1. I said I would do it and I ____ my promise.
    A) stand up to      B) stand for  C) stand by          D) stand up for
2. Mr. Morgan can be very sad ____, though in public he is extremely cheerful.
    A) by oneself                B) in person
    C) in private                    D) as individual
3. Color-blind people often find it difficult to ____ between blue and green.
    A) separate      B) distinguish    C) compare            D) contrast
4. Keeping what belongs to another ____ to stealing.
    A) applies        B) accounts      C) attaches                D) amounts
5. The time taken on your journey, together with your ____, will enable you to calculate how far you have travelled.
A) distance            B) rate      C) speed            D) motion
6. The newly-built Science Building seems ____ enough to last a hundred years.
A) static    B) sophisticated    C) steady            D) substantial
7. Helen groups all people into two ____: those she likes and those she dislikes.
A) specimens          B) categories      C) catalogs            D) sectors
8. Fry rejected the accepted ____ of behavior and married one of his servants.
A) hint                B) code      C) signal            D) advice
9. We couldn’t see much because there was only a ____ light in the room.
  A) delicate            B) disguised    C) depressed            D) dim
10. The truck driver was proved ____ of the crime.
  A) indifferent          B) independent    C) innocent            D) inevitable
11. His argument does not suggest that mankind can ____ to be wasteful in the utilization of these resources.
A) resort            B) grant    C) afford            D) entitle
12. He takes a 10% ____ on all the sales he makes: if he sells goods worth $100 he gets $10.
  A) portion            B) proportion    C) concession        D) commission
13. Putting in a new window will ____ cutting away part of the roof.
A) include            B) involve      C) contain            D) comprise
14. The authorities ____ tourists from visiting the secret factory.
  A) banged            B) bound      C) bonded            D) banned
15. There are certain ____ on which you must interrupt people who are in the middle of doing something.
    A) conditions        B) occasions    C) situations            D) environments
16. We had to ____ a lot of noise when the children were at home.
  A) go in for            B) hold on to    C) put up with        D) keep pace with
time in a bottle17. The new regulation does not ____ until the first of March.
  A) take into effect        B) get into effect    C) put into effect        D) go into effect
18. After dinner, the two men ____ into the study where they could talk freely.
  A) retired            B) restored    C) restrained        D) resigned
19. Adam has a good position and will pay you back ____.
  A) lastly      B) inevitably  C) eventually        D) equally
20. A friendship may be ____, casual, situational or deep and lasting.
  A) identical              B) original    C) superficial                    D) critical
21. The weatherman broadcasts the ____ in temperature twice a day.
    A) adjustment      B) variation      C) variety          D) modification
22. The teacher told the students in her conversation class to ____ their talk to the topic.
    A) concern            B) condense    C) concentrate        D) confine
23. On turning the corner, we saw the road ____ steeply.
    A) descending        B) departing    C) depressing              D) decreasing
24. Many examples and extra grammatical information are among the special ____ of this dictionary.
    A) traits            B) marks    C) marks            D) features
25. When I ____ her with the evidence, the girl admitted that she was wrong.
    A) conveyed            B) displayed  C) confronted        D) consulted
26. Millions of peasants have ____ to the cities.
    A) migrated        B) accelerated  C) illustrated            D) integrated
27. They are trying to ____ the waste discharged by the factory for profit.
    A) expose            B) exhibit    C) exhaust            D) exploit
28. The police are ____ the records of all those involved in the crime.
    A) looking into        B) looking out    C) looking after        D) looking on
29. I suffered from mental__________ because of stress from my work.
      A) fatigue      B) damage    C) relief            D) release
30. The car salesman took the customer for a drive in the new model in order to ____ its improved features.
    A) advertise            B) exhibit    C) reveal            D) demonstrate
31. On the evening in ____ he had been making all sorts of complicated calculations.