Test 10
1. Do you think the recently employed people will ________ our methods of working?
A) catch up to
B) catch at
C) catch on to
D) catch out
2. There are few electronic applications ________ to raise fears regarding future employment opportunities than robots.
A) likely
B) more likely
C) much likely
D) most likely
3. Petrol is manufactured from the ________ oil taken out of ground.
A) crude
B) rough
C) raw
D) tough
4. Louise thinks you had better clear the ashes away first, ________ ?
A) hadn't you
B) didn't you
C) does she
D) doesn't she
5. We finally managed to reach the top of the mountain, and seeing that it was getting dark, we began to ________ .
A) descend
B) plunge
C) drop
D) decline
6. He is among the men who, I am sure always do ________ best even in the most trying circumstances.
A) their
B) ones'
C) his
D) one's
7. My train arrives in Toronto at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. The plane I would like to take from there ________ by then.
A) would leave
B) has left
C) will have left
D) had left
8. The two men ________ the old woman of her jewelry by making her sign a document she didn't understand.
A) deceived
B) cheated
C) tricked
D) robbed
9. I felt ________ to death at the meeting because I could make nothing of the chairman's speech.
A) fatigued
B) tired
C) exhausted
D) bored
10. Only as the plot develops ________ the complicated relationship between the four characters.
A) we begin to understand
C) we began to understand
B) do we begin to understand
D) did we begin to understand
11. He is such an odd person that he feels ill at ease unless he has neighbours ________ .
A) with whom to quarrel
B) to quarrel
C) quarrelling
D) quarreling over
12. If we enter a neighbor's house without knocking first, we are ________ their privacy.
A) breaking
B) disturbing
C) committing
D) violating
13. When you first come to the school you'll be given a test to help the teachers to _______ you to a class at your level.
A) locate
B) deliver
C) assign
D) place
14. Mr. William regretted ________ his son for the accident, for he later discovered it was his own fault.
A) blaming
B) to blame
C) blame
D) to have blamed
15. By codes we mean a way of writing something in secret; ________ , anyone who doesn't know the code will not be able to understand it.
A) worse still
B) in short
C) on the other hand
D) that is
1. Do you think the recently employed people will ________ our methods of working?
A) catch up to
B) catch at
C) catch on to
D) catch out
2. There are few electronic applications ________ to raise fears regarding future employment opportunities than robots.
A) likely
B) more likely
C) much likely
D) most likely
3. Petrol is manufactured from the ________ oil taken out of ground.
A) crude
B) rough
C) raw
D) tough
4. Louise thinks you had better clear the ashes away first, ________ ?
A) hadn't you
B) didn't you
C) does she
D) doesn't she
5. We finally managed to reach the top of the mountain, and seeing that it was getting dark, we began to ________ .
A) descend
B) plunge
C) drop
D) decline
6. He is among the men who, I am sure always do ________ best even in the most trying circumstances.
A) their
B) ones'
C) his
D) one's
7. My train arrives in Toronto at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. The plane I would like to take from there ________ by then.
A) would leave
B) has left
C) will have left
D) had left
8. The two men ________ the old woman of her jewelry by making her sign a document she didn't understand.
A) deceived
B) cheated
C) tricked
D) robbed
9. I felt ________ to death at the meeting because I could make nothing of the chairman's speech.
A) fatigued
B) tired
C) exhausted
D) bored
10. Only as the plot develops ________ the complicated relationship between the four characters.
A) we begin to understand
C) we began to understand
B) do we begin to understand
D) did we begin to understand
11. He is such an odd person that he feels ill at ease unless he has neighbours ________ .
A) with whom to quarrel
B) to quarrel
C) quarrelling
D) quarreling over
12. If we enter a neighbor's house without knocking first, we are ________ their privacy.
A) breaking
B) disturbing
C) committing
D) violating
13. When you first come to the school you'll be given a test to help the teachers to _______ you to a class at your level.
A) locate
B) deliver
C) assign
D) place
14. Mr. William regretted ________ his son for the accident, for he later discovered it was his own fault.
A) blaming
B) to blame
C) blame
D) to have blamed
15. By codes we mean a way of writing something in secret; ________ , anyone who doesn't know the code will not be able to understand it.
A) worse still
B) in short
C) on the other hand
D) that is