Sounds C1

You can hear the occasional _____ of car horns in the street.

• creaking

• hooting

• buzzing

• humming

He _______ with disappointment when he learned that he hadn’t been chosen for the

team.

• mumbled

• whispered

• giggled

• sighed

Martin __________ all the way through his job interview: he was so nervous.

• yelled

• sighed

• stammered

• groaned

The younger girls ________ all day on the school bus trip.

• giggled

• sobbed

• mumbled

• stuttered

Stop _________ ! I can hear you perfectly well from here.

• screaming

• yelling

• groaning

• sobbing

Some of the audience _______________ at the end of the film when the main character died.

• stammered

• yelled

• rattled

• sobbed

He ________ in pain after sitting in the same position on the plane for six hours.

• groaned

• whispered

• mumbled

• whistled

I could tell that he was embarrassed by the way he was _______.

• sobbing

• sighing

• mumbling

• groaning

Joanna (a)   the password to me so that the others didn’t hear.

That (a)   sound you can hear in the distance is probably a leopard or a panther.