Christmas Postman (1)
Question. My main ....... for becoming a temporary postman during the Christmas holiday period.
(a) cause
(b) incident
(c) rational
(d) reason
Answer. D
Question. Was because I had amassed some rather large ........
(a) sums
(b) amounts
(c) bills
(d) totals
Answer. C
Question. And what was more ....... I had got no money.
(a) interesting
(b) important
(c) valuable
(d) vital
Answer. B
Question. My trainer was a postman by the ....... of Ted.
(a) title
(b) label
(c) name
(d) sign
Answer. C
Question. With a life time of ....... in doing all the walks in the town.
(a) experience
(b) knowing
(c) habit
(d) custom
Answer. A
Question. It was all a question of ......., he said and then he explained
(a) ruling
(b) straightening
(c) tidying
(d) order
Answer. D
Question. the moment I got into the ....... office.
(a) selecting
(b) dividing
(c) choosing
(d) sorting
Answer. D
Question. He didn't want any of his ....... to imagine that being a postman was an easy job.
(a) trainers
(b) training
(c) trainees
(d) trains
Answer. C
Question. He was ....... up with people he met every so often
(a) eaten
(b) fed
(c) consumed
(d) digested
Answer. B
Question. who ....... it was a part-time job because it was all finished by mid-day.
(a) tested
(b) criticised
(c) claimed
(d) held
Answer. C
Christmas Postman (2)
Question. He described the ....... very carefully.
(a) processing
(b) sequence
(c) follows
(d) followed
Answer. B
Question. The first thing was to be ....... since you started at a time when most people were asleep.
(a) punctual
(b) pointed
(c) punctilious
(d) pointing
Answer. A
Question. Immediately you arrived you had to start sorting the mail into different pigeon ........
(a) parts
(b) gaps
(c) slots
(d) holes
Answer. D
Question. Sometimes you found some ....... handwriting and didn't know where the letter should go.
(a) wonderful
(b) meticulous
(c) terrible
(d) beautiful
Answer. C
Question. He was always criticising teachers for not teaching children to write ........
(a) personally
(b) privately
(c) proper
(d) properly
Answer. D
Question. These letters should be put to one side and old Charlie, the handwriting ......., would look through them later.
(a) expert
(b) exponent
(c) exhibitor
(d) executive
Answer. A
Question. The next ....... was to draw some cold water, fill the kettle and make a cup of tea.
(a) foot
(b) step
(c) pace
(d) stride
Answer. B
Question. Ted was always calm and optimistic. He never let himself get ....... by the job.
(a) doomed
(b) downgraded
(c) depressed
(d) downed
Answer. C
Question. He left me alone for an hour to follow his method and asked me to call him if I ....... any difficulties.
(a) encountered
(b) engendered
(c) entered
(d) enquired
Answer. A
Question. As he had been very busy in his house since two that morning ....... of a burst water pipe, he went to have a rest.
(a) through
(b) for
(c) on
(d) because
Answer. D
Christmas Postman (3)
Question. At first I got on famously finding the right pigeonholes, checking Ted's list and putting the letters in ........
(a) bounds
(b) bundles
(c) bonds
(d) bounded
Answer. B
Question. After about two hours of this my internal battery started to get low and I found myself losing ........
(a) patients
(b) patents
(c) patters
(d) patience
Answer. D
Question. It was at this stage that Ted came in quickly ....... me to finish and get on the road.
(a) demanding
(b) taking
(c) giving
(d) encouraging
Answer. D
Question. The post office in this country district didn't use vans because of the ........
(a) costing
(b) monies
(c) expense
(d) expenses
Answer. C
Question. I had to ....... do with a bicycle that looked as though it had been hit several times.
(a) try
(b) make
(c) end
(d) take
Answer. B
Question. Once out in the open air I experienced a violent ....... but soon the sun came out.
(a) wet
(b) raining
(c) rains
(d) shower
Answer. D
Question. The shouts of joy coming from some houses as I put the mail through the letter ....... made up for the discomfort and.
(a) space
(b) line
(c) box
(d) opening
Answer. C
Question. I was beginning to feel like a ....... Father Christmas.
(a) sort
(b) real
(c) type
(d) kind
Answer. B
Question. I then came to number 56 that Ted had ....... me about. They had a ferocious dog.
(a) warned
(b) threatened
(c) indicated
(d) shown
Answer. A
Question. The only way to ....... with this one, Ted recommended, was to rush at the door, shove the letters through the door and go away as quickly as possible.
(a) tackle
(b) manage
(c) handle
(d) deal
Answer. D
Christmas Postman (4)
Question. I did just that but in my ....... I dropped a small packet that fell into a puddle.
(a) hurry
(b) haste
(c) speed
(d) hasting
Answer. B
Question. I didn't have the courage to make another assault on the house. Instead I took it home to ....... it out.
(a) make
(b) do
(c) try
(d) dry
Answer. D
Question. I knew if I told Ted he would talk a lot about being strictly against the rules but I was convinced it didn't........
(a) concern
(b) affect
(c) matter
(d) worry
Answer. C
Question. In my kitchen I looked at the address and saw the recipient was a Master Richard. I was ashamed of my .......
(a) coward
(b) cowardice
(c) cowardly
(d) cowards
Answer. B
Question. and thought I was depriving a young child of his Christmas present from some loving ........
(a) relative
(b) related
(c) reality
(d) relatively
Answer. A
Question. I rubbed the package with a towel and went quickly again to number 56 hurrying down the path in the true....... of the season,
(a) sense
(b) ghost
(c) taste
(d) spirit
Answer. D
Question. clutching the precious bundle in my hand I ....... it through the letter box
(a) gave
(b) took
(c) thrust
(d) turned
Answer. C
Question. expecting to hear a happy ....... of surprise from young Richard. As I hurried away
(a) yelp
(b) sound
(c) noise
(d) din
Answer. A
Question. to the sound of the ....... dog, I knocked by accident the garden gate just in time to hear a voice shouting:
(a) braying
(b) breathing
(c) barking
(d) hooting
Answer. C
Question. Master Richard! When will that woman realise I'm over fifty and can't ....... knitted socks!
(a) hate
(b) dislike
(c) sit
(d) stand
Answer. D