UNIT 12 TEST 1 - 2

The implications of these facts are ________ for concern for any thinking person.

• consequences

• bases  

• causes 

• convictions

It's no ________  that Neal Schon chose Arnel Pineda as the band's latest lead vocalist.

• coincidence 

• chance

• fortune  

• accordance

Scruffy Murphy's will try to break the ________ on its building on Edgewater Drive.

• compliment 

• oath  

• curse  

• praise

These issues which taken in Germany as a ________ snub, increasing anti-British feeling.

• careful   

• coincidence  

• watchful 

• deliberate

In Nepal, I happened to ________ trees full of bougainvillea flowers raining down in the slightest quivering of the winds.

• chance of

• chance to

• chance for

• chance upon

We've just ________ an old friend we haven't seen for ages.

• come around 

• come across 

• come in   

• come out

He hooked a fan to a car battery and wedged it in a window to ________ a bedroom.

• calm down  

• cool down 

• bring down

• turn down

Corporations ________ borrowing, but homebuyers exploited the low-cost money.

• cut back on 

• cut back of  

• cut back for 

• cut back to

The nearest common ancestor of man and the modern great apes ________about 30 million years ago.

• faded away  

• wiped out

• ran out   

• died out

The company used excavating equipment to ________and extinguish the burning coal.

• find out  

• root up

• pull out   

• dig up