IV. Multiple choice                                    
1. Computer models help to determine whether a particular area is likely to flood            
A. make up                 B. find out                 C. take over                           D. put up
2. Let me give you a little ______ about the president of the company 
A. specialization       B. concentration       C. background                      D. degree
3. Jane is always determined to do anything she wants. She’s a ____ woman
A. ambitious              B. strong-willed        C. brilliant                  D. humane
4. He passed his exams with flying colour      
A. successfully                     B. difficulty                C. badly         D. easily
5. She harbored her hope of being a teacher  
A. gave up her hope of being a teacher               B. built her hope of being a teacher 
 C. had her hope of being a teacher                     D. kept her hope of being a teacher in her mind.
6. He behaved like an adult. I think he is more ___than the other boys in his class
A. intelligent                          B. mature                   C. ambitious                         D. developed
7. The new road should help __traffic problems                                   
A. raise          B. create        C. ease          D. cause
8. Annie found the souvenirs __she wanted at the gift shop   
A. that            B. which       C. W             D. All are correct
9. There is no ____ explanation for what happened   
A. scientist    B. scientific              C. scientifically         D. science
10. The new surgeon will ____her post in May               
A. go on           B. get over  C. take up                  D. look after
11. In spite of ____, we decided to go out         
A. We felt very tired             B. feeling tired          C. all of us felt tired D. tired
14. When we ____ the bill, we left the restaurant         
A. had paid    B. were paying                     C. paid           D. had been paying
15. When the firework __ off, the dog __ away
A. had gone / ran     B. went / had run      C. went / ran             D. went / was running