1. It's an awful ________ your wife couldn't come. I was looking forward to meeting her.
(A) harm
(B) sorrow
(C) shame
(D) shock
2. There is a fault at out TV station. Please do not ________ your set.
(A) change
(B) adjust
(C) repair
(D) switch
3. Don't touch the cat, he may ________ you.
(A) kick
(B) tear
(C) scream
(D) scratch
4. The managers agreed to ________ the question of payment.
(A) balance
(B) control
(C) discuss
(D) increase
5. Owing to the bad weather, the garden party was ________.
(A) called off
(B) shouted off
(C) spoken against
(D) cried down
6. I am sorry I opened your handbag but I ________ it for mine.
(A) mistook
(B) confused
(C) recognized
(D) imagined
7. The ________ of these volunteers for hard work is amazing.
(A) ability
(B) capacity
(C) capability
(D) efficiency
8. I like England, but I wish it ________ rain quite so much.
(A) didn't
(B) won't
(C) hadn't
(D) hasn't
9. He was so tired that he ________ asleep in the chair.
(A) dropped
(B) fell
(C) went
(D) became
10. He has just taken an examination ________ chemistry.
(A) on
(B) about
(C) for
(D) in
11. They shouldn't have ________ the accident. It wasn't my fault.
(A) accused me of
(B) accused me with
(C) blamed me for
(D) blamed me
12. The bank won't lend you the money without some ________ that you will pay it back.
(A) profit
(B) interest
(C) charge
(D) guarantee
13. When you come tomorrow why not ________ your brother with you?
(A) fetch
(B) take
(C) bring
(D) carry
14. After he had broken his leg, Henry could only go up and down stairs ________.
(A) hardly
(B) in difficulties
(C) with difficulty
(D) hard
15. Who does this book belong ________?
(A) to
(B) for
(C) with
(D) at
16. All my handbags ________ of leather.
(A) had been made
(B) will have been made
(C) are made
(D) being made
17. He's the perfect person to take on this difficult job. He's a really hard- ________ person and won't stand for any nonsense.
(A) ship
(B) nosed
(C) handshake
(D) bargain
18. a sabbatical year = ________.
(A) a year in which one is released from one's normal duties
(B) a miserable year
(C) a year in which previously made plans are bound to
(D) a year that has brought happiness and good fortune
19. It always ________ me as odd that he should go off to work so late in the day.
(A) struck
(B) hit
(C) knocked
(D) smacked
20. I walked away as calmly as I could ________ they thought I was the thief.
(A) or else
(B) to avoid
(C) owing to
(D) incase

KEY:

 (C) shame(B) adjust(D) scratch(C) discuss(A) called off(A) mistook(B) capacity(A) didn't(B) fell(D) in(C) blamed me for(D) guarantee(C) bring(C) with difficulty(A) to(C) are made(B) nosed(A) a year in which one is released from one's normal duties(A) struck(D) incase