VOCABULARY TEST 1
1. For the chemists of the 18th and 19th
centuries, an understanding of the
chemical nature of food was a major
_____.
A) objective B) agreement
C) submission D) significance
E) estimation
2. The green button on the far left of the
machine _____ the volume.
A) interferes B) discloses
C) regulates D) allows
E) arises
3. You should have attended that lecture
on durability testing of fibres; it really was
most _____.
A) irrelevant B) stimulating
C) dull D) reluctant
E) feasible
4. His forecast turned out to be _____
accurate considering how little information
he had to work on.
A) lately B) effortlessly
C) intentionally D) surprisingly
E) heavily
5. The new engineer is highly
knowledgeable; but can we _____ him to
lead the team successfully?
A) run on B) put on
C) make on D) take up
E) rely on
6. Many of the lesser developed countries
find it hard to _____ the more developed
ones, due to the rapid advances in
technology.
A) make up for B) keep up with
C) look out for D) turn upon
E) run through
7. Many experiments _____ blood
composition are carried out in this
laboratory.
A) related to B) led from
C) followed through D) contained in
E) denied by
8. The suggestions put forward by the
research team were immediately _____ by
management and will shortly go into
effect.
A) made out B) taken up
C) ruled out D) put off
E) turned back
9. Various treaties and conferences have
_____ the prohibition of chemical warfare.
A) looked down B) put up with
C) turned off D) filled in
E) dealt with
10. Over two million corn farmers in
Mexico have been _____ business
following the import of heavily subsidised
corn from the US.
A) put out of B) brought up to
C) made up for D) played down to
E) shown up to
11. Quartz is one of the most abundant
Rock-forming minerals and the most _____
to weathering.
A) resistant B) reliable
C) convenient D) reluctant
E) indifferent
12. When she referred in her paper to
“biocomplexity”, many in the audience
scratched their heads and _____ what that
word meant.
A) expected B) suspected
C) wondered D) improved
E) rejected
13. Pollution could one day endanger the
world’s _____ of oxygen.
A) expectation B) supply
C) extinction D) recovery
E) decline
14. No model is ever perfect, and scientists
are _____ trying to refine their models.
A) uniformly B) formerly
C) mentally D) constantly
E) equally
15. Acetic acid is used as a food _____ and
flavouring material, and also in the
manufacture of white lead.
A) preservative B) decay
C) absorption D) solution
E) process
16. Atoms are _____ of electrons and a
nucleus containing protons and neutrons.
A) joined B) linked
C) composed D) kept
E) completed
17. Visibility depends _____ upon the
concentration of water or dust particles in
the air.
A) rapidly B) obstinately
C) instantly D) suitably
E) chiefly
18. This magazine is designed to help
satellite equipment buyers make more
_____ purchasing decisions and keep
ahead of new developments.
A) representative B) obscure
C) foreseen D) informed
E) indifferent
19. Science requires the testing of its ideas
or theories to see if its predictions are
_____ by experiment.
A) made up B) borne out
C) closed in D) put off
E) sorted out
20. The subject of the statistics is _____
the calculation of the forces acting on and
within structures that are in equilibrium.
A) taken care of B) turned up
C) kept off D) given rise to
E) concerned with
21. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896
by Becquerel, who noticed that salts
containing uranium _____ radiations.
A) got off B) held up
C) sent off D) came up with
E) turned away
22. A motion study of assembly procedures
_____ the design and disposition of the
bench, tools, containers and materials
used.
A) gets on with
B) makes up for
C) puts pressure on
D) takes into account
E) cuts free from
23. In an effort to _____ air-pollution levels
in busy cities, driving is banned in 150
cities in Italy for 10 hours every Sunday.
A) put up with B) force out
C) cut back on D) move off with
E) bring off
24. All science is _____ the fact that every
natural event has a natural cause.
A) come across B) put through
C) carried on D) based on
E) set off
25. The practical _____ of soil mechanics
includes the design of foundations and
earth-retaining structures.
A) application B) appreciation
C) reference D) detention
E) elimination