New Learning Vocabulary Test
IELTS Reading Vocabulary-C9T1
Name____________ Score________________ Passage 1 William Henry Perkin
1. curiosity 3. enthusiasm 5. immerse 7. fortune 9. surpass 11. potential 13. fascinating 15. utilise 17. stumble upon 19. eminent 21. synthetic 23. dye 25. backdrop 27. fierce
2. prompt 4. perceive 6. enrolment 8. derive from 10. attempt 12. fade 14. assure 16. flatter 18. devotion 20. breakthrough 22. substitute 24. outrageously 26. fabric 28. decorative Passage 2 Is there anybody out there?
1. haunt 3. evolve 5. machinery 7. assumption 9. observable 11. astronomical 2. determined 4. foster 6. convince 8. severely 10. orbit 12. alien New Learning Vocabulary Test 13. restrictively 15. intermittently 17. sensitivity 19. impractically
14. galaxy 16. transmit 18. debate 20. ethical Passage 3 The history of the tortoise
1. evolutionary 3. enterprising 5. involve 7. reproduction 9. intermediate 11. fragment 13. forelimb 15. plot 17. cluster 19. constitute 21. stretch 2. migration 4. parched 6. thoroughgoing 8. terrestrial 10. descend 12. fossil 14. amphibious 16. overlap 18. branch 20. ancestor 22. vertebrate