Unit ( 2 ) Nedal El Ali ( Vocabulary )
1) The word which means an extremely bad headache is..............
- A) arthritis
- B) migraine
- C) allergies
- D) malaria
2) I don't really believe that story – I'm very ............
- A) strenuous
- B) optimistic
- C) conventional
- D) sceptical
3) Doctors often treat infections with antibiotics; that is the................ approach.
- A) conventional
- B) viable
- C) alien
- D) optimistic
4) Medicines that are not the normal, traditionally accepted treatments are known as
- A) mortality
- B) migraine
- C) complementary
- D) homoeopathy
5) Another way of saying that something could be successful is to say it is..........
- A) conventional
- B)viable
- C) sceptical
- D) malaria
6) If something seems very strange, we sometimes say it is ........
- A) complementary
- B) alien
- C) strenuous
- D) malaria
7) Have you heard the good news? We've got the green light to go ahead with our project!
The underlined color idioms means......
- A) unexpectedly
- B) in the act of doing something wrong
- C) permission
- D)a useless possession
8) Luckily, the police arrived and the thief was caught out of the blue.
The correct colour idiom which replaces the underlined one used incorrectly is:
- A) red-handed
- B) see red
- C) feel blue
- D) out of the blue
9) I was shocked when I heard the news. It came completely unexpectedly.
The colour idiom which has the same meaning as the underlined word is:
- A) a white elephant
- B) see red
- C) feel blue
- D)out of the blue
10) Out the blue, a dog came in front of my car. The missing word in the above sentence is:
- A) in
- B) of
- C) on
- D) with
11) Perhaps you have made a mistake in your ......
- A) gravity
- B) calculation
- C) generation
- D) chip
12) Transfer the files onto ......................
- A) floppy disk
- B) security settings
- C) privacy settings
- D) identity fraud
13) Net users can ............... out unwanted emails with software.
- A) communicate
- B) connect
- C) access
- D) filter
14) .....................what is happening means you know what is happening and you are following the developments.
- A) Compare
- B) Contribute
- C) Monitor
- D) Research
15) The word which means a serious illness that is spread by mosquitoes is..........
- A) immunisation
- B) malaria
- C) allergies
- D) migraine
16) She sees red when people drop litter. The underlined colour idioms means..
- A) angry
- B) be angry
- C) was angry
- D) is angry
19) I'm extremely ..................... about what I read in the press.
- A) sceptic
- B) sceptical
- C) scepticism
- D) sceptics
20) People who ...................... crimes like that aren't normal.
- A) commitment
- B) committed
- C) commitments
- D) commit