REVIEW TEST FOR LESSON 1
DIRECTIONS:
In this section, you will read a sentence, short paragraph or dialogue containing one of the phrases presented in the lesson. The phrase is printed in boldface type so you can easily identify it. After reading the sentence, your task is to identify which of the four choices— (A) , (B) , (C) , or (D) —listed below the sentence, most closely defines the phrase or best completes the sentence. Only one answer is the correct answer.
1. Do you know the reason why the automobile breaks down?
(A) becomes out of order
(B) becomes damaged
(C) hits the gutter
(D) explodes
2. The company is planning to break ground for a new kind of building.
(A) dig
(B) expose
(C) start in on
(C) arrange
3. He always breaks in on other people's conversations.
(A) criticizes
(B) interrupts
(C) praises
(D) imitates
4. The following is the list of idioms and their meanings. Please choose the incorrect match.
(A) break down—to stop functioning properly
(B) break in—to burst out
(C) break out—to escape
(D) break up—to put an end to
5. Is it true that he has broken ______ his engagement to Jane?
(A) off
(B) up
(C) down
(D) out
6. It is downright mean of you to break off like that when we were all in rapture listening to you.
(A) stop abruptly
(B) take a different course
(C) begin suddenly
(D) erupt
7. The clerk had to ______ the conversation in order to wait on a customer.
(A) break out
(B) break in
(C) break off
(D) break into
8. Starch is made of giant molecules that are easily broken down chemically into smaller sugar molecules.
(A) compressed
(B) subdivided
(C) mixed
(D) inserted
9. Man broke in some cattle to labor.
(A) tamed
(B) stole
(C) raised
(D) beat
10. Our hostess broke the ice the moment she began to serve the refreshments.
(A) broke the ice into pieces for the drinks
(B) put end to an awkward situation
(C) failed to entertain the guests
(D) opened her mouth
11. If you weren't so careless, your typewriter wouldn't ______.
(A) break down
(B) come about
(C) break in
(D) hold on
12. How did you break ______ with your boyfriend?
(A) down
(B) up
(C) upon
(D) away
13. Tom broke Ann's favorite vase and he didn't know how to break the news to her.
(A) tell her the truth
(B) make her less angry
(C) tell her the bad news
(D) compensate her for this loss
14. Sally had worked hard for more than ten years and broke new ______ in the telecom research.
(A) earth
(B) door
(C) ground
(D) land
15. Come on, Billy loves you so much, don't break his ______.
(A) back
(B) neck
(C) head
(D) heart
■ ANSWER
1. (A)
2. (C)
3. (B)
4. (B)
5. (B)
6. (A)
7. (C)
8. (B)
9. (A)
10. (B)
11. (A)
12. (B)
13. (C)
14. (C)
15. (D)
