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Vocabulary and Collocation 1

1. The document contains 15 vocabulary and collocation questions with multiple choice answers. The questions cover a range of topics but focus on idioms, phrases, and words that describe states, behaviors, and relationships. 2. Some of the vocabulary items addressed include words for fortunate events, indignant behavior, noisy children, a deteriorating family situation, the source of a new project, sharing experiences in youth, curiosity, reticence about one's past, and driving a wedge between people. 3. The multiple choice answers provide contextually appropriate synonyms or collocations to complete each question. This vocabulary building exercise tests recognition of semantic relationships and typical collocations between words.

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Vocabulary and Collocation 1

1. The document contains 15 vocabulary and collocation questions with multiple choice answers. The questions cover a range of topics but focus on idioms, phrases, and words that describe states, behaviors, and relationships. 2. Some of the vocabulary items addressed include words for fortunate events, indignant behavior, noisy children, a deteriorating family situation, the source of a new project, sharing experiences in youth, curiosity, reticence about one's past, and driving a wedge between people. 3. The multiple choice answers provide contextually appropriate synonyms or collocations to complete each question. This vocabulary building exercise tests recognition of semantic relationships and typical collocations between words.

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AMBROSIA HSG Shot for the moon.

Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars

VOCABULARIES AND COLLOCATIONS

1. Her career was a collection of _____ series 7. I hope you will keep your sense of _____ in
of fortunate event, so much so that the face of this crisis. Know what is
people think she is predestined for success important, what’s not!
A. premeditated A. consideration
B. serendipitous B. fraction
C. impromptu C. proportion
D. extemporaneous D. subjectivity
2. As they are too indignant with his behaviors, 8. The National examination is nearing,
for the first time, they decided to so you’d better _____
_____ him and damaged his car. A. do your fingers to the bone
A. make a joke out of B. put your nose to the grindstone
B. make a standing joke of C. keep your shoulders to the ground
C. play a practical joke on D. run yourself into the wheel
D. crack a joke with 9. It seems to me that we’ve been led up the
3. She simply quits her career as she can no _____ path. There’s no such address as the
longer bear with these _____ children. one she gave us!
They are too noisy for her to control. A. forest
A. rambunctious B. garden
B. impulsive C. maze
C. tumultuous D. mountain
D. foolhardy 10. We did have conflicts in the past but
4. Her family situation finally came to the it’s water _____. Let’s make it up!
_____ point, culminating in her bitter A. in the ocean
divorce. B. under the bridge
A. final C. off the duck’s back
B. cracking D. in a small pond
C. breaking 11. He doesn’t live in a very _____ part of the
D. ending town. It’s full of refuse, bacteria and
5. This new project is set up at the _____ of polluted air and water.
the principal. A. salubrious
A. abetment B. potable
B. incitement C. grubby
C. actuation D. tarnished
D. instigation 12. No one can satisfy her _____curiosity.
6. I met her in our _____days. We were both She asks us questions all the time, which
young and inexperienced but we have been is at times really irritating.
with each other through thick and thin since A. considerable
then. B. insatiable
A. milky C. appreciable
B. salad D. incomparable
C. creamy
D. noodle
13. He’s not really gregarious and never tells people about his life. He’s always ______ about his past.
A. redolent
B. resilient
C. repellent
D. reticent
14. This is my last tournament before retirement. I will do my utmost to go out in a _____ of glory
A. burn
B. flame
C. blaze
D. fire
15. The misunderstanding has driven a _____ between the couple, damaging there once
harmonious relationship.
A. stone
B. wedge
C. knife
D. fence

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