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General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers - Advanced Level Exercise 12
Question 1 |
.............. population growth in less developed countries is widely regarded as a major obstacle to their material progress and a major global economic and political problem.
A | Timely |
B | Hasty |
C | Leisurely |
D | Rapid |
E | Retarded |
Question 2 |
The recent rapid increase in population in less developed countries reflects a .............. fall in mortality.
A | steep |
B | superficial |
C | shrewd |
D | tight |
E | tame |
Question 3 |
Thomas Malthus predicted in the late 18th century that world population would inevitably rise above the ability of the land to nourish it, and that the result would be mass .............. and war.
A | controversy |
B | avoidance |
C | starvation |
D | pollution |
E | sarcasm |
Question 4 |
The population problem has global .............. , but action to cope with it is mainly a national responsibility.
A | penalties |
B | attitudes |
C | diameters |
D | legends |
E | dimensions |
Question 5 |
Providing structures, facilities and services, and coping with unemployment, pollution, congestion, crime and social alienation are formidable ______.
A | treasures |
B | triumphs |
C | festivities |
D | challenges |
E | satisfactions |
Question 6 |
The Ministry of Agriculture experts cannot .............. when the new technology will arrive or how it will affect international commerce in foodstuffs.
A | predict |
B | combat |
C | delay |
D | admit |
E | offend |
Question 7 |
In the last 40 years alone, modern farming methods have .............. or even tripled yields per land unit for major food grains such as wheat, rice and corn.
A | aroused |
B | multiplied |
C | quadrupled |
D | doubled |
E | saluted |
Question 8 |
To many people in industrialized countries, with their incomparably more .............. populations, food is something that comes from the supermarket; agriculture is a dusty and mysterious process of interest only to a group of people known as farmers.
A | affluent |
B | impoverished |
C | imperfect |
D | inferior |
E | modest |
Question 9 |
In some cases, the more prosperous groups have been relatively recent immigrants, who mostly came in empty-handed but were ______, ambitious, energetic, and resourceful.
A | tangible |
B | industrious |
C | exaggerated |
D | talkative |
E | feeble |
Question 10 |
Another development has been the scientific-technological industrial revolution which has since World War II changed social and environmental .............. so rapidly that many persons have lost their traditional role in society.
A | settlements |
B | impressions |
C | penetrations |
D | prayers |
E | conditions |
Question 11 |
Biology has much to tell us about our nature and our origins -- though, admittedly, not too much about the reasons for our ______.
A | occurence |
B | guaranties |
C | existence |
D | contentment |
E | unwillingness |
Question 12 |
This is legitimate investigation of reproductive biology, indispensible for birth control on the one hand and treatment of infertility on the other, with a more .............. possibility that it can contribute to efforts to prevent genetic defects.
A | ancestral |
B | insane |
C | exhaustible |
D | remote |
E | hysterical |
Question 13 |
To shy back in .............. from knowledge when we are at the threshold of knowing so much more would, in my view, be tragic.
A | fear |
B | toil |
C | sweat |
D | joy |
E | temper |
Question 14 |
Evolution, along with other theories and discoveries in biology, seems to .............. the materialist position.
A | humiliate |
B | accumulate |
C | degrade |
D | reinforce |
E | suffocate |
Question 15 |
The building blocks of living molecules have been produced in the laboratory by subjecting .............. materials to the simulated conditions presumed to have existed in the earth's early atmosphere.
A | shabby |
B | inanimate |
C | false |
D | convertible |
E | ventilated |
Question 16 |
Chemical companies are speculating that the next .............. of chemicals will come, not from petroleum, but from genetically engineered plants.
A | contractions |
B | contamination |
C | generation |
D | confrontation |
E | shortage |
Question 17 |
The days when the farmer produced almost everything the farm needed from potatoes to pork, kept what was .............. and sold the rest, are long gone.
A | necessary |
B | necessarily |
C | needy |
D | necessity |
E | needless |
Question 18 |
Even with the recent succession of better-than-average harvests, world food reserves today .............. only 19 percent of annual world consumption.
A | mediate |
B | purchase |
C | frustrate |
D | cancel |
E | equal |
Question 19 |
Developing countries are becoming increasingly .............. on food imports from two countries - the United States and Canada.
A | negligible |
B | conventional |
C | impartial |
D | dependent |
E | near-sighted |
Question 20 |
Present and foreseeable increases in world population will call for increases in materials and energy unlikely to be .............. if present practices, policies and lifestyles persist.
A | conceived |
B | concealed |
C | met |
D | trusted |
E | convinced |
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