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PROGRESS TEST
1. Fill each of the blanks with one suitable word or phrase.
1. All the best bargains ………………… sold if we don’t get to the market soon.
2. If you don’t call me before 6 pm, I ………………… you are no longer interested.
3. It’s high time ………………… clean about what you were doing last night.
4. If you ………………… socks up, you’re going to fail the entrance test.
5. I wish ………………… my father’s advice because with hindsight he was obviously wrong.
6. I wish I ………………… feet in this horrible city.
7. If I’ve promised to do something for you, you can be sure ………………… out of it.
8. Had ………………… your timely intervention, we could have lost a lot fo money.
9. Even if ………………… to pay for her ticket, she wouldn’t have gone with me.
10. It’s high time they ………………… minds on whether to sack her or not.
11. I ………………… told you what Tony said if I’d known you were going to gossip about it.
12. If I had known they weren’t really getting married, I ………………… time preparing my speech.
13. If you had been in my shoes, ………………… said?
14. If only ………………… while the iron was hot! It’s too late now.
2. Put the corresponding letter of the right word into the blank of each sentence.
Oxford is a city with such a mind-blowing reputation that many who come here find themselves intimidated by the place and can’t wait to leave, while others, taking to it like a ……… (1) to water, find themselves returning again and again. The college lawns provide a gorgeous ……… (2) to serious study, and in the right light, on a sunny winter’s morning day, one feel as if one is ……… (3) on air, such is the sense of unreality. Oxford may like to ……… (4) that it is at the intellectual ……… (5) of things, but in many ways it is no more than a sleepy ……… (6) where, to mix metaphors, transitory students, the ……… (7) of their generation, wait in the ……… (8), allowing their talents to ……… (9) before moving off into the industrial or political ……… (10). Much of this is a myth, of course. Hardship and hard work are very much part and ……… (11) of student life. The ……… (12) get through the three years’ hard ……… (13) simply by putting their shoulders to the ……… (14) before going on to fairly average jobs. Only for the tiny minority is Oxford the first ……… (15) on the ladder to fame and fortune.
1. a. fish b. duck c. boat d. swimmer
2. a. backdrop b. curtain c. scene d. screen
3. a. flying b. gliding c. floating d. swimming
4. a. pretend b. act c. dissemble d. produce
5. a. wheel b. engine c. spoke d. hub
6. a. backwater b. stream c. tributary d. watershed
7. a. froth b. cream c. fat d. caviar
8. a. pavilion b. dressing-room c. wings d. foyer
9. a. flourish b. open c. spread d. float
10. a. peak b. abattoir c. dead end d. fast lane
11. a. package b. section c. province d. parcel
12. a. level-headed b. hot-headed c. hot-blooded d.kind-hearted
13. a. a push b. pull c. grind d. roughage
14. a. cart b wheel c. engine d. boat
15. a. step b. position c. elevation d. ascent
3. Fill each of the blanks with a suitable word or phrase.
1. So ………………… demand for tickets that they were all sold within minutes.
2. Much ………………… like to help you with your homework, I’m afraid I’m not allowed to.
3. The boys claimed they’d only kidnapped her dog ………………… laugh.
4. The soil is carefully sifted ………………… of archaeological interest is not missed.
5. Just ………………… it’s summer doesn’t mean you can stop studying.
6. I think she’s toying ………………… of setting up her own business.
7. Far ………………… with what you say, I actually have quite strong reservations.
8. Even ………………… his driving test some time ago, I still think he is too young to drive.
9. I think my insecurity stems ………………… I was sent away to school when I was only eight.
10. Bearing ………………… traffic at this time of day, I think we should leave now.
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