General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers - Advanced Level Exercise 11

5. It has been said that we live in a period of the

1. The .............. "biological revolution" happens to have greatest change ever .............. by humankind -- a
come along at precisely the same moment we are all change that is powered by the engine of science and
caught up in what has been called a "crisis in values". technology.

A) deliberate A) endangered
B) punctual B) interchanged
C) current C) domesticated
D) continuous D) experienced
E) disapproved E) recommended

2. What values should guide the biologist's explorations 6. There is a rich and attractive opportunity for the
into the nature of human life or the physician's world's scientific and technological community to
treatment of the .............. ill? institutionalize and perfect a(n) .............. of
interlinked centres addressing their problems.
A) finally
B) assumingly A) paradox
C) recurrently B) network
D) deadly C) catalogue
E) terminally D) detachment
E) omission

3. The .............. over recombining genes to produce

new life forms is only one of the knotty ethical, 7. Our times call for a(n) .............. rethinking of the
philosophical and even religious questions raised by relationship of science and technology with society.
the current "biological revolution".
A) shallow
A) controversy B) unconscious
B) aptitude C) glamorous
C) contradiction D) profound
D) pretense E) inexpensive
E) acknowledgement

8. During the 1960's, some developing countries

4. Other scientists are quick to point out that we need became .............. concerned about negative impacts
not only better maps of genes but a better of technology transfer involving multinational
understanding of the ______ between genes as well. corporations.

A) definitions A) improbably
B) substitutes B) increasingly
C) confirmations C) instantaneously
D) conquests D) reciprocally
E) connections E) gigantically

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9. The new international economic order should, in the 13. One scheme for genetic engineering which has
developing countries, mean measures to help the attracted wide interest is the cure of genetic
poor become more productive and to .............. .............. in man.
minimum human needs for food and nutrition, health
care (including family planning services), education, A) optimism
skills, and productive jobs. B) brutality
A) crush C) pessimism
B) pollute D) dilemma
C) overlook E) deficiencies
D) satisfy
E) exploit

14. Mankind as we know it today probably could not have

evolved or ______ without tools.

10. We need new international efforts to help all A) elevated

countries move from almost total reliance on B) survived
shrinking sources of nonrenewable energy to the
greatest .............. reliance on renewable sources. C) revolved
D) exited
A) feasible E) suffocated
B) significant
C) liberal
D) generous
E) gradual
15. It is not surprising, therefore, that some
anthropologists define the human .............. on the
basis of tool-using and tool-making, or to be more
exact, tool-dependency.

11. As nonrenewable sources, specifically petroleum and A) snobbery

natural gas, become scarcer and more expensive, B) suitability
new attention is being focused on green plants as
a(n) .............. energy supply. C) representation
D) species
A) alternative E) emphasis
B) luminous
C) affectionate
D) slippery
E) deliberate
16. Only over the past few decades have we come to
understand how surprisingly much of what we do
may be ______ by the kind of creatures we are and
especially by the information stored in our genes.

12. We must come up with a new .............. to the old A) swollen

debate about nature versus nurture, or genetic make- B) influenced
up versus environmental influences.
C) avoided
A) deception D) enlarged
B) approach E) gestured
C) fidelity
D) donation
E) interruption

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17. Scientists have become increasingly .............. with

the fact that genes not only govern physical
characteristics but they also play a large role in
behaviour. 19. In the normal brain, a large number of substances
were ______ that were later found to be abnormal in
A) critical quantity or metabolism in a substantial variety of
neurological disorders.
B) impressed
C) indistinct A) overtaken
D) specialized B) butchered
E) generalized C) identified
D) launched
E) undertaken

18. Most biologists now recognize that it is virtually

impossible to separate the .............. genetic from the
.............. environmental influences.
20. Severe difficulties must be .............. before cloning
A) purely can be done with mammals and humans.
B) regrettably
A) alerted
C) malignantly
B) intensified
D) popularly
C) concluded
E) majestically
D) carved
E) overcome

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Answer Key:

1: C 11: A
2: E 12: B
3: A 13: E
4: E 14: B
5: D 15: D
6: B 16: B
7: D 17: B
8: B 18: A
9: D 19: C
10: A 20: E

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