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General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers - Advanced Level Exercise 11
Question 1 |
The _____ "biological revolution" happens to have come along at precisely the same moment we are all caught up in what has been called a "crisis in values".
A | deliberate |
B | punctual |
C | current |
D | continuous |
E | disapproved |
Question 2 |
What values should guide the biologist's explorations into the nature of human life or the physician's treatment of the _____ ill?
A | finally |
B | assumingly |
C | recurrently |
D | deadly |
E | terminally |
Question 3 |
The _____ over recombining genes to produce new life forms is only one of the knotty ethical, philosophical and even religious questions raised by the current "biological revolution".
A | controversy |
B | aptitude |
C | contradiction |
D | pretense |
E | acknowledgement |
Question 4 |
Other scientists are quick to point out that we need not only better maps of genes but a better understanding of the _____ between genes as well.
A | definitions |
B | substitutes |
C | confirmations |
D | conquests |
E | connections |
Question 5 |
It has been said that we live in a period of the greatest change ever _____ by humankind -- a change that is powered by the engine of science and technology.
A | endangered |
B | interchanged |
C | domesticated |
D | experienced |
E | recommended |
Question 6 |
There is a rich and attractive opportunity for the world's scientific and technological community to institutionalize and perfect a (an) _____ of interlinked centres addressing their problems.
A | paradox |
B | network |
C | catalogue |
D | detachment |
E | omission |
Question 7 |
Our times call for a (an) _____ rethinking of the relationship of science and technology with society.
A | shallow |
B | unconscious |
C | glamorous |
D | profound |
E | inexpensive |
Question 8 |
During the 1960's, some developing countries became _____ concerned about negative impacts of technology transfer involving multinational corporations.
A | improbably |
B | increasingly |
C | instantaneously |
D | reciprocally |
E | gigantically |
Question 9 |
The new international economic order should, in the developing countries, mean measures to help the poor become more productive and to _____ minimum human needs for food and nutrition, health care (including family planning services), education, skills, and productive jobs.
A | crush |
B | pollute |
C | overlook |
D | satisfy |
E | exploit |
Question 10 |
We need new international efforts to help all countries move from almost total reliance on shrinking sources of nonrenewable energy to the greatest _____ reliance on renewable sources.
A | feasible |
B | significant |
C | liberal |
D | generous |
E | gradual |
Question 11 |
As nonrenewable sources, specifically petroleum and natural gas, become scarcer and more expensive, new attention is being focused on green plants as a (an) _____ energy supply.
A | alternative |
B | luminous |
C | affectionate |
D | slippery |
E | deliberate |
Question 12 |
We must come up with a new _____ to the old debate about nature versus nurture, or genetic make-up versus environmental influences.
A | deception |
B | approach |
C | fidelity |
D | donation |
E | interruption |
Question 13 |
One scheme for genetic engineering which has attracted wide interest is the cure of genetic _____ in man.
A | optimism |
B | brutality |
C | pessimism |
D | dilemma |
E | deficiencies |
Question 14 |
Mankind as we know it today probably could not have evolved or _____ without tools.
A | elevated |
B | survived |
C | revolved |
D | exited |
E | suffocated |
Question 15 |
It is not surprising, therefore, that some anthropologists define the human _____ on the basis of tool-using and tool-making, or to be more exact, tool-dependency.
A | snobbery |
B | suitability |
C | representation |
D | species |
E | emphasis |
Question 16 |
Only over the past few decades have we come to understand how surprisingly much of what we do may be _____ by the kind of creatures we are and especially by the information stored in our genes.
A | swollen |
B | influenced |
C | avoided |
D | enlarged |
E | gestured |
Question 17 |
Scientists have become increasingly _____ with the fact that genes not only govern physical characteristics but they also play a large role in behaviour.
A | critical |
B | impressed |
C | indistinct |
D | specialized |
E | generalized |
Question 18 |
Most biologists now recognize that it is virtually impossible to separate the _____ genetic from the _____ environmental influences.
A | purely / purely |
B | regrettably / regrettably |
C | malignantly / malignantly |
D | popularly / popularly |
E | majestically / majestically |
Question 19 |
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 | overtaken |
B | butchered |
C | identified |
D | launched |
E | undertaken |
Question 20 |
Severe difficulties must be _____ before cloning can be done with mammals and humans.
A | alerted |
B | intensified |
C | concluded |
D | carved |
E | overcome |
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