Prepositions And Phrasal Verbs Advanced Level Test - Quiz (Online Exercise With

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This sixth vocabulary test contains 25 multiple choice

questions on the topics of prepositions and phrasal 5. 5.Scientists in different countries, working _____ of
verbs of English language. Both English learners and ESL each other, have come up with very similar results.
teachers can use this online exercise as a revision to check
the knowledge of prepositions and phrasal verbs. A) independently
B) immensely
1. It might be a good idea to buy a _____ raincoat C) timidly
1.
because then it can be worn with either side out. D) sceptically
E) respectfully
A) decisive
B) reversible
C) strenuous
D) extravagant
6. 6.In recent years, scientists have come to a / an _____
E) slippery that the earth is warming mostly due to the emission
of carbon dioxide from electrical power plants that
burn coal, oil and natural gas.

A) promotion
2. 2. She is a very____child, who always does as she’s B) ambition
told.
C) commission
A) apparent D) treaty
B) influential E) agreement
C) fanciful
D) desperate
E) compliant
7. 7.Pele and Maradona have b een_____ the best
football players in the world up to now.

A) continuously
3. 3.Japan’s Ministry of Telecommunications and Internal B) indescribably
Affairs is _____technology, research and development
to the tune of 619 million dollars in 2006. C) arrogantly
D) indisputably
A) funding E) indecently
B) confronting
C) altering
D) tackling
E) detecting 8.Nokia set up a tent recently at the Los Angeles Film
8.
Festival to _____ its mobile-video phones and
technology

A) give away
4. 4.If you are both going to lie, at least stick to the B) put through
same story and don’t _____ each other.
C) show off
A) fold D) come round
B) contradict E) lay down
C) intervene
D) exclude
E) blink

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9. 9. His publishers will soon b e _____ his latest

collection of essays, which he wrote during his trip in
China recently.
14. 14. One reason why artificial flavourings and
A) making up colourings are _____ used in ready-made foods is that
they are much cheaper than natural ingredients.
B) flooding in
C) taking in A) scarcely
D) looking down B) formerly
E) bringing out C) tactfully
D) widely
E) slightly

10. 10. She did not get the money honestly and legally.
She got it by_____ .

A) explanation 15. 15. Squids use the force of their ten long arms to
_____ themselves through the water.
B) deception
C) abolition A) propel
D) satisfaction B) draw
E) detention C) shift
D) project
E) deplete

11. 11. You can raise the microphone or lower it. It’s _____
.

A) adjustable 16. 16. The dentists working in this hospital object to

_____ teeth without doing everything that can be
B) curable
done.
C) breakable
D) readable A) heaving
E) creative B) extracting
C) scattering
D) ejecting
E) dragging
12. 12. Last night I went to see a romantic film which was
rather _____.

A) skilful
B) tough 17. 17. We thought of buying the pretty wooden Ottoman
house we saw by the Bosphorus, but then w e _____
C) moving the idea, as the roof was too damaged.
D) ecstatic
E) delightful A) set out
B) kept to
C) held on
D) did up
E) gave up
13. 13. Words that sound alike but are spelled_____ are
called homophones, as in the example of to, two and
too.

A) similarly
B) differently
C) originally
D) quietly
E) initially

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18. 18. A brief outline of the course and bibliography 21. 21. The college is about to ____ a program for
were _____ to the students at the first meeting. reducing math anxiety among students.

A) used up A) malign
B) broken down B) nominate
C) caught on C) penetrate
D) handed out D) overthrow
E) worn off E) initiate

19. 19. In formulating a hypothesis, we must keep i t 22. 22. An experienced farmer can estimate the annual
_____ with what we know of the real world; it cannot _____ of his acres with surprising accuracy
disagree with our experience.
A) penalty
A) voracious B) resource
B) congruent C) scarcity
C) unwise D) yield
D) meticulous E) taxation
E) proper

23. 23. Although she was knowledgeable in a number of

20. 20. Some species of animals have become extinct fields, she was hired for her particular _____ in
because they could not_____ to a changing computer programming.
environment
A) expertise
A) foresee B) tolerance
B) adapt C) utility
C) hustle D) variance
D) collapse E) reluctance
E) legislate

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24. 24. His opponents could not harm Achilles, who was 25. 25. We ____ kept George off the planning committee
_____ only in his heel. because we didn't want him to know that the party
was to be in his honour.
A) mutual
B) harmonious A) vigorously
C) vulnerable B) subsequently
D) fruitful C) emotionally
E) illegible D) fluently
E) deliberately

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Answer Key:

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

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