Exercises for Unit 8 Directions: For each of the following sentences there are four choices

marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. 1. When bees ______ , hundreds of them come together in a great

mass. A. swarm B. sway C. swallow D. swindle 2. The dancers _______ over the floor of the room. A. gleamed B. glimmered C. glided D. sliced 3. After a whole night of argument we ______ the following plan. A. thrashed through B. thrashed out C. thrashed about D. thrashed at 4. I felt his report was deliberately opaque. Here “opaque” means

____. A. distinct B. obscure C. instinct D. clear

Exercises for unit 8 5. When he was young he could ______ onto the back of a horse.

A. slide B. put C. stumble D. vault 6. She is reputed to be very healthy. Here “reputed” can be replaced by ______.

A. considered B. refuted C. denied D. required 7. You must _____ this ointment over the wound.

A. smear B. smash C. slump D. swell 8. His prospects for winning the elections were dissolving rapidly. Here “dissolving” means _______.

A. rising B. disappearing C. appearing D. coming 9. How can you be indifferent _______ the sufferings of starving people?

A. at B. from C. to D. in

Exercises for Unit 8 10. To her, this wounded soldier was not an enemy _____ a

suffering human being.

A. but rather B. rather than C. rather D. would rather 11. She _____ through the mist, trying to find the right path.

A. glared B. peeped C. stared D. peered 12. Now that the boy was earning his own living he could ______his

father’s strict rules. A. deny B. defy C. overlook D. neglect

13. Here in Chicago, for instance, the movement was growing by ______and bounds. A. leaps B. heaps C. lumps D. junks

Exercises for Unit 8 14. Dr. Salk failed many times but he finally ______ to find a

successful polio vaccine. A. brought through B. passed through C. passed by D. broke through

15. The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted ______a good answer. A. came up B. came out at C. cried out with D. came up with

16.The workers marched through the streets with banners to ______against the rising cost of living. A. prove B. disapprove C. protect D. demonstrate

17. A thirsty man will drink great ______ of water. A. quantity B. quality C. quantities D. deal

Exercises for Unit 8 18. Jean’s got very ______opinions about food, so she won’t eat anything new or foreign.

A. critic B. conventional C. strict D. disciplined 19. The latest information ______ me in the belief that he is to blame.

A. approves B. establishes C. confirms D. sets 20. Many English words are _____ from Latin and Greek words.

A. derived B. obtained C. got D. attained 21. This story is not real, it is only ______.

A. imaginable B. imaginary C. imaginative D. image 22. By _____ of the position he held , he was able to move about freely.

A. account B. virtue C. consideration D. thought

Exercises for Unit 8 23. A passing truck _____ mud on my new coat.

A. sprayed B. spilled C.shattered D. spattered 24. Vicki never worried or hesitated about anything, she just _____ it and almost always got whatever she wanted.

A. went for B. went by C. went over D. went with 25. It can be said without exaggeration that no part of the United States

is not easily accessible by car, by train, or by air, and ______ by all the three of them. A. more often than not B. more often than C. no more often than D. less often than

26. The worsening of the country’s economy could mean _____ public support for the ruling party. A. crippled B. subtracted C. fluttered D. diminished

Exercises for Unit 8 27. Certainly in our society teachers don’t enjoy the respect that is

____ to doctors and lawyers. A. rewarded B. accorded C. designated D.transferred

28. The chances of the disease being _____ to humans are extremely remote.

A. exposed B. commuted C. migrated D. transferred 29. Climate is especially important ______ articles that are readily affected by moisture.

A. in case of B. in the case of C. in case D. in this case 30. Although he was jumping so well, he failed to win the first prize

and had to ______ the second. A. settle down B. settle on C. settle for D. settle with

Exercises for Unit 8 Key to Exercises: 1----5 ACBBD 6---10 AABCA 11---15 DBADD 16---20 DCBCA 21---25 BBDAA 26---30 DBDBC