Grammar and vocabulary - CAE

The testimony given by the defendant in court didn't.......................... up.

The person contradicted himself on several points.

• make

• add

• prove

• join

The doctor's diagnosis is that the patient's neurosis has been brought....................

by frequent overwork.

• on

• off

• in

• out

Calculating the time of your journey to Prague, you will have to...........................

for the possible stops on the way, for example to refuel

your car or have some meals.

• watch

• settle

• allow

• break

There are still some occurrences of strange behaviour among monkeys

that biologists find difficult to........................ for.

• run

• account

• stand

• reason

Whenever there is a climate change I suffer from a thumping headache.

However, as soon as I take a painkiller, the headache starts to.......................

off.

• leave

• take

• wear

• let

You can go and buy the tickets for us and I'll see ...................the

luggage until you get back.

• over

• around

• about

• to

Mr Thomson, can I take tomorrow afternoon off because my fiancee is

leaving Poland for a couple of months and I'd like to ...............her

off?

• walk

• drive

• see

• send

Ladies and gentlemen, now I'd like us to discuss the proposal that Ms

Ridley put................. during the last meeting.

• across

• in

• forward

• out

When the journalist asked her a question in front of many cameras she

didn't utter a word. We all................ her reaction down to stress.

• put

• laid

• took

• turned

When the leader of the expedition to the Arctic Circle offered to take

him there, he..................... at the chance.

• called

• jumped

• got

• came