Advanced Level Vocabulary Exercise - MCQ Test 5
5. If we are serious about suppressing terrorism, we
1. When the rate of exchange began to rise again, he shall have to ------ stronger measures than those
felt ------ to call a meeting of the financial staff. currently in practice.
A) obliged A) require
B) blamed B) revise
C) consumed C) adopt
D) omitted D) abduct
E) rewarded E) suspend
2. The new ceramics, which have little in common with 6. I am horrified at the turn things have taken and am
the chinaware we use in our kitchens everyday, are convinced that he is ------ of much better treatment
being used ------ in engines and electronics. than that which he is receiving.
A) depressingly A) rebutting
B) seemingly B) deserving
C) increasingly C) defending
D) discouragingly D) safeguarding
E) obligingly E) indulging
3. When they called Mr. Smith to head office, I am quite 7. When an unknown but gifted artist is finally
sure it was not their ------ to promote him to branch recognized, his paintings can become valuable ------
manager. in the future.
A) avidity A) rates
B) impression B) accounts
C) prediction C) sales
D) disposition D) interests
E) intention E) assets
4. Locke Hobbes and Rousseau were concerned in their 8. The journalists asked the Prime Minister so many
writings with the question of a proper ------ between questions that finally he felt it necessary to ------ the
the public good and the right of individuals to statement.
exercise free will.
A) propose
A) balance B) refrain
B) demonstration C) clarify
C) responsibility D) undermine
D) interest E) exempt
E) solidarity
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9. Geological activity in this region has produced a 13. The argument he has put forward is hardly ------ with
landscape that is at once ------ and forbidding. the information we have so far received on the case.
A) wasteful A) reflective
B) cautious B) representative
C) discreet C) arbitrary
D) susceptible D) resistant
E) rugged E) compatible
10. The medieval struggle between secular and religious 14. If the situation in Somalia improves, a significant part
power came to a ------ in the 14th century with the of the allied forces will be ------ .
rise of nationalism and the increased prominence of
lawyers, both royalist and canon. A) enclosed
B) withdrawn
A) influence
C) encouraged
B) popularity
D) recruited
C) climax
E) sustained
D) summit
E) dedication
15. More than 4,500 years ago, the ------- Egyptians
prepared the first paper from the fibrous stems of
11. It is ------ surprising that the art of ancient America papyrus, a grass-like plant.
remains the most mysterious and the least
accessible. A) ancient
B) outdated
A) urgently
C) fallacious
B) vaguely
D) mystical
C) indifferently
E) communal
D) elaborately
E) hardly
16. Few, if any, of the statements made could be ------
substantiated by concrete experimental evidence.
12. Bartok was influenced as much by the musical
innovations of Debussy and Stravinsky as by East A) intentionally
European, ------ Hungarian, folk music. B) successively
A) exceedingly C) restrictedly
B) notably D) impressively
C) appropriately E) conclusively
D) vehemently
E) adequately
17. The British entry into the European Community has
------ a new line of policy.
A) negotiated
B) confined
C) resented
D) constituted
E) refunded
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Advanced Level Vocabulary Exercise - MCQ Test 5
19. When the world population ------ the 5-billion
milestone in 1987, the United Nations estimated that
it would not stabilize until the record mark was
18. Dependence by primitive humans on their doubled late in the 21st century.
environment would not have permitted them to be
------ the effects of the surrounding world on them. A) surpassed
B) defeated
A) intrigued by
C) remarked
B) protected from
D) conceded
C) indifferent about
E) generated
D) surprised by
E) knowledgeable about
20. At the opening night of the new production of Aida
the guest soprano gave a superb, a truly ------
performance.
A) dazzling
B) declining
C) disappointing
D) recalling
E) degrading
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Answer Key:
1: A 11: E
2: C 12: B
3: E 13: E
4: A 14: B
5: C 15: A
6: B 16: E
7: E 17: D
8: C 18: B
9: E 19: A
10: C 20: A
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