Package 9 - Post-course test

Section 1 

1. In England, if you are __________, you will never walk under a ladder.
   1. suspicious
   2. superstitious
   3. supercilious
   4. susceptible
2. Sammy’s responsibilities _________ with yours, so you will be sharing some of the work.
   1. overlap
   2. cross
   3. overlook
   4. coincide
3. The reader of this letter could misinterpret your meaning; what you’ve written is rather ____________ .
   1. ambiguous
   2. ambivalent
   3. apathetic
   4. ambidextrous
4. Mr. and Mrs. Cheung are very ___________ ; they share a love of outdoor sports.
   1. telepathic
   2. sympathetic
   3. accidental
   4. compatible
5. The journalist was accused of ____________ the facts; this led to a big libel case.
   1. triggering
   2. shooting
   3. lying
   4. distorting
6. Computers are an ideal tool to ___________ language learning.
   1. conduct
   2. substitute
   3. facilitate
   4. instruct
7. Studies have shown that motivation is high among students who follow programmes of ____________ learning.
   1. autonomous
   2. automatic
   3. authorised
   4. self-centred
8. The employee__________ from the manager’s look of disapproval that his joke was not appreciated.
   1. inferred
   2. implied
   3. implicated
   4. confirmed
9. Students regarded Latin as boring and __________.
   1. unregulated
   2. regardless
   3. irrelevant
   4. derivative
10. I was so __________ when I spilled red wine all over their carpet.
    1. compassionate
    2. apathetic
    3. embarrassed
    4. hydrophobic
11. Organisers are ________ a large crowd at the demonstration as it is being held on a public holiday.
    1. wishing
    2. hoping
    3. allocating
    4. anticipating
12. I would like to invite Dr Leung to award the prizes at our ceremony. He really is a(n) __________ speaker.
    1. eloquent
    2. chatty
    3. garrulous
    4. notorious
13. When I praised Lucy about her A grade, she blushed and downplayed it; she is a very _______ girl.
    1. proud
    2. modest
    3. arrogant
    4. sincere
14. The Poverty Attack programme has been established to help families who find themselves financially _________ .
    1. impaired
    2. damaged
    3. challenged
    4. bereft
15. You should never call a young lady a ‘bimbo’ as the word has a very negative __________ .
    1. euphemism
    2. agreement
    3. collocation
    4. connotation
16. If you want to use the toilet in an expensive restaurant in America you should say to the waiter: “Could you tell me where the __________ is, please?”
    1. bog
    2. loo
    3. washroom
    4. john
17. When you get to New York, you will have to _________ to another flight.
    1. transform
    2. transfer
    3. transit
    4. locate
18. The landlord could not legally evict his tenants so he proceeded to _________ them in a number of ways.
    1. haunt
    2. eliminate
    3. discriminate
    4. harass
19. Terrorists openly ___________ violence to achieve their goals.
    1. implicate
    2. advocate
    3. adhere
    4. act
20. It is difficult to ___________ fake pearls from genuine ones; they are almost identical.
    1. distinguish
    2. diversify
    3. diverge
    4. detect

Section 2

Match each verb on the left with 2 nouns from the box with which it best collocates.
The first one has been done for you.

Section 3

Join the two words to make them binomials using a conjunction or preposition.

1. 1. sink or swim Answer: or
   2. slowly but surly Answer: but
   3. fair and square Answer: and
   4. bit by bit Answer: by
   5. wine and dine Answer: and