request had been ____________.
A. turned down
B. turned up
C. looked on
D. looked up
Key: A
22. Initially the administration would be asked to ____________ about $325 million per year for
Landsat and weather information.
A. turn up
B. cheer up
C. fork out
Key: C
23. I wouldn’t ____________ a university that would be cut off from the society.
A. highlight
B. sympathize
C. harmonize
D. advocate
Key: D
24. This was pretty clearly an attempt to ____________ the Americans towards saying yes to an
aid programme for the Soviet Union.
A. repay
B. redirect
C. nudge
D. advocate
Key: C
25. This is a ____________ and thoroughly investigated article and is probably the first extended
account of situationist film in English.
A. tricky
B. detached
C. comprehensive
D. demanding
Key: C
26. The Association has recently purchased a large, ____________ house in a residential area of
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
A. detached
B. transitional
C. testing
D. dead-end
Key: A
27. The main market for Japan’s semiconductor makers — the American computer industry —
has been sinking deeper into ____________ since August 1990.
A. slump
B. boom
C. prosperity
D. hassle
Key: A
28. When they were talking about work of this type, policemen stressed the importance of
remaining ____________ and emotionally cold.
A. chilling
B. sympathetic
C. tricky
D. detached
Key: D
29. With a shoe ____________ in each hand, he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones
that might have saved him from disaster.
A. detached
B. nudged
C. clutched
D. reverted
Key: C
30. The objective of World Health Day is to raise global awareness of a specific health theme to
____________ a priority area of concern for the World Health Organization.
A. advocate
B. emphasize
C. highlight
D. stress
Key: C
31. This is the kind of work which requires an emotional coldness but which can on occasions be
so ____________ that detachment is difficult to maintain.
A. tricky
B. testing
C. pushy
D. demanding
Key: D
32. The ____________ of the anniversary ceremonies was the visit of the Queen to bestow the
Royal Charter.
A. transition
B. slump
C. highlight
D. evaluation
Key: C
33. According to my granny, the ___________ are that it will rain today.
A. plans
B. odds
C. opportunities
D. results
Key: B
34. He didn’t tell us about his coming, he just showed up ____________ one day.
A. at this rate
B. in the same boat
C. by all means
D. out of the blue
Key: D
35. Though the house is satisfactory, its price ____________ our budget.
A. excels
B. exceeds
C. expects
D. expels
Key: B
36. The ____________ of the gardens is an impressive Baroque fish pond that most definitely
should be seen, even if there is occasionally just a little too much rubbish in the water.
A. highlight
B. inland
C. photocopy
D. stress
Key: A
37. They would ____________ certain characteristics of human beings, such as emotions or the
capacity to make moral choices, as characteristics that they wish to value above all others.
A. advocate
B. consult
C. harmonize
D. highlight
Key: D
38. As soon as they stopped farming, the land ____________ to wilderness.
A. recovered
B. retreated
C. restored
D. reverted
Key: D
39. The company went through a lot of troubles in 2008. The CEO Schmidt expected that to be a
____________ year for the company.
A. traditional
B. transcontinental
C. transitional
D. transnational
Key: C
40. Although she lives in Brazil, Ms Bueno remains active in tennis through ____________
personal appearances in several countries.
A. ordinary
B. average
C. regular
D. medium
Unit 2
1. On my first day at work I was ______ with the task of chairing a meeting.
A. met B. tackled C. confronted D. encountered
Key: C
2. Death, for us, is the sorry end of the human story, not the ______ prelude to a new one.
A. mystery B. mysterious C. mythology D. mythological
Key: B
3. What is truly ______ about the story is the result of the fall, and the divine purpose behind it.
A. disconcerting B. embarrassing C. puzzled D. disapproving
Key: A
4. There is also a games room with table tennis, pool and video games and ______ some sort of activity or entertainment goes on.