OLYMPIC - MIDTERM TEST 2-ROUND 1

The modification has been the…………on the cake for both of us, for a lot of hard work has gone into the design and development of the course.

• A. chilling    

•   B. cooling     

• C. freezing

• D. icing

The media is supposed to always………… on the side of revealing rather than concealing.

• A. blunder   

• B. err

• C. mischief

• D. transgress

Toxic ………… disfigure black neighbourhoods, degrade property values, and discourage investment.

• A. eyesores

• B. gatecrashers

• C. keystones

• D. watersheds

You shouldn't have been…………to your elders by raising those matters.

• A. ill-mannered

• B. immaterial

• C. impertinent

• D. inapposite

An 18-year-old girl, of no fixed …………, was charged with robbery in connection with the incident.

• A. abode

• B. accommodation

• C. dwellings

• D. lodgings

Documentation is required before the drug can get the seal of………… from world health authorities.

• A. approval

• B. assent

• C. consent

• D. permission

Many Americans refused to fall in with the idea that religion is a (n)…………disreputable anachronism.

• A. academically

• B. cerebrally

• C. cognitively

• D. intellectually

Most academic articles bounce around from topic to topic, really without…………, but are informative.

• A. common or garden

• B. hell or high water

• C. let or hindrance

• D. rhyme or reason

It is up to the court to decide, in the exercise of their…………, whether to grant the favour or not.

• A. circumspection

• B. discretion

• C. judiciousness

• D. prudence

Tome said something disgusting, from which and a heated argument…………, the result of which was that they broke up.

• A. ensued

• B. eventuated

• C. supervened

• D. transpired