Vocabulary test

Language FACILITATES social interaction, allows us to express identity, and functions as a mechanism of thought.

• makes ...easy
• gives
• arranges
• causes

In cold climates, houses need to have walls that will ABSORB heat.

• take in
• give away
• burn
• throw

It seems like the decision to cancel such a successful TV programme was completely ARBITRARY.

• unintentional
• wrong
• changable
• unknown

The series of storms hitting many provinces in the Central Vietnam have brought a SWEEPING effects on people’s lives

• a. destructive
• b. speedy
• c. negative
• d. overwhelming

The road runs PARALLEL to the railway.

• a. similarly
• b. matching
• c. equally
• d. side by side

This year we have seen the RETIREMENTS of several senior personnel.

• A.  A movement of body, to show a particular meaning.

• B. Stop working, usually because old age.

• C. Quit the job, compulsorily.

• D. All of the above.

A man is not justified in drawing the profits from an ADVANTAGEOUS agreement nor free to spend the profits of a speculation as he will.

• a. giving a benefit
• b. not busy; not otherwise committed
• c. beyond ordinary understanding
• d. advanced in years

He’s a senior EXECUTIVE in a computer firm.

• A. A person who has an important job as a manager of a company

• B. A person who has worked for the company many years.

• C. A person who works as a secretary for the CEO

• D. All the above.

The exhaust EMISSION from the hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles was unadulterated water vapor.

• a. allowance
• b. impurity
• c. discharge
• d. regulation

They thought their strategy would cause the collapse of the whole system.

• A. A sudden increase in something

• B. A sudden failure of something

• C. A sudden decrease in something

• D. A sudden crave in something