Anh văn Advanced Grammar-016 pdf

public figure attacked by press and public, who is facing an inquiry into allegations of having obtained money by deception... by people who were determined to see him convicted... 3 Peo

Anh văn Advanced Grammar-016

1) Imagine an public figure attacked by press and

public, who is facing an inquiry into allegations of having

obtained money by deception

a) empowered

b) endangered

c) embattled

d) engrossed

2) Any arguments he put up in his defence were regarded

as a by people who were determined to see him

convicted

a) cloud

b) smokescreen

c) confusion

d) fog

3) People tended not to believe a word he said and

maintained that his protestations of innocence were

wearing a bit

a) scarce

b) bare

c) scant

d) thin

4) There was very strong support for the police who were

determined to this kind of crime

a) restrain

b) manage

c) curb

d) ill

5) The press had been by an unknown source to

make as much publicity about him as they could

a) prompted

b) picked

c) promoted

d) proposed

6) His agent spent a lot of time the press on his

background in the hope that they would present a

balanced view

a) training

b) briefing

c) showing

d) clearing

7) Views as to his guilt or innocence even before the trial

started from utter conviction that he was guilty to

wild support for his innocence

a) started

b) began

c) ranged

d) swept

8) Gradually however as the days went by even his

greatest supporters were beginning to him

a) destroy

b) desert

c) despair

d) destruct

9) Then two days before the trial was due to start, new

evidence came to proving he was totally innocent

a) light

b) see

c) show

d) indicate

10) By then of course it was too late because the damage

had already been done to his career, which

everything else he did for the rest of his life

a) overtook

b) overcame

c) overran

d) overshadowed