1. His long service with the company was ____ with a present.

a. admitted         b. acknowledged

c. attributed         d. accepted

2. Teaching students of threshold level is hard work but the effort is very ____.

a. precious           b. rewarding

c. worth           d. challenging

3. Among all the changes resulting from the ____ entry of women into the workforce, the transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not the least important.

a. massive           b. quantitative

c. surplus           d. tragic

4. Whether their football team will win is a matter of ____ to me.

a. indifference           b. discrimination

c. deviation           d. interests

5. The plane ____, its bombs exploding as it hit the ground.

a. collided           b. crushed

c. plunged           d. crashed

6. The morning news says a school bus ____ with a train at the junction and a group of policemen were sent there immediately.

a. stumbled           b. collided

c. crashed           d. struck

7. Today the public is much concerned about the way ____.

a. nature is being ruined          b. which nature is ruined

c. on which to ruin nature           d. of nature to be ruined

8. These surveys indicate that many crimes go ___ by the police, mainly because not all victims report them.

a. to be unrecorded           b. unrecorded

c. to have been unrecorded           d. Unrecording

Fill in the blanks with the proper words in the column.

aesthetic, anaesthetic /anesthetic

1. The chair may be _______ but it’s not that comfortable.

2. One of the central questions in ________ is whether beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or whether there is something within an object itself which makes it beautiful.

3. We will take your tooth out under _________.

1. Their swords ______.

2. The two armies ______ outside the town.

3. I ______ with him at the meeting.

4. Their car _______ into a guardrail.

5. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it ______ into the courtyard below.

1. He has the _____ to swim like a fish.

2. He has the ________ of solving practical problems.

3. The theater has a seating _______ of 300 people.

4. The book is within the reading _______ of young readers.

1. There is a ______ smell of cigarettes every time he comes into the room.

2. In the evening, we were treated to a __________ performance by this very fine actor.

3. Jerusalem has a ________ Middle East flavor.

4. On the beach the British were ____________ from the Spanish by their paleness and general lack of clothes senses.