Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises

PRELIMINARY "TEST-YOURSELF" STUDY Please do not click

the answer button before you have thoroughly studied the 5. It's a very ............... picture. I laugh at it all the time.
question & deliberated on your own choice!!
A) laughing
B) smiling
1. Excuse me. I'm a(n) ............... in this neighbourhood.
Can you tell me what number bus will take me to the C) joking
town center, please? I want to do some shopping. D) funny
E) serious
A) foreigner
B) customer
C) tourist
D) stranger
6. Nobody gave him a hand. He did it on his
E) immigrant ............... .

A) single
B) self
How much must I ............... a good second-hand car? C) alone
2.
D) own
A) buy from E) lonely
B) pay for
C) borrow from
D) own for
E) lend to GNP stands for "gross ............... product".
7.

A) national
B) global
It's getting quite ............... . I think it's going to rain C) international
3.
soon. D) universal
E) regional
A) windy
B) hot
C) foggy
D) cold
8. He received another letter from the ...............
E) cloudy demanding more money.

A) burglar
B) thief
The ............... today is full of the news of yesterday's C) pickpocket
4.
concert. D) robber
E) blackmailer
A) press
B) publisher
C) reporter
D) literature
9. "How much is the ............... ?" she asked the bus
E) journalism conductor.

A) fare
B) price
C) cost
D) prize
E) fee

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10. Come to Turkland, and ............... all these places 15. Sorry, it's much too expensive for me; I can't
where history lives on. ............... it.

A) inform A) help
B) define B) stand
C) memorize C) forgive
D) describe D) export
E) discover E) afford

11. There are a lot more television ............... today than 16. His friends advised him to see a doctor about his
there were some twenty years ago. headaches, but he ............... to listen to them.

A) spectators A) remembered
B) visitors B) refused
C) onlookers C) memorised
D) viewers D) requested
E) sightseers E) mentioned

12. How was your ............... back? 17. How did they ............... when they heard the price?

A) sightseeing A) laugh
B) vacation B) hate
C) trip C) discuss
D) luggage D) knock
E) holiday E) react

13. FATHER: "Tell me. Do you love him or not?"  18. It takes a lot of patience to ............... hyperactive
DAUGHTER: "Well, I'm very ............... of him." children because of their low level of concentration.

A) keen A) describe
B) friendly B) discover
C) fond C) teach
D) likeable D) joke with
E) romantic E) think about

14. Yes, we certainly want to move to a bigger house, but 19. Don't ............... to call me if you need help.
our ............... of money is only part of the problem.
A) dream
A) inflation B) hesitate
B) presence C) shame
C) shortage D) repeat
D) absence E) frighten
E) border

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20. The concert was called ............... because of the 25. Plants absorb water from the soil through their
heavy rain. ............... .

A) out of A) stems
B) aside B) flowers
C) off C) roots
D) down D) branches
E) out E) leaves

21. It is not often that we get a(n) ............... to meet a 26. They didn't stay for supper. They weren't
film star. ............... .

A) dream A) sleepy
B) taste B) early
C) reality C) thirsty
D) chance D) hungry
E) acceptance E) poor

22. The pirates ............... the treasure on a desert island. 27. There were three ............... helping the two doctors in
the operating theatre.
A) cooked
B) invented A) butchers
C) forgave B) greengrocers
D) grilled C) plumbers /PLAM-ız/
E) buried D) carpenters
E) nurses

23. Aren't you going to ............... me to your friend?

28. According to the Marxist doctrine, it is the workers
A) joke with that should ............... the world.
B) demonstrate
A) shake
C) introduce
B) divide
D) receive
C) rule
E) memorise
D) blow up
E) choose

24. She isn't very ............... with her friends at school.

A) loved 29. The office is on the second floor of the building. It is

B) clever 200 square meters in ............... .
C) frequent A) depth
D) frequent B) height
E) popular C) length
D) area
E) width

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30. He usually reads the sports ............... of the

newspaper first.

A) section
B) pictures
C) chapter
D) literature
E) tales

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Answer Key:

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

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