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General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers - Advanced Level Exercise 07
Question 1 |
Gone -- but _____ forgotten.
A | by all means |
B | by everyone |
C | by fate |
D | by no means |
E | by common consent |
Question 2 |
It has been _____ that at present there may well be over 2 billion web documents, with over 1 million web sites added daily.
A | outlined |
B | constructed |
C | estimated |
D | constrained |
E | persuaded |
Question 3 |
Producing quality fertilizers begins with reliable, low-cost supply of _____ materials, such as natural gas, phosphate rock, and elemental sulphur.
A | rude |
B | raw |
C | scrap |
D | crude |
E | vulgar |
Question 4 |
Fadime and her husband Hüsam lived in the _____ secluded village of Minikköy on the Taurus Mountains in southern Anatolia.
A | agricultural |
B | tiny |
C | enormous |
D | tidy |
E | local |
Question 5 |
Being considered a hardened criminal, I failed to find any character witness to testify on my behalf. The jury simply believed that I could never be _____ by any such feelings of guilt.
A | investigated |
B | imprisoned |
C | empowered |
D | compensated |
E | troubled |
Question 6 |
Chinese internet censors were reported in yesterday's press as _____ their grip on foreign political websites. As for the local ones, well, nobody dares start one anyway.
A | loosening |
B | unlocking |
C | hacking |
D | disordering |
E | downloading |
Question 7 |
Don't mumble. Don't swallow your words. Don't talk in a monotone. Don't use jargon or undefined terms. Avoid mannerisms that will distract your audience from what you are saying. In a word, please stop speaking _____.
A | unintelligibly |
B | vividly |
C | humorously |
D | explicitly |
E | rashly |
Question 8 |
Gold prospecting is entirely a lottery: there are myriad examples of industrious, persevering, _____ men, working hard for years and years, but ending up poorer than they had ever been before.
A | extravagant |
B | spendthrift |
C | wasteful |
D | thrifty |
E | happy-go-lucky |
Question 9 |
When he died at the age of eighty, the townsfolk gave him a _____ funeral and had an enormous statue of him on his horse erected in front of the town hall.
A | relevant |
B | swift |
C | huge |
D | focal |
E | worn-out |
Question 10 |
There are myriad examples of grotesque injustices, including the sentencing of innocent defendants to death, the deliberate _____ of evidence, and the routine misuse of so-called expert testimony.
A | protection |
B | falsification |
C | inclusion |
D | confirmation |
E | exploitation |
Question 11 |
The security forces knew it would not prove difficult to _____ the culprits in such a small village.
A | witness to |
B | rush into |
C | trace down |
D | refrain from |
E | conjure up |
Question 12 |
"Transsexual" is a term applied to any individual who exhibits, to varying _____, the appearance, behavioural characteristics and feelings associated with the opposite sex.
A | heights |
B | states |
C | terms |
D | opinions |
E | degrees |
Question 13 |
Radio telescopes have one big advantage over _____ ones in that they can operate in all weather conditions. They can also pick up signals coming from very distant stars.
A | vigorous |
B | remote |
C | graduated |
D | calibrated |
E | conventional |
Question 14 |
Radio and television have made it possible for advertisers to _____ the attention of millions of people in many novel ways.
A | inhibit |
B | capture |
C | acquaint |
D | surrender |
E | inhabit |
Question 15 |
The Turkish Human _____ Foundation, funding as it does programs and projects that promote human rights, equal treatment and tolerance, aims at achieving and safeguarding social justice for all.
A | Sanity |
B | Wisdom |
C | Maturity |
D | Humility |
E | Dignity |
Question 16 |
Can we say that the soul is the "_____" of our inner world? Can we believe in its immortality?
A | infidel |
B | putrefication |
C | inhibition |
D | exhibitionist |
E | inhabitant |
Question 17 |
Suspended from the ceiling, these spheres had been _____ so that they attracted or repelled one another all the time.
A | pressurized |
B | crystallized |
C | juxtaposed |
D | suspended |
E | magnetized |
Question 18 |
In the normal brain, a large number of substances were _____ that were later found to be abnormal in quantity or metabolism in a substantial variety of neurological disorders.
A | identified |
B | deviated |
C | overtaken |
D | appointed |
E | experimented |
Question 19 |
No _____ journalist would ever stoop to fabricating or distorting his news for political or financial gain.
A | self-conscious |
B | self-respecting |
C | self-indulgent |
D | self-sacrificing |
E | self-governing |
Question 20 |
An area of gradual transition from marsh to firm ground is generally known as a (an) _____ or seasonal marsh. The edge is _____ and the vegetation is similar to that of the surrounding ground.
A | unfamiliar / unfamiliar |
B | infernal / infernal |
C | indistinct / indistinct |
D | intensified / intensified |
E | stimulated / stimulated |
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