Eiken Pre 1

A man arrested at the airport yesterday for attempting to ( ) illegal drugs into the country. [erupt;smuggle;reign;infest]

Walter’s soccer team lost the game because they did not play ( ) enough. If they had worried less about defense and had tried to score more goals, they probably would have won. [needlessly;agrressively;cautiosly;helplessly]

Timothy is a very ( ) employee. He is reliable and eager to help, and he always shows loyalty to his company and coworkers. 1. Grotesque 2. Defiant 3. Devoted 4. Feeble

Although her son claims he broke the vase by accident, Anika thinks he did it ( ) because he was angry at her for making him clean his room. [ loyally;deliberately;spatially;expansively]

Tom is very bright for his age. He is able to do math problems of some ( ) although his classmates are still learning the basics. [appliance;generosity;clearance;complexity]

The children could not ( ) opening their presents on Christmas morning. They got up early and began opening them before their parents had awoken. [resist;dispute;flourish;drain]

Brad drove so carelessly that it was ( ) he would have an accident. And last week, that exact situation occured. [crucial;debatable;inevitable;sacrificial]

Annual floods along the Nile River make the soil there extremely ( ). This made it possible for an agricultural civilization to develop there around 5,000 years ago. [devout;wretched;earnest;fertile]

The ferris wheel began to ( ) slowly, lifting the carriages and their passengers high above the city and then down again. [revolve;digest;compile;afflict]

Although the medicine did not completely relieve Frank’s headache, it made the pain more ( ), and he was able to continue working.[tolerable;slippery;militant;abrupt]

Soon after they met, the young couple became ( ). They spent all of their free time together. [implicit;inedible;immature;inseparable]

Yesterday, a ( ) broke out in the state prison. According to reports, the prisoners reacted violently in protest to overcrowding and poor food quality. [flurry;cascade;swirl;riot]

As soon as they heard the police sirens, the thieves ( ) into the woods to avoid being caught. [ took off; missed out; wore out; passed over]

The spies ( ) themselves as army officers in an attempt to enter the military base without being noticed. 1. Chronicled 2. Disguised 3. Rendered 4. Revitalized

Many resisdents wanted to ( ) the town hall as a historic building since it was over one hundred years old. [designate;assemble;undertake;compromise]

The man was in ( ) that his marriage was over. Even after his wife left and filed for divorce, he insisted it was possible to get back together. [ denial;contradiction;majesty;prejudice]

The walls inside the city hall building are decorated with ( ) painted by famous artists. The huge paintings never fail to impress visitors. [memoirs;margins;monarchies;murals]