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Quiz 2-unit 2
Part 1 Multiple
choices
(Each
item: 0.5)
Directions:
Choose the best
answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and
D.
1.
From this it could well be said that
life motivation stems from the ________________
satisfaction of recurring desire.
A. continual
B.
perpetual
C. continuous
D. consistent
2.
Nicola's
husband sat down on the sofa, rubbing his hands on
the knees of his brown
trousers,
________________ through his spectacles.
A. lighting
B.
blazing
C. blaring
D. blinking
3.
They heard the
car start at the third try and roar jerkily up the
track behind the boathouse,
leaving a
faint cloud of blue smoke ________________ around
the corner.
A. drifting
B. flying
C.
waving
D. crawling
4.
Their husbands think that it is natural
for a wife to go out and ________________ her
husband's prosperity and her family's
worth
—
that is their tiny
horizon.
A. boast
B. pride
C.
flaunt
D. show
5.
I thought it
was a ________________ opportunity to do it that
way, each subject held in a
bay and in
strictly chronological order.
A. severe
B. magnificent
C. demanding
D.
marvellous
6.
Taken by surprise, the boy lost his
balance and ________________ down the grassy bank
towards the stranger, but to the boy's
incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air.
A. tumbled
B.
fell
C. crippled
D. bumped
7.
He laughed
whenever she spoke to him and clung to Dotty
Blundell for protection,
________________ her away on his arm
the moment rehearsals were over.
A.
waving
B. moving
C. whirling
D. spinning
8.
All shale and
weeds and winds that picked up speed as they
swooped in off the ocean, this
strip of
________________ land prepared you for the final
desolation of the Crumbles.
A.
uncultivated
B. undeveloped
C. exotic
D. barren
9.
As Parliament
went into its long summer ________________, it was
quite clear that the
president was
going to reshuffle the Cabinet.
A.
break
B. vocation
C. recess
D. reversal
10.
Her skin was
________________ since the fever, and her little
face was pinched with the
cold so that
there was nothing attractive about her.
A. light
B.
sallow
C. shallow
D. dark
11.
As part of
the Doctor's research the whale is painlessly
________________ before being
released
back into the lake.
A. stamped
B. priced
C. fastened
D.
tagged
12.
Pride, surely, should have
________________ the two teams to prove their
League positions
were deserved.
A. prompted
B.
stirred
C. stemmed
D. hailed
13.
Can you tell
us the ________________ between the styles of the
two painters?
A. similarness
B. likeliness
C. sameness
D.
resemblance
14.
We have to set a ________________ date
for the concert.
A. stated
B. definite
C.
certain
D. selected
15.
The aim of their ________________ was
then to reduce this figure gradually.
A. intervening
B. interfering
C. intervention
D. interferon
16.
One local
council says it will still ________________
traders who break the law.
A. prosecute
B. charge
C. accuse
D.
recharge
17.
Such ________________ processing
requires a lot of brain power, and we are prepared
to
devote ourselves to it because it is
so important to us.
A. intimate
B. completed
C. straightforward
D. intricate
18.
The refusal
also makes the Government ________________ of
carrying conviction in its
overall
economic policy.
A. unable
B. incompetent
C. powerless
D.
incapable
19.
The use of range cattle is sustainable,
________________ because it can be sustained with
minimal input from fossil fuel.
A. largely
B.
essentially
C. chiefly
D. principally
20.
Here they can
be backed up by using a power filter,
________________ or internal.
A.
outside
B. interior
C. external
D. exterior
21.
Extra
________________ is sometimes also shown to widows
and the retired.
A. pity
B. leniency
C.
kind
D. humanity