Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
talked
missed
learned
watched
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
magazines
newspapers
vegetables
biscuits
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
My brother hopes to travel around the world _____ next summer.
_____ not openly, I disagreed with him, as I didn't want to quarrel.
Jane appears _____ some weight. Has she been ill?
I decided to go to the library as soon as I _____.
_____ in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge spans the channel at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
These _____ suggest that there is not direct link between unemployment and crime.
The situation has become _____ worse, and it is now impossible to handle.
The first week of classes at university was a little _____ because so many students get lost, change classes or go to the wrong place.
She has to go on a _____ course in cooking because next month she's getting married.
Learning English isn't so difficult once you _____.
Bill Gates is probably the best known and most successful _____ in computer software.
iPhone 11 is the latest _____ in the field of smartphone design of Apple.
When someone is down on their _____, friends are not easy to find.
I decided to have a long calm talk with her to _____.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in the following question.
Teenage lethargy is often due to lack of proper nutrients.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Their arguments are getting pointless, so they decided to just bury the hatchet and forget what happened.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
If you say bad things about the person who gives a job you bite the hand that feeds you.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word in the following question.
Until 1986 most companies would not even allow women to take the exams, but such gender discrimination is now disappearing.
- "Thanks for your help!"
- "_____"
- "Oops! I'm sorry for stepping on your foot."
- "_____.”
Choose the underlined part that needs correction in the following question.
The school officials are considering comprehensive planning to alleviate the problem of overcrowding in the dormitories.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Some of the jobs described in the job interview were writing essays, correcting papers and reports typing.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Sarah was not best speaker in the class, but her personality and ability to convey her feelings helped her become the most requested.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following question.
"I really don't think that he'll attend the meeting tomorrow."
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following question.
You should take regular exercises instead of sitting in front of the television all day.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following question.
It was not until after I got home that I realized I had not set the burglar alarm in the office.
Choose the correct sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following question.
The burglar might come back. You’d better change all the locks.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following question.
He was successful because he was determined to pursue personal goals. He was not talented.
Read the following passage and choose the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the blanks.
Most adults struggle to recall events from their first few years of life and now scientists have identified exactly when these childhood memories are lost forever. A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take around the age of seven. The rapid decline of memories persisting while children are five and six is owing to the change in the way memories are formed.
Before the age of seven, children tend to have an form of recall with no sense of time and place in their memories. In older children, however, the early recollected events tend to be more adult like in their content and the way they are formed. Faster rate of forgetting in children and higher turnover of memories , means early memories are less likely to survive. , memories of younger children tend to lack autobiographical narrative leading to a process known as retrieval induced forgetting the action of remembering causes other information to be forgotten. Consequently, if childhood memories can survive into the ninth or tenth year of life, they may stay a chance of it into adulthood.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
THE POWER OF CROWDSOURCING
There is a famous old saying that when trying to solve a problem "two heads are better than one". Yet until recently, businesses would often rely on one key person to get important tasks done. But thanks to a phenomenon called crowdsourcing, more and more companies are allowing their consumers to have their say when designing new products.
The term "crowd sourcing" refers to the process of outsourcing jobs which were once done by a single person to a large group (or a crowd) of people. In the past, crowdsourcing wasn't practical, as it was impossible to gather thousands of like-minded people together to share opinions. Now, thanks to the Internet, online forums, and social media, this isn't a difficult task at all.
There are many important applications for crowdsourcing in business. For example, if a small business was looking to develop a business logo, it might employ a single designer and hope for the best. However, with crowdsourcing, companies can specify some guidelines about their project, set a budget, and start a design contest online. Within hours, they will likely receive hundreds of designers sending them logos. In the end, they can choose the design they like best and the winner will get compensated.
Crowdsourcing has other applications as well. A website called Duolingo is using crowdsourcing to translate documents into different languages. It offers free lessons to language learners. As part of their tests, users translate lines to test their knowledge. Then, a computer program will analyze thousands of test results for consistency and arrange an accurate translation.
Not everyone is sold on crowdsourcing, though. In many cases, it may be better to rely on the opinion of a few specialized professionals than information from a crowd. For instance, it makes more sense to trust the opinion of one top doctor than to take the advice of 1,000 random people regarding a health issue. Another criticism is the low wage that crowdworkers usually receive. Since crowdworkers are freelancer and not employees, they can be paid less than minimum wage. Whether you love or hate crowdsourcing, it appears to be here to stay. So before you make any financial judgements, consider following the crowd and give crowdsourcing a try.
The old saying “two heads are better than one” in paragraph 1 means that _____.
One of the advantages of using crowd sourcing is _____.
Which of the following is NOT a good situation to use crowdsourcing?
According to the passage, why didn't businesses use crowdsourcing in the past?
The word "They" in paragraph 3 refers to _____.
The word "compensated" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.
Why might someone agree to translate a document for Duolingo?
Which of the following sentences is true?
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Parentese, the exaggerated, drawn-out form of speech that people use to communicate with babies, apparently is universal and plays a vital role in helping infants to analyse and absorb the phonetic elements of their parents' language. An international study shows that infants are so good at analysing this speech that by the age of 20 weeks they are beginning to produce the three vowel sounds common to all human languages - "ee", "ah" and "uu".
"Parentese has a melody to it. And inside this melody is a tutorial for the baby that contains exceptionally well-formed versions of the building blocks of language", explains Patricia Kuhl, a University of Washington neuroscientist.
The new study examined differences in how American, Russian and Swedish mothers speak to their infants and to other adults. The study shows that parentese is characterised by over-articulation that exaggerates the sounds contained in words. Mothers in the study were, in effect, sounding out "super-vowels" to help their infants learn the phonetic elements of language.
"In normal, everyday speech adults generally race along at a very fast pace", Kuhl says. But we know it is easier to understand a speaker when they stretch out sounds. That's why we tend to speak more slowly and carefully to increase understanding when we teach in the classroom or talk to strangers. We also do this unconsciously with babies, giving them an improved verbal signal they can capitalise on by slowing down and over articulating.
Which of the following best serves as the title for the passage?
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one thing parents tend to do when they talk with their babies?
The word "capitalise on" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____.
As mentioned in the passage, talking with babies using parentese can help them _____.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?