CEM Practice

​CEM 11 Plus Practice

​The following sentences each have one word missing. Complete each sentence by selecting one word that makes the best fit from the options.

Multiple Choice

People travelling to certain countries and need ___________.

• immunity

• certainty

• vacation

• vaccination

• respiration

Multiple Choice

It is a friendly village with a great sense of __________.

• complacency

• comparison

• committee

• commission

• community

Multiple Choice

She is my role model and it was a real _______ to meet her.

• satisfying

• privilege

• hindrance

• apathy

• super

Multiple Choice

As the sun rose high in the sky, the snowman began to ______ away.

• freeze

• melt

• solidify

• run

• evaporate

Multiple Choice

The infants knelt _____ their teacher as he read out the story.

• behind

• above

• under

• with

• before

Choose one word from the list that has the most similar meaning to the word.

Multiple Choice

Vision

• plotting

• smell

• sight

• style

• map

Multiple Choice

controversy

• agreement

• controlling

• content

• debate

• design

Multiple Choice

Mischievous

• naughty

• envious

• polite

• awkward

• insincere

Multiple Choice

relevant

• realistic

• pertinent

• peckish

• loathsome

• fancy

Multiple Choice

category

• stack

• trace

• group

• messy

• disorganised

Multiple Choice

hindrance

• backing

• assist

• interruption

• funny

• apathetic

​Understanding Vocabulary in Context


Read the following sentences and answer the questions that follow.

Multiple Choice

The plane's departure time was 13.45. What does the word 'departure' mean?

• arriving

• leaving

• resting

• mending

Multiple Choice

The plane's departure time was 13.45. What does the word 'departure' mean?

• arriving

• leaving

• resting

• mending

Multiple Choice

‘The poet performed his poem ‘The Train’ using the rhythm of the poem to convey the train’s journey.’ What does the word ‘rhythm’ mean?

• rhyme

• words

• tone

• beat

Multiple Choice

‘The poet performed his poem ‘The Train’ using the rhythm of the poem to convey the train’s journey.’ What does the word ‘convey’ mean?

• express

• drive

• combine

• sing

Multiple Choice

‘They were conscious of a creature standing rather too close for comfort.’ What does the word ‘conscious’ mean?

• ethical

• watching

• oblivious

• aware

Multiple Choice

‘They were conscious of a creature standing rather too close for comfort.’What does the word ‘comfort’ mean?

• loose

• spacious

• safety

• luxurt

Multiple Choice

‘The thin, transparent strands of the spider’s web were decorated with jewel-like drops of dew suspended from the gossamer frame.’ What does the word ‘suspended’ mean?

• hung

• created

• glimmering

• edged

Multiple Choice

‘The thin, transparent strands of the spider’s web were decorated with jewel-like drops of dew suspended from the gossamer frame.’ What does the word ‘gossamer’ mean?

• wet

• beautiful

• ethereal

• dry

Multiple Choice

The weather loaches darted around the aquarium before hiding in their subaquatic caves.’ What does the word ‘darted’ mean?

• crept

• whizzed

• floundered

• swarm

Multiple Choice

The weather loaches darted around the aquarium before hiding in their subaquatic caves.’ What does the word ‘subaquatic’ mean?

• underworld

• underwater

• undercover

• underneath

Choose one word from the list that has the most opposite meaning to the word.

Multiple Choice

rose

• thorn

• flower

• fell

• down

• up

Multiple Choice

illegal

• illicit

• lawful

• doubt

• questionable

• suspect

Multiple Choice

convenient

• suitable

• apt

• untimely

• early

• helpful

Multiple Choice

immature

• developed

• silly

• unripe

• juvenile

• gentle

Multiple Choice

advance

• progress

• recede

• move

• graduate

• difficult

​Complete a Word
Find the three letters that complete each of these words.

Example : Fresh

​Find the three-letter word that is needed to complete each word so that each sentence makes sense.

The missing three letters must make a word and the word must be spelt correctly.