Unit 1 B2 Use of English

Question 1. Regulators are scheduled to _______ a decision by Feb. 18 on whether they will accept the banks' merger applications.

• A. come

• B. get

• C. reach

• D. jump

Question 2. The 50-year-old actress is struggling to _______ to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her.

• A. go

• B. come

• C. get

• D. leap

Question 3. I need to _______ even with my brother for dumping a bucket of water on me the other day.

• A. get

• B. play

• C. give

• D. go

Question 4. Take your pen knife. You never know when it might _______ in handy.

• A. arrive

• B. go

• C. come

• D. reach

Question 5. It really _______ on my nerves when people talk loudly on the phone in public.

• A. turns

• B. goes

• C. kicks

• D. gets

Question 6. We nearly jumped out of our skins as there was suddenly an incredible _______ of thunder.

• A. clap

• B. round

• C. sound

• D. shake

Question 7. He looked out the window and pointed to a ________ of birds flying across the sky.

• A. herd

• B. swarm

• C. set

• D. flock

Question 8. The geological prospecting team ranged over the desert _______ search of valuable deposits of oil.

• A. on

• B. in

• C. with

• D. under

Question 9. I was all ready to tell him that the relationship was over when he greeted me with a big _______ of flowers - it rather took the wind out of my sails.

• A. bunch

• B. hold

• C. ring

• D. round

Question 10. The core of the system is based on a fairly simple _______ of rules to track data based on Tags and Labels.

• A. flock

• B. round

• C. set

• D. box