TÀI LIỆU BỒI DƯỠNG HSG KHỐI 12

I. VOCABULARY

I. Use the correct form of each of the words given in parentheses to fill in the blank in each sentence.
Exercise 1.
1. The unresponsive audience made the lecturer somewhat ............................. (heart).
What a same.
2. She’s quite an .................................. (eye)!
3. His family suffered from his ......................................... (expend).
4. The ..................................... (edit) staff consists of ten experienced journalists.
5. This leads to more pressure being put on the ........................................ (adequate)
public transport system.
6. Switzerland is a .................................... (mountain) country.
7. The nineteenth-century faith in the power of science is now very ...........................
(question).
8. A person with an ................................ (inferior) complex can be very disagreeable.
9. There was loud ................................... (laugh) as the clown fell off the ladder.
10. Although he is now middle-aged, he still looks quite ................................. (youth).
Exercise 2.
1. Alison’s ................................. (shy) made it hard for her to speak in public.
2. He had the ............................. (annoy) habit of borrowing books and then fogetting
to return them.
3. Remind me of my appointment. I am ................................. (forget).
4. For one who has spent his life in town, a trip into the mountains could prove an
.................................... (forget) experience.
5. He had been ............................... (expect) delayed at the office and was now in a
hurry to keep his ............................. (appoint) with the dentist.
6. Recently health foods have increased in ............................... (popular).
7. The old lady hid all her ............................... (save) under the floor.
8. The gas from the chemical factory was extremely ............................ (harm).
9. Unless something is done about unemployment, the ............................ (look) for
the future is not good.
10. The ................................. (conclude) is that the plan will fail.
Exercise 3.
1. Bill was given a medal in .................................. (recognise) of his services.
2. All ................................... (apply) must be received before July 20th 2007.
3. Karen and Catherine are ................................... (identity) twins.
4. You look rather ............................... (occupy). Are you worried about something?
5. I’m sure that the whole problem is a simple ................................. (understand).
6. Going swimming everyday would have very ............................ (benefit) effects.
7. It’s much more ............................... (economy) to buy large size packets.
8. My ankle is really .............................. (swell) and I can’t walk easily.
9. The government’s ........................... (compromise) approach has brought criticism.
10. The meeting adopted a .............................. (resolve) calling for Smith to resign.
Exercise 4.
1. Please ................................. (know) our letter of the 14th. We have not had a reply.
2. Keith’s exam results turned out to be ............................... (disaster).
3. There will be no pay rises in the .................................. (see) future.
4. Jim is one of the most ................................. (speak) members of the committee.
5. What are the entry ................................ (require) at this university?
6. Jackie suffered as a child from a very strict ................................ (bring).
7. I think that your ................................. (assume) about the cost are wrong.
8. This statue ............................. (memory) the soldiers who died in the war.
9. The idea that the sun ‘rises’ is a popular ................................ (conceive).
10. Ruth has gone back to college to get a teaching .............................. (qualify).
Exercise 5.
1. The villages in the mountains are quite .............................. (access) during winter.
2. The inquiry decided that the police were not entirely .............................. (blame).
3. Sam was accused of stealing some ................................ (confidence) documents
from the safe.
4. You do not have to go. Your decision must be entirely ........................ (volunteer).
5. How do you like my latest .............................. (acquire) for my stamp collection?
6. The minister gave .......................... (evade) answers to the interviewer’s questions.
7. The two prisoners are to be ............................. (trial) next month.
8. Most people agree that Cristmas has become too ............................ (commerce).
9. The dancer’s movements were extremely ............................... (grace).
10. The cost of ................................ (admit) to the show is quite reasonable.
Exercise 6.
1. People used to suffer from their life-time physical ................................. (normal).
2. Unless we do research on .......................... (sun) energy, wind power, ....................
(tide) power ..., our fossil fuels will run out.
3. In my opinion, this book is just .................................. (intellect) rubbish.
4. The alpine .................................. (land) is very dramatic