You will get to the church more quickly if you take this _____ across the fields.

A. track    B. passage    C. method    D. journey

Some areas, _____ their severe weather conditions, are hardly populated.

A. due to   B. but for   C. in spite of   D.with relation to

The room was so quiet that she could hear the _____ of her heart.

A. hitting    B. beating    C. tapping   D. knocking

The patients believe that the doctor knows exactly how to put them _____.

   A. correct    B. perfect    C. right    D. well

It was decided to _____ the search when there was no hope of finding the missing girl alive.

A. call off    B. take up    C. keep off    D. ring up

When a space shuttle has accomplished its _____, it can be ready for another trip in about two weeks.

A. venture   B. mission   C. commission   D. responsibility

The open university was started in order to help those who _____ having a university education when they were young.

   A. stopped    B. failed    C. missed    D. ceased

If he refuses to _____ my plan, I can probably find someone more cooperative.

   A. put up with     B. fall in with

   C. do away with    D. get along with

Although Lucy was slimming, she found cream cakes quite _____.

   A. irregular     B. inevitable  

  C. incredible    D. irresistible

Maria _____ missed the first train so as to travel on the same one as John.

   A. deliberately    B. intensively

   C. decisively      D. objectively