Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
1. Excuse me. I'm a(n) ............... in this neighbourhood. 8. He received another letter from the ...............
Can you tell me what number bus will take me to the demanding more money.
town center, please? I want to do some shopping.
A) burglar
A) foreigner B) thief
B) customer C) pickpocket
C) tourist D) robber
D) stranger E) blackmailer
E) immigrant
9. "How much is the ______?" she asked the bus
2. How much must I ............... a good second-hand car? conductor.
A) buy from A) fare
B) pay for B) price
C) borrow from C) cost
D) own for D) prize
E) lend to E) fee
3. It's getting quite ______. I think it's going to rain soon. 10. Come to Turkland, and ............... all these places
where history lives on.
A) windy A) inform
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B) hot B) define
C) foggy C) memorize
D) cold D) describe
E) cloudy E) discover
4. The ............... today is full of the news of yesterday's 11. There are a lot more television ............... today than
concert. there were some twenty years ago.
A) press A) spectators
B) publisher B) visitors
C) reporter C) onlookers
D) literature D) viewers
E) journalism E) sightseers
5. It's a very ............... picture. I laugh at it all the time. 12. How was your ............... back?
A) laughing A) sightseeing
B) smiling B) vacation
C) joking C) trip
D) funny D) luggage
E) serious E) holiday
6. Nobody gave him a hand. He did it on his ______. 13. FATHER: "Tell me. Do you love him or not?"
A) single DAUGHTER: "Well, I'm very ______ of him."
B) self
A) keen
C) alone
B) friendly
D) own
C) fond
E) lonely
D) likeable
7. GNP stands for "gross ............... product".
E) romantic
A) national
B) global
C) international
D) universal
E) regional
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14. Yes, we certainly want to move to a bigger house, but 20. The concert was called ............... because of the
our ............... of money is only part of the problem. heavy rain.
A) inflation A) out of
B) presence B) aside
C) shortage C) off
D) absence D) down
E) border E) out
15. Sorry, it's much too expensive for me; I can't 21. It is not often that we get a(n) ............... to meet a
............... it. film star.
A) help A) dream
B) stand B) taste
C) forgive C) reality
D) export D) chance
E) afford E) acceptance
16. His friends advised him to see a doctor about his 22. The pirates ............... the treasure on a desert island.
headaches, but he ............... to listen to them.
A) cooked
A) remembered B) invented
B) refused C) forgave
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C) memorised D) grilled
D) requested E) buried
E) mentioned
23. Aren't you going to ............... me to your friend?
17. How did they ............... when they heard the price?
A) joke with
A) laugh B) demonstrate
B) hate C) introduce
C) discuss D) receive
D) knock E) memorise
E) react
24. She isn't very ............... with her friends at school.
18. It takes a lot of patience to ............... hyperactive
children because of their low level of concentration. A) loved
B) clever
A) describe
C) frequent
B) discover
D) frequent
C) teach
E) popular
D) joke with
25. Plants absorb water from the soil through their ______.
E) think about
19. Don't ............... to call me if you need help.
A) stems
A) dream B) flowers
B) hesitate C) roots
C) shame D) branches
D) repeat E) leaves
E) frighten
26. They didn't stay for supper. They weren't ______.
A) sleepy
B) early
C) thirsty
D) hungry
E) poor
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27. There were three ............... helping the two doctors in 29. The office is on the second floor of the building. It is
the operating theatre. 200 square meters in ______.
A) butchers A) depth
B) greengrocers B) height
C) plumbers C) length
D) carpenters D) area
E) nurses E) width
28. According to the Marxist doctrine, it is the workers 30. He usually reads the sports ............... of the
that should ............... the world. newspaper first.
A) shake A) section
B) divide B) pictures
C) rule C) chapter
D) blow up D) literature
E) choose E) tales
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Answer Key:
1: D 16: B
2: B 17: E
3: E 18: C
4: A 19: B
5: D 20: C
6: D 21: D
7: A 22: E
8: E 23: C
9: A 24: E
10: E 25: C
11: D 26: D
12: C 27: E
13: C 28: C
14: C 29: D
15: E 30: A
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