Тест Use of English Tests_B2 with a key

Choose the best option A, B, C, or D and write your answers down in the table at the bottom of the page.

1. It is the public who decide whether a film is a hit or a ________ .

A block-buster  B flop  

C hype   D flood

2. The villain in a novel, film or play is  

A the main bad character

 B someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands

 C the person who decides how it will appear on stage or screen and who tells the actors and technical staff what to do

 D the person who gives (esp financial) support to another person, an undertaking, etc.

3. It makes you think they’re all ______ for the Nobel prize.

A applicants  B winners 

C candidates  D contestants

4. When one thing ________ with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.

A quavers  B introduces 

C commissions  D alternates

5. When a company or a person running a business breaks even,

A it separates or is divided into several smaller parts   

B they manage to change it or escape from it

 C they make neither a profit nor a loss  D they stop working

6. Jacqueline is not _______  the prospect of another spell in prison…

A behaving  B flourishing 

C spluttering  D relishing

7. Someone who is __________ enough to do something is not afraid to do things which involve risk or danger.

A prone   B lethal  

C bold   D boiled

8. Although they tried to keep the story out of the public eye, the news ____ eventually.

A ended up  B set up  

C shot out  D seeped out

9. You’ll be ____________ as soon as you are back in your own home with your baby.

A in the wind  B as right as rain 

C a storm in a teacup D any port in the storm

10. If you ________ a difficult problem or task, you deal with it in a very determined or efficient way.

A tackle   B colour  

C relocate  D pacify

11. At first I thought it was an accident, but as far as I can _________ ,  the police consider that’s unlikely.

A make up  B set up  

C make out   D set out

12. They lived in a house _________ from any town or village.

A solitary  B remote 

C reclusive  D abandoned

13. Not many economies __________ in 1990, least of all gold exporters like Australia.

A emerged  B bloomed 

C overwhelmed  D surveyed

14. If you describe a person or their behaviour as wimpy, you

A mean that they are weak and without protection, with the result that they are easily hurt physically or emotionally

B think that they are not strong enough  C think that they are unimportant and not serious

D disapprove of them because they are weak and seem to lack confidence and determination

15. If someone ___________ , they express their admiration or pleasure in an exaggerated way.

A streams  B brims  

C gushes  D leaks

16. If you are fed up with something, you

A are unhappy, bored or tired of something, especially something that you have been experiencing for a long time.

 B are made to eat extra food so that you put on weight

C have polished your breakfast 

D are boisterous

17. If you ________ a machine or structure, you carefully separate it into its different parts.

A dismiss  B dismantle 

C discover  D dismount

18. Hippocrates ___________ that the secret of health was an aromatic bath and scented massage every day.

A claimed  B communicated 

C evaluated  D expressed

19. If you ________ someone, you deliberately make them frightened enough to do what you want them to do.

A endanger  B interest 

C intimidate  D intent

20. How many young women can you think of who reached international ____ by the time they turned 20?

A star   B sear

C stardom  D celebrity

Hype - - крикливо рекламировать; расхваливать, превозносить

Quavers - дрожать, вибрировать, выводить трели, восьмая, 

Gushes - изливать чувства; разглагольствовать, ораторствовать

break even — работать на основе самоокупаемости; работать на уровне самоокупаемости

not relish the prospect of... — ему не улыбалась перспектива...

seep out - - проникать, распространяться

as right as rain  - в порядку