Test - 14

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Test - 14

I had to sign for this letter because it came in ________ envelope.
- A) a recommended
- B) a registered
- C) an endorsed
- D) a receipted
- E) a sealed
When I bought this clock I was given a six months' ________.
- A) reservation
- B) guarantee
- C) undertaking
- D) safeguard
- E) security
A ________ for the company said that the question of safety regulations was being looked into.
- A) speaker
- B) spokesman
- C) officer
- D) reporter
- E) interpreter
During the war there was so little food that it had to be ________.
- A) preserved
- B) regulated
- C) rationed
- D) retained
- E) re-distributed
Mr Jackson is permanently ________ as the result of a car accident.
- A) dislocated
- B) incapable
- C) disabled
- D) powerless
- E) inactive
She ________ all her savings form the bank to pay for her flight to Australia.
- A) drew in
- B) drew up
- C) drew along
- D) drew out
- E) drew off
Her shopping bag broke, ________ its contents all over the road.
- A) dispersing
- B) dispensing
- C) scattering
- D) overflowing
- E) distributing
When you come to the crossroads, you will see the ________ showing the way to Middleton.
- A) advertisement
- B) signal
- C) signpost
- D) announcement
- E) indicator
The crops in this field have all been ________ with insecticide.
- A) sprayed
- B) washed
- C) rinsed
- D) cleaned
- E) disinfected
I can't use my hair-drier because I forgot to buy a ________ for it.
- A) tap
- B) switch
- C) socket
- D) pin
- E) plug
The baby is very fretful; he must be ________ some teeth.
- A) making
- B) cutting
- C) incising
- D) producing
- E) grinding
The attic was thick with ________ as no one had cleared it for years.
- A) rust
- B) powder
- C) dust
- D) sediment
- E) soot
The artist studied in Paris for ________ of roughly five years.
- A) a decade
- B) an age
- C) a time
- D) a period
- E) an interval
The two young people fell in love at ________.
- A) first impression
- B) first sight
- C) short notice
- D) long distance
- E) first appearance
When you get to the airport, your luggage will have to be ________.
- A) reckoned
- B) balanced
- C) scaled
- D) estimated
- E) weighed
If you are interested in becoming a ________ of the club, telephone the secretary during office hours.
- A) member
- B) partner
- C) sharer
- D) player
- E) student
The first English dictionary was ________ by Dr Johnson.
- A) compiled
- B) co-ordinated
- C) collected
- D) composed
- E) constructed
When you go out, will you get me ________ of the Farming Gazette?
- A) an edition
- B) a copy
- C) a publication
- D) a paper
- E) a sheet
I didn't ________ I was talking to the Manager, until he told me his name.
- A) identify
- B) distinguish
- C) recognize
- D) accept
- E) realize
I just cannot work out the answer to this question; I ________.
- A) give off
- B) give out
- C) giveaway
- D) give into
- E) give up
At the election you must mark your paper, fold it and drop it into the ________ box.
- A) voting
- B) ballot
- C) nomination
- D) selection
- E) electoral
When you return to your country, don't forget to ________ with me.
- A) keep in hand
- B) keep time
- C) keep in touch
- D) keep in step
- E) keep together
The corrupt builder wanted to obtain the contract so he offered a ________ to the civil servant.
- A) bribe
- B) bait
- C) stimulus
- D) tip
- E) bonus
The tramp was wearing very shabby clothes and looked very _______.
- A) down at heel
- B) down to earth
- C) up to date
- D) up and coming
- E) out of shape
It was very ________ in the cottage with the comfortable armchairs by the fire.
- A) snug
- B) gratifying
- C) easy
- D) downy
- E) refreshing
There were some black-faced sheep ________ about the hillside.
- A) thrown
- B) arranged
- C) scattered
- D) littered
- E) crumpled
The news ________ that prices were going to rise next week.
- A) got ahead
- B) got on
- C) got through
- D) got up
- E) got out
The child ________ his breath in wonder when he saw the Christmas tree.
- A) kept
- B) blew
- C) sighed
- D) held
- E) gasped
That man's wife is terrible; he ________ him all the time, nagging from morning till night.
- A) keeps in with
- B) keeps up with
- C) keeps on at
- D) keeps away
- E) keeps back from
Don't leave your things all over the room, ________ up the place.
- A) mixing
- B) cluttering
- C) filling
- D) huddling
- E) breaking
The philosopher was a great thinker and was often ________ by a brilliant idea.
- A) seized
- B) grabbed
- C) grasped
- D) held
- E) clutched
The trader asked a high price, but I managed to ________.
- A) beat him off
- B) beat him up
- C) beat him down
- D) beat him back
- E) beat him in
The woman ________ for her husband's life when he was found guilty of murder.
- A) bid
- B) disputed
- C) pleaded
- D) debated
- E) sued
Don't ________ me or I won't be able to stop laughing.
- A) pat
- B) massage
- C) scratch
- D) tickle
- E) stroke
That pop group are going to make ________ recording next week.
- A) alive
- B) an alive
- C) an awake
- D) a living
- E) a life
Mary ________ her engagement the week before the wedding because she realized she didn't love her fiance.
- A) broke up
- B) broke out
- C) broke down
- D) broke off
- E) broke away
He ________ £5000 in stocks and shares.
- A) inserted
- B) installed
- C) invested
- D) inducted
- E) indented
The new magazine about car maintenance ________ tomorrow.
- A) comes down
- B) comes off
- C) comes on
- D) comes out
- E) comes round
That couple are well-suited; they live in perfect ________.
- A) order
- B) control
- C) harmony
- D) melody
- E) duet
He is so ________, he is never satisfied with anything.
- A) discontented
- B) disconcerted
- C) discomforted
- D) disconnected
- E) discredited

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