Bill Clinton Was the First Person From the Baby Boom to Enter the White House Quizlet
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| Posted: Thursday, June xi, 2020 8:58:37 PM |
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These are 25 questions from the examination at learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
Only I was scored with 94% and intermediate level although I selected in each choice with "sure" on the answering of the question "Are you sure? Not sure. Fairly sure. Certain."
1.
Choose the all-time discussion to complete the judgement.
The baby male child saw ... in the mirror and started to weep.
a. itself
b. herself
c. himself
2.
Choose the best word or phrase to consummate the sentence.
A lot of trains ... late today due to the heavy storms.
a. are run
b. run
c. are running
3.
Cull the best word or phrase to consummate the sentence.
... was a strong current of air terminal night.
a. At that place
b. Here
c. This
iv.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
Firstly, I desire to congratulate you all. Secondly, I would like to wish yous good luck and ... I hope yous have enjoyed the form.
a. in the end
b. at concluding
c. finally
v.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the judgement.
You lot ... make clean your teeth twice a day to avoid having problems.
a. can
b. should
c. will
6.
Choose the best give-and-take or phrase to complete the sentence.
The children idea they were ... when they saw the bull.
a. in a danger
b. in danger
c. in the danger
vii.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the dialogue.
Jack: I recollect information technology's going to pelting.
Jill: I ... , the clouds are immigration.
Jack: We'll soon run across.
a. disagree
b. complain
c. argue
eight.
Cull the all-time word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I really don't similar this meal. ... coin in the world wouldn't get me to eat information technology.
a. Whatever
b. Enough
c. All the
9.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
Concluding yr, Joanna bought ii ... coats in New York.
a. long, black, leather
b. black, long, leather
c. leather, black, long
10.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I must report to the meeting that Cyrus completed his first piece of piece of work well alee of schedule. ..., even so, his piece of work has been handed in late.
a. Sequentially
b. After
c. Consequently
11.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
That's very skillful of you lot but yous ... accept paid me dorsum until tomorrow.
a. needn't
b. wouldn't
c. couldn't
12.
Choose the best give-and-take or phrase to complete the sentence.
I ... intending to stop smoking fifty-fifty earlier I got this bad cough.
a. would have been
b. had been
c. have been
13.
Choose the best discussion or phrase to complete the dialogue.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new TV show last dark.
Jo: Was it any adept?
Anne: Yes. ... the TV set is then old I could see very little.
a. Mind you
b. Withal
c. By the way
14.
Cull the word or phrase which has a similar significant to:
consider
a. think nearly
b. seem well
c. go for
Y'all removed a message
15.
Choose the discussion or phrase which has a like pregnant to:
talk
a. stroll
b. point out
c. converse
xvi.
Choose the discussion or phrase which has a similar pregnant to:
complete
a. end
b. go through
c. full
17.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
render
a. business relationship
b. get back
c. contrary
18.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
study
a. go later
b. account
c. respect
nineteen.
Choose the best word to consummate the sentence.
She hit her ... while she was playing football.
a. motor
b. tail
c. shoulder
twenty.
Choose the best word to consummate the sentence.
The ... went to the constabulary.
a. criminal offense
b. solicitor
c. shoulder
21.
Choose the all-time word to complete the judgement.
It was bad but it was not a ... .
a. gate
b. magazine
c. law-breaking
22.
Some words are frequently used together, e.m. smelly + socks. Cull a word which is often used with:
concrete
a. architect
b. thrill
c. proposal
23.
Some words are oft used together, e.g. smelly + socks. Choose a give-and-take which is oftentimes used with:
tender
a. nutrition
b. words
c. beast
24.
Some words are often used together, eastward.one thousand. smelly + socks. Choose a word which is often used with:
sophisticated
a. dress
b. bag
c. ship
25.
Some words are often used together, eastward.g. smelly + socks. Choose a give-and-take which is often used with:
blunt
a. movement
b. proposition
c. musical instrument
| Posted: Th, June xi, 2020 nine:45:08 PM |
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The only i I would question is #12
12.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I ... intending to cease smoking fifty-fifty before I got this bad cough.
a. would take been
b. had been
c. have been
I would have chosen C. "take been". It could be argued that using "had been" gives the impression you gave upwards the intention before getting the bad cough. Using "accept been" conveys an intention that was on-going when y'all got the cough. I don't know why y'all scored 94, however. With 25 questions, each should be worth 4 points each, so you should take scored a 96.
| Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:29:05 PM |
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Very interesting. I pretty much concur with all the choices marked as correct.
Merely I have some commments:
--In #4, the words should exist "First" and "Second", not "Firstly" and "Secondly". Only "finally," is the right option.
--In #9, in my opinion the choice "long, black, leather coats"--though better than the other two choices--isn't really good. It ought to exist "long blackness leather coats" without the commas.
--In #12, unlike FounDit, I prefer "had been intending..." to "take been intending...". To me, "had been intending" does not mean you ceased intending to terminate smoking.
--In #xiii, I take to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Mind you"--I would prefer "Even so--but "However" that wasn't 1 of the choices, and "Mind yous" is better than the other two.
--And in #22, "concrete proposal" seems a improve matched pair than "concrete builder" in most contexts. In the absence of a context for the sentence, "concrete builder" is an acceptable answer.
| Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 2:18:33 AM |
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tautophile wrote:
Very interesting. I pretty much hold with all the choices marked as correct.
Merely I have some commments:
--In #4, the words should be "First" and "Second", non "Firstly" and "Secondly". Only "finally," is the correct choice.
--In #9, in my opinion the pick "long, black, leather coats"--though amend than the other ii choices--isn't actually good. It ought to be "long black leather coats" without the commas.
--In #12, dissimilar FounDit, I prefer "had been intending..." to "take been intending...". To me, "had been intending" does not mean you ceased intending to cease smoking.
--In #13, I have to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Heed you lot"--I would prefer "However--but "However" that wasn't ane of the choices, and "Mind y'all" is better than the other two.
--And in #22, "physical proposal" seems a improve matched pair than "concrete architect" in near contexts. In the absence of a context for the sentence, "physical builder" is an acceptable answer.
#four Firstly and secondly are commonly used in British English.
I agree with FounDit for #12 I adopt "take been", information technology's how most British people would employ that phrase.
#13 Mind you is the phrase that an ordinary British person would use.
#22 is a question of association it is not about forming an actual pairing architect and concrete get together in the same way bread and baker or bat and cricketer do.
Remember the British Council is trying to teach people to speak English language as it is used in Britain today, on behalf of the British Authorities, some of its usages won't match American English.
| Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 6:57:30 AM |
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The ones I saw were #12 and #22.
In #12, I could come across circumstances in which all iii choices could exist the "best option".
Personally, I'd use "has been" or "was" in most circumstances.
In #22, "concrete proposal" is a common phrase. "Concrete builder" isn't.
A architect may apply concrete occasionally, simply at that place'southward no such job as "physical builder".
Aye, I'd commonly apply "heed yous".
Listen you, it is a niggling "archaic"
, in that the verb "mind" meaning "pay attending" is not now used intransitively; AND imperatives don't nowadays have that form with the 'person' after the verb. "Mind you" = "(Y'all) accept discover!" = "but I'thou mentioning so that you can have notice"
| Posted: Sabbatum, June 13, 2020 iii:15:06 AM |
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My "native spoken language" is AmE, only I lived in England for 4 years and have many British friends, so I'grand very familiar with BrE. My commencement wife grew up in Gateshead and later in Banbury, so I know both Geordie and Thames Valley speech--then much and so that when I saw the moving-picture show "Billy Eliot" [2000]--gear up by and large in Tyneside and full of Geordie accents--in the theater hither in Illinois, I was the just person in the audience who understood all of what was beingness said.
I know, for instance, most "mind you"--which is the all-time option of the three put frontward in #13. Information technology's a well-known BrE phrase, and is non unknown in AmE. Of the three choices given, it's the one I would choose.
But, if i of the choices for #13 were "However", that is the one I would pick. It's perfectly good BrE and AmE.
I have seen both American and British usage guides that adopt "first" and "second" to "firstly" and "secondly". Most usage guides agree, though, that the "-ly" forms are acceptable, and more formal.
| Posted: Sat, June thirteen, 2020 8:38:31 AM |
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Gateshead to Banbury - couldn't exist much different, dialectically, and stay in England!
Like FounDit, I'm curious how 25 questions can requite a score of
94%.
That means one question incorrect and one "half-right".
Most of the questions (being multiple choice) can't be 'half-right'.
| Posted: Sunday, June 14, 2020 9:54:59 PM |
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Hi Everyone!
Thank you all very much indeed,
Merely, do you not think we must have a comma after "mind y'all"?
There is no comma in the original question question. So, I excluded the 'a' and 'c' since both must take a following comma if they initiated a phrase.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new TV evidence final night.
Jo: Was it any good?
Anne: Yes. Listen you the Boob tube is then one-time I could come across very lilliputian.
I read Guide for Mixed Tense Exercises:
Quote:
Time word: Before:
Time clause tense: Simple present, Simple past
Main clause tense: Simple future
Earlier Karen leaves for work, she will roller-skate around her house three times.
Time word: Before
Time clause tense: elementary past
Primary clause tense: Elementary by or past perfect
Before Karen left for work, she (had) roller-skated around her house iii times.
And then, in no #12, the speaker is talking most two actions, "I got cough", and "the "intend to stop smoking". "Intend to cease smoking" happened earlier "I got coughing". So, I call back that the past perfect progressive must be used in the chief clause tense(I had been intending to end smoking) and the past simple in the fourth dimension clause tense(before I got this bad cough).
I had been intending to stop smoking(main clause tense) even before I got this bad cough(fourth dimension clause tense).
a. would accept been
b. had been
c. have been
| Posted: Tuesday, June sixteen, 2020 5:31:35 PM |
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PS. FounDit , along with Dragonspeaker , I am sorry I was wrong that I said I scored 94%. I scored 96%, really.
Yeah, each question of the 25 questions can give a score of four%.
So, 4% X 25 = 4/100 10 25/100 = 100/100 = 100%.
For the 12th question, when I selected "have been", my score decreased by 4%. However, when selecting 'had been', I scored 96%. That ways another question wrong.
| Posted: Midweek, June 17, 2020 12:57:39 AM |
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You're correct on #12 - the most "grammatically right" is the by perfect (plus the simple past), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each thing happened).
The ane y'all had wrong is #22 - concrete proposal.
Have a look at the n-gram graph here.
It's probably just a phrase you've never come across - it'south mostly a business or legal-type thought.
con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual thing or instance; real; perceptible; substantial: concrete proof.
ii. pertaining to or concerned with realities or bodily instances rather than abstractions; particular every bit opposed to general: concrete proposals.
Still, I'd say 96 is a
goodscore. Well done.
| Posted: Midweek, June 17, 2020 x:37:14 AM |
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Drag0nspeaker wrote:
You're right on #12 - the most "grammatically right" is the past perfect (plus the uncomplicated by), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each matter happened).
The i you had incorrect is #22 - concrete proposal.
Take a look at the n-gram graph here.
It's probably but a phrase you lot've never come up across - it'south mostly a concern or legal-type idea.
con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual thing or instance; real; perceptible; substantial: concrete proof.
two. pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular as opposed to general: concrete proposals.
Yet, I'd say 96 is a
skillfulscore. Well washed.
I wondered when I read the score of 94 if ii points had been taken off for the "builder/concrete/proposal" question. Merely since at that place was no mention of that, I assumed either respond would be given credit, since "builder" and either "concrete" or "proposal" fits. That was actually a poor question. Just 96 is an excellent score. Well done.
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CONCRETE / Proposal is the right respond
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CONCRETE / Proposal is the correct respond
Aye, exactly: all the answers past A cooperator are right except 22c: "concrete proposal".
Non that "physical builder" per se is wrong, it's just that they wanted us to choose the most frequent lexical collocation, which is "concrete proposal".
Simply stick to all the answers given by A cooperator - except for 22 - and you lot'll score 100%!
| Posted: Tuesday, Apr twenty, 2021 12:xxx:49 PM |
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By the style, the phrase "Mind you" in #13 should have been followed past a comma: "Mind you, the Boob tube set is so old...." rather than "Mind y'all the Television is then old...".
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Does everyone realize this mail is from June 2020?
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i. All of the answers cooperator posted are correct, except question 22: the correct answer (according to the britishcouncil.org website) is: concrete proposal (this is what I answered and I got 100%).
It should exist noted, though, that few questions in that test accept more than one right respond. For instance, some other word for "complete" tin can besides be "full" if used as an describing word (the question in the examination refers to its verb class, thus "finish" is accepted every bit the correct choice).
ii. Question 9: (a) is the correct choice (long, black, leather) because the order of adjectives follows the ranking conventions of standard English: opinion, size, historic period, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose. Thus, long comes before black, and leather is the terminal in rank.
three. Question 12: the past perfect tense is the only grammatically correct pick. Option c (have been) is grammatically incorrect (the clause "earlier I got this bad cough" is in the past tense, and the "intention" precedes the emergence of the cough).
Source: https://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst200670_25-questions-from-the-British-Council-LearnEnglish-online-English-level-test.aspx
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