Online English Test

1) n. coal

(a) fuel made from carbon; cinder; ember
(b) support; skeleton; structure; system
(c) string; thin cord; spiral groove on a screw or bolt; chain of messages on a particular subject on the Interne t (Computers); execution procedure which is part of an application (Computers)
(d) something that continues for many years

2) n. preface

(a) business of sending or transporting cargo; sea voyage (Archaic)
(b) introduction; foreword; opening statement
(c) command; order; authorization granted from one body to a subordinate body
(d) person who holds a money order

3) n. story

(a) doubtfulness
(b) richness; prosperity; property; resources; capital; fortune; abundance
(c) true or fictional account of some occurrence; short work of fiction; plot; news report; joke; anecdote; lie; fib; floor; single horizontal division of a building
(d) distant part of the sea visible from the shore; remote place far from the shore; high seas

4) n. suitcase

(a) corporation; firm; ensemble; association with another
(b) act of receiving; approval; state of believing in something
(c) advisership
(d) rectangular traveling bag; valise

5) n. percent

(a) part of an object designed to be gripped by the hand; fist name; nickname; code name; title
(b) opportunity; occurrence, event; incident; reason; cause; justification
(c) one part of a hundred
(d) gross error; stupid mistake

6) n. direction

(a) flat circular object; circular object covered in magnetic material and used for storing computer data; central part of a flower head
(b) nutritionist; expert on nutrition
(c) guidance; supervision; conducting; management; educating; instructing; route
(d) sale of products to final consumers, sale of goods to end users

7) n. survey

(a) deliverance; act of saving from danger or injury; act of freeing from risk
(b) criterion; measure; point of reference for comparison
(c) act of measuring and recording the characteristics of a plot of land; land survey report (often in the form of a map); review; overview; statistical study
(d) automobile; elevator; vehicle; ride

8) n. recession

(a) slow economy, period characterized by a decline in the gross domestic product during two or more consecutive quarters; ebb, decline; withdrawal; act of receding
(b) state of not being at war; silence, quietness; tranquility
(c) new member of a group; one who is newly enlisted or drafted into the armed forces
(d) quality of being clearly seen; distance to which one can see clearly (Meteorology); state or quality of providing an unobstructed view

9) n. paragraph

(a) schedule, agenda, written order of events; public presentation; show that is broadcast on television or radio; planned group of activities; prospectus, syllabus; computer program
(b) honesty; uprightness; morality; wholeness; unity; unimpaired condition
(c) incentive; drive; inspiration; state of being stirred to action
(d) passage; distinct portion of text (usually begins with an indented line); section; clause

10) n. assessment

(a) estimation; appraisal; measurement
(b) sewing needle; swindler; cheater; professional gambler; musical tone half a step higher than a given note
(c) definition; significance; intention; explanation
(d) connection; attachment