Last year, she earned ______ her brother.
The politician tried to arouse the crowd, but most of them were ____ to his arguments.
- Can you take the day off tomorrow?
- Well, I’ll have to get _____ from my boss.
I do not believe that this preposterous scheme is ___ of our serious consideration.
_____ the fifth largest among the nine planets that make up our solar system.
Dr. Evans has _____ a valuable contribution to the life of the school.
No matter _____, Mozart was an accomplished composer while still a child.
______ some countries have ruined their agriculture, squandering money on uneconomic factories, the Ivory Coast has stuck to what it is good at.
Sportsmen _____ their political differences on the sports field.
When she _____ her mistake, she apologized.
_____ is to forget all about it.
Harry: “May I smoke?”
Kate: “_____”
Maria: “Can I borrow your umbrella for a day?”
Ann: “_____”
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
In 1864 George Pullman designed a sleeping car that eventually saw widespread use.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Why are you being so arrogant?
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part.
He was asked to account for his presence at the scene of crime.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
I’ll take the new job as an accountant whose salary is fantastic.
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
childhood
harm
hospital
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
It is important that you turned off the heater every morning before you leave for class.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
The children had such difficult time when they began school in their new neighbourhood that their parents decided never to move again.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
The lion has long been a symbol of strength, power, and it is very cruel.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing live music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.
As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters, small orchestras were formed. For a number of years, the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste but rather the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.
To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as "pleasant', "sad", "lively". The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.
Certain films had music specially composed for them. The most famous of these early special scores was composed and arranged for D. W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.
The passage mainly discusses music that was _____.
What can be inferred from the passage about the majority of films made after 1927?
It can be inferred that orchestra conductors who worked in movie theaters needed to ____.
The word "them" in paragraph 2 refers to _____.
It may be inferred from the passage that the first musical cue sheets appeared around ____ .
The word "scores" in paragraph 4 most likely mean ____ .
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
The glass is a remarkable substance made from the simplest raw materials. It can be colored or colorless, monochrome or polychrome, transparent, translucent, or opaque. It is lightweight impermeable to liquids, readily cleaned and reused, durable yet fragile, and often very beautiful. Glass can be decorated in multiple ways and its optical properties are exceptional. In all its myriad forms - as tableware, containers, in architecture and design -glass represents a major achievement in the history of technological developments.
Since the Bronze Age about 3,000 B. C. glass has been used for making various kinds of objects. It was first made from a mixture of silica, line and an alkali such as soda or potash, and these remained the basic ingredients of glass until the development of lead glass in the seventeenth century. When heated, the mixture becomes soft and malleable and can be formed by various techniques into a vast array of shapes and sizes. The homogeneous mass thus formed by melting then cools to create glass, but in contrast to most materials formed in this way (metals, for instance), glass lacks the crystalline structure normally associated with solids and instead retains the random molecular structure of a liquid. In effect, as molten
glass cools, it progressively stiffen s until rigid, but does so without setting up a network of interlocking crystals customarily associated with that process. This is why glass shatters so easily when dealt a blow. Why glass deteriorates over time, especially when exposed to moisture, and why glassware must be slowly reheated and uniformly cooled after manufacture to release internal stresses induced by uneven cooling.
Another unusual feature of glass is the manner in which its viscosity changes as it turns from a cold substance into a hot, ductile liquid. Unlike metals that flow or freeze at specific temperatures glass progressively softens as the temperature rises, going through varying stages of malleability until it flows like a thick syrup. Each stage of malleability allows the glass to be manipulated into various forms, by different techniques, and if suddenly cooled the object retains the shape achieved at that point. Glass is thus amenable to a greater number of heat-forming techniques than most other materials.
The words "exposed to" in paragraph 2 most likely mean ____.
The word "it" in paragraph 3 refers to ____.
According to the passage, why can glass be more easily shaped into specific forms than can metals?
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following sentence.
"Getting a good job doesn't matter much to me."
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following sentence.
They were exposed to biased information, so they didn't know the true story.
Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
It doesn't cost much to run a solar power system.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following sentences.
He is very intelligent. He can solve all the problems in no time.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentence.
We cut down many forests. The Earth becomes hot.
Read the following passage and choose the correct word for each of the blanks.
NEIGHBORS INFLUENCE BUYING DECISIONS
However objective we believe ourselves to be, most of us do not judge a product solely on its merits, considering quality, value, and style before making a decision. (A)_____, we are easily influenced by the people around us.
There is nothing wrong with this. It is probably a smarter way to make decisions than (B)_____ on only our own opinions. But it does make life hard for companies. They have long understood that groups of friends and relatives tend to buy the same products, but understanding the reasons has been tricky. It is because they are so similar with (C)_____ to how much money they make and what television ads they watch that they independently arrive at the same decision? Or do they copy one another, perhaps (D)_____ envy or perhaps because they have shared information about the products?
Research in Finland recently found overwhelming evidence that neighbors have a big influence on buying decisions. When one of a person’s ten nearest neighbors bought a car, the chances that that person would buy a car of the same brand during the next week and a half (E)_____ by 86 percent. The researchers argued that it was not just a matter of envy. Used cars seemed to attract neighbors even more than new cars. This suggested that people were not trying to keep up with their neighbors, they were keen to learn from them. Since used cars are less reliable, a recommendation of one can strongly influence a buying decision.
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(B)
(C)_______
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