The Borneo Post - Good English
Vocabulary Test
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1. I don’t know how to fix the lights in the garage; I think I’d better phone an ................... to do it.
2. The number of homeless people in our city has risen ................... in the last ten years.
3. Children here are taught ................... in their appearance during their first year of school.
4. Computer graphics are beginning to ................... the line between animation and live action in films.
5. In Singapore, public littering is ................... forbidden, and is subject to heavy fines.
6. The other children ................... the little boy for wetting his pants in class.
7. The landscape of our planet is greatly modified by the ................... volume of water circulating on its surface.
8. The audience was ................... made up of the elderly.
9. A healthy diet will give you improved ...................
10. The teacher took the child ................... by the arm, and led him from the room.
11. I just love the ................... of a winter evening spent in a warm, firelit room.
12. He is always ................... dressed in grey or black.
13. He was lying in bed in a fever, his body ................... and wet.
14. ................... Koreans believed a mountain to be a meeting place between heaven and earth.
15. Australia is the smallest, ................... , and driest inhabited continent in the world.