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1.

They ________ our team by three goals to one.
A) beat

B) conquered

C) earned

D) gained

E) won

2.

He works at a big steel ________ outside the town.
A) fabric

B) factory

C) industry

D) product

E) society

3.

I congratulated him on winning the ________.
A) match

B) play

C) practice

D) recital

E) sport

4.

A ________ of mine, my cousin John, is coming to stay with us.
A) familiar

B) known

C) neighbor

D) parent

E) relative

5.

He has been very ________ since his wife died.
A) lonely

B) only

C) single

D) sole

E) unique

6.

As all the hotels in the town were full up, we tried to find
accommodation in a ________ village.
A) close

B) native

C) near

D) nearby

E) neighbor

7.

The fish sauce was lovely, Janet. Would you mind letting me have
the ________ or is it a family secret?
A) card

B) course

C) prescription

D) receipt

E) recipe

8.

His parents died when he was a baby and he was _____ by his aunt.
A) brought out

B) brought up

C) grown

D) grown up

E) taken out

9.

I ________ on seeing the manager. The service here is terrible.
A) ask

B) demand

C) insist

D) repeat

E) underline

10. He ________ me of someone I knew at school.

A) memories

B) refers

C) regards

D) remembers

E) reminds

11. I ________ £5 from my father because I was short of money.

A) asked

B) borrowed

C) lent

D) spent

E) wasted

12. His office is on the sixth ________ of the building.

A) flat

B) floor

C) ground

D) level

E) stage

13. The main interest of the Trade Union is to raise its members’ ________

of living.
A) ability

B) capacity

C) condition

D) degree

E) standard

14. The ________ for the race to begin was the starter firing a pistol.

A) advice

B) attention

C) dispatch

D) notice

E) signal

15. If you leave your bicycle out in the rain, it will get ________.

A) crude

B) rough

C) rude

D) rusty

E) tough

16. It must have rained ________ the night. The ground’s still wet.

A) ago

B) during

C) for

D) since

E) while

17. He’s so _____ by nature that he never knows what to say to strangers.

A) disgusted

B) embarrassing

C) shameful

D) shy

E) upset

18. I want to ________ the car to see how it goes before I buy It.

A) experiment

B) prove

C) taste

D) try on

E) try out

19. A ________ is a person who comes from another country.

A) foreigner

B) host

C) stranger

D) tramp

E) wanderer

20. When they reached the ________ they had to show their passports

before crossing into Germany.
A) border

B) cliff

C) edge

D) front

E) shore

21. They _______ a hundred workers because they had no work for them.

A) disposed

B) resigned

C) sacked

D) shot

E) threw

22. At ________ we didn’t get on very well but later we became friends.

A) beginning

B) first

C) least

D) once

E) principle

23. Policemen have to wear ________ because so many people ask them

the time.
A) bells

B) clocks

C) hours

D) watches

E) whistles

24. She’s happiest when she has a house ________ of people to entertain.

A) enough

B) filled

C) full

D) lot

E) plenty

25. Don’t take what he said so seriously. He was only ________.

A) amusing

B) enjoying

C) funny

D) joking

E) tricking

26. Don’t be afraid of the dog. He won’t do you any ________.

A) bite

B) harm

C) hurt

D) pain

E) wound

27. I’ll pay you back the money I ________ you at the end of the month.

A) debt

B) doubt

C) lend

D) owe

E) own

28. His landlady threw him out because he hadn’t paid the ________.

A) due

B) fee

C) hire

D) let

E) rent

29. She ________ and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.

A) slipped

B) sloped

C) smashed

D) spilt

E) split

30. The elephant fell into a ________ the villagers had set for him in the

long grass.
A) track

B) damp

C) trap

D) trick

E) trip

31. I ____ of his course of action and told him to go ahead.

A) accepted

B) agreed

C) approved

D) consented

E) passed

32. Emotional speeches often ________ strong feelings.

A) arise

B) arouse

C) get up

D) give up

E) rise

33. I took ________ of the opportunity to tell him what I thought.

A) advantage

B) benefit

C) gain

D) occasion

E) profit

34. He suffers from a speech ________ and so he cannot pronounce the

letter ‘r’ properly.
A) break

B) defect

C) error

D) fault

E) mistake

35. He’s the greatest ________ expert on French art.

A) alive

B) live

C) lively

D) living

E) nowadays

36. He never attends ________ at the university so he may not know

enough to get his degree.
A) lectures

B) performances

C) rehearsals

D) reunions

E) subjects

37. The weather forecast said it would rain but it looks as if it’s going to

________ fine.
A) turn down

B) turn into

C) turn out

D) turn over

E) turn up

38. He’s fond of ________ his colleagues but he goes on working for the

same firm.
A) running down

B) running into

C) running out

D) running over

E) running up against

39. The plane ________ at 7 o’ clock.

A) took away

B) took down

C) look off

D) look out

E) took up

40. My car ________ so I had to walk.

A) broke down

B) broke off

C) broke up

D) fell down

E) fell through

TEST 23

Test 23

Book 2 Part D