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English Language Quiz

Total questions: 102

Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Try as he might, he only has a __________ of beating the big guy in my school.

a)

fat chance

b)

narrow squeak

c)

sticky end

d)

cleft stick

2.

It seems ______ that everyone would benefit from a better scientific education.

a)

axiomatic

b)

pragmatic

c)

chromatic

d)

enigmatic

3.

John first dabbled ______ buying old maps for his collection.

a)

on

b)

in

c)

at

d)

for

4.

If power goes out, you're pretty __________.

a)

in a vacuum

b)

in abeyance

c)

up and running

d)

up the creek

5.

Tourists ______ when large numbers of middle class people ______ to join the more wealthy aristocratic travellers.

a)

have originated / have begun

b)

had originated / began

c)

could have originated / have begun

d)

originated / began

6.

Gustav Klimt posed models on a bed so that their ______ bodies could suggest floating, a motif that's very important in his art.

a)

flagging

b)

listless

c)

languorous

d)

phlegmatic

7.

She was tempted to __________, hardly able to believe he'd carry out his threat.

a)

stick his neck out

b)

call his bluff

c)

hedge his bets

d)

dig his heels in

8.

Jenny decided to draw a line ______ her recent breakup and move on.

a)

at

b)

under

c)

over

d)

with

9.

Jimmy asked Lily about her favorite celebrity. Jimmy: "You don't like Taylor Swift, do you?" Lily: "__________"

a)

No, I don't

b)

Yes

c)

Yes, I don't

d)

A & B are correct

10.

Such unspecified fears are ones capitalized on by monster movies, by ______ Hollywood productions with psycho killers, loony aliens or grossly exaggerated natural disasters.

a)

flat-footed

b)

lowbrow

c)

shamefaced

d)

slow-witted

11.

There are a few ______ which will help you in painting a room.

a)

eyes in the back of your head

b)

cuts and pastes

c)

tricks of the trade

d)

kicks in the teeth

12.

He started hammering on the adjoining wall but Mary carried on ______.

a)

notwithstanding

b)

regardless

c)

irrespective

d)

however

13.

The two young fighters fought toe to toe and both showed ______ determination.

a)

grim

b)

strong

c)

harsh

d)

mean

14.

I would like to welcome you all on this auspicious ______, the 25th anniversary of the founding of our company.

a)

moment

b)

occasion

c)

greeting

d)

gathering

15.

These stiff trainers take weeks to ______.

a)

look through

b)

put up with

c)

take to

d)

break in

16.

The regular appearance of sex and violence on TV undoubtedly has a ______ influence on teenagers.

a)

pernicious

b)

parsimonious

c)

precipitous

d)

propitious

17.

She drinks too much and starts to grow ______ about her ex-boyfriend.

a)

mawkish

b)

lachrymose

c)

maudlin

d)

gushing

18.

The country is an economic ______ with chronic unemployment and rampant crimes.

a)

lost cause

b)

dark horse

c)

false dawn

d)

basket case

19.

That car must have set Joe ______ quite a bit; it's top of the range.

a)

away

b)

back

c)

in

d)

down

20.

You need to think of all the (PRACTICE) (a)   before making the decision to emigrate.

21.

The Southerners were like the colonists in the Revolutionary War in that they were (MAN) (a)   but geographically protected.

22.

The leader couldn't support a ban (RUIN) (a)   to British economic interests when other countries would simply continue the practice.

23.

Police officers have to strictly follow a new set of rules if they want to get (ADMIT) (a)   statements from a defendant.

24.

No student should high-five another student in the dining hall for pulling an (NIGHT) (a)   .

25.

As the worst floods in Germany's (WAR)______ history subside, the (FINGER)______ has started.

(a)  

26.

The disaster has also moved climate change to the heart of debate in the(RUN) (a)   to the general election due on September 26th.

27.

 all political parties agree that (a)   (man) global warming is to blame..

28.

Under Germany's (a)   (CENTRE) system, city and county councils in the 16 states are in charge of natural-disaster prevention.

29.

Global English exists (a)   a political and cultural reality.

30.

Many misguided theories attempt to explain why the English language should have succeeded internationally, whilst (a)   have not.

31.

Latin was once a major international language, ________ having a complicated grammatical structure, and English also presents learners with all manner of real difficulties, ________ least its spelling system.

(a)  

32.

Ease of learning, therefore, has (a)   to do with it.

33.

________ all, children learn to speak their mother tongue in approximately the same period of time, ________ of their language.

(a)  

34.

English has spread not ________ much for linguistic reasons, but rather because it has often found ________ in the right place, at the right time.

(a)  

35.

It is estimated that (a)   the region of 80% of worldwide electronic communication is now in English.

36.

Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experiences a (41) ______ episode of global warming.

a)

prearranged

b)

premier

c)

previous

d)

fundamental

37.

A study comparing the rate at which carbon dioxide and methane are being (42) ______ now, compared to 55 million years ago when global warming also occurred, has found dramatic differences in the speed of release.

a)

emitted

b)

exhaled

c)

incorporated

d)

digested

38.

James Zachos, professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said the speed of present buildup of greenhouse gases is far greater than during the global warming after the (43) ______ of the dinosaurs.

a)

dementia

b)

demolition

c)

detachment

d)

demise

39.

He warned that studies of global warming events in the geological past (44) ______ the Earth's climate.

a)

comment

b)

mark

c)

compliment

d)

indicate

40.

passes a (45) ______ beyond which climate change accelerates with the help of positive feedbacks - vicious circles of warming.

a)

barricade

b)

verge

c)

threshold

d)

perimeter

41.

Professor Zachos is a leading (46) ______ on the episode of global warming known as the palaeocene-eocene thermal maximum, when average global temperatures increased by up to 5°C due to a massive release of carbon dioxide and methane.

a)

autocrat

b)

authority

c)

administrator

d)

proprietor

42.

His research into the deep ocean (47) ______ suggests at this time that about 4.5 billion tons of carbon entered the atmosphere over 10,000 years.

a)

dusts

b)

sediments

c)

dirt

d)

powder

43.

"This will be the same amount of carbon released into the atmosphere from cars and industrial emissions over the next 300 years if present (48) ______ continue," he said.

a)

trends

b)

gadgets

c)

fads

d)

crazes

44.

The ocean is capable of removing carbon, and quickly, but this natural (49) ______ can be easily overwhelmed, which is probably what happened 55 million years ago.

a)

capacity

b)

competence

c)

intelligence

d)

bulk

45.

They’re establishing a rule called ‘superdelegate’ in an effort to ______ outsider candidates.

a)

clear off

b)

take against

c)

finish with

d)

squeeze out

46.

Opponents of the scheme believe the town can ill afford to lose an area of natural beauty, and a bypass will just open the (a)   to further development. (FLOOD)

47.

The strategy is sure to use generally explicit and students' metacognition was developed through a variety of (a)   activities (conscious)

48.

Living in cities and towns, kids these days are much more (a)   than we ever were at their age. (STREET)

49.

The five-year-old a postal (a)   with get well cards from school pupils. (PICK)

50.

She was a wonderful tennis player and won the women's (a)   3 years in a row. (SINGLE)

51.

Juvenile delinquency refers to 26 (a)   (society) or illegal behavior by children or adolescents and is considered a serious problem all over the world. It is caused by social, economic and cultural factors.

52.

This juvenile 27 (a)   (crime) is apparent in marginal sectors of urban areas where children are exposed to violence in their immediate social environment, either as observers or as victims.

53.

Although most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with young criminals, such as juvenile (a)   (detain) centers and suppression, approaches to prevent youth from becoming delinquent should also include measures to instill equality and justice, fight poverty and create an atmosphere of hope and peace among youth.

54.

Information campaigns should be planned to 29 (a)   (sense) youth to be aware of the detrimental effects of violence on the family, community and society, to teach them how to communicate without violence.

55.

The prevention of juvenile delinquency and (age ) (a)   crime

56.

Over the last century the world has become increasingly smaller. Not geographically, of course, but in the sense that media, technology and the opening of borders has enabled the world's citizens to view, share and gain 31 (a)   to a much wider range of cultures, societies and world views.

57.

In this 32 ______ pot that the world has become, today's child is privy 33 ______ facets of the human experience that his immediate predecessors had no inkling even existed.

(a)  

58.

It 34 (a)   to reason that in order to absorb, configure and finally form opinions about this information-laden planet, children must be supplied with certain tools.

59.

children must be supplied with certain tools. (a)   in this list of ‘tools’ are: education, social skills, cultural awareness and the acquisition of languages, the most important of these being the latter.

60.

Until recently, a child who had the ability to speak more than one language would have been considered a very rare entity. 36 (a)   one-language phenomenon could be attributed to a combination of factors

61.

One of them is that the monolingual environment in which a child was raised played a strong role, (a)   did the limited, biased education of the past.

62.

I was surprised to hear that he had a girlfriend. That’s ______.

a)

A. a turn-up for the books

b)

B. a nice turn of phrase

c)

C. an about-turn

d)

D. a funny turn

63.

Decisions there ______ around the globe with a force unmatched anywhere else.

a)

vindicate

b)

reverberate

c)

extrapolate

d)

subjugate

64.

Simon hasn’t got a job, and isn’t trying to get one. He just ______ his friends.

a)

sponges on

b)

tarts up

c)

meddles with

d)

sweeps along

65.

Failing to stand a ______ state-run organization, Jimmy decided to switch job.

a)

gargantuan

b)

concordant

c)

Symphonic

d)

monolithic

66.

______ chair the meeting.

a)

There was decided that John should

b)

John was decided to

c)

It was decided that John

d)

John had been decided to

67.

Annabel and Insidious 3 are not James Wan’s best movies by far and those would be ______ between any other sequels on air, but they are pretty incredible.

a)

toss-ups

b)

tip-offs

c)

summings-up

d)

kiss-offs

68.

7.She ______ when the teacher made her speak in front of the whole class.

a)

went scarlet

b)

had rosy cheeks

c)

turned as red as beetroot

d)

painted the town red

69.

______ by their new finds, the archaeologists say they had made dramatic new finds of Viking settlements.

a)

Irked out

b)

Sounded off

c)

Buoyed up

d)

Perked up

70.

I wish she ______ me all the time about the broken vase.

a)

didn’t nag

b)

wouldn’t nag

c)

doesn’t nag

d)

hadn’t nagged

71.

I was ______ tempted to report his incompetence to my line manager otherwise the whole team would suffer.

a)

Highly

b)

greatly

c)

sorely

d)

urgently

72.

He was disappointed by his result, but later he ______ himself to having to re-take the exam.

a)

reconciled

b)

subdued

c)

exposed

d)

submitted

73.

All his friends ______ him when the man went bankrupt.

a)

abdicated

b)

ceded

c)

forsook

d)

deserted

74.

25 people have replied to the invitation, but I’ve ______ and put out 30 chairs.

a)

erred on the side of caution

b)

been on a razor’s edge

c)

teetered on the brink

d)

been in the teeth

75.

Localized tensions had developed into ______ slaughter of innocent people.

a)

wholesale

b)

mass

c)

systemic

d)

full-blown

76.

She has written more than three self-help books and continue to ______ books to this day.

a)

churn out

b)

move out

c)

work up

d)

stir up

77.

Desks can often show aspects of character otherwise hidden from general view ______, if analyzed in detail, will reveal their owner’s innermost secret.

a)

but where

b)

and which

c)

these

d)

however

78.

The car screeched to a(n) ______ at the junction and two men jumped out and ran down the street.

a)

stop

b)

end

c)

halt

d)

standstill

79.

I was gripping the bathroom sink as ______ pain ripped through my chest.

a)

agonizing

b)

maddening

c)

excruciating

d)

shooting

80.

In front of the door ______.

a)

a dog sat

b)

was a dog seating

c)

was seated a dog

d)

seated a dog

81.

Other children rely on language schools or private tuition to achieve their goal. In other instances, children are   (a)   to bilingual parents, who, if they so desire, may teach the children two languages.

82.

 with regards to immigrants, the sad fact was that non-native parents______ an almost complete reversal. In the majority of North American and European countries, most children are given the opportunity to learn a second or ______ a third language. 

(a)  

83.

Frescoes painting is the age-old technique which  ______ painting on a damp plaster walls.

a)

A. composes

b)

B. comprises

c)

C. involves

d)

D. consists

84.

It is known to have been used to decorate homes for at least 5000 years and has probably existed in one form or another for  ______ longer.

a)

considerably

b)

greatly

c)

noticeably

d)

perceptibly

85.

 Its very nature makes it  ______ for adorning large surfaces,

a)

pertinent

b)

relevant

c)

ideal

d)

D. absolute

86.

which explains its  ______ in churches and government buildings.

a)

preoccupation

b)

universality

c)

ubiquity

d)

all-presence

87.

______ oil paintings, which are glossy and reflect light, making it difficult to view them from certain angles, frescoes have a pleasing matte finish.

a)

Unlike

b)

On the contrary

c)

In reverse

d)

Conversely

88.

As fresco plaster bleaches relatively easily, artists do not use as wide a range of pigments as in other types of painting, sticking mainly to pale earth  ______.

a)

tints

b)

hues

c)

tones

d)

shades

89.

Fresco painting is considered to have reached its  ______ in Italy during the Renaissance,

a)

height

b)

summit

c)

crest

d)

top

90.

with Michelangelo being perhaps the most famous artist to  ______ this technique.

a)

A. operate

b)

B. enlist

c)

C. engage

d)

D. employ

91.

A great many churches in Europe  ______ wonderful frescoes,

a)

boast

b)

expose

c)

boost

d)

demonstrate

92.

while more recently celebrated artists such as the renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera have used the technique to great ______.

a)

effect

b)

success

c)

reaction

d)

result

93.

.Doctors believe that people who smoke regularly are more likely to die prematurely.

=> Doctors believe that a strong (a)  

94.

You are not a bad lawyer Martin, but I don't think it is a very suitable job for you. OUT

=> I just don’t (a)  

95.

.I don't have the foggiest idea whether he will be coming or not. WHATSOEVER

=> I have (a)  

96.

However hard he tries, his shock tactics are often not successful. MARK

=> No matter (a)  

97.

You can't just suddenly decide to go on a safari. You need to plan things very carefully. MOMENT

=> Going on safari isn't a (a)  

98.

.When it comes to political view, his comments are sometimes inappropriate. PALE

→ As (a)  

99.

Looking back, we could have managed things in a more organized way. SHIP

→ With (a)  

100.

I’ve become extremely good at driving cars over the last few weeks. FINE

→ I’ve got (a)  

101.

What you was saying has nothing in common with the facts. DOES

→ What (a)  

102.

I really think you should be more assertive about your rights. UP

→ It’s about (a)   more.