This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Corpus Linguistics > Academic Collocations – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Academic Collocations Quiz 19 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Complete the collocation:We need to learn to take ..... ourselves A) Care in. B) Care. C) Care of. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Care of. 2. To ..... up excuses A) Take. B) Make. C) Find. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make. 3. I ..... accept my faults, I know I am far from perfect. A) Readily. B) Firmly. C) Especially. D) Deeply. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Readily. 4. After two years working part-time at the factory, he finally got a ..... job. A) Permanent. B) Fixed. C) Durable. D) Everlasting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Permanent. 5. Romy and Kim ..... on the phone. A) Am talking. B) Are talking. C) Is talking. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are talking. 6. Marvin ..... a picture. A) Am painting. B) Are painting. C) Is painting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is painting. 7. Which is an example of a verb + noun collocation? A) Commonly mistaken. B) Make a mistake. C) A terrible mistake. D) Make a terrible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make a mistake. 8. Match the definition to the collocations:A subject on which people hold different views. A) A popular believe. B) A matter of of opinion. C) Firmly believe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A matter of of opinion. 9. What is not a function of academic phrases? A) Quantification. B) Description. C) Transition. D) Reduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reduction. 10. They want to ..... new cars onto the market next year. A) Sample. B) Campaign. C) Launch. D) Profit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Launch. 11. He was fired, which was a big ..... to the company. A) Lost. B) Loose. C) Lose. D) Loss. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loss. 12. When she didn't answer the phone, I resorted ..... calling up to her from the street. A) To. B) In. C) From. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To. 13. I hope I made myself ..... clear. I don't more confusions. A) Highly. B) Perfectly. C) Mildly. D) Deadly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perfectly. 14. When you were a baby, did you ..... a nap in the afternoons? A) Have. B) Take. C) Do. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Take. 15. Which phrase correctly collocates in the sentence?"He spent all afternoon ..... in the backyard." A) Doing a story. B) Doing a shopping. C) Doing a path. D) Doing a garden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doing a garden. 16. Pay through ..... A) The ears. B) The nose. C) The eyes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The nose. 17. -I've been sitting at the desk all day today. I need some fresh air.-Oh, don't you know? She ..... an accident and she was in hospital. A) Take. B) Was. C) Get. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have. 18. I'm not ready for children now, but I'd love to have ..... in a few years. A) A family. B) In love. C) Sympathy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A family. 19. I want to ..... progress in my career. I'm going to a training. A) Make. B) Take. C) Come. D) Get. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make. 20. I have ..... a lot of thinking A) Done. B) Made. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Done. 21. Madam Eileen has to ..... on her daughter to do the dishes. A) Keen. B) Rely. C) Concentrate. D) Listen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rely. 22. The girl ..... no notice of the audience when she started singing. A) Had. B) Did. C) Made. D) Took. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Took. 23. The interview was very tense at the beginning, but then John ..... a joke, and after that it was much more relaxed. A) Took. B) Made. C) Said. D) Told. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Made. 24. To ..... enquiries A) Do. B) Make. C) Take. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make. 25. It takes time to get used ..... living in another country. A) To. B) Of. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To. 26. Are your son still at school?-Yes, they are ..... class photo today in the afternoon. A) Making. B) Doing. C) Going. D) Taking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taking. 27. I don't think I'll ever fall ..... again. My divorce was very upsetting. A) Sympathy. B) In love. C) A visit. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In love. 28. That car is so expensive that it seems to me to be ..... overpriced A) ENORMOUSLY. B) GREATLY. C) RIDICULOUSLY. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) RIDICULOUSLY. 29. My teacher always says: ..... you homework! A) Make. B) Do. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do. 30. Which collocation means to be in charge of something? A) Responsible for. B) Consist of. C) Rely on. D) Remind someone of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Responsible for. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAdvanced QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAcademic Collocations Quiz 1Academic Collocations Quiz 2Academic Collocations Quiz 3Academic Collocations Quiz 4Academic Collocations Quiz 5Academic Collocations Quiz 6Academic Collocations Quiz 7Academic Collocations Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books