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LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Part 1: For questions 1-10, choose the word or phrase that best completes each of the
following sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. Over half of the population of this earthquake-stricken area are living ______.
A. on the house B. on the tenterhooks C. on the breadline D. on the
cards
2. At the scene of the disaster the Prince said some comforting words to the _____
relatives.
A. lamenting B. wailing C. complaining D. grieving
3. Tania was _____ after the accident and had to spend several weeks in bed.
A. injured B. incapacitated C. convalescent D. hampered
4. He will be sued for ______ of contract if he does not do what he promised.
A. fracture B. crack C. rupture D. breach
5. I'd been in ______pain with toothache all weekend and was desperate to find a dentist.
A. agonizing B. shooting C. excruciating D. maddening
6. The project has progressed in ______ and starts due to a constant change in funding.
A. wits B. bits C. fits D. sits
7. The contract will be ______ and void until signed and dated by both parties.
A. null B. nullified C. nought D. nil
8. It's as if that silly argument we had has driven a _______ between us and we've lost all
our old closeness.
A. ledge B. beam C. plank D. wedge
9. I'm sure I was invited to join the committee as the _______ woman.
A. sample B. token C. representative D. coupon

10. The police asked him to give a _______ description of the accident that he had
witnessed.
A. blow by blow B. word for word C. up and down D. in and out
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3: For the questions, complete each of the following sentences with a suitable
preposition or particle. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. The student wrestled _______ the difficult mathematics problem.
2. The schoolboy winced ______ the sight of the cane in the headmaster’s hand.
3. After six months in the countryside, Alan has a yen ______ the bright lights of the city.
4. Erica is an excellent worker. She goes _____ her job calmly and efficiently.
5. Jane is out in the garden mulling ______ a problem to do with work.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 4: For these questions, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Levels of illiteracy and (1. NUMBER ) ______ remain startlingly high in the developing
world, and continue to be so until the West provides or sponsors new education
initiatives, preferably also getting directly involved. A better education is a prerequisite
should the (2. POVERTY) ______masses of Africa ever wish to hold any genuine hope
of gaining their (3. EMANCIPATE )______ from the metaphorical shackles of poverty.
Education initiatives for young people as well as life-long learning programmes will also
help to breach the gulf that separates the working classes from their ruling elite, a (4.
PRIVILEGE ) ______ few who enjoy the ( 5. TRAP ) ______ of Western wealth and
the lifestyle that goes with it, while those in their midst are completely preoccupied with
the daily struggle for survival. Furthermore, we must promote a culture of (6.
TOLERATE)______ of corruption, and help to create a new generation for whom
education rather than a(n) (7. SCRUPLE) ______ nature will reap the true rewards.
Education will also help to bridge another gap; that of the cultural one which separates
the West from its brethren in the developing world. The slums and shanty towns are a
hotbed of religious and political ( 8. EXTREME ) ______, but hopefully education will
serve to create a better sense of understanding between all the peoples of the world, ( 9.
RESPECT ) ______ of background. And this will especially be the case if the education
programmes themselves are administered by Western professionals, who, in much the
same way as they can teach a thing or two to their counterparts in the developing world,
have also, no doubt, much to learn from them in the process as well. Cooperation
between people from different cultures of the West and the developing world will also,
hopefully, help to reduce levels of prejudice, bigotry, xenophobia and racial tensions.
And, last but not by any means least, educating women will (10. POWER) ______ them
to claim their rightful place in the social hierarchy in up-to-now male-dominated cultures.
Their aspirations can shift realistically higher, and young female students can hope to go
on to become tomorrow’s politicians, diplomats and political leaders, or whatsoever they
choose.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

1. The area was neglected and soon turned into an overcrowded ____________.
A. suburb B. estate C. quarter D. slum
2. Don’t you feel the problem needs to be ___________ head-on?
A. tackled B. worked out C. ironed out D. solved
3. I dislike him so much that I find it difficult even to be _______ to him.
A. civil B. tactful C. diplomatic D. well-
mannered
4. I’m in a bit of a _________ as to what to wear to the wedding.
A. loss B. quandary C. problem D.
bewilderment
5. It seems our application has been refused ____________ .
A. bull’s eyes B. carte blanche C. point blank D. about face.
6. It’s no good trying to ____________ with Bob. You’ll never change his mind.
A. deal B. discuss C. side D. reason
7. ‘If you implement this scheme, we shall have no choice but to go on strike.’
‘_________, we must implement the scheme.’
A. Be that as it may be B. may that be as it is
C. Though it be thus D. While that be so
8. Leili said she found learning languages as easy as __________. She had a gift for it.
A. sliding off a branch B. falling off a log
C. diving off a climb D. branching off a bough
9. You are going to need her help. If I were you, I’d ___________ a bit. I’d try to get her
on my side, you know what I mean.
A. soap her down B. oil her over C. butter her up D. grease her
out
10. This museum has more visitors than ___________ any other in the world.
A. really B. practically C. actually D. utterly
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Fill in each blank with one preposition/ particle.

1. He was destined _____ a military career, like his father before him.
2. They seem destitute _______ ordinary human feelings.
3. The Government does not want to go _____ war unless all other alternatives heave
failed.
4. She does nothing but fret ____ her being overweight yet never tries to diet.
5. If you have a grievance ________ the company, please lodge a formal written
complaint.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 4: Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words given in brackets.
Native Americans probably arrived from Asia in (1. succeed) ____________
waves over several millennia, crossing a plain hundreds of miles wide that now lies (2.
inundation) ______ by 160 feet of water released by melting glaciers. For several
periods of time, the first beginning around 60,000 B.C. and the last ending around 7,000
B.C., this land bridge was open. The first people traveled in the (3. dust) _______ trails
of the animals they hunted. They brought with them not only their families, weapons, and
tools but also a broad (4. physical) ______ understanding, sprung from dreams and
visions and (5. articulatory) _______ in myth and song, which complemented their
scientific and historical knowledge of the lives of animals and of people. All this they
shaped in a variety of languages, bringing into being oral literatures of power and beauty.
Contemporary readers, forgetting the origins of western (6. ephemeral) ______,
lyric, and dramatic forms, are easily (7. disposition) _______ to think of “literature” only
as something written. But on reflection it becomes clear that the more critically useful as
well as the more frequently employed sense of the term concerns the (8. art) ________ of
the verbal creation, not its mode of presentation. Ultimately, literature is ( 9. aesthete)
______ valued, regardless of language, culture, or mode of presentation, because some
significant verbal achievement results from the struggle in words between tradition and
talent. Verbal art has the ability to shape out a compelling inner vision in some skillfully (
10. craftily) _________ public verbal form.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.