Ydt Vocabulary & Grammar Test 1

YDT VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR TEST 1
1. Avicenna, also known as Ibn Seena, 6. ____ to be one of the hardest

was a ____ Persian scholar who made substances on the globe, diamonds
important contributions in medicine, ____ back billions of years.
chemistry, astronomy, mathematics,
psychology, and geology. a) Having thought / dated
b) Being thought / have dated
a) partial c) Thinking / were dating
b) massive d) Having been thought / had dated
c) prolific e) Thought / date
d) legitimate
e) vague
7. The replacing of Roman numerals with

Hindu–Arabic numbers in Europe ____
2. The most important U.S. holiday, calculation simpler and helped ____
Independence Day ____ the signing of progress in mathematics.
the Declaration of Independence on
July 4, 1776. a) has made / accelerated
b) made / accelerate
a) describes c) was making / accelerating
b) alienates d) was to make / to accelerate
c) encompasses e) has been making / to be accelerating
d) categorizes
e) commemorates
8. The ancient Greek inventor Archimedes

was probably the first person ____
3. Scientists believe shrinkage in body buoyancy on a mathematical footing,
size is a ____ to climate change in and shipbuilders ____ use of his ideas
different animals. to manipulate buoyancy ever since.
a) contribution a) putting / are making

b) response b) to have put / had made
c) desire c) having put / have been making
d) consequence d) to put / have made
e) setback e) to be put / had been making
4. A large portion of the scientific 9. The need to belong has been identified
community regards parapsychology as ____ one of the most basic of human
a pseudoscience, due ____ to its failure motivations and plays a role ____
to move on beyond null results in the many human behaviours.
way science usually does.
a) for / of
a) conventionally b) on / at
b) extremely c) to / by
c) violently d) over / with
d) largely e) as / in
e) respectively
10. Geologic time is a time scale that

5. Most hydropower plants ____ a dam divides the history of the planet Earth
that holds back water, creating a large ____ eras, periods, and epochs from
reservoir behind it. the birth of the planet ____ the
present.
a) take up
a) find out a) on / at
b) rely on b) for / over
c) turn over c) by / via
d) give off d) into / to
e) in / as
11. It is not known exactly how long sea How long does a pair of running shoes last? The
turtles live in the wild, ____ scientists answer depends (16) ____ on how much and
think their life span may be as long as a how often you run. While many manufacturers
century. (17) ____ blanket statements about a shoe
lasting about 500 km, the reality is the type of
a) but surface you run on, how your shoes wear, how
b) because heavy you are and even how far you run all
c) once have come (18) ____ consideration, so there is
d) instead no simple answer. By the way, 500 km isn’t very
e) therefore long. It is not uncommon for runners (19) ____
through a pair of shoes every two to three
months (20) ____ they are logging decent
miles.
12. The ice at the North Pole is constantly
moving, ____ making it nearly 16.
impossible to establish a permanent
community. a)entirely
a)simultaneously
a) thus b)necessarily
b) despite c) cruelly
c) rather d)formerly
d) so that
e) in case 17.
a)have been made

a)had made
13. Since 2000, China’s annual cement b)will make
consumption has grown by 1.5 billion c) were making
tonnes, ____ the rest of the world’s d)would have made
only has grown by 500 million.
18.
a) since
b) while a)out
c) before a)into
d) until b)by
e) provided c) around
d)with
19.
14. Pictures of our planet taken from space
are of considerable importance ____ a)going
they are an enormous help in weather b)having gone
prediction and especially in tracking c) gone
and predicting hurricanes. d)go
e)to go
a) though
b) whenever 20.
c) just as
d) until a)as long as
e) since b)whereas
c) though
d)unless
e)before
15. Around 65 million years ago, an
asteroid impact in ____ is now Mexico
led to an ecosystem collapse,
including devastation of land
vegetation and the extinction of
dinosaurs. ANSWER KEY 1
a) whether 1 C 6 E 11 A 16 A
b) how 2 E 7 B 12 A 17 C
c) which 3 B 8 D 13 B 18 B
d) what 4 D 9 E 14 E 19 E
e) when 5 C 10 D 15 D 20 A

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YDT VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR TEST 1

1. Avicenna, also known as Ibn Seena, 6. ____ to be one of the hardest

7. The replacing of Roman numerals with

8. The ancient Greek inventor Archimedes

a) contribution a) putting / are making

10. Geologic time is a time scale that

a)have been made

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