Online English Test

1) n. item

(a) act of enlisting or drafting new members (esp. into the armed forces)
(b) specimen; small part of something; representative part of a larger group
(c) thing; object; article; news story; piece of information; scoop
(d) license to market a company's goods or services; business which has been granted a license; right to vote

2) n. mend

(a) bother; disturbance; nuisance; discomfort
(b) reform; repair; act of repairing; state of healing or improvement
(c) replacement; person or thing that takes the place of another
(d) display; layout; clothing; arrangement of data elements (in computing); menu

3) n. elevator

(a) place used by planes for takeoff and landing
(b) recession; sudden decrease; drooping posture; sl ouch; collapse; period of time in which performance is poor
(c) study of the statistical characteristics of a population
(d) lift; mechanical apparatus for moving people or items from floor to floor within a building

4) n. selection

(a) reply; answer; reaction
(b) training
(c) profit; amount of assets that is higher than liabilities
(d) choice; instance of choosing; assortment; collection of items available to choose; option; state of being chosen

5) n. periodical

(a) magazine; journal
(b) periodic wage paid to someone for work; pay
(c) car; wagon; coach; carriage; trolley
(d) formal agreement between two states; compact; covenant; contract

6) n. manufacture

(a) moving back and forth; influence; control; authority
(b) connection; relation; association; one ring of a chain; ring
(c) product made by hand or by machine
(d) punctuation mark resembling a small dot placed at the end of a sentence; end; pause at end of a phrase; full sentence; age; era; season; lesson; length of time

7) n. resistance

(a) faithfulness; devotion; constancy
(b) exchange; trade
(c) opposition; act of fighting against; act of withstanding the effects of; quality of a conductor which resists an electrical current (Electricity); underground organization in an occupied country which fights against the occupying forces
(d) blister; gas-filled sac

8) n. harmony

(a) one of the four quarters of the year (winter, spring, summer, autumn); period of time characterized by a certain quality or event; time
(b) commonplace activity; everyday task; habit; custom; practice; procedure that is always the same; part of a computer program containing instructions for a particular task (Computers)
(c) point at which something ends; edge; border; boundary; restriction; restraint
(d) unity; agreement; accord; pleasing balance; symmetry; pleasing combination of tones

9) n. shipping

(a) distinguishing mark; unique ability; field in which one specializes; area of expertise; something having special qualities or worth
(b) price; expense
(c) forward movement; progress; modernization; promotion; amount or payment of money given before it is due
(d) business of sending or transporting cargo; sea voyage (Archaic)

10) n. comment

(a) evolvement; gradual growth; evolution; maturation; progression
(b) remark; note; statement; explanation; explanatory note; response; reaction
(c) middleman; agent who buys and sells property or shares etc. for other people
(d) druggist; apothecary