ENGLISH TEST 93

Indicate the sentence that is correct and closest in meaning to each of the following sentences

1: Choosing a suitable job is really important to adolescents.

A. It is really important to choose a suitable job for adolescents. B. It is of great importance for adolescents to choose a suitable job.

C. Choosing a suitable job for adolescents is a really important affair. D. The choice of a suitable job for adolescents is really important.

2: That will put the cat among the pigeons.

A. That will cause a lot of trouble.

B. The cat will have to stay outside the house today.

C. Then we shall have as many cats as we have pigeons.

D. The cat will play with the pigeons.

3: Transportation has been made much easier thanks to the invention of cars, but cars are the greatest contributor of air pollution.

A. It is cars that are the greatest contributor of air pollution although the invention of cars has made transportation much easier.

B. The invention of cars has made transportation much easier, but cars are among the greatest contributors of air pollution.

C. Although the invention of cars has made transportation much easier, people use cars to contribute to the pollution of air.

D. However easier the invention of cars has made transportation, it is cars that are among the greatest contributors of air pollution.

4: The purpose of any invention is to make our lives better, so good or bad, it depends on the way by which we use these inventions.

A. We can use either good or bad inventions to make our lives better.

B. Whether an invention is good or bad depends on the way by which we use it because the purpose of any invention is to make our

lives better.

C. The purpose of any invention, whether good or bad, is to make our lives better. This depends on the way by which we use these inventions.

D. Good or bad as they are, all inventions have the same purpose: to make our lives better.

5: It is acknowledged that Vietnam had a complete control over SARS from a very early stage of the epidemic.

A. Vietnam is acknowledged to have completely controlled SARS from a very early stage of the epidemic.

B. Vietnam is acknowledged to have controlled SARS from a very early stage of the epidemic.

C. Vietnam was acknowledged to have had a complete control over SARS from a very early stage of the epidemic.

D. Vietnam is acknowledged to have a complete control over SARS from a very early stage of the epidemic.

Read the following passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

ENGLISH SPELLING

Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English was first written down when Christian monks came to England

in Anglo-Saxon (6) _________. They used the 23 letters of Latin to write down the sounds of Anglo-Saxon (7) _________ as they

heard it. However, English has a (8) __________ range of basic sounds (over 40) than Latin. The alphabet was too small, and so

combinations of letters were needed to (9) ________ the different sounds. Inevitably, there were inconsistencies in the way that letters

were combined. With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put at risk. English survived, but the spelling of many

English words changed to follow French (10) __________, and many French words were introduced into the language. The result was

more irregularity. When the printing press was (11) __________ in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English texts spoke

other first languages. They made little effort to respect English spelling. Although one of the short-term (12) __________ of printing

was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long term it created fixed spellings. People became used to seeing words spelt in the

same way. Rules were (13) __________, and dictionaries were put together which printers and writers could refer to. However, spoken

English was not fixed and continued to change slowly- just as it still does now. Letters that were sounded in the Anglo-Saxon period,

like the ‘k’ in ‘knife’, now became (14) ______. Also, the pronunciation of vowels then had little in common with how they sound now,

but the way they are spelt hasn’t changed. No (15) ______, then, that it is often difficult to see the link between sound and spelling.

6: A. centuries

B. times

C. ages

D. years

7: A. chat B. communication

C. speech

D. discussion

8: A. longer

B. deeper

C. thicker

D. wider

9: A. tell

B. express

C. explain

D. perform

10: A. types

B. guides

C. plans

D. patterns

11: A. discovered B. made up

C. taken in

D. invented

12: A. conclusions B. actions

C. meanings

D. effects

13: A. filled in

B. drawn up

C. handed out

D. got across

14: A. silent

B. dumb

C. quiet

D. speechless

15: A. problem

B. mention

C. wonder

D. idea

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