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Level 5: First Certificate/Advanced >> Vocabulary Worksheets >> Small differences between words at an advanced level of English can be frustrating for students to try and understand. Here is a series of worksheets for students to not only aim at getting the right word but think about why the other answers are not correct.

Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet 2

For each question, choose which of the four possible answers fits the space best. Also think about why the other three answers are not possible.

1. How can you possibly work in a zoo if you are terrified ___________ snakes?
a. at
b. of
c. with
d. in

2. Are you ___________ on foreign language films?
a. enthusiastic
b. excited
c. keen
d. liking

3. This government should be using far ___________ policies in an attempt to beat unemployment.
a. crueler
b. meaner
c. tougher
d. harder

4. Homeschooling, which involves ___________ children at home, is becoming ever more popular.
a. training
b. managing
c. bringing up
d. educating

5. Can you put me ___________ for two days if I come and stay with you?
a. up
b. about
c. in
d. out

6. The floods were caused by two days of ___________ rain.
a. pouring
b. drowning
c. flowing
d. shattering

7. It was only a minor accident and we all escaped without ___________.
a. damage
b. wounds
c. injury
d. hurt

8. By 10pm it was very dark and the black car was ___________ almost impossible to see.
a. so
b. therefore
c. that
d. such