Vocabulary Test About TOWNS AND VILLAGES Choose The Right Answer MCQ Exercise 131
Question 1
Our village is so _____ that some of the houses are very far apart.
Spread out means covering a large area, with spaces between the parts: The farms are spread out across the valley. Here the houses are far apart, so the village is spread out. Diffused is used for light or ideas, and extended means made longer, so neither describes a village.
Question 2
Modern buildings should _____ with the surrounding area.
Blend in (with) means to look natural next to the things around you and not stand out: The new houses blend in with the old village. Not match or suit, because they take a direct object (match the area) and are not followed by with here.
Question 3
Since they built the car factory, a lot of new houses have _____ in the district.
Spring up means to appear or be built suddenly and quickly: New cafés have sprung up all over town. The other verbs (hop, jump, leap) don't form this phrasal verb about buildings.
Question 4
The new town hasn't the usual _____ yet, but a theatre, cinema and library are under construction.
Amenities are useful public places and services that make a town pleasant to live in, such as theatres, cinemas, libraries and parks. Not conveniences, which usually means useful devices in a home (modern conveniences) or, in British English, public toilets.
Question 5
When the capital got too crowded, they had to build new towns to take the _____.
Overspill means the extra people who move out of a crowded city to live somewhere else: new towns built to take London's overspill. Overstock means too many goods in a shop, and overrun means going past a time limit or being invaded.
Question 6
The monastery is on the _____ of the town.
The outskirts are the outer parts of a town, far from the centre. We say on the outskirts of the town. Not suburbs, because we say in the suburbs, not on the suburbs of.
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