Test - 25

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Test - 25

The ________ outside the house said: 'Private'.
- A) advice
- B) label
- C) notice
- D) signal
- E) threat
Are you going to ________ your house in London while you are abroad?
- A) dispose
- B) hire
- C) let
- D) remove
- E) sale
How unkind of him to ________ to help you!
- A) agree
- B) admit
- C) deny
- D) ignore
- E) refuse
Close the door, please: I don't like sitting in a ________.
- A) blow
- B) current
- C) draught
- D) vent
- E) wind
I had to stand in a ________ for hours to get the tickets for the performance.
- A) file
- B) procession
- C) queue
- D) tail
- E) turn
When he was a boy his hobby was stamp ________.
- A) assembly
- B) collecting
- C) finding
- D) gathering
- E) picking
He lost his ________ and threw a book at me.
- A) feeling
- B) mood
- C) sense
- D) spirit
- E) temper
I learnt to ________ a bicycle when I was six years old.
- A) conduct
- B) drive
- C) guide
- D) ride
- E) run
Do as you think best. It doesn't ________ whether he agrees or not.
- A) care
- B) decide
- C) import
- D) matter
- E) mind
I don't think you've ________ Mrs. Walker before I'll introduce you to her.
- A) discovered
- B) found
- C) known
- D) met
- E) presented
If the boss sees you doing that, you'll get into ________.
- A) mess
- B) nuisance
- C) problem
- D) struggle
- E) trouble
My husband's at ________. He'll speak to you when he comes home.
- A) busy
- B) employ
- C) job
- D) work
- E) works
It's no good asking me to calculate the cost. I'm hopeless at ________.
- A) characters
- B) counters
- C) figures
- D) prizes
- E) shapes
The road was so ________ that the car bounced up and down.
- A) rare
- B) sharp
- C) steep
- D) sudden
- E) uneven
You should be ________ of yourself for behaving so badly.
- A) ashamed
- B) confused
- C) disgusted
- D) embarrassed
- E) shameful
I ________ an answer to my letter in the next few days.
- A) expect
- B) hope
- C) promise
- D) suppose
- E) wait
The car broke down but the ________ in the garage soon fixed it.
- A) driver
- B) machinist
- C) manufacturer
- D) mechanic
- E) motorist
Why are you arresting me? I haven't done anything ________.
- A) crime
- B) error
- C) faulty
- D) mistaken
- E) wrong
Roses are quite ________ flowers in English gardens.
- A) accustomed
- B) annual
- C) common
- D) used
- E) vulgar
Benjamin Franklin ________ the lightning conductor.
- A) discovered
- B) found
- C) invented
- D) resulted
- E) solved
I didn't know his ________ so I couldn't write to him.
- A) address
- B) direction
- C) letter
- D) route
- E) way
The only problem about sitting outside here in the evening is that you are likely to be ________ by mosquitoes.
- A) bitten
- B) grasped
- C) ground
- D) murdered
- E) picked
You must ________ facts and not try to run away from the unpleasant truth.
- A) eye
- B) face
- C) front
- D) look
- E) sight
There was a sudden ________ of lightning, which lit up the whole street.
- A) bum
- B) fire
- C) flash
- D) splash
- E) split
When he ________ he wants to be an engine driver.
- A) ages
- B) becomes
- C) grows
- D) grows up
- E) increases
I just ________ to stop the child from running into the road.
- A) achieved
- B) controlled
- C) could
- D) managed
- E) succeeded
As soon as his party came into ________ he raised the salaries of Member of Parliament.
- A) force
- B) position
- C) power
- D) right
- E) strength
There was an interesting ________ of the film in The Sunday Times last weekend.
- A) comment
- B) remark
- C) resume
- D) review
- E) revision
I didn't realize you wanted to keep the letter. I've ________ it up.
- A) broken
- B) pulled
- C) smashed
- D) torn
- E) wrapped
We're sorry you're ill and send you our best wishes for a speedy ________.
- A) recovery
- B) relief
- C) repair
- D) repose
- E) survival
When he was young, all he ________ at the factory was £1 a week.
- A) earned
- B) gained
- C) inherited
- D) sacked
- E) won
She ________ at me for a long time without saying anything.
- A) glimpsed
- B) saw
- C) stared
- D) viewed
- E) watched
He threw the box out of the window and saw it fall to the ________ outside.
- A) flat
- B) floor
- C) ground
- D) plain
- E) soil
You've made a very ________ decision. Any reasonable person would have done the same thing.
- A) sensational
- B) sensed
- C) sensible
- D) sensitive
- E) sentimental
The water here is very ________. You can get across the stream on foot.
- A) broad
- B) flat
- C) narrow
- D) pure
- E) shallow
I am staying in a youth ________ in the center of the town.
- A) home
- B) hostel
- C) inn
- D) lodge
- E) pub
The little boy had blue eyes and fair hair so he ________ his mother.
- A) took after
- B) took down
- C) took from
- D) took off
- E) took over
There's no food left and the shops are shut so you'll have to ________.
- A) go for
- B) go off
- C) go on
- D) go through
- E) go without
You sometimes ________ quite valuable things in antique shop.
- A) come across
- B) come back
- C) come into
- D) come off
- E) come round
I'll ________ you at 8:30 and give you a lift to the office.
- A) call at
- B) call for
- C) call in
- D) call round
- E) call to

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