Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 – ESL Vocabulary Exercises

Excuse me. I'm a(n) ............... in this neighbourhood. Can you tell me what number bus will take me to the town center, please? I want to do some shopping.

How much must I ............... a good second-hand car?

It's getting quite ______. I think it's going to rain soon.

The ............... today is full of the news of yesterday's concert.

It's a very ............... picture. I laugh at it all the time.

Nobody gave him a hand. He did it on his ______.

GNP stands for "gross ............... product".

He received another letter from the ............... demanding more money.

"How much is the ______?" she asked the bus conductor.

Come to Turkland, and ............... all these places where history lives on.

There are a lot more television ............... today than there were some twenty years ago.

How was your ............... back?

FATHER: "Tell me. Do you love him or not?"

DAUGHTER: "Well, I'm very ______ of him."

Yes, we certainly want to move to a bigger house, but our ............... of money is only part of the problem.

Sorry, it's much too expensive for me; I can't ............... it.

His friends advised him to see a doctor about his headaches, but he ............... to listen to them.

How did they ............... when they heard the price?

It takes a lot of patience to ............... hyperactive children because of their low level of concentration.

Don't ............... to call me if you need help.

The concert was called ............... because of the heavy rain.

It is not often that we get a(n) ............... to meet a film star.

The pirates ............... the treasure on a desert island.

Aren't you going to ............... me to your friend?

She isn't very ............... with her friends at school.

Plants absorb water from the soil through their ______.

They didn't stay for supper. They weren't ______.

There were three ............... helping the two doctors in the operating theatre.

According to the Marxist doctrine, it is the workers that should ............... the world.

The office is on the second floor of the building. It is 200 square meters in ______.

He usually reads the sports ............... of the newspaper first.