Upper Level Vocabulary Test 23

They ________ our team by three goals to one.

He works at a big steel ________ outside the town.

I congratulated him on winning the ________.

A ________ of mine, my cousin John, is coming to stay with us.

He has been very ________ since his wife died.

As all the hotels in the town were full up, we tried to find accommodation in a ________ village.

The fish sauce was lovely, Janet. Would you mind letting me have the ________ or is it a family secret?

His parents died when he was a baby and he was _____ by his aunt.

I ________ on seeing the manager. The service here is terrible.

He ________ me of someone I knew at school.

I ________ £5 from my father because I was short of money.

His office is on the sixth ________ of the building.

The main interest of the Trade Union is to raise its members’ ________ of living.

The ________ for the race to begin was the starter firing a pistol.

If you leave your bicycle out in the rain, it will get ________.

It must have rained ________ the night. The ground’s still wet.

He’s so _____ by nature that he never knows what to say to strangers.

I want to ________ the car to see how it goes before I buy It.

A ________ is a person who comes from another country.

When they reached the ________ they had to show their passports before crossing into Germany.

They _______ a hundred workers because they had no work for them.

At ________ we didn’t get on very well but later we became friends.

Policemen have to wear ________ because so many people ask them the time.

She’s happiest when she has a house ________ of people to entertain.

Don’t take what he said so seriously. He was only ________.

Don’t be afraid of the dog. He won’t do you any ________.

I’ll pay you back the money I ________ you at the end of the month.

His landlady threw him out because he hadn’t paid the ________.

She ________ and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.

The elephant fell into a ________ the villagers had set for him in the long grass.

I ____ of his course of action and told him to go ahead.

Emotional speeches often ________ strong feelings.

I took ________ of the opportunity to tell him what I thought.

He suffers from a speech ________ and so he cannot pronounce the letter ‘r’ properly.

He’s the greatest ________ expert on French art.

He never attends ________ at the university so he may not know enough to get his degree.

The weather forecast said it would rain but it looks as if it’s going to ________ fine.

He’s fond of ________ his colleagues but he goes on working for the same firm.

The plane ________ at 7 o’clock.

My car ________ so I had to walk.