Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
natural
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
sense
success
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
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.
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.
Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from that of the others in each group.
What a nice day! Let's go for a picnic, _______?
Choose the correct answer.
John gets good marks, _____ pleases his parents.
The fewer bags you take, _____ trouble you will have on route.
This house needs ______.
I have just bought _____.
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
Either I or John ________ the keys to the car.
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
The doctor was attending _____ the sick.
Never put _____ till tomorrow what you can do today.
______ your father was in hospital, we would have gone to see him.
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
_________ turn color and fall to the ground is a sign of winter.
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
_________ at the table when the phone rang.
Your friendly attitude makes ________ for you to socialize.
Only a few movies _____ on this channel are suitable for children.
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
She was ________ as anyone could have had.
Give the correct tense of the verbs in brackets.
(I / try) to learn by heart this text for half an hour, but (not succeed) yet.
Give the correct form of the verb in the bracket.
He (fight) in Flanders in the First World War.
Supply the correct form of the verb in bracket.
Though smoking (consider) harmful to people's health, the number of its addicts (increase) .
Supply the correct form of the verb in the brackets.
Yesterday I (catch) in the rain because I (not watch) the weather forecast.
Supply the correct form of the verb in bracket.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (receive) great excitement everywhere since it (first show) in 1937.
Supply the correct form of the verb in bracket.
The plane (take) off by this time tomorrow.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word in capitals at the end of each sentence.
My grandfather only had a very education. (BASE)
We must take before things get worse. (ACT)
Language is not the private property of those who use it. (NECESSARY)
A lot of humour depends on the use of words which sound the same but have different . (MEAN)
It is fairly common in Britain that men these days do more housework than they did in previous . (BELIEVE) (GENERATE)
is normally used to refer to the treatment and training of the child within the home. (BRING)
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
That large dog is perfectly and has never been known to attack anyone. (HARM)
The experiences of the child in his first years largely determine his character and later . (PERSON)
Read a magazine article and choose the best answers to the questions about it.
Want to write a bestseller
It's the sort of things that usually only happens in fiction. A young bank worker buys a home computer and to fill his spare time writes a first novel. A few months later the books has been sold here and abroad in deals worth 750 000$, a Hollywood film is under consideration. That, though, has been the experience of Michael Ridpath, who before tapping out Free to Trade, a fast-moving thriller about international financial crime, had never written anything more imaginative than a financial report.
For those of us who still haven't found a legal, decent and honest way of getting rich, such stories get us excited. But the trouble with trying to pen a small literary masterpiece is that everyone else is to. Writing unsaleable bestsellers is one of the most popular hobbies in Britain. According to one estimate, 20 000 - 30 000 manuscripts of proposed books are lying in British publishers’ in-trays at any one time. That suggests there must be several hundred thousand people out there nightly peering into word processor screens and seeking inspiration. Blake Friedmann, Mr Ridpath’s literary agent, receives 20 to 30 manuscripts a day sent in by hopeful writers, but the company has only seen two writers published from this so-called “slush pile” in the last decade. Any other London literary agent or publisher will tell you a chance are the same. The sad truth is that for 99.9% of authors, all their masterworks will ever earn is a string of rejection letters, and some praise from Auntie Doris if she can be persuaded to read the thing.
David O'Leary, a literary agent who is currently wading through a huge pile of manuscripts from hopefuls, says: “The Mr Ridpath of this world are a bad example. People read about them and think they can do it. But there is a mystery at the heart of writing. The more you see, the more you realize this is the sad truth. Pick up a page and you can tell whether someone can write or not. Some publishers who shall be nameless have a 10-page test. If the story hasn’t gripped them by then, they don’t read anymore.”
Pierre Reylan, one of the readers employed to go through the vast number of unsolicited manuscripts at one publisher, says that the only manuscript sent in unrequested he can remember being published was a nonfiction book - on how to improve your eyesight. “What impresses me is the huge amount of work and effort going into the manuscripts. It feels sad always having to send them back.” Sometimes a letter will accompany a no-hope manuscript, announcing that the author has given up a perfectly respectable job to spend their whole time writing.
Darley Anderson, a London agent who receives 100 manuscripts a week (he might get up to four writers a year published) insist the talent is out there. “It’s just that some publishers are too lazy, too busy or don’t have the imagination to find them.” Two years ago he sold a novel by a nurse, Martina Cole, for 150 000$. “If in that year I had not taken on anybody else I would have felt it was a very successful year.”
The odds against success, then, are enormous. But for some writers, the urge to write a book is too great to be resisted, whether it is because of the need for money, the desire to be famous or the wish to be creative.
Complete the text with a word that best fits each space.
Recycling steel cans
Cans made of steel are very easy to remove from domestic rubbish because steel is the only common metal that is attracted to magnets. Many waste removal authorities have advantage of this fact and have installed large magnets, which, to put it simply, put all steel containers out of the general household rubbish. The system is known “magnetic extraction” and it has two great advantages.
Firstly, unlike most recycling schemes, the recycling of steel cans through “magnetic extraction” requires almost effort from the public. As long as you throw your used steel can into the rubbish bin, it will be collected then the waste removal authority will the rest. Other packaging cannot be recycled the public collect the material and take it, usually by car, to a central collection point. This often uses up more energy in petrol than eventually saved by recycling the material.
Secondly, local authorities actually save public money {{@by|@through}} recovering used steel cans. Magnetic extraction equipment is simple and cheap, and the steel that has been saved is sold to companies who re-use it in making new steel products. the value of the metal is greater than the cost of magnetic extraction, the process has financial benefits.
So, magnetic recycling of steel cans from waste saves you time, effort and money, as as saving energy for us all.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
"I must see the manager" he cried.
=> He insisted ..............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Arthur said to Jane he was sorry he had hurt her feelings.
=> Arthur apologized ...............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
You had better forget about buying a new house.
=> If I ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
People say that he was left alone for a long time.
=> He is .........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Their teacher is making them study hard.
=> They are ............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Would you mind not smoking here?
=> I'd rather .............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Their dog was so fierce that nobody would visit them.
=> They had ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I had better get back to school.
=> It's ............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I'm sorry now that I asked her to stay.
=> Now I wish ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
She is proud of being such a good cook.
=> She prides ..........