NORTHSTAR 2e Listening and Speaking, Advanced

Vocabulary Exercise
Unit 4: The Tipping Point
Circle the correct answer.

1. So many cases of the disease have appeared in the last week that officials now call it a(n)
.
a. maven b. epidemic c. root

2. The critic’s positive review of the Somali movie a wave of public interest in
Somalia and its people.
a. generated b. was consumed by c. got a hold of

3. She is never home. I cannot her no matter how often I call.

a. profile b. be consumed by c. get a hold of her

4. Some people can keep going and going. They have energy.
a. relentless b. phobic c. word-of-mouth

5. “How did you find out about this restaurant?”

“Just by . Several friends have recommended it.”
a. transmission b. word-of-mouth c. newspaper reviews

6. He spends his days and nights studying social communication. He his interest
in sociology.
a. holds b. is consumed by c. goes a long way toward

7. No matter how much the salesman talked about his product, he could not one
customer. He was not a persuasive speaker.
a. win over b. be consumed by c. flood

8. She is a(n) of 19th-century French art. She knows everything there is

to know in that field.
a. counselor b. epidemic c. maven

9. Malcolm Gladwell studies how ideas get communicated. He believes that by understanding
the of ideas, he can determine how trends begin.
a. transmission b. epidemic c. maven

10. In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell people who have an unusual
number of social connections. He described and analyzed their behavior.
a. was consumed by b. went a long way with c. profiled

NorthStar, Second Edition, Listening/Speaking, Advanced: Vocabulary Exercise, Unit 4

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