Question. From a very early age Cathy had been passionate ....... animals.
(a) of
(b) to
(c) about
(d) through
Answer. C
Question. She used to hob nob (socialise) with people who ....... the same way as she did.
(a) considered
(b) held
(c) approved
(d) thought
Answer. D
Question. These people were not at all fuddy duddy (uninteresting) or indeed hoity toity (supercilious) and their main interest in life was to ....... that all animals were well treated.
(a) ensure
(b) assure
(c) convince
(d) convict
Answer. A
Question. She soon got to know one of the local big wigs (important people) in a local organisation ....... at stopping cruelty to animals.
(a) shot
(b) aimed
(c) hit
(d) struck
Answer. B
Question. He had been in his hey day (at his most successful time) an important ....... in a government department for agriculture.
(a) character
(b) puppet
(c) personage
(d) figure
Answer. D
Question. In fact because he had refused to kow tow to (accept without question) some of the official regulations, he had been forced to take ....... retirement.
(a) busy
(b) easy
(c) early
(d) quick
Answer. C
Question. But as far ....... Cathy was concerned, he was the bee's knees (someone to admire) and when she left school, she went to work as his assistant in the Society for the Protection of Animals.
(a) so
(b) more
(c) than
(d) as
Answer. D
Question. Her parents however were not at all pleased ....... where she had decided to work.
(a) about
(b) for
(c) concerning
(d) around
Answer. A
Question. They lived in a des res (very attractive house) and her father, John Fortune, who was really a bit of a fat cat (wealthy businessman) thought that all this animal ....... was a lot of hocus pocus (nonsense).
(a) matter
(b) business
(c) concerns
(d) topic
Answer. B
Question. Cathy and her father had several pow wows (conversations) about her decision but it usually ....... up with a lot of argy bargy (arguments).
(a) concluded
(b) terminated
(c) ended
(d) lasted
Answer. C
Question. What her mother and father ....... to most was the endless tittle tattle (gossip) in the village about a young woman working for this hot shot (well known entrepreneur),
(a) subjected
(b) dejected
(c) rejected
(d) objected
Answer. D
Question. who was also ....... by some as a bit of a wheeler dealer (someone who does business in an underhand way).
(a) looked
(b) pictured
(c) regarded
(d) believed
Answer. C
Question. Cathy didn't believe any of this and was delighted to be working for Geoffrey Winton if for no other ....... than that living at home was very humdrum (boring).
(a) reason
(b) cause
(c) fact
(d) decision
Answer. A
Question. The rest of the organisation thought that she and Winton were a dream team (ideal partners) because she was enthusiastic and he was very ........
(a) expertise
(b) empirical
(c) expert
(d) experienced
Answer. D
Question. After all she thought her brother was enjoying himself and had gone ....... to work in America as a result of the brain drain (talented people leaving their own country to work for better pay in another).
(a) astray
(b) abroad
(c) alone
(d) afar
Answer. C
Question. One morning there was quite a hubbub (loud noise and activity) in the Fortune ....... when Cathy came rushing into the sitting room helter skelter (running at great speed),
(a) housework
(b) housebound
(c) household
(d) housetops
Answer. C
Question. and announced what she thought was a cheerful earful (a good piece of news) and that was she had been invited to attend a ....... in the capital.
(a) demarcation
(b) denuciation
(c) depression
(d) demonstration
Answer. D
Question. As far as her father was concerned this was ....... double trouble (two problems) — first working for Fortune and now getting involved in a demonstration.
(a) simply
(b) quite
(c) entirely
(d) quietly
Answer. A
Question. As far as he was concerned this would be a ....... of time because the speakers at the rally would just talk mumbo jumbo (nonsense).
(a) waist
(b) wasting
(c) waste
(d) worst
Answer. C
Question. But Cathy had made up her ....... and the next morning wham bam (very quickly) she caught the early train and went off to the rally.
(a) brain
(b) mind
(c) thought
(d) decision
Answer. B
Question. On the train journey she began to think about what her father had said with his ....... to the rag bag (muddled collection) of ideas in her organisation.
(a) direction
(b) referral
(c) reference
(d) referred
Answer. C
Question. And if she was really ....... with herself she was beginning to have a teenie weenie (very small) feeling of doubt as to whether she was doing the right thing.
(a) honoured
(b) honourable
(c) honest
(d) honourably
Answer. C
Question. She just wished that her father could ....... and be even steven (fair) about her side of the argument.
(a) try
(b) trying
(c) tried
(d) tries
Answer. A
Question. But as soon as she reached the meeting point for the rally, there was no time for day ........
(a) thinking
(b) musing
(c) sleeping
(d) dreaming
Answer. D
Question. At the beginning it was a bit harum scarum (disorganised) and people were running higgledy piggledy (in different and chaotic directions) but soon everything ....... down,
(a) set
(b) seated
(c) settled
(d) setting
Answer. C
Question. and people who had been running about pell mell (in confusion) were now standing ....... and listening to the speeches.
(a) quiet
(b) still
(c) upright
(d) quite
Answer. B
Question. She felt ....... and was pleased she had come to the demonstration.
(a) returned
(b) restored
(c) refreshed
(d) reassured
Answer. D
Question. And then one incident at the end of the rally convinced her that she had ....... the right decision to work for the organisation.
(a) done
(b) got
(c) taken
(d) brought
Answer. C
Question. A police officer on horseback was ....... the crowds and she found herself being gently moved by the horse.
(a) controlling
(b) maintaining
(c) conducting
(d) driving
Answer. A
Question. As it drew near she found she was asking herself ....... whether she had done the right thing. She looked at the horse and it was actually nodding its head and she could have sworn it said okie dokie (all right).
(a) allowed
(b) loudly
(c) loud
(d) aloud
Answer. D