Advanced level - Test 12

1. In excess of 80 percent of the UN's budget is used ……………. the economic development of member nations.

A. support
B. supporting
C. the support
D. to support

2. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when ……………. to at least 62°C.

A. it be heated
B. it heated
C. it is heated
D. it will be heated

3. In order for people who spoke different languages to engage in trade ……………., they often developed a simplified language called “pidgin”.

A. with each the other
B. with each to the other
C. with each another
D. with each other

4. The two main ……………. are permanent magnets and electromagnets.

A. kinds of magnets
B. kind of magnets
C. kind magnets
D. kinds magnets

5. You ought to book in advance. You can’t rely …………….. a hotel room.

A. on finding
B. in finding
C. of finding
D. about finding

6. According to a recent survey, ……………. doctors do not have a personal physician.

A. a large number of
B. large amount of
C. a large number of
D. large number of

7. There are many beautifully preserved historic buildings …………….

A. in Beacon street in Boston
B. in Beacon street at Boston
C. ont Beacon street in Boston
D. at Beacon street on Boston

8. The prime rate is the rate of interest that a bank will charge when it ………… money to its best clients.

A. lent
B. borrows
C. borrowed
D. lends

9. The area where a microchip is manufactured must be the …………… environment possible.

A. most cleanest
B. cleanest/label>
C. more cleanest
D. cleaner

10. Mathematics is ……………… and serves so many of the sciences that it is a prerequisite for studying every scientific discipline.

A. such important field
B. such an important field
C. such a important field
D. so an important field

11. Studies of job satisfaction are unreliable because there ……………. so many variables and because the admission of dissatisfaction may be viewed as a personal failure.

A. was
B. were
C. is
D. are

12. I knew I could rely ……………… them to get the job done.

A. in
B. with
C. of
D. on

13. Champlain founded a base at port royal in 1605, and …………. a fort at Quebec three years later.

A. builds
B. built
C. to built
D. building

14. Natural gas often occurs together …………….. petroleum in the minute pores of rocks such as sandstone and limestone.

A. with
B. in
C. by
D. along

15. There is no limit to the diversity to be ……………. in the cultures of people throughout the world.

A. finding
B. found
C. find
D. to find


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