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Quiz

1. Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate form of the word in brackets.

1.

This is a minor

misunderstandingwhich can be instantly cleared up. (understand)

Correct answer misunderstanding

Your answer misunderstanding

urgency2.

There was a note of

in his voice. (urgent)

Correct answer urgency

unreasonable Your answer urgency

demands on their 3.

Even the most caring parents will sometimes make children. (reason)

Your answer unreasonable

Correct answer unreasonable

4.

This country is hosting a meeting of the top 100 companies in the major

industrializedcountries. (industry)

Your answer industrialized

Correct answer industrialized

appointment5.

I've got an with Matthew at the Health Club at ten o'clock. We are taking a fitness course there. (appoint)

Your answer appointment

Correct answer appointment

Apparently6.

he wants to be close to the other children in the class. (apparent)

Your answer

1

Correct answer

Apparently Apparently

7.

He has been asked the same question so many times that his answer has become

mechanical. (machine)

Your answer mechanical

mysterious

Correct answer mechanical

stranger. (mystery)

8.

No one could tell us anything about that

Your answer mysterious

Correct answer mysterious

priority

. (prior)

9.

When there is not much food available, children have the

Your answer priority

Correct answer priority

annoying

, especially when you know nothing about 10.

A whole hour's delay is very what is happening. (annoy)

Your answer annoying

Correct answer annoying

briefly11.

He dealt

with the topic of mass media. (brief) Your answer briefly

Correct answer briefly

12.

For my part, I have not the slightest doubt as to either his courage or his

honesty. (honest)

Your answer honesty

inaccurate

Correct answer honesty

, because it showed 60 when we were going at 13.

The speedometer must be 50 (accurate)

Your answer

Correct answer

2

inaccurate inaccurate

14.

The signing of this agreement between the two countries will help to reduce

tensionon the border. (tense)

Your answer tension

barely

Correct answer tension / tensions

ten minutes when she had to leave again. 15.

She had been inside the house (bare)

Your answer barely

Correct answer barely

2. Choose an appropriate word or phrase from the box to complete each of the following sentences. Change the form if necessary.

Wear set show up plainly adjust summon up bring back flash in a sense drift interact with alter insist on lie in stir assign priority feel like

16.

She must learn to

adjustherself to English life.

Correct answer adjust

much since I left here.

Correct answer altered

Your answer adjust

altered17.

The village hasn't

Your answer altered

brought back18.

His story our happy childhood together.

3

Your answer brought back

Correct answer brought back

flashing19.

Why is the driver

his headlights

Correct answer flashing

priority Your answer flashing

at the meeting.

20.

The problems requiring immediate solution will be given

Your answer priority

Correct answer priority

set21.

The government has

strict limits on pay increases.

Correct answer set

feels like Your answer set

real leather.

Correct answer feels like

insist on22.

This new man-made material

Your answer feels like

your own goals. Correct answer insist on

for the annual meeting.

Correct answer showed up

thinking that all his workers were trustworthy.

Correct answer lay in

assigned23.

Don't let them tell you what they want;

Your answer insist on

showed up24.

Only thirty members

Your answer showed up

lay in25.

His worst mistake

Your answer lay in

to this murder case.

Correct answer

26.

A different policeman has been

Your answer

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assigned

summon upassigned

all his courage to face the danger ahead.

Correct answer summon up

each other.

Correct answer interact with

27.

The young soldier had to

Your answer summon up

interact with28.

Wages and prices often

Your answer interact with

stir29.

You should

the sugar in your coffee with a spoon. Your answer stir

Correct answer stir

drifted

from California to Kentucky.

Correct answer drifted

30.

In order to find a job, he

Your answer drifted

wore31.

She

an angry expression on her face.

Your answer wore

Correct answer wore

plainly32.

He saw

that she was very much upset. Your answer plainly

Correct answer plainly

, but you don't know all the facts.

Correct answer in a sense

in a sense33.

You are right

Your answer in a sense

3. Read the following passage carefully and choose the best word or phrase for each blank.

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When should a child start learning to read and write This is one of the questions I am most frequently asked. There is (34)no hard and fast rule, for the two are alike, and it would be wrong to set a time when all should start being taught how to form letters (35)into words.

If a three-year-old wants to read (or even a two-year-old for that matter), the child deserves (36)(37)laterto be given every encouragement. The fact that he or she might be \"bored\" when joining a class of non-readers at infant school is the toteacher's affair. It is up (38)advanced reading material.

the teacher to see that such a child is given more Similarly, the child who still cannot read (39)(40)(41)at the ageby the time he goes to junior school

of seven should be given every assistance by teachers and parents .

alikeShould the young child (42)ask his parents to teach him to read, and if the parents

are capable of doing so, such an appeal should not be ignored. But the task should be (43) gently, with great patience and a sense of humor. Reading should never be made to look like a burden and the child should never be forced to continue, or his interest should start to flag.

(34) (35) (36) (37) (38)

Your answer no into to be given later to

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Correct answer no into to be given later to

(39) (40) (41) (42) (43)

by at the age alike ask undertaken

by at the age alike ask undertaken

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