Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: 12/10/2021

LEXICO-GRAMMAR: FURTHER PRACTICE

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The whereabouts of the exiled president remains a …………….. guarded secret.
A. highly B. closely C. deeply D. entirely
2. We should all……………when advertisers attempt to use unfair practices.
A. make a stand B. make a comeback C. make amends D. make a deal
3. It took him a long time to come to …………….with his redundancy
A. rules B. words C. terms D. steps
4. I remember the first time I met Sue. We……..…..immediately, and we have been friends ever since.
A. struck it off B. struck it up C. hit it off D. hit on it
5. The company cannot accept…………….for injuries resulting from improper use of rental equipment
A. validity B. liability C. compensation D. privilege
6. Her parents always tried to…………..a sense of integrity and decency in her.
A. infuse B. instill C. inlay D. inset
7. Jack never cheats or tricks anybody when he plays. He always goes by the……….
A. book B. instructions C. principles D. method
8. Recent defeats have ………….his confidence in himself as a player
A. undermined B. disable C. impeded D. hampered
9. People turned out in…………..to watch the parade on the Independence Day.
A. volume B. mass C. force D. bulk
10. Not being able to find my phone number is a pretty………….excuse for not contacting me.
A. fragile B. frail C. faint D. feeble
11. Mrs. Jackson was on the point of going out of her apartment when she was………….. short by a phone call
from her husband.
A. caught B. halted C. brought D. stopped
12. So many good solutions to the question have been submitted that the committee have had a hard time of
deciding which one to …………...
A. adapt B. adorn C. adept D. adopt
13. You needn’t treat us to anything; we won’t stay long for it’s only a ………….. visit.
A. minute B. flying C. small D. speedy
14. Burt knows his chances against the better skilled opponents are slim, but he is too much of a competitor to
give up making at least a ………….. at it.
A. stake B. start C. stab D. stack
15. The pursuit of the escaped prisoner was futile. The criminal knew well how to ………….. the police.
A. elude B. derail C. retract D. distort
16. The first amusement park in our city was a ………….. success for its owners. Everybody would go there to
have a good time.
A. cracking B. ringing C. sparking D. roaring
17. My tooth isn’t aching at the moment, but the unpleasant feeling of stiffness still …………..on in my mouth.
A. remains B. lingers C. continues D. lasts
18. The serum couldn’t be …………..on the spot as the first aid kit lacked needles.
A. served B. catered C. distributed D. injected
19. I’d opt for a glass of mineral water just to ………….. my thirst.
A. quit B. quench C. quiver D. quieten
20. “Why haven’t you sent the letter to Uncle Jerry?” – “Oh, I’m sorry; I ………….. forgot to do it yesterday.”
A. clean B. barely C. fair D. only

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Passage 1: In Monsanto's research centre there are 1500 PhDs, one of the biggest concentration of scientific brain
power in the commercial world. It was here 20 years ago that they made some of the first experiments to genetic
modify plants. This is what it's all about - genes, DNA, the blueprint of life. Inside every cell of every living thing
there is DNA what is made up of thousands of genes.
Genes produce proteins that have special functions and it's these proteins that give every plant and animal its
unique characteristics. Scientists can manipulate the genetic code of life to produce plants with new
characteristics ever seen in nature. They can isolate any one gene from any organism like an animal or bacteria
and insert it into a completely unrelated species like a plant.
That gene then becomes part of the genetic instructions that make these tiny plants to grow. It will give them the
same unique characteristic as the original species. The possibilities are almost endless. Scientists can insert a gene
from a bacterium into a grape to make it resistant with viruses, or they can engineer maize that resists drought, or
potatoes that resist pests, so farmers can use more pesticides on their crops. But these are all plants unknown in
nature. They have a foreign gene inside them. People are sharply divided on whether this can be safe.
Passage 2: It is the human factor that contributes to the absolute majority of road accidents which involves the
tremendous toll of fatalities each year. Other less decisive causes are vehicle functions or road shortcomings.
Speeding motorists are notorious about failing to give way at junctions, judging the situation on the road or being
unable to accurately estimate the distance while overtaking the ‘snail-pacers’ ahead. Drinkers who settle behind
the wheel after one glass or two may be running the risk of causing a tragedy through their impairing perception,
which is not so rare a case, again. Unfortunately, it is much simpler to introduce the necessary alterations in the
traffic system that change the behavioral patterns of drivers. There are voices that more severe disciplinary
resolutions ought to put into practice if the vehicle users are to benefit from greater security on the road. The idea
of producing safe road users through pre-school parental instruction or through incorporating the safety
regulations for the school curriculum has been widely acclaimed in many communities and are expected to yield
the required results as the first step in bettering the qualifications of the future drivers and acquaint them with the
potential hazards that may arise on route.
Passage 3: Until recently, we have confined ourselves for our own solar system in the search for life, partly
because we have not had evidence for the existence of other solar systems. Furthermore, our telescopes have not
been powerful enough to detect planets. But not long ago, a technique was developed that could ascertain reliably
whether stars have planets orbiting it. Basically, this technique relies upon our ability to detect with some degree
of precision how much light a star is giving. If this change for a brief period, it is probably because a large object
– a planet – is passing in front of it. At first, the technique could only establish the existence of a very large planet
with an elliptical orbit that brought it in close proximity to the star. This was one of the limits of the technique:
life could not exist on such large planets. Furthermore, the orbit of the planet would preclude the possibility of
other, smaller planets orbiting the same star. Therefore, that particular planetary system could be effectively ruled
out in terms of the search for life.
However, astronomers using an Anglo-American telescope in New South Wales now believe they have
pinpointed a planetary system which resembles to our own. For the first time, they identified a large planet, twice
the size of Jupiter, orbiting a star like the sun, at much the same distance from its parent star as Jupiter is to the
sun. And this is the vital point about their discovery: there is at last a theoretical possibility that smaller planets
could be orbiting inside the orbit of this planet.

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