Everyday Vocabulary A Summit Meeting Test
Question 1
(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)
A SUMMIT MEETING
The American President and the Russian _____ have announced their intention to _____ a (an) _____ in Vienna next month.
The sentence compares two heads of state. The American President is paired with the Russian leader, the person who leads the country. Not spokesperson: a spokesperson only speaks for a government and does not hold summit meetings.
Question 2
The American President and the Russian _____ have announced their intention to _____ a (an) _____ in Vienna next month.
We say hold a meeting, hold a summit or hold a conference, meaning to organise it and have it. Not settle: we settle a problem or an argument, not a meeting.
Question 3
The American President and the Russian _____ have announced their intention to _____ a (an) _____ in Vienna next month.
A summit meeting is a meeting between the leaders of countries, which fits a President and a Russian leader. The title of the text gives the clue. Not agenda: an agenda is the list of topics for a meeting, and you cannot hold it in Vienna.
Question 4
The two countries have already had _____ talks and decided on a (an) _____ for the meeting.
Preliminary means coming before the main event, so it is used for early talks that prepare for it: preliminary talks. The talks came before the summit, so this adjective fits. Not prime, which means 'main' or 'most important'.
Question 5
The two countries have already had _____ talks and decided on a (an) _____ for the meeting.
An agenda is the list of topics that people plan to discuss at a meeting, so countries decide on an agenda before they meet: The first item on the agenda is trade. Not summit: a summit is the meeting itself, so you can't decide on a summit for the meeting. Breakdown (when talks fail) and break-in (entering a building to steal) don't fit the meaning.
Question 6
The main _____ will be a discussion about the nuclear arms situation.
An item is one point on an agenda. The main item is the most important thing that will be discussed, here the nuclear arms situation. Not summit meeting: the summit is the whole meeting, not one topic in it.
Question 7
At a _____ conference held in Washington yesterday, a government _____ told journalists that the unfortunate _____ of last year’s talks between the two countries had been caused by disagreements over arms.
A news conference (also called a press conference) is a meeting where officials give information to journalists. The word 'journalists' later in the sentence is the clue.
Question 8
At a _____ conference held in Washington yesterday, a government _____ told journalists that the unfortunate _____ of last year’s talks between the two countries had been caused by disagreements over arms.
A spokesperson is someone whose job is to speak officially for a government or organisation, for example at a news conference: A government spokesperson told journalists… The clue is that this person told journalists at a news conference. Not leadership: it means a group of leaders, and 'a government leadership told journalists' is not natural.
Question 9
At a _____ conference held in Washington yesterday, a government _____ told journalists that the unfortunate _____ of last year’s talks between the two countries had been caused by disagreements over arms.
A breakdown of talks is when talks fail and stop because people cannot agree: the breakdown of the talks. The sentence says it was caused by disagreements. Not breakup, which is used mainly for the end of a relationship or a group.
Question 10
He said the Vienna meeting would be a chance for the two nations to _____ their differences.
To settle differences means to end a disagreement and reach an agreement: They finally settled their differences. Not hold, which goes with meetings, not with differences.
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