Vocabulary Test 4

Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.

No More Classes

The use (0)…C….. computers has meant students can study language programmes (1)…….. their own speed when and for how long they want – and no need to worry about the teacher having a favourite or doing (2)…….. another boring lesson. What’s more, in the virtual classrooms of the future the student will (3)…….. on their headset, and be transported into an imaginary school, choose their class, take the books they need off the shelf and (4)…….. conversations with other computerized students.

They might (5)…….. choose to pay a visit to the supermarket or the train station, the bank or the restaurant. At the (6)…….. of a button they would be transported to (7)……..realistic settings where they could practice their English, maybe getting a hand (8)…….. a virtual English companion. All this perhaps, at the computer, from the comfort of their home: no (9)……..to catch the bus to college, or a plane to England.

Exciting? Certainly, and an interesting alternative to traditional classroom lessons. But would it ever (10)…….. the classroom? Hopefully not. (11)…….. the need to relate to real people talking about real issues and generally learning a little more about others will always lead language learners to (12)……..at least a little of their time with real people.

0 A in B at C of D to

1 A with B for C at D in

2 A still B for C yet D already

3 A place B put C set D get

4 A take B do C catch D hold

5 A although B preferably C instead D contrary

6 A force B hit C depress D push

7 A so B such C like D alike

8 A with B to C from D for

9 A role B duty C obligation D need

10 A replace B restore C succeed D recover

11 A definitely B mainly C totally D surely

12 A spend B make C have D do

Vocabulary Test 5

Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.

The Sahara

Around 4,000 BC, the Sahara began to turn (0)…A….. a desert. Since that time, it has slowly been growing larger and larger and today it is the world’s largest desert. It (1)…….. nine million square kilometers of Africa, that is, as (2)…….. land as the United States. The Sahara is mostly made up of mountains, bare rocky plains and high flatlands (3)…….. plateaus. The rest is a(n) (4)…….. sea of sand which in some (5)…….. piles up into dunes. Very few plants survive more than a few weeks and those that do have adapted deep roots or take in moisture (6)…….. their leaves. The desert is hot and dry during the day but (7)……..cool at night. Many of the two million people who (8)……..in the Sahara are nomads – people who travel from place to place to (9)…….. food and water for themselves and their animals. This traveling is necessary since the Sahara gets less than ten centimeters of water a year. Other people (10)…….., prefer not to travel and live in oases. Oases are places where water comes from wells or springs and where people can (11)…….. their crops and water their animals. This picture of the Sahara is different to how it was over ten thousand years (12)…….., when it had lakes and streams and was a fertile place.

0 A into B to C from D out

1 A has B covers C takes D owns

2 A long B far C much D many

3 A said B named C told D called

4 A extreme B huge C bulky D extended

5 A sites B events C places D positions

6 A in B on C through D about

7 A turns B converts C changes D has

8 A inhabit B live C stay D exist

9 A explore B invent C find D supply

10 A although B but C and D however

11 A grow B raise C develop D increase

12 A since B before C ago D after