Some more exercises on the same line. 

Before you start this one, be sure you have finished the others before.

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A PUBLIC FIGURE

Q1 Imagine an …… public figure attacked by press and public, who is facing an iquiry into allegations of having obtained money by deception.

(a) empowered              (b) endangered            (c) embattled                (d) engrossed

Q2 Any arguments he put up in his defence were regarded as a ……. by people who were determined to 

see him convicted.

(a) cloud                    (b) smoke screen                    (c) confusion              (d) fog

Q3 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

Q4 There was very strong support for the police who were determined to …… this kind of crime.

(a) restrain                    (b) manage                    (c) curb                      (d) kill

Q5 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

Q6 His agent spend 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

Q7 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

Q8 Gradually however as the days went by even his greatest supporters were beggioning to …… him.

(a) destroy                 (b) desert                  (c) despair                              (d) destruct

Q9 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

Q10 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