Test Your|V © [Test Your|V 0 Test Your Vocabulary 4 is the fourth in a series of Cover aesared ny five best-selling Test Your Vocabulary books. This __"" "* Pesen fully revised and updated edition features 60 varied ‘and enjoyable vocabulary tests covering the most important words and phrases needed by “upper-intermediate level students, Image Bane Also look out for: 60 tests for practising essential vocabulary at upper intermediate level Wide variety of tests, including crosswords, cartoons, fil-the-gaps, and many more Tips on learning vocabulary A-Z word list and full answer key Ideal for self-study and classroom use [5] Advanced (| Aas | Upper intermediate =| 18+ Insormedate 2-18 Pee-intermodiate Primery Elementary Bogioner Pearson Education Limited 9 | | = www.penguinenglish.comTest Your Vocabulary 4 Peter Watcyn-Jones and Mark Farrell PENGUIN ENGLISHPearson Education Limited erg ae Contents Hadlow Esoox M20 246, Engand Tothe student " 6 fre asseltd Companion troughs wot FU conaners 1 * (2) Useta every ehases 2 ISBNO 582 451696 im {Ell wetamctsen cia 48 anes (85. Comectons ” Fist econ publered 1980, 1996 HBB ocean equipment © (86) Puzd tout - who wen the FA ‘This edition punished 2002 1B) Word buieing 1 7 Cup? 48 Text copyight © Petr Watoynones 1968, 2002 BL wnat axe they Wo? 8 [BA Words ending n-o 0 “ext copytigh © Mark Fel 2002 TF oats the house 9 BB Prvasal vets 3 © ‘Thad impression 2004 [Boo many words 10 [91 British and Amorcan English — 62 Designed nd typesetting by Pantek Arts Li, Maidstone, Kent BB concn nave 12 Ml rector tortasy? = Test Yur ormat cis by Peter Viton Jones 0) cacaton 14 il Prepostions aterveros St tnusratons by Ruoer Bes, Martn Fh, Vince Sfcoex and Mark Watkrnn AN crash, bang , wit 16 2) Newspeper mses 5 Printed in Cringe: AR) Prepostions 7 “The environment 6 ec (AS, Prrasal eros 1 18 8) Muscat netuments 5 All ighis reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval 18 Word batcina 2 20 AB) Choose the word 2 oe _ystem, oF transmited in any form or by any mens, electronic, mechanical, Lets watch TV! 21 HB) synonyms 1 © Photocopying, recording or otherwise, wou! the por writen permission of the AB) Pans of ne body 22 (BML Contising words 2 @ Preishes. AZ Words begieing winin- 24 TAB) Detter — money words 6 IB) wnat ist pnt of? 25. (49) ight or wrong? 6 el emt ried a Bh ort 2 pone « companies being subsiciaries of Pearson pk. tnymring words 120) ‘Parts of the body’ expressions 28 Aregare 6 (2H insects 30 (52) Feelngs eo 2 Prvaal verbs 2 31 (58) wo said nar? « (23, ceassitcaions 82 BAL Croose the werd 3 70 ssneoes 38 (5B) Adectres and nouns rR (25. Conlusng words 1 84 (BB) One word, womeanings 73 [26 Word bung 9 35. [BA Crazy defnitions ™ (22, Fuitandvegetatios 38 (58) Take away alter 75 (Cars and roads 38 (58) synonyms 2 76 BB aithe crema 40 (60) cwdone ot 7 For a complet st ofthe ts avaiable rom Penguin English please vk ou Hime ° Website at wivn:penguinenglsh.com, or write to your local Pearson Education office arte - at orto: Pengun ehgish Mafatng Depart Parson Educate, Enh Gale, [BH cotntors—trermageot Ars a business 42, Word lst 5 lato, Essex CMO 206.To the student ‘This book can really help you to increase your English vocabulary white having ‘un, Most of the tests cover a particular vocabulary area — for example, 1001, shapes, computers, muscial instruments, and so on. Others are based on word types ~ for example, prepostions, phrasel verbs or collective nouns. ‘There are also tests on rhyming, words, words that sound the same and ‘words that belong in the seme group. Just choose the vocabulary area or ‘word type you want to work on, and use the contents lst to find the right test for you. Or simply choose a test because you tke the look of the activity or the ilustretion on that page. So if you Teel tke doing a crossword, choose a ‘crossword. i you fe! like looking at cartoons, try one of the tests where you match a caption to @ picture. Enjoying the tests isthe surest way of learing ‘new words fast. Theres no nead to stat at the beginning and werk through ‘eveny test in the book, The tests at the end are ne harder then the ones atthe beginning “There are tip boxes for many ofthe tests. Some point you to other tests in the: ‘same vocabulary area, Others give cultural information related to wares on thet page. There are also jokes, tips on ways to learn vocabulary, and notes on speling patterns. To got new words fixed in your mind, you wil need to do each test more than conee, So use @ pencil to write the answers in the book when you test yoursel Then, wen you've checked your answers ancl looked caretuly at the words you didn’t know or got wrong, you can rub out your answers ready forthe rex! time you try that test. Each test wil tke you between five and fifteen minutes to do the fist time but the next time you do it, you wil probably be ‘much quicker. ‘There is no progression in dificulty within each book. However, the five books in the Test Your Vocabulary series are carefully graded from Book 1, which is for beginners, to Book 5, which is for advanced students. If you find this book 's too hard for you, try the next one down. (Good luck with learning the words in this book. And we hope you enjoy using the words in eal situations once you've learnt them here. Peter Waloyn-Jones and Mark Farrall - 1 Containers ite the numbers of the pictures next to the corect words), barrel lth... ice box — can _—_ mug — cD case _—_ rucksack carrier bag —_ shoulder bag — dustbin 25 sponge bag — filing cabinet —_ ‘wastepaper basket2 Useful everyday phrases Fillin the speech bubbles in the cartoons, using one sentence from each column, GY Excuse me, is anyone A pleasure. sitting here? ie . ‘Ah welll Thay’ lift (2) Do you mind if switch the Light off? FE) Certainly. Here you are (3) Could 1 borrow your EB vo, see mobile? My battery is flat Sate [Bl No, please don't. (BL twish hadnt said that t0 [feel frightened enough ber with it on. {5} rm sorry I'm late. AL Ob, 1'm 50 please to hear 1B) May 1 come in? Xe [Pass the sat, please. (Bl Oh, that’s alright, You got the job {3 Thanks forthe Amina, You are joking, aren't you, 19) the baby's much better “eo m now. WL Yes, of course, what HO) You couldn't give me a baat hhand, could you? 7 (Yes, please do. 2 Tost Your Vocabulary 4 Tost Your Vocabulary 4 33 The press conve hecosso why sn ts wr ‘acvertising article caption cartoon circulation column cover crosswords editor editorial headline journalist management newsagent reviewer section tablold words: 4 Test Your Vocabulary 4 Across A You must read the about Bill Gates on the business page. (7) 5) I'd love tobea , but it's difficult to get jobs on. newspapers. (10) 9) The of The Sun newspaper is well over three million, (11) 40) Nothing gets into the paper without the 's approval. She's tough. (6) 1) Would you go down to the and get me a copy of, The Telegraph, please? (9) Down 2) There's a great picture of the desert on the front of ‘the National Geographic magazine this month. (5) 3) The under the photo says ‘The Prime Minister In Liverpool today’, but the photo actually shows a horse falling over! (7) 4) The main in The Mirror today is TV STAR LOSES ‘TROUSERS (8) ©) The Mirrorisa newspaper ~ that means it is small and it contains a lot about sport and television. (7) 7 There's a fascinating article about new Russian poetry in the Arts 2) aA isa funny drawing with a caption or a speech bubble. (7) Reading Engish inquane newspapers is an excellant way of increasing your ‘vocab, They ate aways up-to-date, urtke Looks. Read aries which ye: aeady Low something about then you can guess a bt ofthe difcut words ‘ost Your Vocabulary 4 §4 Tools and equipment 5 Word building 1 Wit the rumber ofthe picture nt othe comect ork Use the word onthe ght to mak 2 new word which fs hth sntance ee 5 ton spade (G0 Money can't buy you_heppiness rat lst HAPPY ne ee — that's what some people say - air of pliers spit evel P = (2) don't think guns are__ toys for sur tape measure sw pry young cide di screwautver chain saw (3) Alexander Graham Bell developed the st telephone in 1876, Did he have any idea how important his would become? ==INVENT I come ont You can do kt There’s no such words Posstmt [BI The tobacco companies understood the aaccnannnamtfects of smoking for HARM Tong line but kept qulet about them. (BE Towards the end ofthe 20th century, Microsoft became the worlds most company. SUCCESS 7 Kate Winsiets____isthe only PeRronst good thing about tis im, §B) The England football team has some talent, bout were al about thee oust chances Inte World Cup. (B) Frightened? I was absolutely ! TERROR 10 Adam istoo__. All T said was. ‘SENSE [did't like his new hai colou, and now he ron’ speak tome ‘Ti [was kept__last night by another ‘WAKE crazy party in the ft below me. Ht xnow Hary is physically a arrract bute sa bt boring, tnt he? HB) You havea problem, and t'm very | syMPATHIY But I'm not in a position to lend you money. 4G Test Your Vocabulary 46 What are they like? 7 Outside the house Use the words in the box to describe the people below. Write the numbers ofthe picture next lo the corect word) absent-minded bossy generous imputsive _-neecieve- beset 4 iia — laid-back punctual relable shy wily bricks porch conservatory shed Andrew can never make up his mind about anything, Just don’t aeainpipe sine offer him a choice! indecisive rive — ‘window sill 2) Carlos is not rich, but he always buys us drinks. 3) Claudia has never been late for a class ~ not once in seven, months! A) 1 can’t believe that guy Klaus, One day he just walked out of the lass and went to Peru. 5) Jana doesn’t seem to worry about anything. I wish I was more like her! 1) Mille tries to dominate the class. She really pushes everyone around. 7) Poor Sandra! Recently she left her laptop computer at a bus stop. 8) _Ruth is very sweet, but she never speaks unless you speak fo her first. 9 When the teacher asks questions, Naseem always has a funny “The Wer! hoUse is sometimes Used as a general tem to mean Hause oF You can always depend on Ashok. ‘iat Forexcerple, we talk about housework (never about ftwevk ard ——— house prces. 1 Test Your Voesbulary « Test Your Voeabulary 4 9a 2 Se a Too many words FRoplace the words in bold type in the folowing sentences with a single word from the box. ‘apologized —elmosphere biography emergency exhausted hitchhiking insomnia nephew optimise: outsiats regretted shelter souvenirs starrina surgeon (1) He was a happy person who was always expecting the best to happen (__optimistic _). 12) He was very sorry for (__) what had happened. He felt that it was his fault. He had great resistance to tiredness ( 9 and could run for hours without stopping. ‘4 I sometimes read in the middle of the night, as I suffer from a serious inability to sleep ( d. I've just read a very good account of the life — of Fidel Castro. ‘The manager of the hotel said she was sorry (___) for alt the problems we had experienced. And she offered a discount! 17) since the age of about ning, I've always wanted to be a person who performs operations at a hospital ( >. 10 Test Your Vocabulary 4 3B It was a terrible storm and on the bare mountainside there was nowhere to get out of the bad weather ( ) By the way, this is my brother's son ( 3, Roger. | was totally tired and worn out (__) after running the London Marathon. ‘Too much carbon dioxide is now entering the layer of air and _gases surrounding the Earth ( —____) I tried standing by the road with my thumb in the air (__}, but nobody stopped ~ so I took the bus. Quick! Call an ambulance, This is an extremely dangerous situation in which we must act fast ( d ‘We met in a cheap hotel, somewhere in the area of housing a Jong way from the centre ( —____. ‘The shop next to the Tower of London sells cheap things to remind you of your visit ( )= well, they look cheap, but actually they're quite expensive! ‘est Your Vocabulary 411Ra Ee 9 Choose the word 1 ‘Choose the best word to compete each sentence. (After hours of walking across the desert they thought they saw an oss, but they were wrong. There was nothing there; twas only a__mirage —. a) ghost @)mirage trick a) mirror (2) The boxer recovered, although he had been for ten minutes after the fight. His doctor has told him to give up fighting. a) unconscious b) asleep) stopped) ignorant because of bad weather 3 Today's football match has been ‘They will play next Thursday instead, a) put away b) cancelled) decided d) postponed. 4 If workers and bosses cannot agree, they sometimes bring in professionals from outside to in the dispute. a) settle by decide) arbitrate d) compromise 12 Test Your Vocabulary & 15) The soldiers around the square in a perfect display of discipline, watched by the President and his foreign guests. a) walked) marched) strolled 4) ran 18) ‘The very idea of my sister being a thief is quite 1 She is 4 qualified dentist, a mother of three and a governor of a primary school. a) risky b) dishonest) futile d) absurel the train for several hours. (7) Heavy snow 2) cancelled) hindered 6) delayed «) postponed 1B) According to the weather sow tomorrow. , there will be more ) programme b) information ¢) forecast d) news 9) liked her. She gave me the which is quite unusual. of being clever but modest, 4a) impression) thought) idea 4) picture 10 The of the ship now lies under 300 metres of water, and ‘we shall probably never discover its secrets a) crash b) body ) corpse d) wreck PP seman oa en et eee Test Your Vocabulary 4 13es Ra Education ens Heres et re aii erg iors MOTT Ee 18) _1f you want to know which day or time you have a particular lesson, you can always look at the boarding compulsoy cureukim head teacher nursery schoct a “subjects primary school secondary school single-sex staff FO) A___senoot i one where pupil live during term- syaous toms tietebie unversy ‘tie and only go liome to ther fanilies i the holidays. 11) My favourite__subjects are Music, Maths and French, ‘The education system in England and Wales hate History. Age 18 + 2) They made all these changes to the school without consulting the ~ that Is, the teachers and the cleaners and so on. Age 11-18 18) School is in England and Wales, a itis in most countries. But some children manage to avoid school, somehow or other. a schools (boys-only or girls-only) are becoming, popular again - at least with parents! In England and Wales, the school year is divided into three ‘The person in charge of a school is called the ‘This school has a modern including subjects such as Business Studies, Media Studies and IT. ‘The History {his year includes the fall of, communism, the 1960s in the USA, and South Africa in the 20th, century. 14 Test Your Vocabulary 4 ‘Test Your Vocabulary 415,1 | Crash, bang, whirr! 1 2 Prepositions \Wiite the correct noise word under each of the pictures. bang buzz crack crash fez ingle pop snap tick whitr cutof atin on for ot Complete the sentences with the best preposition. 4 Afterall that wubl, weve ended up the best fends @ the end ofthe day, its just a ame. Don't won about I ___al11 know, he might be a rant tennis player, Al Grea. They want us todo the job We'e busines Sl Keeptouch, Send me an email now and again, ]_My bossa perion litle imagination i That old phone looks place here. Everything ele 3 col, Thai. rm____ here. Se you guys ate. |The atmosphere isbad. Craig and Daron ave always each other’ throats 40 I've just read a fascinating book the history of the Stock Exchange. 41 This program is completely date. It doesn't even work with Windows 2000. a beginner. 42 You've done biliantly 48 1's no good phoning . You have to go there person, 44 We started in this business later than our competitors, so obviously we're a disadvantage. 16 Test Your Vocabulary 4 Test Your Vocabulary 4 47a a Phrasal verbs 1 eo Replace the words in brackets with a suitable phrasal verb. Put the verbs in the right form. efor turrup take efter hold up goin for chillout look into goof checkout un out of get over call off ‘go along with come up with gat away with “1) The trouble with Frank is that he usually __furns up about an hhour late for meetings. (arrives) Karen, I'd like you to ‘this complaint we received, from a client. It seems quite serious. (examine) “3 The bomb. in a main street near the centre, but luckily it was ata quiet time of the day. (exploded (4) You won't get another chance lke this fora very long tne. it! (take the opportunity of doing) {5) Hey! Just is great. (ty) ‘this new MP3 player. The sound quality (6) We're not serving sandwiches, 'm afraid, madam. We've bread. ase up ou supply of 7 Yes,101 that. (accept) (8) Because ofa relly heavy downpour, the partyin the park had to be + (cancelled) 18 Test Your Vocabulary & Why don’t you the ‘Weirdest Hair Competition’, Ulla? I'm sure you'd win It. (enter) I wonder who first te dea of aicbags in cars? (thought of) What a lovely baby! He certainly doesn’t __his father, does he? (resemble) the death of my mother. | stil haven't really. {recovered from) Because of flooding on the line between Brighton and Victoria, ‘my train was for several hours. (delayed) ‘Samantha is the teacher’ pet, so she can _ almost anything. She brought her dog to school the other day. (do something bad without getting into trouble) occasionally; Don't keep dancing all night. Just. ‘give yourself a break. (relax) Test Your Vocabulary 419| 4 Word building 2 | 5 Let’s watch TV! Use the word on the right fo make a new word which fits in the sentence. ‘actor aera camera operator caitle cement chat show 1) Always steve for perfection, put be content PERFECT comedy cite director distict documentary OVD edge fm ‘when you fal ‘graduate intoviow mist news presenter produce: quie 2) There isa lot of in the street. ACTIVE emote conta satelite cish screen set sheer skyscraper Adee inisiogsomethingh s0ap sound engineer video cassette video recorder viewer 3) There are yeasons not to fallin love. COUNT But let's do it anyway. Pt theso words onto the right TV screens. There should be eight words on night’ - do you STAR ‘each screen, know the song? a '5) Don't ask. I'm afraid I'm tohelp you. POWER 18) Vd ove to, but Tean't make it this FORTUNE ‘Types of TV programme weekend. 7) just what isthe of listening to four ATTRACT old men playing rock music? 8) Safety is not my = RESPONSE Speak to my supervisor, Clean it up now. Its sooner or later somebody will fall over. 410) “ve been concetned about your BEHAVE for some time,’ the head teacher said in a rather threatening volee. 44) What do we want? 1! When do QUAL we want it? Now! SLIP 42) Ihaven't got any _, so can't get QUALIFY anywhere in life. Sad but true, my friend. 19° The unexplained __of the lead APPEAR singer made the band even more famous. He never turned up again. Some words canbe bul oa more an crce: depend oepancence > ‘indscerfence, Try the sar th ot 20. Tost Your Vocabulary 4 Test Your Vocabulary 4 21ee Se Parts of the body \Wiite the words in the labels BBE/ Words beginning What is it part of? with in- Tl Atrunkispartof___atree TBD a book shales enpeerever 12) Arnand is par of [BY a camera 11) A guitar, a piano ora TN] s[7{ Rul mela] Tt fe ecm BBD A steesing whee is pat of HB acioce (2) Not to exclude. iste (A) A triggers part of (BD achaie 1S) The money you get from TIN = Soe tly ox ate. (BIA core is part of (El aca (synonym ore Tx [o (Gl Ayolcis part of Macomb or danage. EE te protuces goods iN =a An indexis part of 1G attower ores: [BDA tensis part of Ila boat TE) Ira disease is you can TIN s catch it fom someone ese [BD Ategis part of (Wa plewre (7 Toletsomeone ow. TLL Bh A peal spate i ooen BY Rather like discowr, TN_LIN bit more orignal. FAL A heel is part of IKI a shoe (BE Atthe beginning orateter — [TNT ahi: river standing for a name). HBL A tooth is part of = HO! Not guilty. TIN T 3) A mouth is part of ates HH To check thoroughly. t[x[ [P (HA stern is part of anapple as LINIS (85) Aforeground is part of _______. 3 anegg 31. say something rude or TIN-1 Te ‘unpleasant to someone. 4 A formal word ips x forge ger (S)_topin ocexpect ifs D todo something. 6) To speak when someone TN P cise i stil speaking. AMA person, not seen as Ts T Dart of soley ora group. BA question and TN iW answer session 24 Test Your Vocabulary 4 ‘Test Your Vocabulary 4 25My friend! Phil has just bought a computer, and he doesn't know much about ityel. His mistakes are in bold type. Help him by writing the corect technical terms in the spaces. ‘avirus CDs crash e-mail foppy hard internet keyboard modem -freritar mouse processing scanner suf website ‘The colours on the television (___monitor ___) are not the same as the printed pages. ‘What's the difference between the left click and the right click on. the rat ( )? How many programs can I store on the hot ( disk? Should I make copies of everything on those little a ) disks? ‘Those big shiny disks ( much stuff on them! )are great! There's so [can't understand all those extra buttons on the typewriter cy ‘Computers! They drive you mad sometimes. You've put all your work on them and then they just stop working c ___. 25 Toot Your Vocabulary 4 a a1 a ee Computers 8) Tuse mine mostly for word producing (__) , or whatever you call it. 9 I want to put my old photos onto the computer, so I'm getting ‘one of those photocopier ( ) things. HO You can get an incredible amount of information on the netscape Cae ——s) 44, When I get connected, I'm going to send lots of digital letters, (— ) to people. 12, I might even make my own sight ( ) ‘which people can visit to check out my photos and so on. 418° But | am a bit worried about wasting a lot of time skating Ga 44 Anyway, [haven't yet got a thingamajig ( ) to connect my computer to the phone line. 15° Apparently there's a danger of getting bacteria (___) from fites you downtoae. ars ‘vocabulay!f you have an Engl spel ct fru Test Your Vocabulary 4 27expressions Complete the sentences with expressions from the box. Put the vers in the corect form, brainwave cheeky to put (your foot init to stick (our) neck out hairraidng eartess eyesore oul of (your) mind nosy to-see eye toeye pain in the neck put (yout) finger on it How could you beso___heartless 2 'm still crying because you left me, and now you want your Best of Rap video back to watch with that gir! 'm in trouble simply because 1 and told the truth about the management of this place. ‘When was the last time you had a 20h, ‘yes, that brilliant idea of selling goldfish on the internet. Mmm. ‘We have an excellent working relationship. We on almost everything. ‘That ex-boyfriend of yours is a real V'm not surprised you dumped him. if you think I'm 7) Right there in the historic centre of the city, there's a horrible new office block, a real 28 Tost Your Vocabulary & seers © 9 a ee Parts of the body ‘You're right ~ that is exactly the problem. You've told the teacher he was looking smart today, and he said, ‘Don't be Twas only trying to be nice. Have you ever tried minding your own business, you te person? ‘The Devil's Dive at the new theme park is a seriously ride, I really when I mentioned the boss's tip to Paris with Dave. Her husband hadn't heard about it before and he went mad, Test Your Vocabulary «29Insects Write the numiber of the picture next to the correct wort) ant bee beetle butterfly caterpillar cricket dragonfly fly ladybird ‘mosquito ‘moth wasp 30 Test Your Vocabulary 4 22 Phrasal verbs 2 Replace the words in brackets in the folowing sentences with a suitable ‘phrasal verb. Put the verbs in the correct form. break down uit in eleeee come across cut down on ‘get through to lookback on look up to put down rip off 1) es pretty miserable now ~ grey and wet. But they say i's going to clear up later. (become fine) (2) Footbal stars have a responsiblity. Young fans them, and treat them as role-models. (ace) 9) Some people the communist era with nostalgia. (remember) (4) Let me finish what I'm saying. I can’t stand it when you interrupt) If you can't give up, at least_ the number of sweets you eat: (reduce) 1B Lcouldn' you on your mobile this morning, ‘There was no tone at all. (contact) 17) 1 was surfing the intemet when 1 a really weird site, all about cooking insects. (found by chance) Yesterday the bus , and we all stood there by the roadside in the rain. (stopped working) (9) Quitea few taxt-drivers foreign customers. (cheat, overcharge) {76} You don't care about my feelings. All you ever do Is ty to me (ertcze, matte) ‘Tost Your Vocabulary 4 3120 Classifications 24 How’s your maths? Pot these words into ther corect groups. Then complete the name foreach ito the numbers nex! to he cone werd -group on the right. 4 bar chart a@ acy Asia balloon -sepper fery Indian mango morphine crange ‘come — cuerterruckesc shark sofa spinach tolet_torise cylinder diameter ation HE ton, atuminian, melt Alcs “y wvcomper_— tne raph a BBA peach ear stator, [ hypotenuse a TB) cota, ate at, 8 shombus HM (BD ask wy chet al [i piechat 6 ohne . TBD sports tg, tee, t 6 sein — trite see OPA atta, Fat, Artie c N satiate Fook TBD oiianter tae crise 7 Shi, a a a BBD torque te mages, ° U HB ict, jbo, a c tiopter, x HBB esictin, rocaamel, a pren 2 sate tar, dno, P[T i) 13) Sion, tour, tana, a Wa aid sintenth F T (5 celery cart, courte, @ 3 32 Test Your Vocabulary « Test Your Vocabulary 438