Nouns Test Exercises – Multiple Choice Questions With Answers – Advanced Level 34

Kindergartens are schools for young children before regular school starts. They were set up so that working mothers had somewhere to leave their small children. Not boarding schools: these are schools where older pupils live and sleep.

Accessible means easy to reach or get. Medicine must not be kept where children can reach it. Inaccessible and unreachable mean the opposite, and that is exactly where medicine should be kept.

Your mood is how you feel at a particular moment, and it can change quickly: cheerful one moment, bad-tempered the next. Not character: character is a person's lasting nature, which does not change from moment to moment.

The fixed phrase is come to a decision, which means decide after discussion. Not verdict: a verdict is the official judgement of a jury in a court, not of a committee.

Beyond endurance means more than a person can bear. This fits someone in so much pain that he faints (passes out). Not capacity: beyond capacity is used for space or amount, as in The hall was filled beyond capacity.

A noun like religions needs an adjective before it. Monotheistic means believing in one God, which is true of both Christianity and Islam. Monotheism is a noun, and polytheistic means believing in many gods.

Abuses are wrong or dishonest uses of power or position. A commission looking for corruption would find abuses in hiring, such as giving jobs to friends. Not bribes: you pay or accept bribes, but you do not 'find bribes in hiring'.

A country ruled by a king or queen is a kingdom. Not republic: a republic has no king. Imperial is an adjective, so it cannot follow the.

Governors are officials who run a region or city. Only people with official power can pass regulations (rules). Not citizens: ordinary citizens can help reduce pollution, but they cannot make regulations.

A nickname is an informal name that friends give someone, often as a joke. Here the name is ironic: the boy is big, but they call him "Little". Falsename and imitation name are not English words.

A patriot is a person who loves their country and is ready to defend it. Dying while fighting for his country shows this. A coward is the opposite, and a separatist wants part of a country to become independent.

A compartment is one of the separate closed sections of a train carriage where several passengers sit together. Not department: that is a section of a shop, company or university. A cockpit is where the pilot sits in a plane.

Choices are the different things you can choose from. A big shop has more products, so you can choose from more of them. Not possibilities: this word is about what might happen, not about products to choose from.

A flood is a large amount of water covering land that is usually dry, and it often follows a heavy storm. Not drought or famine: a drought is a long period without rain, and a famine is a serious lack of food.

The harvest is the work of gathering crops from the fields, and villagers often do it together. Harvested is a verb form, so it cannot follow the.

An advertisement is a notice in a newspaper or online that offers a job or a product. Companies look for engineers through job advertisements. Adversity means a difficult situation and only looks similar.

Each sense matches what is lost. Being blind (darkness) would make a person value sight, and being deaf (silence) would teach the joys of sound. The other pairs do not match blindness and deafness.

Win someone's confidence means earn their trust. Honest work makes people trust you. Trustworthy is an adjective, and you cannot win someone's honesty.

Individuals are the single persons who make up a group. The sentence contrasts the group with the people who form them. Not personalities or characters: these describe what people are like, not the members of a group.

The first gap needs something whose results could be obtained in surgery: that invention. The second gap needs something old that new ideas fight against: the old traditions. Patients, instruments and operations are not ideas or beliefs, so they cannot be the other side in a battle of ideas.

Meet the requirements is a fixed phrase meaning have the qualities or conditions that are needed. A candidate must meet them before being elected. Not achievements: you have or make achievements, but you do not meet them.

The fixed phrase is make a good impression on someone, which means give them a good opinion of you. Not expression, which is the look on a face or a phrase. Impressive is an adjective.

Improvement means getting better. Work that has got much better is a good reason for promotion. Impropriety (improper behaviour) and impulse (a sudden wish) do not fit.

Opponents are people who disagree with your ideas and argue against them. The phrase should not be argued with shows we are talking about people in a debate or political struggle. Followers and allies are on your side, so there would be no reason to attack them.

A claim is a statement that something is true, often made without proof. A claim can turn out to be false. Not implication: that is something suggested indirectly, not something stated directly.

A conflict is a serious disagreement. You try to solve or resolve a conflict between people. Intimacy and relationship are not problems that need solving.

Inadequacy means not having enough of something, so an inadequacy of water is a lack of water. Not famine: a famine is a serious lack of food affecting a whole region. Incompetence and inaptitude mean lack of skill.

Make complaints means say that you are unhappy about something. The contrast with but does nothing shows people only talk about the problem. Not solutions: people who find solutions are doing something.

Departure is the act of leaving. The clue is that the plane has already left, so the speaker is talking about the scheduled time of leaving.

Powers of expression means the ability to communicate ideas and feelings. This fits the comparison of new media with new languages. Not narration: narration is only telling a story, which is too narrow for a language.

First gap: people have long known about the existence of oil wells, meaning they knew the wells were there. Second gap: nobody understood the importance of the oil until a use for it (paraffin oil) was found. Not existentialists: these are philosophers.

Requirements are the things that are needed. Here it means the particular jobs a home needs doing. Informations is wrong because information is uncountable.

Civilization means human society and its development. As civilization becomes more technological, it goes beyond producing only basic needs such as food and shelter. The British spelling civilisation is also correct.

Work for the achievement of a project means work to complete it successfully. Available and valid are adjectives, so they cannot follow the … of. Shortage has the wrong meaning.

Population pressure on land means that a growing number of people use more and more land and resources. The clue is rapidly increasing together with land resources. Not inflation: that is about rising prices.

Occupations here means activities that fill your time. Free time has become an emptiness, so we must invent things to fill it. Not security or existence: neither of these fills an emptiness.

Make a hard and fast distinction between A and B means draw a clear, fixed line between two things. The pattern between work and play confirms this. Not definition: you define one thing, but you do not make a definition between two things.

Appreciation can mean a judgement or assessment of something, and we usually explain the reasons for our judgements. Not exhibition: that is a public display. Imaginative is an adjective, not a noun.