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- 1. Multiple Choice
Elite (0)......... like the Jamaican Usain Bolt have regularly been clocked running at nearby 45 kilometres per hour. (COMPETE)
Competition
Competitive
Competitors
Competent
- 2. Multiple Choice
Such speed would have seemed (1)........... not so long ago. (BELIEVE)
Unbelieving
Unbelieved
Unbelievably
Unbelievable
- 3. Multiple Choice
Scientists now suggest that humans can move (2)........... faster than even that, perhaps as fast as 65 kilometres per hour. (CONSIDER)
Considering
Considerably
Considered
Considerable
- 4. Multiple Choice
For years, it was assumed that simple muscle power determined human speed, but recent suggests otherwise. The most important (3) ............ factor appears to be how quickly the muscles can contract [...] (LIMIT)
Limiting
Unlimited
Limited
Limitless
- 5. Multiple Choice
The most important limiting factor appears to be how quickly the muscles can contract and thus (4) .............. the time a runner's foot is in contact with the ground. (MINIMUM)
Minimise
Minimum
Mimimize
Minimize
- 6. Multiple Choice
Is our athletic ability inherited? Researcher Alun Williams has (5) ........... twenty-three inherited factors that influence sporting performance [...] (IDENTITY)
Identify
Identified
Identification
Identifies
- 7. Multiple Choice
[...] factors that influence sporting performance, such as the (6) .................. use of oxygen, and strength. (EFFICIENCY)
Efficiently
Effiently
Efficiency
Efficient
- 8. Multiple Choice
As world population rises, predicts Williams, the (7) ............ of there being someone with the right genes [...] (POSSIBLE)
Possible
Possibly
Possibility
Impossibility
- 9. Multiple Choice
[...] The right genes for these twenty-three (8) ......... will increase noticeably and thus faster runners are likely to emerge in the future. (CHARACTER)
Characters
Characteristics
Characteristic
Character
- 10. Multiple Choice
Preffix meaning: again or back. What is the preffix?
overbook, oversleep, overwork
transform, transcribe, transplant
restructure, revisit, reappear
anticlimax, antidote, antithesis
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is NOT an adjective suffix?
different, dependent, excellent
classify, exemplify, simplify, justify
endless, homeless, careless, thoughtless
drinkable, countable, avoidable
- 12. Multiple Choice
Misconduct, mismatch, mismanagement.
What is the meaning of mis-?
inside
between
false
wrong
- 13. Multiple ChoiceI have been __ the computer since this morning.oninfromto
- 14. Multiple ChoiceIt was love ........ first sighttoatonfrom
- 15. Multiple ChoiceI have never felt ..... ease with my bossintoatfor
- 16. Multiple ChoiceShe broke ...... with his boyfriend Peter last weekoffinoutup
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThey decided to break .... their engagementoffupwithto
- 18. Multiple ChoiceI will call the police ______ you pay me for what you have taken!ifsohoweverunless
- 19. Multiple ChoiceIt was ____ a terrible day that we stayed indoors.soverysuchsuch a
- 20. Multiple ChoiceIt was __ hot to go out in the middle of the day.tooenoughsuch
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe bag has the Nike _________ on it.diagrammlogomarkpicture
- 22. Multiple ChoiceBrand names seem to have _________ over us.rulepowermeaningforce
- 23. Multiple ChoiceHannah is a _________ nine-year-old student at an English primary school.similartypicaluniformregular
- 24. Multiple ChoiceI was impressed____subways my first time in Europe.withonbyfor
- 25. Multiple Choice........... an eye to the little child please!TakeKeepGiveGet
- 26. Multiple ChoiceDolls have ..... as children’s playthings for thousands of years.existedbeenused
- 27. Multiple ChoiceGenealogy is a ........ of historybandsetbranchseries
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWould you like to meet for a coffee after .......?jobworkcareeremployment
- 29. Multiple ChoiceIf you commit a crime it will destroy your ....... .employmentjobcareerwork
- 30. Multiple ChoiceHow was the bus ....... to work today?triptourridejourney
- 31. Multiple ChoiceYou won't see her until she's back from her skiing .......triptourridejourney
- 32. Multiple ChoicePaul and Anne decided to decorate the living room ......... as they thought it would be cheaperthemselvesyourselfthemselfthem
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