Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
1. Excuse me. I'm a(n) ............... in this neighbourhood.
Can you tell me what number bus will take me to the
town center, please? I want to do some shopping.
8. He received another letter from the ...............
demanding more money.
A) burglar
B) thief
C) pickpocket
D) robber
E) blackmailer
A) foreigner
B) customer
C) tourist
D) stranger
E) immigrant
9. "How much is the ______?" she asked the bus
conductor.
2. How much must I ............... a good second-hand car?
A) buy from
B) pay for
C) borrow from
D) own for
E) lend to
A) fare
B) price
C) cost
D) prize
E) fee
3. It's getting quite ______. I think it's going to rain soon.
4. The ............... today is full of the news of yesterday's
concert.
A) press
B) publisher
C) reporter
D) literature
E) journalism
5. It's a very ............... picture. I laugh at it all the time.
A) laughing
B) smiling
C) joking
D) funny
E) serious
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A) windy
B) hot
C) foggy
D) cold
E) cloudy
10. Come to Turkland, and ............... all these places
where history lives on.
A) inform
B) define
C) memorize
D) describe
E) discover
11. There are a lot more television ............... today than
there were some twenty years ago.
A) spectators
B) visitors
C) onlookers
D) viewers
E) sightseers
12. How was your ............... back?
A) sightseeing
B) vacation
C) trip
D) luggage
E) holiday
6. Nobody gave him a hand. He did it on his ______.
13. FATHER: "Tell me. Do you love him or not?"
DAUGHTER: "Well, I'm very ______ of him."
A) single
B) self
C) alone
D) own
E) lonely
7. GNP stands for "gross ............... product".
A) keen
B) friendly
C) fond
D) likeable
E) romantic
A) national
B) global
C) international
D) universal
E) regional
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Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
14. Yes, we certainly want to move to a bigger house, but
our ............... of money is only part of the problem.
20. The concert was called ............... because of the
heavy rain.
A) inflation
B) presence
C) shortage
D) absence
E) border
A) out of
B) aside
C) off
D) down
E) out
15. Sorry, it's much too expensive for me; I can't
............... it.
21. It is not often that we get a(n) ............... to meet a
film star.
A) help
B) stand
C) forgive
D) export
E) afford
A) dream
B) taste
C) reality
D) chance
E) acceptance
A) remembered
B) refused
C) memorised
D) requested
E) mentioned
17. How did they ............... when they heard the price?
A) laugh
B) hate
C) discuss
D) knock
E) react
18. It takes a lot of patience to ............... hyperactive
children because of their low level of concentration.
A) describe
B) discover
C) teach
D) joke with
E) think about
22. The pirates ............... the treasure on a desert island.
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16. His friends advised him to see a doctor about his
headaches, but he ............... to listen to them.
A) cooked
B) invented
C) forgave
D) grilled
E) buried
23. Aren't you going to ............... me to your friend?
A) joke with
B) demonstrate
C) introduce
D) receive
E) memorise
24. She isn't very ............... with her friends at school.
A) loved
B) clever
C) frequent
D) frequent
E) popular
25. Plants absorb water from the soil through their ______.
19. Don't ............... to call me if you need help.
A) dream
B) hesitate
C) shame
D) repeat
E) frighten
A) stems
B) flowers
C) roots
D) branches
E) leaves
26. They didn't stay for supper. They weren't ______.
A) sleepy
B) early
C) thirsty
D) hungry
E) poor
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Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
27. There were three ............... helping the two doctors in
the operating theatre.
29. The office is on the second floor of the building. It is
200 square meters in ______.
A) butchers
B) greengrocers
C) plumbers
D) carpenters
E) nurses
A) depth
B) height
C) length
D) area
E) width
28. According to the Marxist doctrine, it is the workers
that should ............... the world.
30. He usually reads the sports ............... of the
newspaper first.
A) section
B) pictures
C) chapter
D) literature
E) tales
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A) shake
B) divide
C) rule
D) blow up
E) choose
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Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
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1: D
2: B
3: E
4: A
5: D
6: D
7: A
8: E
9: A
10: E
11: D
12: C
13: C
14: C
15: E
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