I gave the waiter a $50 note and waited for my ______.
Choose the correct answer.
People can become very ______ when they are stuck in traffic for a long time.
I believe that judges should be independent ______ the government.
The MP asked ______ the prime minister was aware of the growing social problem.
Although David was ________after a day's work in the office, he tried to help his wife the household chores.
I think there's a picture of the hotel ______ the first page.
I'm saving all my pocket money _____ to buy a new PlayStation.
Let’s go on a _____ to the mountains this summer!
Dogs are very _____ pets. They'll always stay by your side.
I'm sorry, but I've got ____ much work to do to come to the beach today.
If you hadn't lost the pieces, we ______ a game of chess.
The man _____ that he had had something to do with the break-in.
Choose the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
- “You must be Jane's sister. Glad to meet you.
“_________ ”.
- A: “How lovely your pets are!"
- B: “ ______.”
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Transplanting organs such hearts and kidneys had proved easier than transplanting muscles.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
On the floor of the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains more than a mile beneath sea level.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Justice is often personified as a blind folded woman to hold a pair of scales.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the question.
The principle of use and disuse states that those parts of organisms' bodies that are used grow larger. Those parts that are not tend to wither away. It is an observed fact that when you excercise particular muscles, they grow. Those that are never used diminish. By examining a man's body, we can tell which muscles he uses and which he doesn't, we may even be able to guess his profession or his reaction. Enthusiasts of the 'body- building' cult make use of the principle of use and disuse to 'build' their bodies, almost like a piece of sculpture into whatever unnatural shape is demanded by fashion in this peculiar minority culture. Muscles are not the only parts of the body that respond to use in this kind of way. Walk barefoot and you acquire harder skin on your soles. It is easy to tell a farmer from a bank teller by looking at their hands alone. The farmer's hands are horny, hardened by long exposure to rough work. The teller's hands are relatively soft.
The principle of use and disuse enables animals to become better at the job of surviving in their world progressively better during their lifetime as a result of living in that world. Humans, through direct exposure to sunlight, or lack of it, develop a skin color which equips them better to survive in the particular local conditions.Too much sunlight is dangerous. Enthusiastic sunbathers with very fair skins are susceptible to skin cancer. Too little sunlight, on the other hand, leads to vitamin-D deficiency and rickets. The brown pigment melanin which is synthesized under the influence of sunlight, makes a screen to protect the underlying tissues from the harmful effects of further sunlight. If a suntanned person moves to a less sunny climate, the melanin disappears and the body is able to benefit from what little sun there is. This can be represented as an instance of the principle of use and disuse: skin goes brown when it is 'used', and fades to white when it is not.
(Source: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins)
What does the passage mainly discuss?
The phrase "wither away" in bold is closest in meaning to______.
The word "Those" in bold refers to______.
According to the passage, men of the 'body-building' cult ________.
From the passage, it can be inferred that the author views body building ____.
It can be inferred from the passage that the principle of use and disuse enables ______.
The author suggests that melanin_____.
In the second paragraph, the author mentions suntanning as an example of___________.
Choose the word whose underlined part that differs from the other three in the pronunciation
Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.
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
Read the following passage and choose the correct word for each of the blanks.
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country's impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada‟s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada's history, in the decade before 1911 when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada's population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960s was only nine percent) another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
The word “five” in bold refers to_____.
The word “surging” in bold is closest in meaning to____.
The author suggests that in Canada during the 1950's______.
The author mentioned all of the following as causes of declines in population growth after 1957 EXCEPT_______.
It can be inferred from the passage that before the Industrial Revolution _____.
The word “it” in bold refers to_____.
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part.
A nuclear station may take risk going off due to unexpected incidents.
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part.
The members of the orchestra have arrived an hour prior to the performance for a short rehearsal.
Choose the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part.
Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical in their selection and use of sources.
Choose the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part.
There are three crucial points in his argument.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following sentence.
The hotel is not spacious. The hotel is not comfortable.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
The man was shot in the bank robbery. The doctors are operating on him.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following sentence.
Nobody at all came to the meeting.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following sentence.
Twice as many men as women are insurance agents.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following sentence.
We couldn't have managed our business successfully without my father's money.
Read the following passage and choose the correct word for each of the blanks.
THE HISTORY OF WRITING
The development of writing (A)_____ a huge difference to the world and we might see it as the beginning of the media. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China that date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the (B)_____ around Mesopotamia (modem-day Iraq), where the ancient Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (C)_____ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called "aleph" and "beth", which in Greek became "alpha" and "beta" which gave us the modem word "alphabet". The modem European alphabet is based on the Greek and (D)_____ to other European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took place as time passed. The Romans added the letter G, and the letter J and V were unknown to people in Shakespeare’s time.
If we (E)_____ the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quest at the end of a sentence in order to show that it was a question, they started to write Qo in place of the whole word, and then put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark "?"
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