CAE Book2 Test 8

Research shows that people are ........ to avoid variety when they actually consume things

• vulnerable

• prone

• feasible

• liable

Answer explanation

be liabl to do sth - be likely to do it

If you are likely to show a particular characteristic, usually a negative one, or to be affected by something bad, such as damage or an illness, you are ..... something

• liable to

• prone to

If you are very likely to do something, you are ... to do that thing

• liable to

• prone to

If you have (legal) responsibility for something or someone, you are .... for it :

If we lose the case we may be ....... for (= have to pay) the costs of the whole trial.

• prone

• liable

• vulnerable

• feasible

If something is ....., it is able to be made, done, or achieved:

With the extra resources, the project now seems ....

• prone

• liable

• vulnerable

• feasible

If you buy a lot of things, you ........ up on these things

• stock

• store

• save

• shop

You must exercise on a regular .........

• norm

• rule

• basis

• pattern

................to something or to doing something means to return to doing, using, being, or referring to something, usually something bad or less satisfactory

• resume

• revert

• recur

• revolve

Why does the conversation have to ....... to money every five minutes?

• resume

• revert

• recur

• revolve

He stopped to take a sip of water and then ...... speaking.

• resumed

• reverted

• recurred

• revolved