Rose English Fantasy

1. There are five ________ mistakes in this picture. Can you find them and win a prize?

(A) intensive

(B) deliberate

(C) planned

(D) calculated

2. The oil shortage ________ the prices of chemical fertilizers on the world market.

(A) drove oil

(B) drove up

(C) drove in

(D) drove off

3. China started its nuclear power industry only in recent years, and should ________ no time in catching up.

(A) delay

(B) lose

(C) lag

(D) lessen

4. If a person talks about his weak points, his listener is expected to say something in the way of ________.

(A) assurance

(B) persuasion

(C) encouragement

(D) confirmation

5. Every society has its own peculiar customs and ________ of acting.

(A) ways

(B) attitudes

(C) behavior

(D) means

6. The mother didn’t know who ________ for the broken glass.

(A) will blame

(B) to blame

(C) blamed     

(D) blames

7. No longer are contributions to computer technology confined to any one country; ________ is this more true than in Europe.

(A) hardly

(B) little

(C) seldom

(D) nowhere

8. There is no electricity again. Has the ________ blown then?

(A) fuse

(B) wire

(C) plug

(D) circuit

9. These excursions will give you an even deeper ________ into our language and culture.

(A) inquiry

(B) investigation

(C) input

(D) insight

10. I ________ to him because he phoned me shortly afterwards.

(A) ought to have written

(B) must have written

(C) couldn’t have written

(D) needn’t have written

11. This traditional entertainment for children in America has never, ________ I know, become popular in China.

(A) as far as

(B) as much

(C) to the extent that

(D) so long as

12. Mr. Smith attends to the ________ of important business himself:

(A) transmission

(B) transformation

(C) transaction

(D) transition

13. Besides what you have explained, can you think of ________ reason for their terrible action?

(A) any

(B) else

(C) other

(D) another

14. The chairman threatened ________ if his policies were not adopted.

(A) to resign

(B) resigning

(C) to be resigned

(D) being resigned

15. She was able to give the police a full account of since she had been ________ to it.

(A) an observer

(B) an on-looker

(C) a watcher

(D) a witness

16. Very few people understood his lecture, the subject of which was very ________.

(A) obscure

(B) upsetting

(C) distant

(D) inferior

17. Although the national government has introduced some new laws on this subject, it is the ________ state governments which are responsible for pollution control.

(A) precisely

(B) primarily

(C) progressively

(D) preliminarily

18. He would ________ it that his son took a livelier interest in politics.

(A) see into

(B) see through

(C) see about

(D) see to

19. Todd: So, Shifani, you are ________ in urban planning, and more specifically, in transport. What do you envision in the future, let's say, in fifty years from now?

(A) a student

(B) an expert

(C) good

(D) a reporter

20. Shifani: Fifty years from now is quite a long time to project, but future cities would be green cities, cities that are able to ______ themselves. They can produce their own energy.

(A) run

(B) generate

(C) sustain

(D) produce

21. Cultural life in England takes so many forms that a brief summary can only attempt to ________ its variety.

(A) suggest

(B) remind

(C) consider

(D) propose

22. There are ________ periods in an animal’s life when it is capable of learning a great deal in a very short time.

(A) urgent

(B) violent

(C) serious

(D) critical

23. Do employers in your country ________ workers for in juries suffered at their work?

(A) conform

(B) conflict

(C) compel

(D) compensate

24. Since they betrayed us, they have no hope of convincing ________ their sincerity.

(A) with

(B) for

(C) in

(D) of

25. They assured us that ________ was waiting for they were there to share it.

(A) what

(B) whatever

(C) it

(D) whoever

1-5 B B B C A

6-10 B D A D D

11-15 A C D B D

16-20 A B D B C

21-25 C D D D B