Vocabulary Revision

28. Revise Vocabulary 1 Unit 2, p. … and do the following multiple choice task.

1. Marge is going to be the supervisor of our department. I don’t know if she’ll cope, but our manager feels she’s the most ______ person for the job.

A. appropriate B. proper C. suitable

2. The child is too ill to be nursed at home; she needs _______ medical attention at a hospital.

A. appropriate B. proper C. suitable

3. Is Tony making ________ use of his time at work, or does he waste it doing nothing?

A. appropriate B. proper C. suitable

4. His bright clothes were not ________ for a funeral.

A. appropriate B. proper C. suitable

5. I’m snowed under with work. Let’s meet some other time. – So what time will be _______ for us to meet?

A. appropriate B. proper C. suitable

6. Max has been mixed up with drugs. He isn’t at all a _______ person for a young girl to know.

A. appropriate B. proper C. suitable

7. Don’t buy her anything expensive. A modest present would be more _____ to the occasion.

A. appropriate B. proper C. suitable

8. Good advertisement must show the products to the best _______ .

A. advantage B. benefit C. profit

9. Get this job by all means though it isn’t well paid. This experience will be a(n) _______ in your future career.

A. advantage B. benefit C. profit

10. Get out of the deal as soon as possible. It’s going to bring no _____ at all.

A. advantage B. benefit C. profit

11. This medicine will be of real ______ to you. Take it.

A. advantage B. benefit C. profit

12. James had a(n) _______ over us, he had more money.

A. advantage B. benefit C. profit

13. I feel we should quit. Why should we stay? The head of the project gets all the _______ , and we get all the hard work.

A. advantages B. benefits C. profits

14. You must be crazy to be selling your countryside estate. There is very little ______ in selling land at present.

A. advantage B. benefit C. profit

15. If you want to get on with a person you should find ________ interests.

A. common B. mutual

16. I admire your negotiating skills. – Well, our admirations is _____.

A. common B. mutual

17. The ______ good would best be served by keeping prices from rising too quickly.

A. common B. mutual

18. It is _______ knowledge among politicians that an election will soon be called.

A. common B. mutual

19. I feel it would be wise if we concluded the deal right now. – Yes, it would be to our _______ advantage.

A. common B. mutual

20. Being a public figure he will never _______ this secret marriage.

A. acknowledge B. admit C. recognize

21. Doing exercises in writing is a(n) _______ way of learning a foreign language.

A. acknowledged B. admitted C. recognized

22. Mr Steward was promoted last month, thus his long service with the company was ________ at last.

A. acknowledged B. admitted C. recognized

23. The stock market is too unstable now, so you shouldn’t buy so many shares. You yourself must ________ the danger of what you are doing.

A. acknowledge B. admit C. recognize

24. New evidence made Clarence _______ that he had forged the documents.

A. acknowledge B. admit C. recognize

25. The president ________ seeing his public relations officer with a smile.

A. acknowledged B. admitted C. recognized

26. Marge is so stubborn that she will never ______ , even to herself, that she might be wrong.

A. acknowledge B. admit C. recognize

27. If you want to succeed, you should ______ your case clearly.

A. claim B. maintain C. state

28. Jason _______ to own that car but I don’t believe him.

A. claims B. maintains C. states

29. The accused man ________ he was not to blame.

A. claimed B. maintained C. stated

30. The impeached president _______ that in spite of opposition he was still the lawful head of state.

A. claimed B. maintained C. stated

31. The defendant said he wanted to ______ that he had never seen the woman, who was the prosecutor’s main witness, before.

A. claim B. maintain C. state

32. I don’t know what we are going to do now. The committee recommended a simple plan two weeks ago, but the older members _________ it.

A. opposed B. resisted

33. It seems quite strange that Alison, being so weak, ______ your influence.

A. opposed B. resisted

34. I don’t know what’s going to happen. Father is so weak that he can’t ______ the disease any longer.

A. oppose B. resist

35. She says she will _______ their attempts to take the child away.

A. oppose B. resist

36. What can you say about the latest political developments? - Our party is going to ______ the government’s new policies.

A. oppose B. resist

Unit 4