This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Cae > Cae Use Of English – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cae Use Of English Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Moreover, this brought rapid travel within the ..... of ordinary people. A) Reach. B) Capacity. C) Facility. D) Hold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reach. 2. As in any period, piracy in the ancient world flourished when there was a lack of central control, and in areas beyond the (6) ..... ? of major powers such as the Egyptians, the Assyrians or the Mycenaean Greeks. The first known pirate group was the Lukkans, a group of sea raiders based on the south-eastern coast of Asia Minor. A) Limits. B) Reach. C) Horizon. D) Frontier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reach. 3. Class of gallant heroes engaging in larger-than-life struggles, their (4) ..... ? wander to faraway lands, to somehow familiar yet different destinations. A) Heads. B) Brains. C) Spirits. D) Minds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Minds. 4. I wish he would stop critising my workI wish he would stop ..... my work. (FAULT) A) I wish he would stop making fault in my work. B) I wish he would stop doing fault in my work. C) I wish he would stop finding fault in my work. D) I wish he would stop fault my work. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I wish he would stop finding fault in my work. 5. He's been under the weather all week. A) Under the weather. B) Below the weather. C) Beneath the weather. D) Off the weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Under the weather. 6. She was taken aback by his sudden resignation. A) Taken aback. B) Taken out. C) Taken over. D) Taken down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taken aback. 7. If a mouse approaches the mousetrap, a transmitter ..... to it sends a signal to your mobile phone. A) Enclosed. B) Collated. C) Attached. D) United. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attached. 8. The sleeper ..... programmes the alarm clock on their mobile phone, plugs it into a socket on the duvet or pillow and is woken at the correct time. A) Plainly. B) Uniquely. C) Purely. D) Simply. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simply. 9. Although the rugged Highlands (7) ..... ? about two-thirds of the land area, the A) Take out. B) Take in. C) Take up. D) Take off. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take up. 10. Not only ..... bad, but the sports facilities were not as you stated in the brochure. A) Was the food. B) The food was. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was the food. 11. The great steam locomotives that thundered across the landwere the jet airliners of their ..... , carrying passengers in comfort over vast distances in unimaginably short times. A) Date. B) Stage. C) Day. D) Phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Day. 12. Some of his single-lens microscopes were able to magnify up to three hundred times the object's (7) ..... ? size, and around 1660 he began serious study using these instruments. A) Present. B) Substantial. C) Actual. D) Current. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Actual. 13. I'm really looking forward to meeting you in person. A) Looking forward to. B) Looking ahead to. C) Looking onward to. D) Looking into. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Looking forward to. 14. Did you have the chance ..... to know any Native Americans when you were living in the States? A) Of getting. B) To get. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To get. 15. The horse did have something more to offer. It had the potential to bring about nothing less than a revolution (8) ..... ? power and transport, a dramatic development that transformed the ability of humans to wage war. A) On. B) At. C) In. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In. 16. Which collocation does not fit with the verb;MAKE A) A mistake. B) Plans. C) A noise. D) Your best. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Your best. 17. They finally came to terms with the loss of their home. A) Came to terms with. B) Came in terms with. C) Came up to terms with. D) Came along with. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Came to terms with. 18. He got into a trouble ..... spreading of false rumours among the colleagues. A) On the grounds. B) On the grounds that. C) On the grounds of. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On the grounds of. 19. To talk to me like this was ..... rude of him. A) Extremely. B) Entirely. C) Utterly. D) Entirely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extremely. 20. It was based upon the principle that light could be "(2) ..... ?" or bent, by a glass lens. A) Refracted. B) Retracted. C) Retorted. D) Retraced. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refracted. 21. Everybody who ..... here ..... a good salary A) Work / get. B) Works / gets. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Works / gets. 22. Why not go to Scotland? But what kind of country are they coming to and what should they expect once they get there? Scotland (5) ..... ? of an area of 30, 418 square miles-so it's a fairly compact and "doable" country-with a population of about five million people-not too small, not too big. A) Consists. B) Includes. C) Embraces. D) Comprises. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consists. 23. I could see other ..... students waiting for the exam. A) Fellow. B) Peer. C) Colleague. D) Companion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fellow. 24. Previously, many people had never ventured ..... the outskirts of their towns and villages. A) Further. B) Over. C) Beyond. D) Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beyond. 25. The typeface that a document uses also ..... how much of the information is ..... and whether it is worth taking seriously. A) Guides, preserved. B) Rules, accumulated. C) Dominates, gathered. D) Influences, retained. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Influences, retained. Next →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesCae Use Of English Quiz 2Cae Use Of English Quiz 3Cae Use Of English Quiz 4Cae Use Of English Quiz 5Cae Use Of English Quiz 6Cae Essay QuizCae Listening QuizCae Practice Test QuizCae Reading QuizCae Speaking QuizCae Vocabulary QuizCae Writing Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books