Test - 13

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When he was questioned by the police, the thief didn't ________ the truth.
- A) say
- B) reply
- C) answer
- D) tell
- E) respond
When their mother died, the children were _____ by their Aunt Mary.
- A) brought in
- B) brought round
- C) brought to
- D) brought forward
- E) brought up
Don't touch that wire or you may get an electric ________.
- A) shock
- B) current
- C) attack
- D) feeling
- E) surprise
Mr. Brown thinks he knows ________ about football, but he doesn't.
- A) anything
- B) everybody
- C) everything
- D) somebody
- E) nobody
The High Street is so narrow that the Council have decided to ________ it.
- A) increase
- B) extend
- C) widen
- D) lengthen
- E) shorten
Your brother is very tall. What is his exact ________?
- A) size
- B) length
- C) breadth
- D) measure
- E) height
If Maria comes to England, it will be a good ________ for her to improve her English.
- A) possibility
- B) opportunity
- C) advantage
- D) probability
- E) experience
Please ________ your hand if you want to ask the teacher a question.
- A) rise
- B) pull
- C) push
- D) lift
- E) raise
________ 100 if you want to speak to the telephone operator.
- A) Ask
- B) Hear
- C) Dial
- D) Describe
- E) Turn
Our school ________ for the summer holidays on 10th July.
- A) breaks up
- B) breaks down
- C) breaks in
- D) breaks off
- E) breaks through
If you've got a ________ of cards, I'll show you some tricks.
- A) packet
- B) collection
- C) pack
- D) set
- E) parcel
This church was ________ by the famous architect Archibald Sparrow.
- A) outlined
- B) designed
- C) produced
- D) composed
- E) made
It's Grandmother's birthday tomorrow, so don't forget to wish her many happy ________.
- A) returns
- B) days
- C) anniversaries
- D) years
- E) congratulations
The ________ from the airport was very tiring as we had to drive through the fog.
- A) travel
- B) voyage
- C) flight
- D) journey
- E) crossing
If I bought a ticket in the lottery, I might ________ £1000.
- A) bet
- B) buy
- C) sell
- D) win
- E) let
John hopes to ________ his examination in September.
- A) make
- B) take
- C) do
- D) offer
- E) present
When you come to London, I can ________ for the night.
- A) put you down
- B) put you off
- C) put you up
- D) put you right
- E) put you away
Your new flat ________ me very much of the one we had in Birmingham.
- A) remembers
- B) recalls
- C) recollects
- D) receives
- E) reminds
The deer is one of the shyest ________ animals in existence.
- A) savage
- B) untamed
- C) wild
- D) strange
- E) free
Do open the window; this room seems very ________.
- A) moldy
- B) stuffy
- C) smoked
- D) rancid
- E) breathless
There is a ________ on the suitcase, but it has no name on it.
- A) paper
- B) ticket
- C) sign
- D) stamp
- E) label
The air hostess told the passengers to ________ their seat belts.
- A) tie
- B) attach
- C) fasten
- D) fix
- E) set
My sister works at a home for the deaf and ________.
- A) mute
- B) dumb
- C) silent
- D) speechless
- E) voiceless
The price of this TV set is not listed in the ________.
- A) catalogue
- B) guidebook
- C) directory
- D) record
- E) schedule
The police were able to trace the criminal because he left his ________ on the door handle.
- A) fingerprints
- B) finger-nails
- C) fingertips
- D) ringer ends
- E) finger-marks
Ann refused to take _______ in the preparations for the school concert.
- A) place
- B) part
- C) notice
- D) leave
- E) offence
Any candidate caught ______ in the examination will be disqualified.
- A) deceiving
- B) deluding
- C) conjuring
- D) swindling
- E) cheating
The farmer put a ________ in his field to frighten the birds away from his crops.
- A) scarecrow
- B) monster
- C) demon
- D) goblin
- E) corpse
He has been making money ______ since he started his new business.
- A) head over heels
- B) hand over fist
- C) head to foot
- D) ear to ear
- E) top to toe
It was so cold my fingers were quite ________.
- A) senseless
- B) numb
- C) insensible
- D) unconscious
- E) paralyzed
You should take more exercise if you want to keep ________.
- A) fit
- B) fat
- C) fine
- D) fresh
- E) flat
The twins are so alike that I can never ________ the difference between them.
- A) tell
- B) say
- C) decide
- D) make
- E) find
I took the doctor's prescription to the chemist's to be ____.
- A) made out
- B) made up
- C) made over
- D) made into
- E) made for
My boss has ________ playing golf three afternoons a week.
- A) taken over
- B) taken to
- C) taken for
- D) taken out
- E) taken in
The Prime Minister made an excellent ______ in the House yesterday.
- A) discourse
- B) discussion
- C) lecture
- D) speech
- E) talk
I have never been on good ________ with my sister-in-law.
- A) responses
- B) exchanges
- C) terms
- D) feelings
- E) affections
The ________ on this tombstone is dated 1742.
- A) description
- B) inscription
- C) recording
- D) outline
- E) engraving
Have you had any ________ of John lately?
- A) enquiries
- B) news
- C) details
- D) particulars
- E) facts
Did you notice the ________ on Walter's face when he heard Hugo had been made Manager?
- A) appearance
- B) description
- C) expression
- D) disposition
- E) exposition
Children usually ________ after an illness much more quickly than adults.
- A) pick up
- B) pick over
- C) pick on
- D) pick out
- E) pick off

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