Quiz Use of English multiple choice (unit 10)

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Use of English

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Recent research has ________ that a third of people in Britain have not met their next-door neighbours, ...

1. exhibited
2. conducted
3. displayed
4. revealed

Recent research has revealed that a third of people in Britain have not met their next-door neighbours, and those who know each other ________ speak.

1. barely
2. roughly
3. nearly
4. virtually

Neighbours gossiping over garden fences and in the street was a common ________ in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an expert on local communities.

1. outlook
2. view
3. vision
4. sight

Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together with the Internet and satellite television, are eroding neighbourhood ________ .

1. ties
2. joints
3. strings
4. laces

'Poor neighbourhoods once had strong kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy,' said Chinn.

Andrew Mayer, a strategy consultant, rents a large apartment in west London, with two flatmates. 

'We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers below, but our only contact comes via letters ________ to the communal facilities or complaints that we've not put out our bin bags properly,' said Mayer.

1. concerning
2. regarding
3. applying
4. relating

The ________ of communities can have serious effects. Concerned at the rise in burglaries and ________ of vandalism,

1. acts
2. shows
3. counts
4. works

the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as Neighbourhood Watch, ________ on people who live in the same area

1. asking
2. calling
3. inviting
4. trying

the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as Neighbourhood Watch, calling on people who live in the same area to ________ an eye on each others' houses and report anything they see which is unusual.

1. put
2. keep
3. hold
4. give