TEST 22
1) His poetic output may not be large but,
nevertheless, Ted Hughes is generally regarded as
one of the .......... poets of our time.
A) distinguished
B) excessive
C) prolific
D) confirmation
E) futile
2) I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture; it
wasn't.......... but it wasn't
too scholarly, either.
A) oversimplified
B) underestimated
C) overemphatic
D) extensive
E) overdue
3) The Kodak Company now faces stiff.......... both
from abroad and from rival firms at home.
A) innovation
B) competition
C) investment
D) commercial
E) enterprise
4) If he gets this .......... it will help him to
recover his self -confidence.
A) accuracy
B) exposure
C) promotion
D) productivity
E) procedure
5) Through the winter, the bank rates were
reasonably steady, but now they have started to
.......... again.
A) activity
B) exchange
C) improve
D) incline
E) intensify
6) I believe that leaders must make an effort to
stay open-minded and try to .......... another
person's point of view. -
A) dispute
B) recover
C) grief
D) insist
E) appreciate
7) The journalists asked the Manager so many
questions
that finally he felt it necessary to .......... the
statement.
A) propose
B) narrow
C) clarify
D) preface
E) exempt .
8) By all means, give all the medical details, but
do .......... from giving any names.
A) relent
B) excuse
C) nasty
D) refrain
E) prudent
9) The testimony of the last witness .......... the
accused of all
suspicion.
A) account
B) removes
C) clears
D) surmounts
E) attain
10) Owing to various advances in modern medicine,
certain diseases that were seemingly incurable now
.......... treatment.
A) happy with
B) yield to
C) interfere with
D) stem from
E) look forward to
11) She will have to hire more workers soon; she
can't put it off...... .
A) consequently
B) emphatically
C) fast
D) indefinitely
E) shortly
12) The surgeon was .......... embarrassed to learn
that a piece of bandage had been left inside the
abdomen.
A) nervously
B) badly
C) extremely
D) sensitively
E) widely
13) Many scientists and economists believe that food
production isn't going to.......... population
growth.
A) look forward to
B) put up with
C) go ahead
D) keep up with
E) be in need of
14) The ..........of the mechanical equipments
brought about a major change in the company's
efficiency.
A) foundation
B) admission
C) involvement
D) delivery
E) installation
15) The earth's crust is .......... seven enormous
plates of rock.
A) made up of
B) established by
C) insisted on
D) put off
E) settled down
16) .......... of plants and trees in hot humid
conditions leads to the formation of coal.
A) Irrigation
B) Decomposition
C) Activity
D) Constitution
E) Allocation
17) The .......... of the negotiation was an
agreement to limit the manufacture of nuclear arms.
A) ending
B) yearn
C) item
D) outcome
E) vacant
18) It is.......... to think that from the nucleus
of atom can come remarkable amount of energy.
A) resourceful
B) destructive.
C) incredible
D) relentless
E) carefully
19) It was always ..........whether the rocket would
succeed.
A) popular
B) assumed
C) convenient
D) doubtful
E) resentful
20) A door handle might.......... if it weren't
screwed on properly.
A) bring up
B) switch on
C) turn out
D) take away
E) come off
21) The new secretary is going to be ...........
A) demolished
B) dismissed
C) taken off
D) combined
E) revised
22) The manager was .......... of the problem all
the time.
A) aware
B) recommended
C) disruptive
D) irrelevant
E) conclusive
23) Since the documents have all been signed, it
would be .......... to carry on the agreement.
A) credible
B) natural
C) unethical
D) efficient
E) pointless
24) They don't know how their friend .......... the
constant demands of his girlfriend.
A) changes over
B) puts up with
C) turns on
D) go for
E) show off
25) When births .......... deaths, the population
increases; when the opposite is true, then it falls.
A) confess
B) decrease
C) suppress
D) heal
E) outnumber
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