TEST YOUR VOCABULARY A) salary B) ransom C) bargain

1- Water's physical properties make it ........ different from most other D) income E) expenditure
liquids — so different that nothing can substitute for it.
A) nastily B) vastly C) properly 15- Someone has to keep an eye on the new workers because they
D) wastefully E) decently haven't been trained well enough to work without....... .
A) declaration B) supervision C) efficiency
2- Japan ......... rapidly from a crushing military defeat in World War II D) allowance E) reliance
to achieve the fastest-growing economy of any major country in the
postwar period. 16- The ....... of American-made cars and electrical goods has led to
A) rivaled B) folded C) rose the domination of the market by the Japanese.
D) declined E) descended A) intensity B) involvement C) inferiority
D) illumination E) elegance
3- The suspect ....... stuck to his story no matter what the police did to
try to get him to confess. 17- The Chechens claim that Russia has ....... their country with its
A) uncontrollably B) vaguely C) frequently troops, while the Russians claim that Chechenia is not an
D) menacingly E) obstinately independent country but part of Russia.
A) abolished B) altered C) invaded
4- As a child, he showed such ....... to his music, constantly practising D) prevented E) extended
when other children were playing, that everyone was confident he
would be a great musician. 18- The meanings of some contemporary poems are so ....... that no
A) dedication B) hindrance C) attendance one really knows what they mean.
D) celebration E) development A) obtainable B) comprehensible C) narrative
D) obscure E) initiative
5- A good knowledge of English or another European language is
often a/an ....... for a good job these days. 19- So many political parties are ......... the election that it is unlikely
A) allowance B) demand C) encouragement that any one of them will get a majority to form the government.
D) requirement E) imagination A) awaiting B) serving C) sustaining
D) presiding E) contesting
6- Georgina often gets angry with her mother-in-law because she
always ....... in the quarrels she has with her husband. 20- We need to ....... our procedures because they are now so
A) complains B) interferes C) invades complex that no one understands them.
D) perceives E) encounters A) alternate B) simplify C) maintain
D) dedicate E) intensify
7- Students taking this course must adhere to a ....... timetable in which
all assignments must be handed in on time without exception. 21- When people live in the same house for a long time, they tend to
A) removable B) steep C) sensitive ....... a lot of possessions without even realising it.
D) lax E) rigid A) accumulate B) reserve C) stabilise
D) respond E) surround
8- We were fortunate that we had a spare tyre when we had a ....... in
the country. 22- Couples who have no children of their own often choose to .......
A) puncture B) delivery C) shortage children who have no parents.
D) breakage E) downfall A) adapt B) adore C) adorn
D) adopt E) afford
9- In 1997, two undisputed giants of the desktop computing world,
Apple Computers and Microsoft, went from ......... to partners in the 23- The heat of the fire was so ....... that the firemen were unable to
course of a business transaction. get close enough to put it out.
A) debtors B) alliances C) rivals A) orderly B) intense C) illuminating
D) aliens E) remedies D) accessible E) internal

10- The present social and economic ....... in China in spite of the deaths 24- It is remarkable how ....... some rich people can be; it seems that
of its most important leaders has come as a surprise to many the more they have, the more they want.
people. A) eager B) greedy C) reasonable
A) destruction B) stability C) confusion D) vacant E) anxious
D) menace E) interruption
25- When I was a child, the other children used to ....... me and call
11- ....... cameras, which give out the pictures right away, are cheap to me names because I was small and weak.
buy, but quite expensive to use. A) rehearse B) applaud C) destroy
A) Preventive B) Intelligent C) Formidable D) approve E) tease
D) Instant E) Durable
26- Mark is a/an ....... person whose company is enjoyed by
everyone. A) destructive B) abusive C) stingy
D) amiable E) disdainful
12- The captain decided to ....... his course after he heard on the weather
report that there was a major storm in his path. 27- Some people do not trust banks, and instead, they ....... all their
A) alter B) convert C) cast money and valuables in a secret place in their houses.
D) intensify E) diversify A) conceal B) counter C) screen
D) coordinate E) accomplish
13- With his oppressive attitude, the Chairman tried to ....... any
opposition to himself, but he only succeeded in driving it 28- Harry finally gave up drinking and gambling because he loved
underground. his wife, and he did not want to ....... his marriage.
A) encourage B) extinguish C) consume A) alienate B) interfere C) jeopardise
D) eliminate E) coordinate D) elevate E) paralyse

14- Our ....... has been too high this month, so we will have to be very 29- Luckily, the bomb squad was able to diffuse the ....... device
careful until pay-day. before it blew up.
 A) extensive B) explosive C) energetic 43- Some people can never live in one country for more than a year
D) flexible E) savage or two without getting ....... and wanting to move on.
A) settled B) sorted C) restless
30- Since the high command did not want to authorise anything D) glorious E) exhausted
dangerous, we had to make our plan look ........ safe before it was
approved. 44- My sister is so ........ of geography that she can't even tell the
A) distantly B) preciously C) dazzlingly names of our neighbouring countries accurately.
D) vaguely E) perfectly A) ignorant B) distant C) infamous
D) senseless E) distressed
31- The already depleted economy of the nation was hurt by its
involvement in the problems of one of its neighbours, which ........ 45- When it became obvious that there was so much water coming in
led to civil war. that the ship could not ....... for much longer, the captain gave
A) intentionally B) abundantly C) suspiciously the order to "abandon ship".
D) formerly E) ultimately A) float B) sink C) capsize
D) utilise E) harbour
32- The library has decided to ....... its working hours since so many
people complained that it was not open long enough. 46- I like to take my regular walk on my own because if there is
A) widen B) declare C) respond someone to accompany me, we keep chatting, which slows me
D) extend E) witness down and prevents me from walking ......... .
A) durably B) briskly C) briefly
33- In the United States ....... are very expensive and take place three or D) merely E) gradually
four days after a person dies, whereas in Muslim countries they 47- The Formula One cars departed from the starting line and .......
take place almost immediately. until they had reached their maximum speeds on the straight part
A) anniversaries B) engagements C) funerals of the racetrack.
D) celebrations E) circumcisions A) dispatched B) excavated C) expended
D) accelerated E) commuted
34- There is a very low population in the mountains with only a few
villages ....... here and there. 48- In order to learn who had won the election, everyone ....... in
A) planted B) scattered C) harvested anticipation around the television when the news came on.
D) domesticated E) attained A) concluded B) accumulated C) selected
D) deduced E) gathered
35- The ....... majority, something like 99%, voted "yes" in the recent
referendum. 49- When the flood waters finally ........ thousands of people found
A) intimidating B) established C) favourite themselves homeless.
D) overwhelming E) moderate A) retired B) splashed C) retarded
36- The workers who lost their jobs in the recent restructuring felt that D)receded E) Hashed
they had not been treated ........ and so they took their complaints to
an industrial tribunal. 50- A good bus driver will never ....... the lives of his passengers by
A) justly B) wantonly C) proudly driving too fast.
D) poorly E) inevitably A) sacrifice B) entitle C) endanger
D) establish E) compel
37- He received such a bad concussion in the accident that the police
had to wait to interview him because he was not able to speak ....... 51- It is difficult not to ....... with the plight of the native Americans
for days. who were riven off their land and killed by white settlers.
A) cooperatively B) coherently C) elegantly A) descend B) benefit C) destroy
D) reluctantly E) passionately D) eliminate E) sympathise

38- As we tried to find our way in the fog, we could hear a voice calling 52- The invention of the telegraph ....... people to communicate
........ as if from a long way off. quickly over long distances for the first time.
A) wantonly B) fatally C) faintly A) enabled B) replaced C) controlled
D) powerfully E) unconsciously D) implemented E) achieved

39- When the bus was an hour late leaving, I was surprised at how ....... 53- World population remained fairly stable until the medical
everyone waited, with no one complaining to the driver. advances of the 18th and 19th centuries, but since then it has been
A) furiously B) controllably C) innocently increasing ....... .
D) arrogantly E) patiently A) properly B) coincidentally C) indignantly
D) diligently E) steadily
40- The name Ararat, as it appears in the Bible, is the Hebrew .......... of
Urartu, the name of an Assyrian-Babylonian kingdom that 54- Because it is surrounded by high mountains and inhospitable
flourished between the Aras and the Upper Tigris rivers from the terrain, Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, has always been one of the
9th to the 7th century BC. ....... cities in the world.
A) equivalent B) encounter C) disdain A) obvious B) reluctant C) stimulating
D) invasion E) expansion D) remote E) elevated

41- Harry thought the company could not do without him, but when the 55- This knife has become so blunt that it won't cut anything; isn't
boss fired him, he told him quite bluntly that no one is ....... . there some way to ....... it?
A) inevitable B) indispensable C) regrettable A) fold B) sharpen C) repair
D) tolerable E) unfavourable D) solve E) innovate

42- Though most people today seem to study languages to further their 56- A long race like the marathon is more a test of ....... than of
careers, a few people still do it ....... for the enjoyment of being able speed.
to talk to people of other cultures. A) stability B) balance C) endurance
A) unnaturally B) incessantly C) consistently D) elegance E) distinction
D) accurately E) purely
57- When Jessica grinned and told Tom he was the most attractive man
she had ever seen, he did not realise she was speaking ....... and
meant precisely the opposite of what she said.
A) sensibly B) regretfully C) sensitively
D) mournfully E) sarcastically

58- After his ....... to get into university, it seemed that the only career
open to him was shining shoes.
A) defeat B) neglect C) collapse
D) decline E) failure
59- By ....... attacking on two fronts, the general hoped to force the
enemy into spreading their forces too thinly.
A) coincidentally B) simultaneously C) comparatively
D) passionately E) strictly

60- As the rescue team dug its way towards the trapped miners, their
families clung ....... to the slim hope that they might be found alive.
A) desperately B) ambitiously C) cunningly
D) eventfully E) innocently

TEST YOUR VOCABULARY

1. B 2. C 3. E 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. E 8. A 9. C 10. B

11. D 12. A 13. D 14. E 15. B 16. C 17. C 18. D 19. E 20. B

21. A 22. D 23. B 24. B 25. E 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. E

31. E 32. D 33. C 34. B 35. D 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. E 40. A

41. B 42. E 43. C 44. A 45. A 46. B 47. D 48. E 49. D 50. C

51. E 52. A 53. E 54. D 55. B 56. C 57. E 58. E 59. B 60. A