FCE - RRW - Unit Tests 1-6

Because he usually does very well at math, it was ______________ to teachers that Arun failed the last quiz.

• rational

• puzzling

• superstitious

• legendary

Investigators who work on the ____________ are often ignored by those who work more in the center of accepted science.

• fringe

• habitat

• specimen

• remains

The story that a one-eyed monster lives in a cave on that island is probably just a ____________.

• contradiction

• myth

• survey

• respondent

Although they’re not common, the police do receive ________________ sightings of UFOs around this lake.

• skeptical

• upright

• extinct

• periodic

Hakan’s claim that his two-year-old sister can eat twenty-five hamburgers for lunch is _______________.

• likewise

• indicative

• physical

• ridiculous

American and Canadian Indian tribes have passed down stories for thousands of years about giant ape-men living in the forests of the western United States and Canada. They called these creatures Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or Mountain Devils. ____________of the name, the descriptions of these animals are usually the same.

• Likewise

• Contradictory

• Regardless

• Similarity

Bigfoot is described as being very tall, well over two meters. It is covered in thick, dark hair and usually ___ a bad odor.

• emits

• extincts

• eludes

• exists

Its body is usually very (8)____ and ape-like, yet it walks (9)______ and has a face more similar to that of humans than that of apes. For the most part, this creature appears not to be violent or aggressive.

• (8) muscular

• (8) legendary

• (8) skeptical

• (8) ridiculous

Its body is usually very (8) _____ and ape-like, yet it walks (9)_________ and has a face more similar to that of humans than that of apes.

• (9) upright

• (9) mythically

• (9) rationally

• (9) physically

For the most part, this creature appears not to be violent or aggressive. Bigfoot sightings are usually of lone, or single, creatures, but there have been __ reports of people seeing groups or families of Bigfoot.

• specimen

• habitual

• periodic

• survey