Choose the word whose primary stress is placed differently from that of the others.
Choose the word whose primary stress is placed differently from that of the others.
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
mission
essence
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
colleges
exercises
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
Jane was a _____ woman.
In no way _____ that people will be prevented from organizing peaceful protests.
Now I associate public transport with one of the worst experiences of my life and the _____ of it is that I will never catch a bus again.
_____, modeling is actually a hard job.
The office was closed for a week for refurbishment and now the staff has to deal with the _____ that built up during their absence.
Mary: Did you enjoy the movie?
Tom: No, I would rather _____ home.
It’s sensible to take our travel insurance _____ our luggage is lost or damaged.
The scientists are on the _____ of making an incredible discovery about our past.
The board proposes that the majority of this year’s profits _____ in new product development.
Julie was so engrossed _____ the book that she didn’t hear her sister come in.
As they travelled across the _____ landscape, each one of them wondered how it was possible to grow anything there.
Mary: Did the teacher mention anything about a test in last week’s class?
Tom: I don’t know. I had to leave early because I _____ to the dentist.
Read the passage and decide which answer best fits each gap.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
Students and jobseekers keen to get onto the course or into the workplace of their choice hope that voluntary work will help them from the crowd. This chance to experience – personally and professionally – is on the wish list of young people.
A survey carried out last year revealed that young and old said volunteering had improved their lives, particularly those in conservation or heritage work.
Businesses recognize its importance and get to their profile in the community, while staff gets a break from their daily routine to develop ‘soft skills’, such as initiative and decision-making. One volunteering organization is another survey to find out if volunteering does make a difference in the workplace, or if it is something businesses do simply to improve their .
Not are business-sponsored placements becoming more common, the government is also investing money and aiming to volunteers. The push is clearly on to make volunteering as attractive as possible to everyone.
And the more people who participate, the more the act fulfills its aim of making the world a better place.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
What seems certain for any language is that new words will form, meanings will migrate, and obsolete words will die out.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Gerry didn't go on the expedition – he made up that part of the story.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Flats which are both comfortable and reasonably priced are few and far between in the current context of economic crisis.
Read the following article about how to be environmentally friendly and decide in which paragraph (A-E) the following are mentioned. Write one letter for each answer. The paragraph may be chosen more than once.
A. FAIR TRADE
Farmers in developing countries are some of the most vulnerable people on earth, prey to world commodity markets, middlemen and the weather. So-called “fair trade” arrangements guarantee cooperative groups a price above the world market price and a bonus on top. The growing fair-trade market has distributed hundreds of millions of pounds to more than 50 million people worldwide. But critics say that fair trade will never lift a country out of poverty; indeed, it may keep it there, because the money generated from sales goes almost in its entirety to rich countries which promote the products. Only about 5% of the sale price of a fair-trade chocolate bar (which retails for £1.73 in the UK shops) may actually go to the poor country.
B. ORGANIC FOOD
The big selling point of organic food is that it is free of chemicals, both in the growing of the food and in the killing of pests that might damage the crop. Chemicals suspected of causing a variety of problems, from cancer to bad behavior and sexual abnormalities, occur in most children’s blood in tiny quantities. In a world where many manufactured chemicals have never been properly tested for safety, parents have been happy to pay a premium for organic food. The problem is that British farmers have not switched to organic in sufficient numbers to satisfy a growing market. As a result, supermarkets are often forced to fly vegetables that they can label organic halfway round the world, at a great cost to the planet in extra greenhouse gases. Environmentalists are now urging shoppers to buy locally produced vegetables, even if they have been sprayed in pesticides. Just give them a goos wash.
C. RECYCLING
A great shift has taken place in the way we think about rubbish. Where once we were happy to bury it in landfills or dump it at sea, we are now being urged by all levels of government to recycle it and think of waste as a resource. The wheelie-bin culture is being replaced by a series of curbside collections for paper, metals, plastics, bottles, clothes and compost. The idea is to cut landfill (and reduce council tax) as well as saving the planet. It is, however, having some unexpected consequences. Most of Britain’s plastic and paper is now being sent for recycling in China or India – at vast cost in greenhouse gases for transport. Once there, peasant workers have to sort it, often in dangerous conditions. Meanwhile, some paper and bottles carefully sorted by householders end up being dumped in landfills after all, because the market for the materials fluctuates. “Recycled” mobile phones are often sent, broken, to Africa, where they are dumped. Soon all electrical equipment will have to be recycled by order of the EU, which has led to fears of another “fridge mountain” of goods awaiting recycling.
D. CARBON NEUTRALIZATION
If you want to make yourself feel better about driving a lot or taking expensive sunshine holidays, there are lots of businesses offering ways for you to salve your conscience by becoming “carbon neutral”. One of the most appealing methods is to pay for someone to plant trees, preferably creating or regenerating new forests. The theory is that trees grow by absorbing carbon dioxide and giving out oxygen, storing the carbon in their trunks. Woods and forests create their own mini-climate, which collects and stores water and creates rainclouds. But there is a potential problem in that planting trees often releases carbon stored in the soil – and what happens if the forests catch fire, or are chopped down and harvested for timber? A safer bet may be to invest in small-scale hydro-schemes, so that people who live in the Himalayas, for example, who currently do not have electricity, can develop a 21st-century lifestyle without polluting the planet.
E. ECO-TOURISM
The idea of “green tourism” is to persuade locals in Africa, the far east and South America not to chop down their forests, shoot their elephants and wipe out the tigers so that rich Americans and Europeans can fly there and peer at them through binoculars. This cannot be good for the atmosphere; what’s more, in the case of African wildlife, the best money is made from reintroducing animals for trophy hunting by the very rich – a controversial form of eco-tourism. While they may help sustain some great national parks, tourists often create as many problems as they solve. One is that westerners tend to demand all mod cons in their hotels, particularly a great deal of water for showers, a luxury not typically available to locals. Properly handled, eco-tourism, like whale watching, can give the animals and the local economy a brighter future. Sometimes, though, the only winners are the few businessmen who own the hotels.
In which section is the following mentioned?
a controversial pastime that rises considerable money:
an action which creates a different weather pattern:
an undesirable result of unnecessary global transportation (NB: You must provide two different options): and
inadequate research into harmful substances:
a continual change in what is required or needed:
people at the greatest risk from factors beyond their control:
a far-reaching change in official attitude:
a benefit for those the scheme was not originally intended for (NB: You must provide two different options): and
the bringing of a source of energy to remote areas:
a failure to adapt in order to meet increasing demands:
Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits in the gap. The first one has been done for you as an example (0).
Today, population growth largely means urban population growth. United Nations (UN) (PROJECT) projections show the world’s rural population has already stopped growing, but the world can expect to add close to 1.5 billion (URBAN) in the next 15 years, and 3 billion by 2050. How the world meets the challenge of sustainable development will be (INTIMACY) tied to this process.
For many people, cities represent a world of new opportunities, including jobs. There is a powerful link between urbanization and economic growth. Around the world, towns and cities are responsible for over 80 percent of the gross national product. While urban poverty is growing around the world, this is largely because many people – including the poor – are moving to urban areas.
The opportunities there extend beyond just jobs. Cities also offer greater opportunities for (SOCIETY) mobilization and women’s empowerment. Many young people, especially young women, regard the move to cities as an opportunity to escape traditional patriarchy and experience new freedoms. Urban areas also offer greater access to education and health services, including sexual and reproductive rights. This contributes to significantly reduced (FERTILE) in urban areas, changing the trajectory of overall population growth.
This process, which is particularly (PRONUNCIATION) in Africa and Asia, where much of the world’s population growth taking place, is also an enormous opportunity for sustainability if the right policies are put in place. Urban living has the potential to use resources more (EFFICIANCE) to create more sustainable land use and to protect the (DIVERSE) of natural ecosystems.
Still, the face of (EQUAL) is increasingly an urban one. Too many urban residents grapple with extreme poverty, (EXCLUDE) , vulnerability, and marginalization.
Read the text below and complete each blank with one suitable word.
COMPUTER WISE
From the day we feel our children are capable of understanding, we begin educating them about the perils ever-present in our modern world. We teach them that they must never cross the road looking both ways, accept lifts from strangers, or take sweets from people don’t know, the list on and on.
In of these warnings, isn’t it ironic that we still ignore one of the biggest threats of all… the Internet? In this age of the PC – every house has one – we as parents often fail our duty to protect our children from this potential source of danger.
Just as we supervise what our little ones - and so little ones watch on television, we should also be of what they’re doing while they’re surfing the Net. Of course, we can’t be forever looking over their shoulders when they’re online, but there are ways of increasing Internet safety. Using software to filter and block what young users can access, warning children giving out any personal information, and talking openly about cyber hazards, a few of the really important first step.
Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition given below. There are more prepositions than needed.
1. Suddenly the lights went out, and she wasn’t able to make where the exit was.
2. Her father decided to hand his entire estate to her.
3. I have a splitting headache and I certainly don’t feel to going to watch a concert.
4. While the office computer system was being fixed, there was nothing to do so we just sat .
5. She wasn’t interested in his money. She fell his sense of humor.
Think of one word which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. When speaking in front of a large audience, you should bear in _____ that everybody should be able to both hear and see you.
2. It’s strange how it always seems as if Emily can read my _____.
3. It’s getting to be a cliché now, but I still believe that travel can broaden the _____.
Answer:
Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. The event was _____ in an old castle by the sea.
2. Many of the team members were _____ up by last-minute flight cancellation.
3. After I finished playing, she told me that I hadn’t _____ the instrument correctly.
Answer:
Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. There has been a _____ in the number of Internet users this year.
2. It must be difficult to cope with a sudden _____ to fame.
3. Employees were given a 10% pay _____ at the beginning of the financial year.
Answer:
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
I was amazed because there were no problems throughout the holiday. (WENT)
=> To wrong throughout the holiday.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
No matter what happens, Jane will never forgive Mark for what he did. (EVER)
=> Under Mark for what he did.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
Can anyone solve this problem? (COME)
=> Can anyone this problem?
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
You probably won’t find a better deal for a holiday. (CHANCES)
=> The find a better deal for a holiday.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
Apparently, the entire warehouse was destroyed in a fire last month. (FLAMES)
=> Apparently, the entire warehouse last month.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
People think that heavy traffic caused subsidence.
=> The subsidence ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
She was so popular that everyone voted for her.
=> Such ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
We got out of the building safely only because the smoke alarms went off.
=> But for ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I don’t like the way that Jane gets angry so often with other staff.
=> I wish ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Evan is doing very well at school, especially if you consider that he’s younger than the others in his class.
=> Given ..........
Write a paragraph about the most essential skill a successful 21st – century learner should acquire. You should write about 150 words.
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