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
   
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