IGCSE ESL UNIT 11

Finishing the marathon in 1st place was an incredible________________.

• accomplish

• achievement

• successfully

The students___________________ the task in less than ten minutes.

• accomplished

• encouraged

• challenging

• braided

_____________ a record means that you set a new record above and beyond the previous record. You _____________ that record until someone else sets a new one above and beyond it.

• Holding/break

• Holding/ Breaking

• Break/hold

• Breaking/hold

not mixed with anything else

The mountain air was fresh and__________________ (=not polluted).

• pure

• encourage

• proceed

• achievement

to support or praise

We were _____________________ to learn foreign languages at school.

• acievement

• encouraged

• accomplished

• proceed

^{to keep on going; to go ahead with something; to move along}

Preparations for the festival are now _____________ smoothly.

• encouraging

• proceeding

• challenging

• crawling

^{to join three or more pieces of hair or string-like material by putting them over each other in a special pattern:}

She ____________________ the horse's tail.

• perished

• braided

• crawled

• sterned

exact and accurate:

The bunker's _________________ location is a closely guarded secret.

• precise

• premise

• decade

• complicated

^{to base a theory, argument, etc. on an idea, thought, or belief:}

He ______________ his argument on several incorrect assumptions.

• grace

• complicated

• precised

• premised

^{to be similar to someone or something:}

You _______________ your mother very closely.

• premise

• resemble

• precise

• compete