Advanced Level Vocabulary Exercise – MCQ Test 4

The rise in energy ------ has led to a reduction in the amount of fossil fuels that the world must use.

I believe that leaders must make an effort to stay open-minded and try to ------ another person's point of view.

We must find some way to give them a fairly complete and realistic picture of the situation, but without ------ them too much.

Any child left to its own devices for too long is likely to ------ on some dangerous enterprise.

Foot and mouth disease, also called aftosa, is a highly contagious viral disease affecting ------ all cloven-footed mammals, including cattle, sheep, goats, and swine.

Industry as a whole was badly affected by the restrictions, but it was the high technology sector that suffered most ------.

The stars visible at night are ------ distant, which is why they appear only as tiny points of light.

Her parents spend their summers in the south, but their ------ residence, a luxury apartment, is in Istanbul.

One defect seems inherent in a purely classical education – namely, a too ------ emphasis on the past.

The Kodak Company now faces stiff ------ both from abroad and from rival firms at home.

Many people think of the United States as a young country, yet it has the oldest written ------ among the major nations of the world.

A few people enjoyed the exhibition, but the majority were clearly -----.

Thanks to various advances in modern medicine, certain diseases that were seemingly incurable now ------ treatment.

Although the partners seem to be in full agreement on matters of management, there is actually a ------ difference of opinion among them.

Admittedly, the engineer's report was relatively unimaginative, but it was, on the whole, ------.

He has behaved ------ on many occasions, so this instance of impoliteness is hardly surprising.

At the meeting, even though he spoke well, he was unable to ------ the other members.

The United States has long prided itself on being a melting pot of culturally ------ peoples.

It is ------ ten years since AIDS caught the world's attention.

As a result of the continuing economic recession, a huge ------ in the budget seems inevitable.