VOCABULARY QUIZ  (PET 2000 A-Z)
Name................................................


Part A.  Recognition (1 each = 18 points)
Put the number of the word next to the correct definition.

1. original
2. private	__ complete
3. royal	__ first
4. slow	__ not public
5. sorry
6. total

1. apply
2. elect	__ chose by voting 
3. jump	__ become  like water
4. manufacture	__ make 
5. melt
6. threaten

1. blame
2. hide	__ keep away from sight
3. hit	__ have a bad effect on 
4. invite	   something
5. pour	__ ask
6. spoil

1. accident
2. choice	__ having a high opinion of yourself
3. debt		
4. fortune	__ something you must pay
5. pride	__ loud, deep sound
6. roar

1. basket
2. crop	__ money paid regularly for doing a job
3. flesh	
4. salary	__ heat
5. thread	__ meat
6. temperature


1.  birth
2. dust	__ being born
3. operation	__ game
4. row	__ winning
5. sport
6.  victory

Part B. Cloze (1 each = 15 points)
Choose from these words to complete  Passage 1:

illness	respects	opportunity
shoots	scenery	conferences	injured	dangerous	conversations
		
PASSAGE 1

Like ordinary people, doctors travel to foreign countries for many reasons.  Sometimes they travel to attend large international (1).....................................  where they can hear about the latest medicines and learn new ways fighting disease.  Of course they don't always travel for work.  They go sightseeing in interesting foreign cities or they visit mountains, lakes or beaches to enjoy the beautiful (2)....................................., just as other tourists do.  But some doctors spend their holidays in places that are not so beautiful, such as Somalia or Bosnia.  For these doctors, their holidays are an (3).....................................  to help people in need.  They travel to these countries to help the victims of war, hunger and (4)...................................... . These doctors open hospitals, take care of (5)..................................... people, deliver babies, and pass out food and medicines.   The work isn't easy and sometimes it's (6)..................................... .  Last month, for example, a doctor was killed in Angola.  Fortunately, some doctors are always ready to spend some holiday time in troubled places to help hungry, sick and dying people.  They  don't get rich doing this work, but everyone (7)............................ them for facing great difficulties to save lives. ð 
 --based  on news  sources dated May 1994


Choose from these words to complete  Passage 2:

persuaded	landlord	unfortunately	enormous	terrible	powerful	trust		experience	headmaster
		increased

PASSAGE 2

Once there was a little boy called Billy Bob whose parents gave him everything he wanted.  When he grew up to, he wanted an important job, of course.  His father was rich and (8)................................. , so he knew he could get his son a good job in a big company.  Billy Bob had low marks at school but his father paid the (9)..................................... of the school a lot of money to write a letter about Billy's wonderful skills and qualifications.  This letter of recommendation soon appeared on the desk of the manager of a  building company,  and even though Billy had no (10)..................................... at all of building things, he was given a high-paying job as an engineer.  Billy Bob's father kept on investing lots of money in the company, and every year Billy Bob's his salary (11)..................................... .  After a few years Billy Bob was at the top of the company, second only to the manager!  One day the company got the biggest contract it had ever had--a contract to build an (12)..................................... tourist hotel on the  beach.  Billy Bob (13)................................  the manager to let him plan it all by himself, without any help from anyone else.  The manager  didn't (14).....................................  Billy Bob to do a good  job, but he couldn't refuse, so Billy Bob's beautiful beach hotel was built.  This story has a (15)..................................... ending, of course.  The first time a strong wind blew, the whole thing fell down.

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