Vocabulary Test About CLOTHING Choose The Correct Answer MCQ Exercise 16

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Question 1

I've bought some very nice _____ and I'm going to make a dress out of it.

A	clothing
B	costume
C	material
D	pattern

Question 1 Explanation:

Material is cloth or fabric that you buy to make clothes, e.g. She bought two metres of material. Not clothing, which means clothes that are already made, so you can't make a dress out of it.

Question 2

She _____ the material with her fingers, enjoying the smooth silky feeling of its surface.

A	glided
B	slid
C	slipped
D	stroked

Question 2 Explanation:

To stroke something is to move your hand gently over it, often because it feels nice: She stroked the cat. Glided, slid and slipped describe smooth movement of the thing itself, and they don't take an object like the material.

Question 3

We chose the _____ for a suit and had it made up by our tailor.

A	cloth
B	clothes
C	clothing
D	textile

Question 3 Explanation:

Cloth is fabric used to make clothes, so a tailor can make a suit from it. Not clothes or clothing, which are items already made to wear. Textile is a general or technical word for any woven fabric and is not normally used for the fabric of one suit.

Question 4

Come here! You've got a _____ of cotton on your coat. I'll take it off.

A	cord
B	fibre
C	string
D	thread

Question 4 Explanation:

A thread is a very thin piece of cotton or silk used for sewing: a thread of cotton on your coat. Not string or cord, which are thicker and are used for tying things. Not fibre, which is a natural or man-made strand that thread is made from.

Question 5

There was wool everywhere. Her little niece had completely _____ the pullover she had almost finished knitting.

A	disentangled
B	unfastened
C	unravelled
D	untied

Question 5 Explanation:

To unravel knitting means to pull the wool so that the knitting comes apart, which explains wool everywhere. Not disentangled, which means to free something that is knotted or twisted together, and not untied or unfastened, which are used for knots, laces and buttons.

Question 6

It was a very beautiful cloth _____ of silk.

A	composed
B	made
C	threaded
D	worn

Question 6 Explanation:

We use made of to say what material something consists of: a cloth made of silk. Not composed, which needs of too but is used for parts or members: a team composed of ten players.

Question 7

Pure silk has a _____ all of its own.

A	gloss
B	light
C	polish
D	sheen

Question 7 Explanation:

A sheen is a soft, smooth shine on a surface, typical of silk or hair: Her hair had a beautiful sheen. Gloss suggests a hard, bright shine, as on paint or paper, and polish is the shine made by rubbing, so they don't suit silk.

Question 8

My grandma insists on _____ the woollen socks I wear to play football.

A	composing
B	dressing
C	knitting
D	threading

Question 8 Explanation:

To knit is to make clothes from wool using two long needles, e.g. socks or sweaters. Insists on is followed by the -ing form, so the answer is knitting. Not threading, which means putting thread through a needle.

Question 9

The tweed for this suit was _____ in Scotland.

A	knitted
B	laced
C	threaded
D	woven

Question 9 Explanation:

Cloth such as tweed is woven, which means it is made by crossing threads over and under each other on a machine called a loom. Not knitted, because knitting is done with needles and makes wool clothes such as sweaters, not suit cloth.

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