Level C lesson 3 ppt

Level C lesson 3
1. It’s an awful ________ your wife couldn’t come. I was
looking forward to meeting her.
C
(A) harm
(B) sorrow
(C) shame
(D) shock
2. There is a fault at out TV station. Please do not
________ your set.
B
(A) change
(B) adjust
(C) repair
(D) switch
3. Don’t touch the cat, he may ________ you.
D
(A) kick
(B) tear
(C) scream
(D) scratch
4. The managers agreed to ________ the question of
payment.
C
(A) balance
(B) control
(C) discuss
(D) increase
5. Owing to the bad weather, the garden party was
________.
A

(A) called off
(B) shouted off
(C) spoken against
(D) cried down
6. I am sorry I opened your handbag but I ________ it for
mine.
A
(A) mistook
(B) confused
(C) recognized
(D) imagined
7. The ________ of these volunteers for hard work is
amazing.
B
(A) ability
(B) capacity
(C) capability
(D) efficiency
8. I like England, but I wish it ________ rain quite so
much.
A
(A) didn’t
(B) won’t
(C) hadn’t
(D) hasn’t
9. He was so tired that he ________ asleep in the chair.
B
(A) dropped
(B) fell
(C) went

(D) became
10. He has just taken an examination ________
chemistry.
D
(A) on
(B) about
(C) for
(D) in
11. They shouldn’t have ________ the accident. It wasn’t
my fault.
C
(A) accused me of
(B) accused me with
(C) blamed me for
(D) blamed me
12. The bank won’t lend you the money without some
________ that you will pay it back.
D
(A) profit
(B) interest
(C) charge
(D) guarantee
13. When you come tomorrow why not ________ your
brother with you?
C
(A) fetch
(B) take
(C) bring
(D) carry
14. After he had broken his leg, Henry could only go up

and down stairs ________.
C
(A) hardly
(B) in difficulties
(C) with difficulty
(D) hard
15. Who does this book belong ________?
A
(A) to
(B) for
(C) with
(D) at
16. All my handbags ________ of leather.
C
(A) had been made
(B) will have been made
(C) are made
(D) being made
17. He’s the perfect person to take on this difficult job.
He’s a really hard- ________ person and won’t stand for
any nonsense.
B
(A) ship
(B) nosed
(C) handshake
(D) bargain
18. a sabbatical year = ________.
A
(A) a year in which one is released from one’s
normal duties

(B) a miserable year
(C) a year in which previously made plans are bound to
(D) a year that has brought happiness and good fortune
19. It always ________ me as odd that he should go off to
work so late in the day.
A
(A) struck
(B) hit
(C) knocked
(D) smacked
20. I walked away as calmly as I could ________ they
thought I was the thief.
D
(A) or else
(B) to avoid
(C) owing to
(D) incase