Cae Use Of English Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. Moreover, this brought rapid travel within the ..... of ordinary people.
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.
3. Class of gallant heroes engaging in larger-than-life struggles, their (4) ..... ? wander to faraway lands, to somehow familiar yet different destinations.
4. I wish he would stop critising my workI wish he would stop ..... my work. (FAULT)
5. He's been under the weather all week.
6. She was taken aback by his sudden resignation.
7. If a mouse approaches the mousetrap, a transmitter ..... to it sends a signal to your mobile phone.
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.
9. Although the rugged Highlands (7) ..... ? about two-thirds of the land area, the
10. Not only ..... bad, but the sports facilities were not as you stated in the brochure.
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.
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.
13. I'm really looking forward to meeting you in person.
14. Did you have the chance ..... to know any Native Americans when you were living in the States?
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.
16. Which collocation does not fit with the verb;MAKE
17. They finally came to terms with the loss of their home.
18. He got into a trouble ..... spreading of false rumours among the colleagues.
19. To talk to me like this was ..... rude of him.
20. It was based upon the principle that light could be "(2) ..... ?" or bent, by a glass lens.
21. Everybody who ..... here ..... a good salary
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.
23. I could see other ..... students waiting for the exam.
24. Previously, many people had never ventured ..... the outskirts of their towns and villages.
25. The typeface that a document uses also ..... how much of the information is ..... and whether it is worth taking seriously.