Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises

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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
A) foreigner E) serious
B) customer
C) tourist
D) stranger
E) immigrant 6. Nobody gave him a hand. He did it on his
............... .

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

A) national
B) global
C) international
3. It's getting quite.............I think it's going to rain D) universal
soon.
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
C) pickpocket
4. The............today is full of the news of D) robber
yesterday's
E) blackmailer
concert.

A) press
B) publisher
C) reporter 9. "How much is the............?" she asked the bus
D) literature conductor.
E) journalism
A) fare
B) price
C) cost
D) prize
E) fee

10. Come to Turkland, and.............all these places where history lives on.

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A) inform 15. Sorry, it's much too expensive for me; I can't
............... it.
B) define
C) memorize A) help
D) describe B) stand
E) discover C) forgive
D) export
E) afford

11. There are a lot more television.............today than

there were some twenty years ago.

A) spectators 16. His friends advised him to see a doctor about

his headaches, but he........to listen to them.
B) visitors
C) onlookers A) remembered
D) viewers B) refused
E) sightseers C) memorised
D) requested
E) mentioned

12. How was your............back?

A) sightseeing
17. How did they............when they heard the price?
B) vacation
C) trip A) laugh
D) luggage B) hate
E) holiday C) discuss
D) knock
E) react

13. FATHER: "Tell me. Do you love him or not?"

DAUGHTER: "Well, I'm very............of him."

A) keen 18. It takes a lot of patience to.............hyperactive

children because of their low level of concentration.
B) friendly
C) fond A) describe
D) likeable B) discover
E) romantic C) teach
D) joke with
E) think about

14. Yes, we certainly want to move to a bigger house, but

our.............of money is only part of the problem.

A) inflation 19. Don't.............to call me if you need help.

B) presence A) dream
C) shortage B) hesitate
D) absence C) shame
E) border D) repeat
E) frighten

20. The concert was called.............because of the A) out of

heavy rain. B) aside
C) off

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 Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
D) down
25. Plants absorb water from the soil through their
E) out
............... .

A) stems
B) flowers
21. It is not often that we get a(n).............to meet a C) roots
film star. D) branches
E) leaves
A) dream
B) taste
C) reality
D) chance
26. They didn't stay for supper. They weren't
E) acceptance ............... .

A) sleepy
B) early
22. The pirates.............the treasure on a desert island. C) thirsty
D) hungry
A) cooked
E) poor
B) invented
C) forgave
D) grilled
E) buried
27. There were three.............helping the two doctors in
the operating theatre.

A) butchers

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

C) plumbers /PLAM-ız/
A) joke with
D) carpenters
B) demonstrate
E) nurses
C) introduce
D) receive
E) memorise

28. According to the Marxist doctrine, it is the

workers that should...the world.

A) shake
24. She isn't very.............with her friends at school.
B) divide
A) loved C) rule
B) clever D) blow up
C) frequent E) choose
D) frequent
E) popular

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

is 200 square meters in ............... .

A) depth
B) height
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
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