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 ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY - 12 6. New experiments have been carried out to
study the ---- between body movement and
the conscious control of attention in
1. The boss urgently needed someone to help
preschool children.
him ---- the foreign applicant by translating
her words to him.
A) trace
B) relation
A) depend
C) imprint
B) witness
D) progress
C) collapse
E) composure
D) interview
E) undertake

2. Only if water is heated in a closed vessel is it 7. Due to ---- funding, the local library will be
possible to reach higher ----. closed down soon.

A) droughts A) adequate
B) collisions B) irresponsible
C) breakdowns C) affectionate
D) appointments D) meticulous
E) temperatures E) insufficient

3. Air pollution is a cause of acid rain, which 8. A person who is willing to adopt a child should
also has some ---- effects. know a lot about how to raise a child ----.

A) tactless A) urgently
B) significant B) certainly
C) considerate C) properly
D) indifferent D) reluctantly
E) thoughtless E) abundantly

4. As modern humans began to spread out of 9. I hope you have no intention of ---- me in
Africa ---- 50,000 years ago, they encountered these stupid plans of yours, do you?
other species that looked remarkably like
them. A) burgling
B) attracting
A) roughly C) adopting
B) distantly D) involving
C) ignorantly E) depriving
D) implicitly
E) tastefully

5. The patient was ---- when the doctor told him 10. Although the couple loved each other
his problem wasn’t serious. enormously, before long their marriage
turned into a nightmare, and ended in ----.
A) reversed
B) consumed A) divorce
C) relieved B) patience
D) narrated C) reliability
E) revealed D) fondness
E) coherence

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11. The natives that live in the mountain are not 16. Helen was an ---- talented student, because
---- of western technology, but they have seen she could make up a song every time she
airplanes and believe that they are giant birds. was asked to sing.

A) stable A) unreliably
B) aware B) unwillingly
C) willing C) inaccurately
D) fertile D) exceptionally
E) reliable E) enthusiastically

12. Diana and her friends were playing with 17. Although Kenneth was ---- of books and toys
matches when they ---- set the house on fire. as a little child, he is now the most
knowledgeable boy in his class.
A) usually
B) confidently A) laboured
C) accidentally B) inundated
D) conclusively C) deprived
E) indiscriminately D) favoured
E) appreciated

13. The police had been ---- him for approximately 18. Some bone disorders in young children are
ten months when they finally captured him. due to rare conditions and require careful
clinical ----.
A) clashing
B) pursuing A) evaluation
C) assembling B) reservation
D) confirming C) disobedience
E) appreciating D) encouragement
E) discrimination

14. If children don't respond to a question right 19. I wonder what has put her in such a bad
away, teachers must give them some more mood because normally she is quite ----.
time to work out ---- on their own.
A) ugly
A) indicators B) ignorant
B) inventions C) cheerful
C) imaginations D) lonely
D) investigations E) aware
E) solutions

15. It was raining so hard yesterday that I was 20. He described all of the fields of study in
completely ---- when I finally walked in the detail, but I told him I was ---- interested in
house. hearing about the art department.

A) hopeful A) chiefly
B) dispensed B) hesitantly
C) futile C) mercilessly
D) soaked D) insensitively
E) hesitant E) coincidentally

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21. During the Pearl Harbour attack, although the 26. If you have symptoms that suggest uterine
U.S sensed the Japanese on radar, by the cancer, it is your doctor who will try to ----
time they could ---- what was happening, the what is causing the problems.
bombings had already begun.
A) put off
A) put out B) find out
B) figure out C) cut down
C) make up D) bring about
D) call off E) take up
E) give away

22. We have been ---- this experiment under very 27. A mineral is known to be different from a
harsh conditions, but we have no intention of rock, which is ---- of combinations of different
giving it up. minerals and does not always have the same
chemical composition.
A) carrying out
B) passing away A) given away
C) taking out B) put off
D) making off C) made up
E) converting into D) taken over
E) gone down

23. Brushing at night before bedtime is 28. Even though the world may still ----
especially important since it removes all of overwhelmingly ---- fossil fuels for transport
the plaque and food debris that has ---- over and power, their cost has already begun to
the course of the day. outweigh their advantages.

A) built up A) put / on
B) given up B) give / up
C) shown up C) take / off
D) made up D) count / on
E) brought up E) make / out

24. Taking an hour to relax and stretch might be 29. The pyramids of Ancient Egypt ---- many
able to ---- the monotony of a boring job. changes before they took on the geometric
shape that we are used to seeing.
A) put out
B) break up A) gave up
C) turn up B) made out
D) give away C) looked out
E) come across D) figured out
E) went through

25. In 1957 Noam Chomsky published his 30. Before the Internet, newspapers, radio,
famous work, Syntactic Structures, in which television, and other types of media, the
he pointed out that the behaviourist world ---- storytellers for entertainment and
approach to language cannot in principle ---- education.
language, its acquisition, or its use.
A) made out
A) count on B) relied on
B) give up C) passed out
C) put off D) took over
D) set out E) worked out
E) account for

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31. A woman was hospitalized ---- severe burns 36. The Down syndrome child may result ---- a
yesterday after setting fire ---- herself in late or difficult pregnancy.
Parliament Square.
A) above
A) by / by B) over
B) at / on C) among
C) with / to D) from
D) for / under E) about
E) over / up
37. The descriptive approach ---- grammar is
concerned ---- describing and understanding
32. Before folktales started to be preserved in the linguistic behaviour of a community
written form, they were simply stories retold without judging it.
whenever a group ---- people ---- the same
interests gathered. A) of / by
B) to / with
A) for / in C) for / into
B) on / at D) about / at
C) by / to E) over / along
D) of / with
E) among / off 38. Penguins are short-sighted ---- land, but see
clearly ---- water.

33. After the earthquake in 1999, the Turkish A) over / on

government was accused ---- not having B) in / off
provided enough supervision of builders, C) from / through
whose faulty construction of housing added D) onto / into
---- the number of dead. E) on / under

A) by / at 39. When people take sleeping pills on a regular

B) for / on basis ---- particularly high doses ---- much
C) on / in longer than one or two weeks, they become
D) of / to very dependent on these medicines.
E) with / over
A) in / on
B) over / upon
34. There are many types of acquired dyslexia, C) at / for
which is a language disorder, ---- which D) for / towards
adults find themselves unable to read or find E) by / into
difficulty with certain types of words as a
result ---- brain damage. 40. Before he worked in museums, he had
studied law in hopes ---- becoming a
A) to / in specialist ---- the legal aspects of antiquities.
B) on / at
C) in / of A) on / behind
D) by / for B) by / to
E) for / from C) at / for
D) of / in
E) off / with
35. In psychology, the phenomenon of self-
awareness is defined ---- being aware ---- ANSWER KEY
one’s own ability to think. 1 D 9 D 17 C 25 E 33 D
2 E 10 A 18 A 26 B 34 C
A) at / for 3 B 11 B 19 C 27 C 35 B
B) as / of 4 A 12 C 20 A 28 D 36 D
C) by / to 5 C 13 B 21 B 29 E 37 B
D) about / at 6 B 14 E 22 A 30 B 38 E
E) over / near 7 E 15 D 23 A 31 C 39 C
8 C 16 D 24 B 32 D 40 D