VOCABULARY QUIZ 8 ● GROUP B

Name: ________________________ Class: _____________

Information and the mind • Prefixes 3 Choose the best option.

• Verb-noun collocations • Phrases with mind 1 All the nights spent in front of screens are beginning
to their toll – he’s always tired.
1 1 Complete
Complete the
the sentences
sentences with
with the
the words
words from
from the
the box.
box. There are more words than you need. A do B give C take
There are more words than you need.
2 I was in two __ – I couldn’t decide whether to buy
blinkerabsent-minded
detect devote pseudo-facts
broad-minded clutter a cheap camera or to continue saving for a better
self-composure
pseudo-factsself-imposed
prioritise tough-minded
one.
1 Do you think the media too much attention to
A thoughts B minds C ideas
1 gossip and to
I don’t want scandal?
__________________ my thoughts
2 It’s easier to bias in a published text than in 3 It never __ my mind that what I said might offend him.
with random
your bits of information from the Internet.
own thinking.
A crossed B saw C met
With so muchyou
2 Sometimes
3 to do,
haveit’sto
necessary
yourselfto in
learn to to be
order
able to focus on the task at hand. 4 If we really __ our minds to it, I think we can succeed.
__________________ tasks, to be able to decide
4 He follows a regime of work, study and A concentrate B give C put
what I’m going to do first.
physical exercise.
5 Are they __ their minds? Why are they doing
5 I’m so
3 You __________________
need a lot of to–deal
I keep
withlosing things
aggressive
people. something so risky?
and forgetting things.
A away from B out of C off
4 You won’t find it easy to unsettle her; she’s very
__________________. /5
•
5 __________________ people are not easily shocked
or offended. 4 Complete the sentences with the words formed from
/5
the words in CAPITALS using prefixes.
1 It’s not a bad thing to _________________
2 Complete the sentences with the missing words. The
first and the last letters of the words have been given. (ESTIMATE) your abilities a little – it makes you

1 Can’t you detect b s in this text? It’s not optimistic and confident.

very obvious, but the author is advocating a specific 2 I approach with _________________ (TRUST)

point of view. anything presented as a fact by someone who wants

2 S -i d discipline is the to sell me something.

only kind that works for me – no one except myself 3 To say that this tablet is not very good is a(n)

can force me to work. _________________ (STATEMENT); it’s totally

3 At the end of the day I often do yoga in order to useless.

c r my mind, empty it of all the minor 4 Do you think people of different religions will ever

concerns of daily life. learn to _________________ in peace? (EXIST)

4 When I saw my brother, all my s - 5 Don’t _________________ (ESTIMATE) the amount

c e disappeared; I started hugging him of time this project will need – it really is a lot of work.

and crying.
5 I wish they’d stop giving us advice – why don’t they
/5
mind their own b s?
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 VOCABULARY QUIZ 8 ● GROUP A

Name: ________________________ Class: _____________

Information and the mind • Prefixes 3 Choose the best option.

• Verb-noun collocations • Phrases with mind 1 I think you can do it if you __ your mind to it.
A give B put C concentrate
1 1 Complete
Complete the
the sentences
sentences with
with the
the words
words from
from the
the box.
box. 2 You want to put these photos on the Internet? You
There areThere
more are more
words words
than you than
need.you need.
must be __ your mind!
blinker detect
blinker detect devotedevotepseudo-facts
pseudo-facts A off B away from C out of
self-composure self-imposed self-imposed
self-composure 3 My family problems __ on my mind a good deal.
1 Do you think the media too much attention to
1 gossip and scandal?
Do you think the media __________________ too A weigh B lie C sit
2 It’s easier to bias inand
much attention to gossip a published
scandal? text than in 4 Why do people choose to __ their thoughts with
your own thinking.
2 It’s easier to __________________ bias in a pointless news about the private lives of celebrities?
3 Sometimes you have to yourself in order to be
able to focus
published text on
thanthe
in task at hand.
your own thinking. A clutter B crowd C pack
4 He follows a regime of work,
3 Sometimes you have to __________________ study and 5 Has it ever __ your mind that that your opinions might
physical exercise.
yourself in order to be able to focus on the task at be wrong?
5 You need a lot of to deal with aggressive
people.
hand. A passed B crossed C noticed
4 He follows a __________________ regime of work, /5
study and physical exercise.
• 4 Complete the sentences with the words formed from
5 You need a lot of __________________ to deal with the words in CAPITALS using prefixes.
aggressive people. 1 When she tried to get at the truth, the journalist
/5 encountered a web of secrecy and _______________
(INFORMATION).
2 It is a place where the modern and the traditional
2 Complete the sentences with the missing words. The
first and the last letters of the words have been given. _________________ in harmony. (EXIST)
1 I’m in two m s – should I go straight to 3 When playing games, never _________________
university or should I take a year off to work and (ESTIMATE) your opponent. Assume he or she is
travel? strong and do your best.
2 He kept asking me personal questions until I finally 4 On some days the information _________________
told him to mind his own b s. (LOAD) is so bad it makes my head ache.
3 My eyes are sore and I get headaches; all those 5 The people weren’t unfriendly, but I think they treated
hours in front of a computer are taking their us with _________________ (TRUST): we were
t l. strangers and they didn’t know what to expect of us.
4 I can’t do several things at the same time:
m g is definitely not my strong point. /5

5 Let’s not o e the problem: it’s not as

Total /20
serious as it seems.
/5

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