VOCABULARY QUIZ 1 ● GROUP B

Name: ________________________ Class: _____________

DD Personality and relationships • Adjectives • Collocations 3 Choose the best option.

• • Phrases 1 The explorers __ unimaginable hardships on their
journey.
1 Complete the sentences with the missing words. The
first and the last letters of the words have been A found B got C faced
given. 2 He ate the strange local food without __ an eyelid.
1 He’s very s p despite his age; he plays A winking B moving C batting
chess as well as when he was young and learns to 3 Our plan for a school drama festival will __ the
use new technologies. headmaster’s approval.
2 The sketch we prepared for the school show was A require B demand C request
quite i t and we wondered whether 4 Last week my mother __ her foot down and said if we
our teacher would approve of it. didn’t do our household duties, there would be no
3 I’ve been a f l fan of Liverpool dinner.
Football Club all my life. A put B placed C set
4 It’s not easy dealing with o e people – if 5 I have a healthy lifestyle and I expect to live to a __
they won’t change their minds despite all arguments, old age.
what can you do? A mature B ripe C proud
5 To me, being c e – careful not to hurt /5
other people – is perhaps the most important quality
of all.
4 Complete the sentences with the missing
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prepositions.
1 There’s no point in complaining; we just have to be
2 Complete the sentences with the adjectives from the
box. There are more words than you need. brave and get _______ with it.
2 What could I do? I just put _______ a brave face and
pretended that nothing had happened.
dizzy fair forthright free imposing iron
3 He tried hard to blot _______ the bad memories of his
1 We never thought our film would reach the ________ childhood, but they kept coming back in his dreams.
_________ heights of an Academy Award. 4 As they listened to the speaker, the audience nodded
2 Standing in front of me was a man of _____________ _______ approval.
stature. I found myself looking straight into the pattern 5 I try to see the best _______others, but they don’t
on his tie. always make it easy!
3 I don’t believe it’s really possible to force anyone to
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learn anything. People can only learn effectively of
their own ______________ will.
4 I think I’ve already done more than my share of the Total /20
work on this project and now it’s time for the others to
do something.
5 He spoke in a very ______________ manner, which
offended some people.
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