Unit 12 : Water sports : Test 3

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. swimming
2. post
3. decision
4. score

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. style
2. penalty
3. pretty
4. typical

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. sprint
2. line
3. divide
4. ride

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. foul
2. house
3. amount
4. adventurous

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. pool
2. good
3. look
4. book

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Where can people play _______ water polo?

1. a
2. an
3. the
4. Ø

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

No _______ water polo player except _______ goalie can hold the ball with both hands.

1. a / the
2. the / Ø
3. the / a
4. Ø / the

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The main task of a defender in a sport game is to _______ the opponents from scoring.

1. prevent
2. preventing
3. prevention
4. preventable

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Many young men prefer scuba-diving because it is _______.

1. adventure
2. adventurous
3. adventurously
4. adventurist

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

I _______ think that scuba diving is more of danger than adventure.

1. person
2. personal
3. personally
4. personalize

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

What kind of sport one chooses to play mostly depends _______ his preference and health.

1. with
2. for
3. in
4. on

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Most referees often wears _______ black.

1. in
2. for
3. with
4. on

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

In water polo game, only the goalie can hold the ball _______ two hands.

1. at
2. in
3. with
4. from

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

If the score is tied at the end of regulation play, two _______ periods of three minutes each are playe

1. half
2. halftime
3. quarter
4. overtime

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

A water polo cap is used to ____ the players' heads and to identify them.

1. tie
2. penalize
3. protect
4. move

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

lf a defender _______ with a free throw, holds or sinks an attacker, he is excluded from the game for twenty seconds.

1. punches
2. passes
3. plays
4. interferes

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Water polo is a team water game, with six field players and one goalie in each team. The winner of the game is the team that scores more _____.

1. nets
2. goals
3. plays
4. balls

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

As all field players are only allowed to touch the ball with one hand at a time, they must develop the ability to catch and _______ the ball with either han

1. throw
2. point
3. score
4. cross

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

When the offense takes possession of the ball, the strategy is to _______ the ball down the field of play and to score a goal.

1. create
2. ride
3. advance
4. eject

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

_______ is the activity of swimming underwater using special breathing equipment.

1. Synchronized swimming
2. Rowing
3. Water polo
4. Scuba diving

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The referee signals with a whistle and by lowering his arm, and the player taking the penalty _______ must immediately throw the ball with an uninterrupted motion toward the goal.

1. arm
2. shot
3. net
4. goal

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Tommy joined the English Club _______ to increase his circle of friends.

1. because his desire
2. because of his desire
3. because of he desired
4. due to he desire.

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Some of the students began to fall asleep _______ the lecture was boring and irrelevant.

1. as
2. due to
3. because of
4. on account of

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

_______, I do not consider this composition acceptable.

1. Because of so many errors
2. Because of there were so many errors
3. On account of there were so many errors
4. As so many errors

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The prisoner was given a harsh sentence ______ the nature of his crime.

1. since
2. as
3. because
4. due to

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The burglar _______.

1. has been disappeared with the cash
2. disappeared the cash
3. disappeared with the cash
4. was disappeared with the cash

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Ellen _______ and sang her song.

1. nodded to the audience
2. nodded the audience
3. was nodding the audience
4. was nodded to the audience

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

If Charlie _______, he could have been injure

1. had been run the street
2. had been run into the street
3. had run the street
4. had run into the street

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Our teacher _______ to take the exam.

1. gave another chance each of us
2. was given each of us by another chance
3. gave each of us another chance
4. was given each of us another chance

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The turtle _______ of Arizon

1. may be lived a small area
2. may be lived in a small area
3. may live in a small area
4. may live a small area