Question 12: If you are caught cheating, half of your total score will be ______________.
A. reduced B. deducted C. deduced D. distracted
Question 13: Although his first book was a roaring success, his later ones never really __________.
A. took in B. took on C. took up D. took off
Question 14: _______________, she was visibly happy after the birth of her child.
A. Because the woman was tired B. When the woman was tired
C. Despite tired D. Tired though the woman was
Question 15: It is important that Mike ___________ a training course if he wants to participate in scuba-diving.
A. make B. hold C. take D. has
Question 16: One of the _________ related to weddings is that the bride should wear something blue.
A. superstition B. superstitious C. superstitiously D. superstitions
Question 17: The Hurricane laid ___________ to the entire village and left the villagers homeless.
A. waste B. rubbish C. garbage D. trash
Question 18: Indonesia got off to a ____________ start with a goal in the first half, but Vietnam still won the match in the end.
A. jumping B. flying C. leaping D. kicking
Question 19: We couldn’t find the hotel _________ we used google map.
A. so B. but C. and D. if
Question 20. You shouldn’t have criticised him in front of the class. It was extremely _____ of you.
A. sensible B. insensitive C. insensible D. sensitive
Question 21. He will be sued for _____ of the contract if he does not do what he promised.
A. fracture B. crack C. rupture D. breach
Question 22. You shouldn’t _____ into other people's private lives.
A. prowl B. prod C. proceed D. pry
Question 23. Some romantic novelists _____ out books with the same old formula every year.
A. churn B. spill C. ladle D. pour
Question 24. Even the best medicines are not _____.
A. infallible B. unfailing C. fail-proof D. falsified
12B
13D
14D
15C
16D
17A
18B
19A
20B
21D
22D
23A
24C