Upper Intermediate Vocabulary Quiz 21 (60 MCQs)

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1. My flight's due in at 10.00. Could you ..... just outside Arrivals at 10.30?
2. How many rings are there in the Olympic Games symbol?
3. Despite the chaos around him, he remained .....
4. The taxi dropped us off at the airport ..... 1. We were flying to Amsterdam.
5. Andrew never takes risks. He's so
6. The fans were ..... by the result of the match
7. 6 I ..... play video games every day, but now I only play them at weekends.
8. Choose the word that is different:
9. Replace the verb idioms in italics with the right phrase. I wish you would stop butting in on the conversation! It is really annoying!
10. Ivan ..... friends easily. He'll meet a lot of new people when he moves.
11. What is the correct order of the noun phrase?
12. In which sport would you use a 'sand iron'?
13. Recruitment .....
14. Audible is in English:
15. Alan isn't at home. He ..... somewhere in the garden.
16. Britney wore a big hat and a pair of sunglasses to avoid ..... (recognise).
17. ..... Peruvian are well known for their ceviche.
18. I have done something ..... without consulting you. Can you help me solve it?
19. They ..... to attend the meeting in America by their boss.
20. Andrew's fi xed my laptop. It's a good job he's a .....
21. A large container outside your house where you throw things away
22. Now imagine the jar no longer cylindrical but conical, like an ice-cream cone, the wider end at the surface.
23. You look pale and your temperature is high. I advise you ..... tonight.
24. Fashions in clothes and music just keep going round in ..... circles, constantly reworked and repeated.
25. Divide the task into ..... sections.
26. Choose the correct usage for "would"
27. She ..... be here an hour ago. Where is she?
28. ..... ! You have to relax.
29. Part of a city that has a lot of different bissiness
30. Next thing you know you have ..... the bug and you are buying all the equipment.
31. Mrs Alderson ..... every month
32. I was ..... to discover that he had stolen money from me.
33. -How can I find your house?-Do you know where the station is? My house is .....
34. You haven't told her, ..... ?
35. Quickly adapt to the situation
36. The new factory has had a negative ..... on the environment.
37. Quick-thinking and clever with words
38. ..... for Ellie, I prepared some coffee
39. The 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics ..... (win) by Marie Curie.
40. Could we have the CHECK, please? Choose a BrE synonym.
41. Evaluate to in English:
42. Your ..... is private to you and not known by other people.
43. Mum let me stay longer =?
44. Making you think a lot about a subject
45. I've known him ..... ages.
46. We wanted to fly by plane as we ..... that before.
47. He ..... me mad the way he keeps criticising me all the time.
48. Being forced to do sth
49. When I pass ..... , I won't care about the funeral.
50. We are going to have to ..... the fact that we aren't wanted.
51. A positive ..... will be vital to save the system from collapse.
52. There is bad reception there so I won't call you unless there ..... a problem.
53. I have a ..... that something is wrong between Adam and Jake
54. He's mad, totally and completely ..... the bend.
55. The floor ..... mopped at the moment, so be careful.
56. I looked at the bill ..... to check that it was correct.
57. As we got further up the mountain, the ..... became thicker and we couldn't see.
58. Lots of people deal with obesity because of the inordinate amount of unhealthy and fast food they consume. What does inordinate mean?
59. Anna is very happy because .....
60. A nursery or similar place which looks after young children during the day.