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 which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
assuage
envisage
pillage
ravage
In some countries, the confrontation between police and strikers on _____ has become a feature of life in the eighties.
Maria was just walking along the road when someone on a motorbike _____ her handbag.
Suzy _____ her brain, and finally found the answer.
Laura is about _____ me.
The tire industry is constantly searching for alternative rubber sources as conventional sources _____.
When they were still _____, the Beatles used to play in a club called the Cavern, in Liverpool.
Fill each of the following blanks with ONE suitable word.
When rainforests are cleared and , millions of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere affecting climatic conditions and threatening us all severe flooding, drought, and crop failure. The rainforests at least half of the earth's species. At the current rate of devastation an 50 species worldwide become extinct every day.
One in four purchases from our chemists is derived from the rainforests. Scientists are caught in a race against time to find rainforest treatments for cancer, AIDS, and heart disease before they are forever. Tribal people in the rainforests have been shot, poisoned, and infected with diseases to which they have no resistance - to make room for logging, mining, and dams. If this destruction continues, only nine the 33 countries currently exporting rainforest timber will have any by the end of the decade.
Almost everyone will have part of the rainforests in their home, as do-it-yourself stores still supply and the construction industry still uses tropical hardwood for doors, window , and even toilet seats. Please help us the tropical rainforests now, before it is too late.
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
THE VACUUM CLEANER
Until about 250 years ago, households did not take dirt as seriously as they do now - it was a fact of life, and that was that. Cleaning often consisted of an annual called 'spring cleaning' when the furniture was moved aside, and all the linen products in the house were cleaned. Carpets and rugs were taken outside, hung on ropes, and had the dust out of them - an exhausting and messy process.
The industrial revolution brought about a major change - as new products became available to make homes cleaner, a corresponding interest in 'domestic hygiene' appeared in households. This in turn led to the of further products, one of which was the vacuum cleaner.
has it that when one of the first vacuum cleaners was demonstrated, a kindly scientist took the proud inventor , and offered a bit of advice that was to become crucial to the future evolution of the product - 'make it suck, not blow'.
The first vacuum cleaners appeared in the 1860s in the United States. They were operated by hand pumps and were almost as as spring cleaning. It was only when electric motors had become sufficiently to become portable that vacuum cleaners became common household items. Most of today's major - including Electrolux and Hoover - were born in the 1920s.
The household dirt that vacuum cleaners suck up is mostly dead skin cells - humans millions of cells every day. A much smaller proportion comes from dust and soil carried into the house from .
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
FLAMENCO DANCE
The essence of flamenco is a song, often accompanied by the guitar and improvised dance. Music and dance can be placed into specific groups. These categories are usually located across a continuum with subjects dealing with the profound to those that are light-hearted. (TYPE) the themes of death, anguish, and despair, in contrast to love, gaiety, and the countryside are (DRAMA) . In flamenco dance, the men's steps are intricate, with toe and heel-clicking. Footwork in women's dancing is of less importance, with the (GRACE) use of hands and body taking (PRECEDE) . In the dance, the arm, hand, and foot movements closely resemble those of classical Hindu dance. Essential to traditional flamenco is the performer's interpretation of the dance (HINDER) by the emotion of the music. Performances are often accompanied by rapid hand-clapping, finger-snapping, and (COURAGE) shouts. The dancers themselves frequently employ finger-snapping in complex rhythms including the use of castanets. This dance form was (PROFESSION) in the 19th century when Romany people first began to perform in cafes. In this environment, (DEPART) from the traditional form occurred. Unfortunately, the pressures of the (COMMERCE) stage meant that rehearsed routines replaced the (SPONTANEOUS) of the original flamenco performances.
Read the following passage and choose which of the headings from A - I match the blanks. There are two extra headings, which do not match any of the paragraphs.
List of headings
A. A central figure
B. A policy for the times
C. Seep but not heard
D. A fairer system
E. Playing the right part
F. Time well spent
G. A strong sense of involvement
H. The deciding factor
I. All-round improvement
At your service
Top chef and restaurant owner Giancarlo Curtis talks about what he looks for, apart from good food, when he eats out.
1.
Recently I went into a restaurant near my home where I have eaten several times over the years. It used to have an old-fashioned traditional style, but it has just re-opened after being completely renovated. The new surroundings seem to have given a lift to everything, from the food cooked by a new chef from Brittany in France, to the atmosphere and the quality of the service.
2.
Many hours of behind-the-scenes work must have gone into getting the service so good. The staff were very pleasant and the speed with which they reacted to customers' needs was excellent. When someone sneezed, a box of tissues appeared. I have never seen that before in a restaurant. The preparation has certainly paid off.
3.
Twenty years ago when people went out to testae ants, they probably never set eyes on the chef - probably didn't even know his name. But the person they did know was the head waiter. He was the important one, the person who could get you the best table, who could impress your friends by recognising you when you arrived.
4.
Things have changed, but I think what is going to happen with so many good new restaurants opening these days is that the waiters are going to become very important again. The level of service is what is going to distinguish one restaurant from another.
But we are talking about modem, unstuffy service, which is not four waiters hovering around your table making you nervous, but a relaxed presence, giving you the feeling there is someone there and providing help and advice when you need it. There is a fine distinction between a server and a servant, and this is what the best waiter has learnt to appreciate.
5.
Although they have to be commercial, the most popular restaurants aim to provide the kind of reception, comfort and consideration you would give to someone coming for a dinner party at your home. Service is not about the correctness of knives and forks and glasses - people really don't care about those things any more - nowadays it is about putting people at their ease.
6.
What's more, waiting staff need to have a stake in the success of the enterprise. I realised that when I opened my own restaurant. The staff, chefs and waiters did all the decorating and the flowers themselves and it worked well because the right atmosphere had been created by people who cared. . .
7.
Above all, the waiting staff should be consistent. which is why I have always preferred the custom of putting an optional service charge on the bill, rather than relying on discretionary tips so that all the stall feel valued. I don't like the kind of situation where there is a competition going on, with one-star waiter trying to outshine the rest. That affects the quality of the service as a whole.
Read the following passage then choose the best answer to each question below.
Graphic novels: a fresh angle on literature
Has the graphic novel - a fictional story presented in comic-strip format finally become intellectually respectable?
Graphic novels have just landed with an almighty kersplat. Ten days ago, two such works were shortlisted for the Shakespeare Book Awards for the first time in the history of the prize, in two different categories. This was no publicity stunt neither panel knew what the other had done. This is, surely, the moment when the graphic book finally made its entrance into the respectable club roam of high literature. Hang on, though, can you compare a graphic novel with the literary kind? Wouldn't that be like comparing a painting with a music video? Or is it time we started seeing them as comparable mediums for storytelling? If so, what next?
Robert Macfarlane, the chairman of another major literary award, says he has no objection in principle to a graphic novel being submitted for the prize. In fact, he has taught one, Art Spiegelman's Maus, alongside the works of Russian writer Tolstoy and Don Quixote by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes) at the University of Cambridge, where he works in the English Faculty, 'The idea of outlawing the graphic novel doesn't make any sense to me,' he says. 'I don't segregate it from the novel. The novel is always eating up other languages, media and forms.' Graphic fiction, he says, is 'another version of the novel's long flirtation with the visual'. This is, he declares, 'a golden age for the graphic novel'.
And he's right. We are seeing a boom in graphic novels. Since Maus was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, they have gone on to devour every literary genre going. But so far, graphic novels have politely stood aside and let conventional books win the big prizes. Now they want the vote. Fighting for the graphic novelists' cause, astonishingly, are some hefty prize-winning writers. The English novelist and poet A. S. Byatt is passionately in favour of graphic novels competing with regular ones. Byatt, who is a huge fan of Spiegelman's Maus, thinks that French-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis and 'head and shoulders above most novels being produced. It's more interesting and more moving. It's able to be serious because it can carry itself along on this unserious form. It allowed her to be witty about things that are terrible. And that is why it's a major work of art'.
The genius of the graphic novel, as the English writer Philip Pullman explains, is that it can bring into play so many levels of narrative by layering them on top of each other. Take American Alison Bechdel's brilliant Are You My Mother? - in a single page, she can depict a memory of being with her mother in her childhood, dialogue between herself and her mother as they chat on the phone in the present, plus an image of herself toiling at her desk, trying to write her memoir. And what Bechdel and her mum are saying on the phone links to the diaries of the early 20th-century writer Virginia Woolf, which Bechdel also brings to visual life. Try doing that with words - it would take a chapter, Bechdel does it in a few panels. That in the end is precisely what keeps graphic literature so distinct from prose narrative.
Graphic novels and traditional novels demand, to be sure, the same amours of time, intellect and artistry from their authors. But that doesn't mean they're the same thing. A few years on, will you be clicking the buy button on a graphic novel as happily as you'd pick up a work by a traditional novelist? Even Bechdel confesses that her reading habits are still struggling out of the past. 'Honestly, I would be slightly more inclined to pick up a non-graphic work,' she says. At this point, there's not a huge number of graphic novels that are about topics that interest me. But that too is changing. We're becoming more visually Iiterate. There's some reason for these graphic novels creeping into the canon. We're reading differently from how we used to 200 years ago.
What does the writer say about the nomination of two graphic novels for the Shakespeare Book Awards?
What does Robert Macfarlane suggest about graphic novels?
The word “he” in paragraph 2 refers to_____.
In the third paragraph, the writer suggests that, in the past, writers of graphic novels _____.
The word "hefty" is closest in meaning _____.
The writer discusses Alison Bechdel's book to make the point that graphic novels _____.
Bechdel is quoted in the last paragraph to make the point that _____.
In this article, the writer is _____.
Complete the second sentence using the word given so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Someone must have seen the thieves escaping with the jewels. (MAKING)
=> The thieves ..... with the jewels.
Complete the second sentence using the word given so that it has the same meaning to the first.
In order to discover how the disagreement had started, Maw talked to each child separately. (ONE)
=> Mary talked to the children .......... attempt to discover how the disagreement had started.
Complete the second sentence using the word given so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Minnie meant well so you mustn't be offended by her comments. (AMISS)
=> Please ..... because she meant well.
Complete the second sentence using the word given so that it has the same meaning to the first.
There are so many different styles of ethnic cuisine to choose from these days. (SPOILT)
=> These days, we ..... when it comes to ethnic cuisine.
Complete the second sentence using the word given so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Ryan agonized over whether he should tell his host that the chicken was underdone. (QUANDARY)
=> Discovering that his chicken was underdone ..... should he tell his host or not.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I don't remember much about my mother, but I do remember she was very kind and loving towards us.
=> What little .............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that.
=> Many's .....
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
It was not until five years had elapsed that the whole truth about the murder came out.
=> Not for another .....
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
The university didn't prepare to consider his application due to his lack of right qualifications.
=> Had ............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Experts think that all dogs evolved from wolves.
=> All dogs ..........
Write a paragraph of approximately 140 words to answer the following question.
Teenagers are too young to teach other people about anything. Do you agree?