● Match the items in the two columns.

1. Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used _____ late for his lecture.

a. to have students

b. for students' being

c. for students to be

d. to students' being

2. Harry was ___ by a bee when he was collecting the honey.

a. stung     b. stuck

c. bitten      d. scratched

3. People who live in small towns often seem more friendly than those living in ____ populated areas.

a. densely      b. intensely

c. abundantly      d. highly

4. The lost car of the Lees was found ____ in the woods off the highway.

a. vanished       b. abandoned

c. scattered       d. rejected

5. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true ____ it comes to classroom tests.

a. before      b. as

c. since       d. when

6. Mr. Morgan can be very sad ___, though in public he is extremely cheerful.

a. by himself      b. in person

c. in private      d. as individual

7. There were many people present and he appeared only for a few seconds, so I only caught a ____ of him.

a. glance      b. glimpse

c. look       d. sight

8. A lorry ____ Jane's cat and sped away.

a. ran over       b. ran into

c. ran through      d. ran down

9. When he finally emerged from the cave after thirty days, John was ___ pale.

a. enormously       b. startlingly

c. uniquely       d. dramatically

10. Human behavior is mostly a product of learning, whereas the behavior of an animal depends mainly on ____.

a. consciousness      b. impulse

c. instinct      d. Response

11. You see the lightning ____ it happens, but you hear the thunder later.

a. the instant      b. for an instant

c. on the instant      d. in an instant

12. Lightning is a ____ of electrical current from a cloud to the ground or from one cloud to another.

a. rush      b. rainbow

c. rack      d. ribbon

13. Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about ____ compliments to his political leaders.

a. paying      b. having paid

c. to pay      d. to have paid

14. I shall have a companion in the house after all these ____ years.

a. single      b. sole

c. alone      d. Lonely

15. Being somewhat short-sighted, she had the habit of ____ at people.

a. glancing      b. peering

c. gazing      d. scanning

16. He obviously displays a great ____ for some of your poems.

a. consent      b. admiration

c. respect      d. pleasure

17. Just as the soil is a part of the earth, ____ the atmosphere.

a. as it is      b. as it were

c. so is      d. and so is

18. Young adults ____ older people are more likely to prefer pop songs.

a. other than      b. more than

c. less than      d. rather than

19. I don't mind ____ the decision as long as it is not too late.

a. you to delay making

c. your delaying making

d. you delay to make

20. Louis was asked to ____ the man who stole her purse.

a. confirm      b. recognize

c. claim      d. identify

● ________ of discontent became apparent among the staff. (stir)

● Life for the successful doctor can be emotionally and financially _________. (reward)

● They have a downstairs phone and an ________ in each of the bedrooms. (extend)

● He hadn't the slightest _______ to do that, he said. (inclined)

● The affair looks _______ to me. (suspect)

● ________, I took the tin to my room and set it on my bed. (word)