VOCABULARY TEST - 008
Upper Intermediate
NOT: Bu Testte kullanılan tümcelerin bir bölümünde yabancı okuma parçalarından (British) yararlanılmış; tümcelerde gereksinim ölçüsünde değişikliğe gidilmiş; sorular tarafımdan düzenlenmiştir.
Allow Yourself 20 Minutes for this Test. Fill in the Blanks, Choosing a Word from Among the Supposed Alternatives
READY... STEADY... GO !!
01 Going ............... the customs can be a very tiresome business.
a. beyond b. across c. through
d. out of e. along
02 "Have you anything to ............... ?" said the young customs officer, looking straight at me in the eye.
a. declare b. identify c. compensate
d. confirm e. hide
03 "Would you mind ............... this suitcase, please?" said the customs officer to the young woman in jeans.
a. loosening b. unlocking c. donating
d. disordering e. screwing
04 The hardened professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never ............... by such feelings of guilt.
a. investigated b. inclined c. retreated
d. troubled e. compensated
05 Fadime and her husband Hüsam lived in the ............... little village of Sarıkaya in eastern Anatolia.
a. agricultural b. tiny c. enormous
d. mountaineering e. local
06 He knew it would not ............... difficult to trace down the thief in such a small village.
a. witness b. occur c. prove
d. inhibit e. persuade
07 Ashamed of having acted so ............... , Hüsam apologized to Mıstık for having accused him.
a. unintelligibly b. vividly c. humorously
d. explicitly e. rashly
08 He was quite contented; he led a(n) ............... life.
a. inhabited b. prosperously c. happily
d. orderly e. miserable
09 Though Verrazano is ............... considered to have been a great explorer, his name will probably remain immortal, for on Nov. 21, 1964 the greatest bridge in the world was named after him.
a. by all means b. by everyone c. by fate
d. by no means e. by common consent
10 It has been ............... that if the bridge were packed with cars, it would still be carrying only a third of its full capacity.
a. outlined b. constructed c. estimated
d. performed e. produced
11 The bridge is so immensely long that the shape of the earth had to be ............... by its designer as an essential part of the project.
a. taken into account
b. given an account of
c. given approval to
d. caught up with
e. kept in touch with
12 When he died at the age of eighty, the townsfolk gave him a ............... funeral and had an enormous statue of him on his horse erected in front of the town hall.
a. relevant b. swift c. huge
d. focal e. worn-out
13 They were, in fact, having such a good time on their little desert island that -- when a passing tanker rescued them a few days later -- both men were ............... sorry that they had to leave.
a. outwardly b. repulsively c. reluctantly
d. ambiguously e. genuinely
14 She was too excited to do any housework that morning, for in the evening she would be going to a ............... with her husband.
a. political party b. search party
c. third party d. fancy dress party
e. firing party
15 Only a very ............... child would ever manage to fill up a money box, i.e., his / her piggy-bank.
a. extravagant b. spendthrift c. excited
d. wasteful e. thrifty
16 There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for "...............".
a. inclusion b. protection c. exploitation
d. existence e. confirmation
17 In those days, boxing -- as a sport -- was very ............... , for there were no rules and a prize-fighter could be seriously injured or even killed during a match.
a. rude b. raw c. crude
d. ripe e. vulgar
18 He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and died in ............... in 1963.
a. rags and riches b. severity and pain
c. health and wealth d. rigidity and fear
e. poverty and obscurity
19 Three days after the disappearance of their ever so precious little dog, the family received a(n) ............... note, stating that it was in safe hands and would be returned immediately if a ransom of a zillion liras was paid.
a. authentic b. anomalous c. illiterate
d. anonymous e. credulous
20 In the 1960's, certain cults imported from the Far East ............... great popularity and had great numbers of followers especially among the young.
a. enjoyed b. represented c. obeyed
d. reproduced e. identified
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