Advanced Vocabulary: Adverb - Adjective CollocationFor each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

1. The cost of a new house in the UK has become high over the last few years.

2. The drug company should not have put a new product on the market with fatal side-effects.

3. After a warm start to the month, the weather in the second half of June was cold.

4. Even when the cost of running the event were subsidised by local government, tickets were still in the

region of fifty pounds.

5. For the last ten years Malcolm Sargant's gossip column in the Daily Planet has been read by thousands

of readers.

6. To award a man like Thomas Green with the greatest lifetime achievement award seems unfair.

7. Our test this week is quite challenging in places but the one we got last week was easy.

8. There were some exciting moments in the second half of the film but the first ninety minutes were slow

in places.

9. Hugh Tomlinson is believed to be the best director of his generation in Hollywood at the moment.

10. I am appalled by the thoughtless attitude of people who needlessly endanger other people's lives by

using mobiles while driving.

11. This holiday offer does seem attractive but I think we are going to have to pass on it because of the high

cost.

12. After all her hard work, Martha was disappointed when she got a grade B in her CAE exam.

Your answers

1. A astronomically

B totally C utterly D blatantly

2. A partially B particularly C potentailly D painfully

3. A unfortunately

B unseasonably

C unpredictably

D astronomically

4. A tremendously

B avidly C heavily D atronomically

5. A avidly B vividly C heavily D tremendously

6. A painfully B blatantly C widely D bitterly

7. A laughingly B humorously C highly D absurdly

8. A massively B astronomically

C utterly D painfully

9. A thoroughly B widely C greatly D massively

10.

A tremendously

B terribly C awfully D utterly

11.

A avidly B absolutely C irresistably D heavily

12.

A painfully B bitterly C completely D totally