Test - 23

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Test - 23

They ________ our team by three goals to one.
- A) beat
- B) conquered
- C) earned
- D) gained
- E) won
He works at a big steel ________ outside the town.
- A) fabric
- B) factory
- C) industry
- D) product
- E) society
I congratulated him on winning the ________.
- A) match
- B) play
- C) practice
- D) recital
- E) sport
A ________ of mine, my cousin John, is coming to stay with us.
- A) familiar
- B) known
- C) neighbor
- D) parent
- E) relative
He has been very ________ since his wife died.
- A) lonely
- B) only
- C) single
- D) sole
- E) unique
As all the hotels in the town were full up, we tried to find accommodation in a ________ village.
- A) close
- B) native
- C) near
- D) nearby
- E) neighbor
The fish sauce was lovely, Janet. Would you mind letting me have the ________ or is it a family secret?
- A) card
- B) course
- C) prescription
- D) receipt
- E) recipe
His parents died when he was a baby and he was _____ by his aunt.
- A) brought out
- B) brought up
- C) grown
- D) grown up
- E) taken out
I ________ on seeing the manager. The service here is terrible.
- A) ask
- B) demand
- C) insist
- D) repeat
- E) underline
He ________ me of someone I knew at school.
- A) memories
- B) refers
- C) regards
- D) remembers
- E) reminds
I ________ £5 from my father because I was short of money.
- A) asked
- B) borrowed
- C) lent
- D) spent
- E) wasted
His office is on the sixth ________ of the building.
- A) flat
- B) floor
- C) ground
- D) level
- E) stage
The main interest of the Trade Union is to raise its members' ________ of living.
- A) ability
- B) capacity
- C) condition
- D) degree
- E) standard
The ________ for the race to begin was the starter firing a pistol.
- A) advice
- B) attention
- C) dispatch
- D) notice
- E) signal
If you leave your bicycle out in the rain, it will get ________.
- A) crude
- B) rough
- C) rude
- D) rusty
- E) tough
It must have rained ________ the night. The ground's still wet.
- A) ago
- B) during
- C) for
- D) since
- E) while
He's so _____ by nature that he never knows what to say to strangers.
- A) disgusted
- B) embarrassing
- C) shameful
- D) shy
- E) upset
I want to ________ the car to see how it goes before I buy It.
- A) experiment
- B) prove
- C) taste
- D) try on
- E) try out
A ________ is a person who comes from another country.
- A) foreigner
- B) host
- C) stranger
- D) tramp
- E) wanderer
When they reached the ________ they had to show their passports before crossing into Germany.
- A) border
- B) cliff
- C) edge
- D) front
- E) shore
They _______ a hundred workers because they had no work for them.
- A) disposed
- B) resigned
- C) sacked
- D) shot
- E) threw
At ________ we didn't get on very well but later we became friends.
- A) beginning
- B) first
- C) least
- D) once
- E) principle
Policemen have to wear ________ because so many people ask them the time.
- A) bells
- B) clocks
- C) hours
- D) watches
- E) whistles
She's happiest when she has a house ________ of people to entertain.
- A) enough
- B) filled
- C) full
- D) lot
- E) plenty
Don't take what he said so seriously. He was only ________.
- A) amusing
- B) enjoying
- C) funny
- D) joking
- E) tricking
Don't be afraid of the dog. He won't do you any ________.
- A) bite
- B) harm
- C) hurt
- D) pain
- E) wound
I'll pay you back the money I ________ you at the end of the month.
- A) debt
- B) doubt
- C) lend
- D) owe
- E) own
His landlady threw him out because he hadn't paid the ________.
- A) due
- B) fee
- C) hire
- D) let
- E) rent
She ________ and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.
- A) slipped
- B) sloped
- C) smashed
- D) spilt
- E) split
The elephant fell into a ________ the villagers had set for him in the long grass.
- A) track
- B) damp
- C) trap
- D) trick
- E) trip
I ____ of his course of action and told him to go ahead.
- A) accepted
- B) agreed
- C) approved
- D) consented
- E) passed
Emotional speeches often ________ strong feelings.
- A) arise
- B) arouse
- C) get up
- D) give up
- E) rise
I took ________ of the opportunity to tell him what I thought.
- A) advantage
- B) benefit
- C) gain
- D) occasion
- E) profit
He suffers from a speech ________ and so he cannot pronounce the letter 'r' properly.
- A) break
- B) defect
- C) error
- D) fault
- E) mistake
He's the greatest ________ expert on French art.
- A) alive
- B) live
- C) lively
- D) living
- E) nowadays
He never attends ________ at the university so he may not know enough to get his degree.
- A) lectures
- B) performances
- C) rehearsals
- D) reunions
- E) subjects
The weather forecast said it would rain but it looks as if it's going to ________ fine.
- A) turn down
- B) turn into
- C) turn out
- D) turn over
- E) turn up
He's fond of ________ his colleagues but he goes on working for the same firm.
- A) running down
- B) running into
- C) running out
- D) running over
- E) running up against
The plane ________ at 7 o' clock.
- A) took away
- B) took down
- C) look off
- D) look out
- E) took up
My car ________ so I had to walk.
- A) broke down
- B) broke off
- C) broke up
- D) fell down
- E) fell through

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