English reading test Answers 2014

Question1:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Dexterity

b.     Desicate

c.     Dyeing

d.     Desecrate

the answer is:    b.     Desicate

Question2:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Sam _________ a successful political campaign.

a.     orchestraited

b.     orchestrated

c.     orchestreated

d.     orcestrated

the answer is:    b.     orchestrated

Question3:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Helen was surprised by the __________ stature of her blind date.

a.     diminutive

b.     diminuative

c.     deminutive

d.     dimminutive

the answer is:    a.     diminutive

Question4:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Parallel

b.     Prevalent

c.     Prejudice

d.     Perserverance

the answer is:    d.     Perserverance

Question5:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Sally’s nervous __________ left her standing at the altar.

a.     fiancé

b.     finance

c.     feancé

d.     fience

the answer is:    b.     finance

Question6:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Arthur spent hours admiring the gothic ____________of all those French cathedrals.

a.     architecture

b.     arkhitecture

c.     arcitecture

d.     arckitecture

the answer is:    a.     architecture

Question7:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Priveledge

b.     Privilage

c.     Privilege

d.     Privelege

the answer is:    c.     Privilege

Question8:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Let me tie your mittens to your sleeves so you don’t ______________ them.

a.     loose

b.     looze

c.     lose

d.     louse

the answer is:    c.     lose

Question9:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Ligitimate

b.     Legitimate

c.     Legetimate

d.     Legitemate

the answer is:    b.     Legitimate

Question10:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Peter always makes such a _____________ of himself!

a.     nuisance

b.     nuisents

c.     newsanse

d.     nuisince

the answer is:    a.     nuisance

Question11:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Hemorrhage

b.     Harass

c.     Hankerchief

d.     Hypocrisy

the answer is:    c.     Hankerchief

Question12:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Yacht

b.     Youthful

c.     Yeilding

d.     Yesterday

the answer is:

Question13:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Embarassment

b.     Embrassement

c.     Embarrasment

d.     Embarrassment

the answer is:    a.     Embarassment

Question14:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Occasion

b.     Occurrence

c.     Orangutan

d.     Opponant

the answer is:    d.     Opponant

Question15:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Quixotic

b.     Quite

c.     Questionaire

d.     Quarantine

the answer is:    c.     Questionaire

Question16:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Adress

b.     Addrress

c.     Addres

d.     Address

the answer is:    d.     Address

Question17:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Sophomore

b.     Supersede

c.     Susceptable

d.     Spontaneous

the answer is:    c.     Susceptable

Question18:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Rhythmical

b.     Reminiscence

c.     Rheumatism

d.     Resevoir

the answer is:    d.     Resevoir

Question19:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Goverment

b.     Governmant

c.     Government

d.     Govermant

the answer is:    c.     Government

Question20:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Cachet

b.     Connoisseur

c.     Charateristic

d.     Catastrophe

the answer is:    c.     Charateristic

Question21:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The purpose of your report should be to ___________ the most relevant facts, not to obscure them.

a.     illumenate

b.     iluminate

c.     illuminate

d.     elluminate

the answer is:    c.     illuminate

Question22:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The protesters hurled ___________ insults at us as we walked by.

a.     vicous

b.     vicious

c.     vicoius

d.     vicius

the answer is:    b.     vicious

Question23:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Neccesary

b.     Necessary

c.     Neccessary

d.     Necesary

the answer is:    b.     Necessary

Question24:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Fluorescent

b.     Fullfil

c.     Facsimile

d.     Fictitious

the answer is:    b.     Fullfil

Question25:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

My father does not believe in ____________ , but my mother does.

a.     reincanation

b.     reincarenation

c.     reincarnation

d.     reincantation

the answer is:    c.     reincarnation

Question26:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Heinous

b.     Henous

c.     Heinus

the answer is:    a.     Heinous

Question27:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The church members accused the cult of _______________ practices.

a.     sacreligious

b.     sacrelegious

c.     sacrilegious

d.     sacrilgious

the answer is:    c.     sacrilegious

Question28:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The judge granted the reluctant witness complete ____________ from prosecution for his part in the crime.

a.     amnesty

b.     amnasty

c.     anmesty

d.     emnesty

the answer is:    a.     amnesty

Question29:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

He __________ a summer house, an exercise bike, and a hamster in the divorce settlement.

a.     accquired

b.     ecquired

c.     acquired

d.     akquired

the answer is:    c.     acquired

Question30:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The clown’s performance was _______________, to say the least.

a.     dissapointing

b.     dissappointing

c.     disapointing

d.     disappointing

the answer is:    d.     disappointing

Question31:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Managable

b.     Millennium

c.     Minuscule

d.     Miscellaneous

the answer is:    a.     Managable

Question32:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Excesive

b.     Exccesive

c.     Excessive

d.     Exceesive

the answer is:    c.     Excessive

Question33:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Mrs. Baker took her ______________ class on a field trip to the zoo.

a.     kindergarden

b.     kindegarten

c.     kindergarten

d.     kindegarden

the answer is:    c.     kindergarten

Question34:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Pronounciation

b.     Pronuciation

c.     Pronuncitation

d.     Pronunciation

the answer is:    d.     Pronunciation

Question35:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Leiutenant

b.     Luietenant

c.     Lieutanent

d.     Lieutenant

the answer is:    d.     Lieutenant

Question36:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

On the ____________ day of Christmas, Lucy was annoyed to find her yard full of noisy drummers drumming.

a.     twelvth

b.     twelfth

c.     twelfeth

d.     twelth

the answer is:    b.     twelfth

Question37:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Their relationship was plagued by __________ problems.

a.     perpetual

b.     perpechual

c.     purpetual

d.     perptual

the answer is:    a.     perpetual

Question38:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The professor made it clear that ___________ would not be tolerated.

a.     plagiarism

b.     plagiarizm

c.     plagerism

d.     plagirism

the answer is:    a.     plagiarism

Question39:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Efficency

b.     Efficentsy

c.     Efficiensy

d.     Efficiency

the answer is:    d.     Efficiency

Question40:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Temperamental

b.     Tempermental

c.     Temperamentle

d.     Temparamental

the answer is:    a.     Temperamental