Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
1-
"I am sorry that I am late. My car......... down again. I am getting it fixed tomorrow. This time, it kept overheating," Wes told his boss.
A -
went
B -
broke
C -
fell
D -
laid
2-
"I heard from Tim that you broke ......... your engagement with Jones. What happened?" His mom asked him.
A -
down
B -
away
C -
into
D -
off
3-
"She left because she doesn't want to be around Doug. He ......... her heart about a year ago by dating her cousin without telling her. She really loved him and now, obviously, she can't stand him," Laurie told Linda when she asked why Kim abruptly left the party.
A -
sanded
B -
broke
C -
nailed
D -
burned
4-
"I don't want to see you standing on the top of that ladder anymore. You almost tipped it over just now. It isn't safe to stand on the top of it. You could ......... your neck," his wife yelled at him.
A -
break
B -
twist
C -
rub
D -
destroy
5-
"I can't trust you anymore. You promised me that you would help me move and you ......... your word. I had to do everything myself because I couldn't find anyone else on such short notice," Nate told Brent.
A -
broke
B -
smashed
C -
kept
D -
twisted
6-
He had it made. He won a full sports scholarship to Harvard after breaking the ......... for fastest marathon runner.
A -
statistics
B -
standards
C -
accomplishments
D -
record
7-
We have seen many ......... in computer technology in our lifetime. Computers used to take up entire rooms and now the computers in our cell phones are more powerful than those room-sized computers used to be.
A -
marathons
B -
chains of events
C -
breakthroughs
D -
betterment
8-
"Can you please call your sister? She is really broke ......... about your cousin dying. I think she needs to talk to someone that cares," her mom told her.
A -
away
B -
up
C -
down
D -
apart
9-
He had always wanted to be a public servant so that he could......... about change. He thought that there were a lot of good things about society he just wanted to improve whatever he could.
A -
come
B -
turn
C -
bring
D -
levy
10-
"I don't like Jack that much. He is such a ......... around the boss. Anytime we try to talk about ideas, he backs the boss automatically and gets all confrontational like he thinks that him and the boss are going to gang up on me," Luke said to Elsie.