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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(n) ............... or seasonal marsh. The edge is ................ and the vegetation is similar to that of the surrounding ground.
A | unfamiliar |
B | infernal |
C | indistinct |
D | intensified |
E | stimulated |
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