Question 18: She praised her husband for his dignity under the of the tabloid press.
B. assault
A. onslaught
Question 19: He's still
A. tottering
A. worry
C. onset
D. offensive
_over whether to accept the job he's just been offered.
C. dithering
B. doddering
Question 20: His mother's illness had placed him under a considerable_
B. tension
C. stress
D. faltering
D. strain
fist at the speaker.
C. gripped
D. clasped
C. association
D. connection
Question 21: In an act of defiance Pete raised a
B. pressed
A. clenched
Question 22: What you actually earn bears no_
A. link
B. relation
Question 23: Being out in the
B. flaming
A. grilling
Question 24: The audience_
worse.
A. derided
Question 25:
A. Last of all
Question 26: Even a
to all my needs.
sun all morning make me feel quite weak.
C. blazing
D. frying
_at the comedian as her performance went from bad to
B. jeered
C. grinned
D. ridiculed
_after trying three times, he passed the examination.
B. Lastly
C. Last
few drops of this liquid would represent a
D. At last
C. killing
_dose for an adult, let
D. lethal
Question 27: The police believed that the Prime Minister was killed by a
alone a small child.
A. mortal
B. deadly
A. rented
A. slashed
B. hired
Question 28: A wave of bombings,
B. hacked
assassin.
C. chartered
through the crowded capital's business district.
C. incised
Question 29: Due to the fog, her flight from Pyongyang was
B. tardy
C. unpunctual
A. belated
Question 30: After the interval, the change of
audience.
A. panorama
LESSON 32
B. scenery
C. view
Question 1: It is hot in the day-time but the temperature
B. slips
C. descends
A. drops
Question 2: The aircraft experienced severe_
kept a cool head and landed it safely.
A. instability
A. hilarious
B. wavering
Question 3: The play is full of very_
B. jolly
D. leased
D. ripped
D. overdue
brought a gasp of surprise from the
D. vista
sharply at night.
D. reduces
during the final approach, but the pilot
C. unsteadiness
C. comic t
D. turbulence
_remarks made by the main character.
D. witty
Question 4: The accused man had a cast-iron alibi to prove his innocence at the trial and
was
B. forgiven
C. acquitted
D. remitted
A. absolved
Question 5: 'I know that you have an appointment in ten minutes, so I shall not,
long', the professor remarked
A. retard
B. withhold
Question 6: Natalie could no longer bear the_
house.
A. oppressive
C. postpone
B. domineering C. imperious
you
D. detain
surrounding of the decrepit quaint
D. overbearing
Question 7: In many places in Wales I found that place-names in English had
been
with green paint - the work of ardent Welsh Nationalists.
A. annihilated B. eradicated
Question 8: Louis is a(n) _
C. obliterated
D. destroyed
_aleck - he is always telling others howto do things better.