Practice
on
Vocabulary
1. Cholera is __________ through contaminated water
A. transferred B. transmitted C. transported D. transacted
2. The company has signed (a) ________ of understanding
with a group of investors to sell its steel operations.
A. memoirs B. memento C. memorial D. memorandum
3. Most of Manhattan is _________ in a grid pattern with
avenues of going north-south and streets east-west.
A. laid down
B. laid out
C. laid off
D. laid up
4.The two playwrights worked in close _________ with
each
other
on
the
script.
A. operation B. colleague C. collaboration D. connection
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5. With cheaper PC software and wider access to the Internet , there
has undoubtedly an _______ growth in the use of MT.
A.unprocessed
B.unperceived
C.unprecedented
D. unperturbed
6. Recently there has been some __________ of interest in ancient
music.
A. revival
B. revision C. reversion D. reverse
7. Many shops cut prices just before Christmas in an attempt to
________ sales.
A. spurn B. spurt C. spur
D. sputter
8. Radio Two plans to double its daily news ____ from next month.
A. output B. outrage C.outspread
D. outcome
9. He came out with such (a)n ____ excuse that I didn’t quite
believe him.
A. cooperative B. elaborate C. collaborated D. evaporated
10. It’s about time we ____ the organization of this company.
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A.demonstrated
B.demoralized
C.demotivated
D.democratized
11.
What the person does next is the result of the ________
influences to which they have been exposed.
A. multilingual B. multiple C. multilateral D. multinational
12.
The report on the accident ___________ the need for
considerable improvements in safety.
A. highballs B. highlights C. hightails D. hijacks
13. He came to the party dressed in a yellow suit and a pink bow
tie, which caused great ________ among the other guests.
A. confusion B. congestion C. hilarity D. enthusiasm
14.
Bad weather _________ the air schedule, and a lot of
passengers are allocated to hotels
around waiting for new information.
A. bothered B. scrambled C. interfered D. troubled
15. He must be about sixty, ________ his wife looks about thirty. A.
whereas whereby C. wherein D. whereupon
16. The food decays easily. It is important to store these ________
food in cool places.
 A. available
B. breakable C. valuable D. perishable
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________ news coverage is quite hard to find as quite a few
news companies are financed by particular interests.
 A. Immoral
B. Impartial C. Immortal D. Impassive
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There is a wide __________ of opinions on the question of
unilateral disarmament.
 A. diversity B. involvement
C. database D. analysis
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I’ve wired up the stereo system, but I haven’t _______ the
speaker in yet.
 A. placed
B. inserted
C. plugged D. bolted
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A(n) _______ of seven years’ work revealed errors and
inconsistencies.
 A. output
B. analogy
C. collaboration D. analysis
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21. Very correctly, she was handing out the polite but casual _____
due to a new neighbor who had rendered her small service.
A. hostility B. hospitality C. submission D. indifference
22. We’re linked to the online ________ at our head office.
A. website
B. database
C. logo D. datemark
23. He is ______ one of the world’s finest football players.
A. arguably B. unintentionally C. colloquially D. partially
24. She wouldn’t give me the slightest ________ of information
about what she’d been doing.
A. part
B. party
C. particle
D. partition
25. I didn’t have much _______ into the project, which resulted in
bad consequences.
A. output B. input C. putout D. putdown
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26. Environmentalists are doing everything within their power to
______the impact of the oil spill.
A. maximize B. minimize C. lower D. miniaturize
27. Their team _______ to the top of the League after their three
years’ efforts.
A. rocketed B. bolstered C. blustered D. boomed
28. English, maths and science are compulsory for all students, but
art and music are ________.
A. available B. acquirable C. optional B. optical
29. Dictators like him rarely go ________ without a fight.
A. back on B. for C. off D. down
30. This fundamental idea immediately found its way into man’s
speech, which ____ became filled with words and idioms expressing
it.
A. henceforth B. nevertheless C. whatsoever D. whereby
31. What ________ do you use when judging the quality of a
student’s work?
A. standard B. norm
C. appraisal D. criterion
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32. As a revenge, the government has ordered the immediate
__________ of exports to that country.
A. inspiration B. expiration C. cancellation
D. suspension
33. Susan’s success in winning the first prize ________ the other
girls’ jealousy and they viciously spread a rnmor that she was
cheating in the exam.
A. concurred B. recurred C. incurred D. occurred
34. The computer program isn’t ____ with this operating system.
A. comparable B. compatible C. compactable D. computable
35. There is a growing ______ that this country can no longer
afford to be a nuclear power.
A. recognition B. acclamation C. evaluation D. recommendation
36. He sees himself as being _________ economic reform.
A. on the face of
B. well above
C. well along toward
D. in the vanguard of
37.The concert was a good one, but because of bad __very few
people came.A.publishing B.publicity C. highlights D. advertiser
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38. There was much ____ before the family would agree to my
suggestion.
A. unanimity B. controversy C. conspiracy
D. anticipation
39. You must ___ with the library rule, or else you will be fined.
A. abide
B. stick
C. conform
D. comply
40. No matter what the teacher said, he still __ tenaciously to his
opinion. A. persisted B. insisted
C. clung D. persevered
41.At the moment there is a (n) ____lack of enthusiasm in her
musical performance.
A. extinct B. instinct C. distinct D. intact
42.Congress is considering measures to ____the sale of
cigarettes.
A. restrict
B. enchant C. promote D. retract
43.I know him well and have some___about the truth of his story.
A. reservations B. conservations C. preservations D.
desperations
44.The man standing over there is the composer who will
__________ the orchestra at tonight’s concert.
A. control B. manipulate C. operate D. conduct
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45. Do you think he is ________ in making that remark?
A. reasoned B. rationalized C. justified D. identified
46. The constitution is no longer ________ as a system of private
rights and legislation is now regarded as a dynamic, not an
interpretative process.
A. contrived B. conceived C. contracted D. contributed
47.The new job _______ selling and setting up sale conferences.
A. retails
B. entails C. details D. pintails
48. Half the people questioned said they were opposed to military
_______ in the civil war.
A. interference B. interpretation C. intrusion D. intervention
49. The campaign of violence and ____ against them intensifies
daily.A. intimation B. intoxication C. intimidation D. intrusion
50. His face _________ with bitterness and rage.
A. contorted
B. extorted C. presorted D. retorted
51.The missionaries____the teaching of Christianity throughout the
islands. A. dispatched B.apprised C. discharged D. preached
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52. In buying an apartment, a difference of ten cents in prices is
_____. A. negligible B. infallible C. doubtful D. innumerable
53. Cheer up! It is stupid to ______ over the lost opportunity all the
time. A. rejoice B. brood
C. dwell D. conceive
54.
The lighting of the Olympic torch ________ peace and
friendship among the nations of the world.
A. expresses B. predicts C. means D. symbolizes
55. Two men _________ him with weapons and forced him to give
up his money.
A. blackmailed B. menaced C. conquered
D. eliminated
56. Don’t be so __________ to be taken by their lies.
A. merciful
B. malignant
C. ingenuous
D. obscene
57. There is no evidence to think that the _________ that the
phone call was made by the defendant is correct.
A. resumption B. consumption C. supposition D. consideration
58. The dress will not __________ the years as my velvet will.
A. stand up to
B. live up to C. come up to D. face up to
Keys:
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1-5
BDBCC
BBCBA
16-20 DBACA
BACDA
31-35 DDCBA
CAADC
46-50 BBDCA
6-10 ACABD
11-15
21-25 BBACB
26-30
36-40 DBBAC
41-45
51-55 BABDB
56-58 CCA