Pretest 7a. Academic Word List VII. adapt, advocate, comprehensive, comprise, confirm, contrary, convert, differentiate, dispose, phenomenon, extract, finite, hierarchy, innovate, prohibit, simulate, submit, successor, thesis, ultimate
  1. After a long series of mistakes, the ______________ result was that the project failed.  a) adapt  b) simulate  c) comprehensive  d) ultimate  e) phenomenon

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  3. After moving to a new city, she had to _____________ to a new school, and new ways of doing things.  a) submit  b) adapt  c) simulate  d) innovate  e) differentiate

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  5. Your research paper should start with a ______________ that you will set out to prove or disprove through your research.  a) comprehensive  b) phenomenon  c) successor  d) hierarchy  e) thesis

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  7. The band was ______________(ed) of four members: bass, drums, and two guitars.  a) comprise  b) differentiate  c) advocate  d) comprehensive  e) dispose

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  9. Tomorrow we will have a _________________ exam that will test everything we should have covered by now.  a) comprise  b) ultimate  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) finite

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  11. There is only a ____________ amount of oil in the Earth; once it's gone, it's gone...  a) comprise  b) ultimate  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) finite

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  13. ...and at the rate we are _____________(ing) it from the ground, that won't be more than in about 100 years.  a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) convert  e) innovate

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  15. She wasn't sure of the social _________________ at her new school; she could never remember which groups were supposedly cooler than others.  a) comprehensive  b) differentiate  c) successor  d) hierarchy  e) phenomenon

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  17. One of the reasons that you can't eat outside any more is that you seem unable to _____________ of your trash properly. a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) submit  e) comprise

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  19. The president nominates a person to the Supreme Court, but the Senate has to _________ his choice.  a) comprise  b) contrary  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) submit

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  21. Reports of UFOs were a very common _____________ in the 1950's.  a) adapt  b) simulate  c) comprehensive  d) ultimate  e) phenomenon

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  23. Everybody agreed that his __________(ive) plan was the simplest, and yet the cleverest, of all. a) submit  b) adapt  c) simulate  d) innovate  e) differentiate

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  25. San Luis Obispo was one of the first cities in the country to _________ smoking indoors in bars and restaurants.  a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) submit  e) contrary

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  27. To __________ partial weightlessness, astronauts often train underwater. a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) simulate  e) innovate

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  29. The dying dictator has not yet named a ___________. Nobody is sure who will rule after he is dead.  a) comprehensive  b) phenomenon  c) successor  d) hierarchy  e) thesis

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  31. ___________ to popular belief, dogs do not really have a consciousness, and do not think as people do. Really, they don't. a) advocate  b) phenomenon  c) dispose  d) submit  e) contrary

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  33. I hope you know how to __________ a fraction into a decimal. Otherwise, you won't pass this class.   a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) convert  e) innovate

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  35. If you are color blind, it usually doesn't mean that you see the world in black and white. It just means that you can't __________ between some colors, such as red and green.  a) submit  b) adapt  c) simulate  d) innovate  e) differentiate

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  37. Please _________ your 600 words by the end of the period tomorrow.  a) comprise  b) contrary  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) submit

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  39. Your lawyer is supposed to act as your ______________ in the courtroom, and plead your case.  a) advocate  b) phenomenon  c) successor  d) submit  e) contrary