A. normally B. actually C. formerly D. typically
Key: A
5. He becomes absorbed with the search for answers, not from an ______ curiosity, but out of a deeply felt need to find out why people live.
A. ideal B. absolute C. isolated D. idle
Key: D
6. The measures we have taken to ______ the crisis are starting to work.
A. deal B. challenge C. tackle D. oppose
Key: C
7. The packing must be strong enough to ______ rough handling.
A. withstand B. resist C. repel D. ensure
Key: A
8. Up the garden path, there is no house, but a ______ of a majestic lake.
A. vision B. prospect C. image D. vista
Key: D
9. Venice ______ each visitor as soon as their arriving.
A. attracted B. enchanted C. charmed D. captivated
Key: B
10. The Sherman Act was amended in 1982 to ______ trade or commerce with foreign nations.
A. expel B. remove C. exclude D. eliminate
Key: C
11. He was off to have a good time in where Lydia used to live, and this would ______ envy in her.
A. deduce B. reduce C. introduce D. induce
Key: D
12. He was held overnight in police cells but freed without bail yesterday to ______ trial.
A. await B. expect C. wait D. look forward to
Key: A
13. It is this environment of faith in the home that Western society needs so ______ to recover.
A. desirably B. desperately C. admirably D. definitely
Key: B
14. When Jane awoke from the car accident, she had lost all ______ in her legs.
A. sense B. emotion C. sensation D. feeling
Key: C
15. They can recognize also that the joints of a tie must ______ tearing, whereas those of a strut must resist buckling.
A. withstand B. tolerate C. stand D. hold
Key: A
16. As in Germany, the intention in 1945 had been to deprive Japan of the economic resources to
______ a war in the foreseeable future.
A. combat B. wage C. mobilize D. wager
Key: B
17. They tried to put _______ in the way of our negotiation.
A. defeats B. restrictions C. entanglements D. obstacles
Key: D
18. Such a move would undermine standards in schools and ______ teachers.
A. defeat B. distrust C. dissolve D. demoralize
Key: D
19. It was some time after making his first ______ that he bumped into the pupil in Addison’s Walk.
A. confirmation B. frankness C. confession D. assurance
Key: C
20. Our special price will ______ your appetite for the dry season’s gardening essentials.
A. wet B. stimulate C. increase D. whet
Key: D
21. These government restrictions are going to ______ our trade.
A. throttle B. control C. suppress D. contain
Key: A
22. The world was divided into the ______ rich and the labouring poor.
A. idle B. redundant C. scattered D. unused
Key: A
23. The Prince of Wales is an ______ font of great ideas, a classic entrepreneur.
A. irrepressible B. uncontrollable C. unsurpassed D. unrepressed
Key: A
24. Student demonstrations developed an ugly edge of _____ violence.
A. unreasonable B. gratuitous C. groundless D. unbiased
Key: B
25. Accepting that the rhythms of children in a structured environment appear to develop more
quickly, is this ______ to the child?
A. advanced B. advantageous C. advisable D. additional
Key: B
26. He had acted ______ in coming here, but now he was here and yet he found he could do nothing to help.
A. rudely B. improperly C. rashly D. impolitely
Key: C
27. Without seeing her for three months, it can be seen how ______ he longs to reach her on the telephone.
A. insistently B. constantly C. faithfully D. earnestly
Key: D
28. They may often have to ______ social evenings and holidays because of their busy work.
A. forgive B. forgo C. abandon D. forfeit
Key: B
29. She had no workshop, nobody to help her and no business ______.
A. capability B. smartness C. intelligence D. acumen
Key: D
30. Although Schubert died when he was only 32, he composed a ______ amount of music.
A. prodigious B. gigantic C. tantamount D. titanic
Key: A
31. Overall it was a good tour and several players grew both in _____ and confidence.
A. stature B. position C. status D. height
Key: A
32. Our history — national and imperial — provides a wonderful ______ of film drama.
A. storehouse B. database C. storage D. warehouse
Key: A
33. He was probably one of a number of bishops whom Guntram intended to ______.