5 practice tests on lexico with key (7 trang) Mã A427100

MCQ 1

1. He ran……….………over his employees his employees when he thought they

weren’t working hard enough. A. aspersions B. roughshod C. criticism D. complaints 2. When one airline reduces its price, the rest soon follow……………….

A. suit B. herd C. flock D. bent 3. I need your phone number on the……………I need more help from you.

A. uptake B. sidelines C. off-chance D. upside 4. I’ve run the whole………………of emotions from joy to sorrow during the course.

A. gamut B. spectrum C. line D. flicker 5. The parents’ position is often the……………….opposite of the child’s.

A. complete B. polar C. absolute D. continent 6. Stock prices pushed sharply higher this morning in…………….with a rise in the dollar

A. league B. tandem C. line D. variance 7. I didn’t think she would have the……………..neck to do such a dangerous activity

A. bold B. bald C. bare D. brass 8. In my opinion, the new laws are just paper……………..without any method of

enforcement A. dragons B. sharks C. tigers D. lions 9. He is determined to………………..the truth about what happened.

A. ferret out B. leaf through C. hush away D. balance against 10. After the storm, the crew………………..at Lagos for repairs.

A. stepped aside B. sailed through C. swerved at D. put in 11. One day he…………………Peter’s diary and began reading it.

A. fell on B. set through C. ran into D. chanced upon 12. The published account of the accident was so clearly biased that none of us gave it

the slightest……………… A. credit B. propriety C. credence D. animadversion 13. As the spokesman of the company, I am responsible for…………………the policies

of the organization to the press. A. decrying B. evincing C. airing D. articulating 14. Young people have a tendency to be enthralled by the seemingly………………march

of new technology. A. indisputable B. inexorable C. inadmissible D. inadvertent 15. After the election, his first act as leader was to……………..the party of extremists

A. purge B. abolish C. eject D. repudiate

KEY

1. B run roughshod over : to treat somebody badly and not worry about their

feelings 2. A follow suit: to act or behave in the way that somebody else has just done 3. C on the off-chance: a remote chance, a slight possibility

4. A gamut: an entire range or series 5. B polar opposite: used to describe something that is the complete opposite of

something else 6. B in tandem with: together or at the same time 7. D brass neck/nerve: a combination of confidence and a lack of respect 8. C paper tiger: a person, a country or a situation that seems to be powerful or

dangerous but not really 9. A ferret out: to discover information about something 10. D put in: to enter a port 11. D chance upon: to find, meet something or somebody unexpectedly or by chance 12. C credence: belief in something as true 13. D articulate: to express or explain something clearly in words 14. B inexorable: that cannot be stopped or changed 15. A purge: to remove people from an organization

MCQ 2

1. Because of carelessness, there was a……………….of red paint on my clothes

A. lick B. streak C. slack D. slick 2. The event……………..considerable interest and media coverage, attracting

thousands of people A. wreaked B. aroused C. arose D. provoked 3. What he said………….contradicted the evidence that we had been gathered for

months A. thoroughly B. extremely C. acutely D. flatly 4. With living costs rising sharply, we are forced to go on an economic………….

A. drive B. cruise C. journey D. binge 5. English and Math are………………different; we cannot merge the two subjects

A. acutely B. flatly C. fundamentally D. thoroughly 6. In order to regain that amount of money, the businessman will have to……………the

stock market A. invest B. play C. integrate D.do 7. There was………………agreement on the issue of emission at the meeting among

countries A. sheer B. narrow C. mere D. broad 8. You need to………………..your computer before you begin to work

A. turn off B. trickle up C. boot up D. tuck in 9. After months of arguing, his marriage……………divorce

A. ended in B. ended up C. led …