TEST No.1
The ____________ English
colonists sailed to America towards the end of the century. One of
the ____________known was sir Walter Raleigh. The settlers tried
without success to start profitable colonies in Virginia, which
___________after Elizabeth, the virgin or unmarried queen. But
_________were only beginnings. England began to sell African slaves
to work for the Spanish in America. By 1650 slavery _______ an
important trade, __________ wealth particularly to Bristol. It took
until the end of the _________ century for this trade to be
ended. The growth of trade abroad wasn’t entirely new. The
Merchant Adventures Company already ______ with royal support before
the end of the ________ century.
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ONE
WELL
NAME
THIS
BECOME
BRING
EIGHTEEN
ESTABLISH
FIFTEEN
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TEST No.2
She tried to go back
to work, but she couldn’t concentrate. She opened her briefcase and
threw some of uncompleted files. After collecting her other
_________, Laura took the elevator to the basement level. She
didn’t want to take the risk of __________ into anyone in the
reception area and exited through the back door. It still _________.
If anything, the city looked _____________ than it had that morning.
Even her apartment building seemed ___________ than usual. Getting
off on the ________ floor and entering her apartment, she slammed
the door with enough force to tilt a framed print she __________
in the Metropolitan.
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BELONG
RUN
RAIN
BAD
DIRTY
FIVE
BUY
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TEST No.3
On entering her
apartment Laura noticed that the red light on her answering machine
_________. At first she ignored it, but the ________ the room got,
______ the blinking became. The call was from her mother, ________
her to call the moment she got home. Laura made the call. Her
mother answered on the ______ ring. “Thank God you called”, she
said, “We ________dinner party tomorrow night, and I want you to
come”. “Mother,” Laura said with exasperation, “I’m not sure I’m
up to a dinner party. I _________a bad day today.” “Nonsense,” her
mother exclaimed, “All the more reason to get out of that dreadful
apartment of ________. I promise that you _______ a wonderful time”.
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BLINK
DARK, INSISTENT
ASK
ONE
HAVE
HAVE
YOU, HAVE
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TEST No.4
Undoubtedly one of the
________ war novels in American literature is “The Naked and the
Dead” by Norman Mailer, a Harvard graduate, _________ in the US Army
during World
War II. He became
famous at the age of twenty-five when his novel “The Naked and
the Dead”__________. The American critic wrote, “The publication in
1948 of “The Naked and the Dead” was a historic event in
American literature. There previously _______ thoughtfully realistic
novels about the American army in the war. But “The Naked and
the Dead” _______ a new tone – the tone of the 1950’s – in its
obliteration of the “gallant knights in armor” view of the
American soldier, its uncompromising truthful picture of what
front-line combat means, and how soldiers actually lived, thought
and spoke. ________ on one brief campaign, the conquest of an
island in the Pacific, it tried to consider the battle in epic
terms of the movement of history.
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GREAT
SERVE
PUBLISH
BE
STRIKE
CONCENTRATE
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TEST No.5
For 2,5 million years
the Earth’s climate has fluctuated _______ from ice ages to warmer
periods. But in the last one hundred years the planet’s temperature
_________ unusually fast about 1.2 to 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Scientists believe that at present it is human activity that
_________ the temperatures up - a process known as global warming.
Ever since the Industrial revolution _______ factories, power plants
and eventually cars _________ fossil such as oil and coal, ________
huge amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere.
Scientists now believe that the greenhouse effect __________by the
extra greenhouse gases humans have released. Evidence for global
warming ________ the recent strain of very warm years. Scientists
record that 1998 was the ________ year in measured history, with
2005 coming in second. Meanwhile, readings taken from ice core show
that the greenhouse gases ________the highest levels in the past
four hundred and three thousand years. Arctic sea ice is also
shrinking. According to NASA studies the extent of Arctic sea ice
________ about ten percent in the last thirty years. Researchers
predict that temperatures __________ about 2 to 10 degrees
Fahrenheit.
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CYCLE
RISE
DRIVE
BEGIN, BURN
RELEASE
INTENSIFY
INCLUDE
WARM
HIT
DECLINE
INCREASE
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TEST No.6
The hero and heroine
of “Romeo and Juliet” are probably the _________ literary
representatives of intense romantic love: consequently, many people
know something of the play even if ____________ it.
Bur if they
actually___________it, they may well have some surprises. “Romeo and
Juliet” proves to be _______ and _________ than hearsay suggests.
By the test of the
scale of influence, “Romeo and Juliet ” is one of the __________
works in the history of the world’s drama. The influence of this
tragedy _________ forth internationally through countless stage
productions, films for cinema and television, videos, radio,
adaptations, parodies and cartoons. Though the play is so famous,
however, it always ___________.
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FAMOUS
NOT READ
READ
LIVELY
PARADOXICAL
SUCCESSFUL
PUT
NOT APPRECIATE
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TEST No.7
The founders of the American Republic _________
behind them a Constitution which was the first ______ kind in the
world, and which ______ dozens of their countries _________
political reform.
In most other countries, during the past 200
years, one revolution _______ to another, and constitutions __________.
But the United States, which no so long ago
_______ so new in comparison with the powers of Europe, now has
the ________ written constitution in the world and the ________
period without revolutionary change except Great Britain, which in its
turn ________ more profoundly in the matter of government.
But the principles set out in the Constitution
and Bill of Rights
Are so vague that they cannot easily _________ to
the changing circumstances of the real world.
All through the history of the United States there
__________disputes over questions whether particular acts of
government are forbidden by the Constitution.
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LEAVE
IT
ISPIRE, SEEK
LEAD
NOT ENDURE
SEEM
OLD
LONG
CHANGE
APPLY
BE
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TEST No.8
Tears came to Esther’s
eyes. “You are putting ________ against the ___________ people in
the land”.
“I must leave. If I
_______ it now, I never will – and I’ll spend the rest of my
life_________ it. ” “But what if thet try to stop you?” “If they
block the bridge, I _______ the river.” “If they catch you, they
________ you back like Jimmy Lee.” “I’m ______ than Jimmy Lee. I’ll
get on a ship.” “A ship,” Esther said wonderingly. Neither of them
ever _______ one. “Where will you go?” “London, or Holland, or Massachusetts, even”.
“They are just names,”
Esther said. “ We never _____ anyone who _______ to Massachusetts”.
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YOU
POWER
NOT DO
REGRET
SWIM
BRING
CLEVER
SEE
MEET
BE
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Test No.9
Lisa understood his
thinking. The crossroads would present Jay with a problem. He would
have to find whether the runaways __________ south or north. Is they called
attention to _________ by stopping at the tavern for ________ they
would make his task much _________. The horses would have to
suffer a little ________.
A few miles beyond the
t own they stopped where the road _______by a barely visible track.
Mike built a fire and Peg cooked. There ________ undoubted fish in
the streams, but the fugitives had no time for ________.
After supper the here
of __________ wrapped ___________ in blankets and lay under the
wagon. They talked in low voices of all the things they ________
through together.
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TURN, THEY
SUPPLY
EASY
LONG
CROSS
BE
FISH
THEY, THEY
BE
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TEST No.10
Reflexively they both
looked back the way they _________. There was no one in sight. Then
Mike realized that they _____________.
He had seen a movement
out of the corner of his eye and now he saw it again. ___________,
he slowly turned his head. Two Indians _________ just a few yards
away. This was the northern edge of Cherokee country, and they
__________ the natives at a distance for three days but none
_____________ them.
The __________ of the
two held out a large fish like a salmon.
Mike guessed the two
of them _______________ in the river.
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COME
WATCH
TENSE
STAND
WATCH
APPROACH
TALL
FISH
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TEST No.11
Reflexively they both looked
back the way they_____________.
There was no one in
sight. Then Mike realized that they ______.
He had seen a movement
out of the corner of his eye and now he saw it again.
___________, he slowly turned his head. Two Indians ________ just a
few yards away. This was the northern edge of Cherokee country,
and they _________ the natives at a distance for three days but
none __________ them.
The ____________ of the
two held out a large fish like a salmon. Mike guessed the two of
them ________ in the river.
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COME
WATCH
TENSE
STAND
WATCH
APPROACH
TALL
FISH
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TEST No 12
John was late as he
_____________ track of time while in the library. When he came to t
he café Rachel was there, she _______ for him.
He __________ to the
table by the waiter. Rachel __________ a large one-sheet menu that
obscured the look of annoyance on her face.
“Sorry”, John said as
he sat down.
“It’s okey”, she
replied. “But I already __________ for _________.”
“Forget about it. We
need to talk”.
He told her everything,
_________ with the detail-by-detail accounting of what _____________in
Beachwood Canyon. He told her what __________ out of the field trip
video. It took_________ fifteen minutes and during that time their
lunch __________. By the time he has finished recounting the story
he could see that Rachel’s mind __________ to work on everything.
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LOSE
WAIT
LEAD, HOLD
ORDER
I
CONCLUDE
HAPPEN
EDIT, HE
SERVE
GO
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TEST No 13
At that hour in the
park there were more joggers than there _________ in the morning
and Jack kept his speed down. Above 80th Street, the number
of joggers began to fall. By then, night ________ full command of
the sky. To make things _________, it seemed to Jack that the
distance between the street lamps _________. When he passed 90th
Street, it got even ___________, particularly in the hilly section
where he _________ such exhilaration that morning. The leafless trees
crowded the pathway. He could no _________ see the buildings along
Central Park West. ____________ the park at 106th Street,
Jack felt relief. He had to laugh at his imagination and wonder
what ____________ it.
Although he ____________
in the park at night for months, he ___________ it a considerable
number of times over t he years. He couldn’t remember it __________
him in such a fashion.
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BE
TAKE, BAD
GROW
DARK
FEEL
LONG
EXIT
STIMULATE
NOT RIDE
DO
AFFECT
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TEST No 14
Laura sat up and put
her ________ over the side of her bed. She felt terrible. The night
before, she __________ up too late, compulsively __________ her dirty
apartment despite her exhaustion. She knew it __________ a stupid
thing to do, but the literal and figurative cobwebs had to
___________.
She couldn’t believe how
much her life ____________ in forty-eight hours. Laura went to t he
bathroom and started her morning routine of __________ on the small
amount of makeup she___________ accustomed to using. When she
finished, she looked at ________in the mirror. She was not pleased.
She appeared tired and stressed, and even with additional blush,
she didn’t look any _________.
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FOOT
STAY
CLEAN
BE
CLEAN
CHANGE
PUT
BECOME
SHE
GOOD
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TEST No.15
_________ the conference room,
Laura headed directly to t he investigator’s office. She was
beginning to calm down from the anxiety of __________ in front of
the group and from _________ to confront her boss.
She felt even
____________ when she found Clara at her desk, since her workday
officially _________ an hour earlier. In Laura’s estimation, Clara
was the ___________ investigator at their office.
Laura had Clara copy
the list of names Dick __________. And Laura asked her to put in a
request for copies of the _________ charts from St. Francis
Hospital.
Silently _______________
the names over and over, Laura rode up in the elevator. Once on
the ________ floor, Laura hesitated.
It took her a moment
to build up her confidence. She took a fortifying breath and
started off. The ____________ she got, the ____________ she walked.
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LEAVE
TALK
HAVE
GOOD
END
TALANTED
PROVIDE
PATIENT
READ
FIVE
CLOSE
SLOW
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