: C 16: C
7: A 17: C
8: A 18: A
9: D 19: C
10: A 20: B

test-17/
5. He's basically a very resilient person, so you can be

1. In the early twentieth century, a number of scientists, sure he'll soon ------ this disappointment.
who had been trained as physicists, were interested
in the study of biological organisms, and their efforts A) make out
------ the field we now call “molecular biology”. B) put through
A) took leave of C) get over
B) made up for D) look up
C) gave rise to E) give up
D) showed up
E) fell part
6. In an effort to ------ the rate of inflation, many banks

have raised their interest rates.
2. I don't know how we are going to ------ the expected A) run out of
surge of immigrants into the country. B) watch out
A) run through C) stand by
B) cope with D) put out
C) put out E) keep up with
D) take down
E) look over
7. I would like to open a private old people's home but I

don't know yet how to ------ it.
3. In Ethiopia, primitive farming practices and A) look through

uncontrolled clearing of natural vegetation have B) set about
transformed much of the country’s highlands -------
bare landscapes, but all destroyed ------- erosion. C) rush open
D) put on
A) above / of E) turn on
B) for / with
C) into / by
D) in / under
E) to / at As my secretary will be away for a couple of days,
8.
would you be kind enough to ------ my
correspondence?
A) play back
4. Though only a handful of savants were even ------ B) bring off
Newton's existence, he had arrived at the point
where he had become the leading mathematician in C) take care of
Europe. D) return to
E) turn off
A) exposed to
B) aware of
C) content with
D) capable of
9. The committee has ------ the matter, but they have
E) appropriate for found no irregularities.
A) looked into
B) taken off
C) played down
D) stood for
E) made up

test-18/
14. Evaporation ------- the process by which a solid or

liquid ------- into vapour by heat.
10. Due to industrialization and colonization, the A) had been / resolved

nineteenth century ------ the greatest expansion of
B) was / had resolved
wealth the world had ever known.
C) has been / was resolved
A) brought about D) may be / has resolved
B) put off E) is / is resolved
C) held up
D) gave in
E) set off
15. The Etruscans, who ------- a great part of Italy about
900 BC, ------- from Asia Minor.
A) had colonised / originally came

11. For legal reasons, our lawyer wants to ------ the B) colonised / had originally come
papers thoroughly before we sign them.
C) were colonised / have originally come
A) go over D) have colonised / originally come
B) write off E) were colonising / might originally come
C) take in
D) pull together
E) check out
16. He ------- his paper by saying that the entire history of
human race ---- by transfers of cultural and
technological advance from one civilisation to
another.
12. As soon as the leak in the tank was noticed, one of
the engineers was naturally ------. A) concluded / had been marked
B) concludes / would have been marked
A) taken after
C) has concluded / was marked
B) run down
D) had concluded / is marked
C) made out
E) will conclude / was being marked
D) sent for
E) turned up
17. Economic recession and rising unemployment,

coupled ------- continued increases ------- retail food
13. There ------- many efforts to eradicate racism, but prices, have curtailed consumption.
very little success -------.
A) with / in
A) were / had been achieved B) through / through
B) had been / would have been achieved C) by / for
C) have been / has been achieved D) at / about
D) are / was achieved E) within / over
E) may be / will have been achieved

test-18/
18. The advance in the steel industry has been marked 19. He is diplomatically qualified ------- to negotiate for a
------- a progressive increase ------- size, complexity mutual reduction of the armed forces in the region.
and capital outlay.
A) enough
A) at / of B) though
B) with / to C) as well as
C) over / from D) not only
D) by / in E) also
E) under / through
20. We ----- no problems whatsoever with the dam since

it ---- forty years ago.
A) had / has been constructed

B) have had / was constructed
C) had had / had been constructed
D) are having / is constructed
E) were having / was being constructed

test-18/
Answer Key:
1: C 11: A
2: B 12: D
3: C 13: C
4: B 14: E
5: C 15: B
6: E 16: A
7: B 17: A
8: C 18: D
9: A 19: A
10: A 20: B

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5. Clifford Goertz, probably ------- famous anthropologist

1. I was forced to admit that there was a drop in sales in the world today, has revolutionised the way
towards the end of the year --------- he had predicted. anthropology is taught on campuses.
A) such as A) more
B) even so B) most
C) in case C) the most
D) just as D) the more
E) so far as E) a
2. The orders were that we ------- the area within hours 6. Activists are those in a political movement who insist
to prevent further loss of life. on taking active steps towards their objectives -------
merely putting forward an action program.
A) had evacuated
B) have to evacuate A) in order to
C) will have evacuated B) rather than
D) had to evacuate C) as far as
E) shall have to evacuate D) in that
E) so long as
3. The Deputy Prime Minister announced that it was

------- early to propose amendments in the legislation 7. The very idea of establishing a literary ‘canon’ has
concerning industrial relations. become -------- controversial that the people running
the Library of America have wisely avoided using the
A) as well as term.
B) just so
A) too
C) just as
B) as
D) as soon as
C) such
E) as yet too
D) so
E) more
4. The answer to the question ------- great art can exist

independently of religion will, ------, depend on
society’s moral and aesthetic values. 8. Thailand has lost half of its forests ------- its
population has ------- doubled in recent decades.
A) what / in the same way
B) even if / in due course A) as / more than
C) whether / to a large extent B) just as / mostly
D) so that / in short C) so as / soon
E) since / now and again D) in case / quite
E) because of / much

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9. As he was not satisfied with the contents of the 13. They haven’t met for twelve years or more, but I
document, he declined to sign it, and none of the understand they still write to --------- at a regular
members attempted to persuade him to, -------. interval.
A) also A) the other

B) too B) each other
C) as well C) themselves
D) either D) the others
E) yet E) one other
10. Under these circumstances he should never have 14. It was foolish of me to turn down such an offer; in
been allowed to take charge of the operation --------- fact ------- I think about it, ------- I regret it.
he was the most senior of the officers available.
A) as much / so much more
A) why ever B) the more / as much
B) whether C) much / as much
C) even though D) the most / so much
D) whenever E) the more / the more
E) so that
15. The scheme has been --------- consideration for a long

11. When the relief workers reached the scene of the time now, but I doubt whether it will ever be put
disaster, they immediately began to help --------- who --------- effect.
could do nothing for --------.
A) under / into
A) that / himself B) within / through
B) them / their C) for / to
C) those / themselves D) in / off
D) these / ourselves E) over / ever
E) us / yourself
16. It was --------- his efforts that the two sides finally
12. Holding a yellow umbrella in his hand, he said he agreed to hold talks --------- the principles of
didn’t know ------- it was, and added that it was not economic cooperation.
-------.
A) by / through
A) which / him B) ever / for
B) whose / his C) through / on
C) who / her D) with / at
D) whom / us E) without / from
E) that / theirs

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17. Why can’t you admit that --------- hard he works, he

will never manage to achieve what his elder brother
has achieved?
19. If our delegates hadn’t shown themselves willing to
A) unless come to terms, those from other countries -------.
B) whatsoever
A) would be, too
C) though
B) wouldn’t have, either
D) whenever
C) had not, either
E) however
D) have had, too
E) would have, too
18. Many more people would doubtlessly have attended

the debate --------- they had known in advance who
the principal speakers were. 20. In recent decades the efficiency of the United Nations
--------- by a growing number of countries.
A) if only
A) will have been questioned
B) while
B) was questioned
C) since
C) had been questioned
D) after
D) would be questioned
E) until
E) has been questioned

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Answer Key:
1: D 11: C
2: D 12: B
3: E 13: B
4: C 14: E
5: C 15: A
6: B 16: C
7: D 17: E
8: A 18: A
9: D 19: B
10: C 20: E

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5. It seems likely that, by the end of the week, the costs

1. They set up a liaison office in East Africa for involved in the construction of the bridge --------- by
marketing their goods but now they wish they --------- the Ministry.
so.
A) would have been announced
A) had not done B) would be announced
B) have not done C) are being announced
C) would not do D) will have been announced
D) would not have done E) have been announced
E) never do
6. In the past few months, our company director -------

2. As the decade ------- to wind down, Mark Morris ------- more mettle than most industrialists ------- in an
as our century’s youngest great choreographer. entire career.
A) has begun / had stood A) had shown / have done

B) will begin / is standing B) showed / would do
C) was beginning / has stood C) shows / did
D) begins / stands D) was showing / may have done
E) is beginning / has been standing E) has shown / do
3. As ------- of our employees can afford cars of ------- 7. If they ------- what sort of a person he was, they -------
own, they all have to rely on public transport. him their support.
A) few / them A) would know / didn’t give

B) some / his B) knew / won’t give
C) none / their C) had known / wouldn’t have given
D) most / our D) would have known / hadn’t given
E) many / its E) have known / haven’t given
4. Private investments play ------ important a part in the 8. Of the many attempts that ------- to regulate language
country’s long-running economic expansion ------ no one way or another, very few ------.
government dares to increase taxation on personal
savings. A) were made / had succeeded
B) have been made / have succeeded
A) too / that
C) are made / succeeded
B) such / as
D) could have been made / will succeed
C) much / so
E) are being made / may have succeeded
D) so / that
E) as / as

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9. I don’t imagine he wrote the speech ------- but -------

did so, certainly made a good job of it.
A) for them / whomsoever 14. He’s certainly going to recommend that the changes
in the structure of the company be introduced step
B) of his / somebody
by step; and -------.
C) by him / they
D) himself / whoever A) so I am
E) themselves / whichever B) so am I
C) so do I
D) I do, too
E) I also do
10. His proposal ------- the new social security policy
seems more viable than any of the others.
A) by way of
B) due to 15. Do you really believe that the party programme -------
it now stands, is democratic ------- to influence the
C) owing to vote in our favour.
D) in case of
E) as regards A) as / enough
B) since / also
C) where / as well
D) such as / too
E) that / even
11. There are situations ------- the best way to heal the
patient is to help him die peacefully.
A) from where
B) in that
16. ------- the recent rise in unemployment largely affects
C) whence eastern Germany, there is considerable unrest in
D) for whom western Germany, too.
E) in which
A) Since
B) In case
C) Although
D) Unless
12. Had they apologised for deliberately overcharging E) Until
me, I ----- a complaint with the Consumers’ Rights
Office.
A) will not have filed

B) may not have filed
17. ------- he was campaigning for re-election last year, he
C) would not have filed promised that ------- re-elected, he would undertake
D) was not filing to restructure the party.
E) may not file
A) Wherever / lest
B) Because / while
C) As / since
D) While / unless
13. An acorn, left to itself becomes an oak, and a E) When / if
geneticist ------- its DNA to make it grow into an elm
may justly be said ------- with its natural course.
A) altering / to have interfered

B) having altered / to interfere
C) to alter / having interfered
D) being altered / interfered
E) to have altered / to be interfering

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18. ------ the terms of the forthcoming trade agreement,

Japan wins parity ------- the United States.
A) Through / above 20. Of all the policies put into effect by the Thatcher
government, ------- controversial was the economic
B) By / of
one.
C) From / from
D) Under / with A) most
E) After / over B) the more
C) the most
D) more
E) mostly
19. We have yet to take ------- consideration the problem
of how large future national armies should eventually
be, regardless ------- their current size.
A) onto / at
B) in / in
C) for / with
D) under / from
E) into / of

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Answer Key:
1: A 11: E
2: D 12: C
3: C 13: A
4: D 14: B
5: D 15: A
6: E 16: C
7: C 17: E
8: B 18: D
9: D 19: E
10: E 20: C

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