Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questionsQuestion 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. |