Test - 12

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Test - 12

They managed to _____ all their unwanted things at the jumble sale.
- A) get rid of
- B) get even with
- C) get away with
- D) get over to
- E) set out of
There was a terrible storm at sea last night and one of the sailors ________.
- A) floated
- B) drowned
- C) dived
- D) sank
- E) swam
Let's continue the meeting by discussing the next ________ on the agenda.
- A) item
- B) factor
- C) passage
- D) piece
- E) bit
I'm paying for my car by monthly ________ as I didn't have enough money to pay cash.
- A) deposits
- B) receipts
- C) amounts
- D) percentages
- E) installments
Schubert didn't finish one of his symphonies so it will always be ________.
- A) defective
- B) undeveloped
- C) incomplete
- D) unready
- E) deficient
Suddenly I understood perfectly and everything ________ place.
- A) fell down
- B) fell out
- C) fell in
- D) fell into
- E) fell for
The Director of the Company ________ some figures from the report in front of him.
- A) spoke
- B) said
- C) told
- D) quoted
- E) referred
He was one of the ________ people I've ever known; he never stopped eating.
- A) greediest
- B) laziest
- C) proudest
- D) angriest
- E) shyest
The men ________ the millionaire's small daughter and demanded a large sum of money for her return.
- A) eloped
- B) stole
- C) removed
- D) kidnapped
- E) hi-jacked
You must be careful what you say to Susan; her feelings are easily ________.
- A) damaged
- B) injured
- C) broken
- D) hurt
- E) cracked
You keep ________ the same subject, and I've asked you not to mention it again.
- A) bringing forward
- B) bringing up
- C) bringing to
- D) bringing about
- E) bringing together
That shop down the road always ______ its goods well in the window.
- A) shows
- B) reveals
- C) uncovers
- D) exposes
- E) displays
Please wipe your feet on the door ________ before you come in.
- A) mat
- B) rug
- C) carpet
- D) tile
- E) blanket
Although most of the children in the class were rather dull, there were one or two ________ ones.
- A) light
- B) bright
- C) skilful
- D) wise
- E) thoughtful
The ________ with Charles is, he doesn't know his own mind.
- A) upset
- B) trouble
- C) puzzle
- D) complication
- E) inconvenience
I hate January when all the ________ start coming in. I never seem to have enough money to pay them all.
- A) receipts
- B) accounts
- C) estimates
- D) bills
- E) lists
The workers were ________ in their demand for better conditions.
- A) united
- B) combined
- C) joined
- D) stuck
- E) attached
The judge ________ the criminal to twenty years in prison.
- A) condemned
- B) punished
- C) disciplined
- D) inflicted
- E) sentenced
I want to know the answers to these questions, so I shall have to look at the ________ at the back of the book.
- A) index
- B) key
- C) register
- D) record
- E) table
I wouldn't like to spend a night alone in that house. It is said to be ________ by a headless ghost.
- A) obsessed
- B) tormented
- C) haunted
- D) infested
- E) upset
The girl in the shop was _____ how to use a new kind of electric cooker.
- A) proving
- B) establishing
- C) exposing
- D) demonstrating
- E) teaching
That poor woman's husband died a few weeks after they were married. It was a real ________.
- A) sorrow
- B) tragedy
- C) wrong
- D) evil
- E) sadness
He didn't seem to know what was happening at all, he looked completely ________.
- A) doubtful
- B) bewildered
- C) undecided
- D) defeated
- E) doomed
The economy of this country is very unstable at the moment. It's balanced on a ________ edge.
- A) knife
- B) sword
- C) axe
- D) saber
- E) dagger
The little boy was ________ for breaking the window.
- A) condemned
- B) sentenced
- C) penalized
- D) persecuted
- E) punished
There has been a lot of ____ about the housing shortage in big cities.
- A) circulation
- B) advertising
- C) publicity
- D) communication
- E) instruction
I ________ my car badly when I hit a tree.
- A) dented
- B) hollowed
- C) depressed
- D) impressed
- E) pitted
He is ________ to both those girls over there. One is his sister and the other is his cousin.
- A) allied
- B) affiliated
- C) related
- D) identified
- E) classified
When he was left on a desert island, he was able to ________ for a year on fruit and water.
- A) remain
- B) continue
- C) stay
- D) persist
- E) survive
If I were you I'd put that meat in the refrigerator or it will ________ in this hot weather.
- A) go off
- B) go on
- C) go over
- D) go against
- E) go by
To play golf well you must take lessons from a good ________.
- A) conductor
- B) guide
- C) coach
- D) trainer
- E) leader
The Browns had to use all their ________ to buy their new house.
- A) keepsakes
- B) savings
- C) reserves
- D) leavings
- E) remains
When I was staying in Germany last year, I ____ quite a lot of German.
- A) picked out
- B) picked on
- C) picked up
- D) picked over
- E) picked upon
What are you cooking in that saucepan? It ________ good.
- A) makes
- B) feels
- C) sniffs
- D) smells
- E) flavors
I know Mary has two brothers, but I don't know which is the ________.
- A) elder
- B) more aged
- C) more ancient
- D) lower
- E) higher
I hope the Government will ________ the rate of income tax.
- A) increase
- B) decrease
- C) reduce
- D) deduct
- E) degrade
Jane's school report last term was very ________.
- A) satisfying
- B) satisfactory
- C) fulfilling
- D) full
- E) fortunate
Mary has gone to the baker's to buy a ________ of bread.
- A) piece
- B) packet
- C) bit
- D) pound
- E) loaf
When I was turning out my cupboard I ________ this photograph of uncle Harry.
- A) came over
- B) came round
- C) came across
- D) came to
- E) came into
Lucy says she bought her new trouser suit in ________.
- A) a disposal
- B) a sale
- C) a reduction
- D) an offering
- E) a production

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