Grammar and Vocabulary Test 2014-3
Test B
Directions:There are 100 ntences in this ction. Beneath each ntence there are four words or phras marked A, B, C and D. Choo one word or phra that best completes the ntence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
1. You will need some time to orient yourlf ________ the new way of teaching and learning here.
A) with B) in C) of D) to
2. As a matter of fact, when you ________ it, most of what he says doesn’t make n.
A) think of B) think about C) think out D) think through
3. The successful ries was first co-hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark, and later on they
appeared only occasionally, _______ for various guest hosts.
A) having made room B) have made room
C) making rooms D) having made a room
4. The ________ of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increa of knowledge; condly,
to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
A) ri B) reason C) improvement D) decline
5. At that time, many intellectuals concerned themlves ________ the future of the nation.
A) with B) about C) to D) on
6. Tho young volunteer workers have ________ a valuable rvice to the community.
A) devoted B) dedicated C) reinforced D) rendered
7. Natural light helps to ________ your biological clock, so exerci outdoors if you can.
A) adapt B) regulate C) adept D) regain
8. It is esntial that the application forms ________ back as early as possible.
A) be nt B) will be nt C) are nt D) must be nt
9. If you ________ that night, you might have been too late to get your ticket.
A) didn’t hurry B) hadn’t hurried C) wouldn’t hurry D) hadn’t to hurry
10. He demonstrated how audio signals could be ________ along cables without distortion.
A) transferred B) transplanted C) transmitted D) transformed
11. The shock of her daughter’s death _______ her unable to remain calm.
A) caud B) had C) enabled D) rendered
12. The two college students saved the life of a little boy _______ their own.
A) at the risk of B) at the danger of
C) in danger of D) at the cost of
13. I know nothing about that _______.
A) short young Japane lawyer B) young short Japane lawyer
C) Japane young short lawyer D) Japane short young lawyer
14. The manufacturers had to rai their prices becau of the increa in the cost of ______
materials.
A) raw B) original C) rough D) primitive
15. The price of this new apartment will be somewhere in the _______ of ￥1,000,000.
A) region B) district C) probability D) approximation
16. The defeated enemy soldiers had to _______ from the battle field to the mountain.
A) draw B) retreat C) return D) retire
17. It does not change the fact that she was the doctor _______ for the failure of the operation.
A) guilty B) obliged C) accounting D) responsible
18. Protective measures have been adopted in most hospitals since too much ______ to X-rays
can cau skin burns, cancer or other damage to the body.
A) disclosure B) exhibition C) exposition D) exposure
19. _______ with the picture, Mary tore it to pieces.
A) Dissatisfying thoroughly B) Being thoroughly dissatisfied
C) To dissatisfy thoroughly D) To be thoroughly dissatisfied
20. Don’t poke your no into things that don’t _______ you.
A) relate B) concern C) interest D) connect
21. _______ he works hard, I don’t mind when he finishes the experiment.
A) As soon as B) As well as C) So far as D) So long as
22. _______ received law degrees as today.
A) Never so many women have B) Never have so many women
C) The women aren’t ever D) Women who have never
23. Botanists are not sure where the first plant was grown or even _______.
A) what plant was B) it was what plant
C) what plant was it D) what plant it was
24. He was elected president of the Literary Rearch Association by ______ of his academic and
organizational abilities.
A) virtue B) means C) way D) chance
25. This method creates an atmosphere _______ to expansion.
A) preferable B) profitable C) favorable D) superior
26. His remarks left me _______ about his real purpo.
A) wondered B) wonder C) to wonder D) wondering
27. By _______ Mr. Zhang is a taxi driver.
A) profession B) work C) occupation D) employment
28. Disagreements among engineers were _______ to the plan.
A) fatal B) crucial C) critical D) vital
29. We have been told that under no circumstances _______ the telephone in the office for personal
affairs.
A) may we u B) we may u C) we could u D) did we u
30. People appreciate _______ with him becau he has a good n of humor.
A) to work B) to have worked C) working D) having worked
31. To run a business on a small ______ is by no means an easy job.
A. frame
B. range
C. number
D. scale
32. With a little imagination, you can create new challenges and make the ____ of the job you have.
A. many
B. much
C. more
D. best
33. I don’t want them to ______ their religious beliefs on my children.
A. inrt
B. impo
C. import
D. inspire
34. September 1939 saw the ______ of the Second World War.
A. outcome
B. outskirt
C. outbreak
D. outline
35. It’s my personal ______ that all criminals should be locked away for life.
A. conviction
B. contest
C. connt
D. content
36. Tom, did it ever _______ to you that you would be punished for cheating on exams?
A. happen
B. occur
C. reflect
D. strike
37. It’s urgent that a meeting ______ before the final decision is made.
A. be arranged
B. will be arranged
C. must be arranged
D. would be arranged
38. What is beyond ______ is that many women in the public eye are having extensive cosmetic
work done, starting ever younger.
A. negotiation
B. continuity
C. bargain
D. doubt
39. One of our contributions as a global institution is to ensure that the world understands that and
takes action ______.
A. though
B. therefore
C. accordingly
D. nevertheless
40. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth ________ of American
Independence.
A. ceremony
B. anniversary
C. occurrence
D. occasion
41. The great purpo of school education is not so much to teach you things, ______ to teach you
the art of learning.
A. as
B. that
C. than
D. and
42. Unlike physical energy, which is finite and ________ with age, emotional energy is unlimited
and has nothing to do with genes or upbringing.
A. deceives
B. displays
C. diminishes
D. derves
43. Samuel likes doing some reading at home ________ to the cinema.
A. than to go
B. than going
C. rather than going
D. rather than to go
44. Your son suffers from your ________ shielding.
A. excessive
B. extensive
C. extreme
D. exclusive
45. The UN couldn’t ________ to meet the demands of all its members.
A. ensure
B. guarantee
C. assume
D. confirm
46. Eating too much fat can ________ heart dia and cau high blood pressure.
A. contribute to
B. attribute to
C. attend to
D. devote to
47. Why be ________ about that old coat? There's no point in keeping it just becau you were
wearing it when you first met me.
A. nsible
B. nsational
C. ntimental
D. nsitive
48. Purchasing the new production line will be a ________ deal for the company.
A. profitable
B. tremendous
C. forceful
D. favorite
49. I would not give a ________ for the young man who does not e himlf the partner of the head
of an important firm.
A. right
B. fight
C. word
D. fig
50. Most laboratory and field studies of human behavior ______ taking a situational photograph at a
given time and in a given place.
A. involve
B. compo
C. enclo
D. attach
51.I think Sarah just couldn’t cope with the workload of university and a young family, maybe
_________ was the most nsible decision she could have made.
A. dropping off
B. dropping in
C. dropping to
D. dropping out
52.The results of the experiment, _________, will be published in the Medical Journal.
A. the university funded
B. of which the university funded
C. which the university funded
D. the university of which funded
53.I tried lots of different things but they didn’t em to work. Finally she told me to try _________
on an adventure weekend with her.
A. go
B. to go
C. going
D. to going
54. It’s after 8 o’clock. Lights out! You _________ be fast asleep by now, _________ you?
A. shouldn’t / should
B. should / shouldn’t
C. should / should
D. shouldn’t / shouldn’t
55.Will you give me a hand in the kitchen? Could you _________ for me plea?
A. chop the up
B. chop up the vegetables
C. chop the vegetables up
D. all of the above
56.Now I want all you children to _________ today. No shouting, no pushing and no running!
A. be as good as gold
B. be as polite as gold
C. be as good as golden
D. be as good as the gold
57.It’s up to you. We _________ go out for a meal. We can stay at home and cook if you like.
A. shouldn’t B don’t have to C. mustn’t D. none of the above
58.The value of the pound has recently depreciated against the euro. _________, visitors from
Europe will find their UK holidays are cheaper than in the past.
A. Correspondingly
B. Alternatively
C. Nevertheless
D. Conquently
59.Which of the following is a correct way to respond to the following ntence, saying we aren’t
going on a foreign holiday as well?
---They won’t be going abroad this year.
--- ______________________.
A. Neither will we
B. Nor will we
C. We won’t either
D. All of the above
60.I’m glad I t the alarm clock. I _________the plane if I had slept in.
A. might have misd
B. should have misd
C. can’t have misd
D. must have misd
61. I’ve been waiting here for ages but the bus _________ hasn’t come.
A.still
B. already
C. yet
D. none of the above
62.What would you say if you wanted to check someone understood what you were saying?
A. Are you with me?
B. What’s up?
C. Not on your life!
D. I’ll think about it.
63.Which three-syllable word has a different stress pattern from the others?
A. potato
B. paragraph
C. computer
D. professor
64.A: “How much luggage have you got?”
B: “_________---I like to travel light!”
A. No one
B. None
C.No
D. Nothing
65.Look at the four stress patterns below. In which ntence does the speaker want to tell us that
John’s car is not cond-hand?
A. John’s bought a new car.
B. John’s bought a new car.
C. John’s bought a new car.
D. John’s bought a new car.
66. The old couple had ________ incredible hardships during the war.
A) gone through B) gone away with C) gone over D) gone down
67.Kinco Ltd, the big toy producer, has been buying shares in its biggest competitor, Games are
Great in an aggressive _________.
A. merger
B. joint venture
C. alliance
D. takeover
68.Do you think _________ of people visit BBC Learning English from home, school or work?
A. most
B. the most
C. majority
D. the majority
69.What would NOT be a suitable reply to the following question? ‘Would you like a lift home?’
A. Sure, if you’re not going out of your way.
B. That’d be great!
C. Sorry, I haven’t got enough money to pay.
D. It’s OK, I quite fancy the walk.
70.Make sure you _________ your computer before you leave the office.
A. clo
B. shut down
C. restart
D. lock up
71.Have you en the paper today? Train ____ are going up again, and they’re so expensive as it is!
A. fees
B. prices
C. fares
D. tickets
72. _________ is spoken in many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates,
Qatar, Morocco, Tunisia, etc.
A. Arab
B. Arabian
C. Arabic
D. Arabesque
73.The nearest town was 80 km away, I mean really in the middle of _________.
A. nowhere
B. somewhere
C. anywhere D everywhere
74. _________creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the univer exists,
why we exist.
A. Autonomous
B. Spontaneous
C. Simultaneous
D. Credulous
75. She wanted to laugh and _________ all at once.
A. weep
B. moan
C. shed
D. sob
76. I have to go now becau I must be _________ for class.
A. punctuate
B. acupuncture
C. punctual
D. puncture
77.The hou is not comfortable tonight becau of the high _________.
A. humility
B. humiliation
C. capacity
D. humidity
78. “Attacking innocent pilgrims who are participating in a ______ obrvance is unconscionable,”
the statement said.
A. religious
B. sacred
C. reliable
D. holy
79. To avoid delays, she wanted the disaster relief legislation to be kept free of ________matters.
A. erotic
B. exotic
C. toxic
D. extraneous
80.Chatty colleagues not only _______ their own schedules, but also prevent you from completing
your task on time
A. interrupt
B. corrupt
C. disrupt
D. shatter
81. Believe it or not, I have done nothing wrong. At least I can face them with a clear ________.
A) look B) conscience C) mind D) face
82. To tho who understand ________ rvice, it is no surpri that tension and emotional
problems are so prevalent in our me-first society.
A) lf B) lf-sufficient C) lfless D) lfish
83. The whole path _______ electricity travels is known as a circuit.
A) along that B) as C) along which D) in that
84. She’s tired of changing her jobs frequently, so she hopes to find a(n) ________ one.
A) lasting B) eternal C) persistent D) permanent
85. True friendship must be bad on ________ the joys as well as troubles.
