Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
houses
misses
glasses
senses
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from 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.
- A: "Is this ______ shirt you have got in your shop?"
- B: "No, sir. We've got some others cheaper."
We can supply materials _____ Thursday morning next week, so let's meet at the school _____ 8:00 a.m.
l am not _____ getting the bus to work because I usually drive there.
Hung is sick. _____, he can’t go to school.
Christopher Colombus _____ America more than 500 years ago.
I won't change my mind _____ what you say.
I was brought _____ in the countryside by my aunt after my parents had passed _____.
Peter: "How often do you go to school?"
Harry: "_______"
Linda: “Which gender is most likely to ask strangers for directions?”
Jean: “_____”
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The way the care-taker treated those little children was deplorable. She must be punished for what she did.
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Talking about your feeling can help you get clear about what you feel.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Adverse weather conditions made it difficult to play the game.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
He revealed his intentions of leaving the company to the manager during the office dinner party.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Kid’s summers consist of go to the pool or the library.
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You're a third person to ask me about the trip.
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Some of the most excited architecture in Britain can be found in Manchester and the nearby Salford Quays area.
Read the passage and answer the following questions.
The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious under the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the surface of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and fills it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but tends to diffuse throughout the space available; it must, therefore, be kept in a closed container or held by a gravitation field, as in the case of a planet's atmosphere. The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories describing the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be "dissolved" in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are made up of different kinds of molecules: liquidons and gasons. The theories now prevailing take a quite different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow readily. They are fluids.
The fundamental similarity of liquids gases becomes clearly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat. Suppose a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The liquid expands, or in other words, becomes less dense; some of it evaporates. In contrast, the vapor above the liquid surface becomes denser as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature and pressure at which the densities become equal is called the critical point. Above the critical point, the liquid and the gas can no longer be distinguished; there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.
Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?
According to the passage, the difference between a liquid and a gas under normal conditions on Earth is that the liquid _________.
According to the passage, in the nineteenth century, some scientists viewed liquidons and gasons as __________.
According to the passage, what happens when the temperature is increased in a closed container holding a liquid?
The word "apparent" is closest in meaning to ________ .
Since the birth of agriculture, farmers have tried to using pesticides by employing various biological methods to control nature. The first method involved introducing a predator that would control pests eating them. This was used successfully in 1925 to control the prickly pear population in Australia. The prickly pear has originally been used as a divider between paddocks. , it eventually spread from a few farms to 4 million hectares of farming land, rendering them unusable. The Cactoblastis moth larvae were introduced to help control the and within ten years, the prickly pear was virtually eradicated. Further attempts at biological control weren't so successful. When farmers tried to eliminate the cane beetle by introducing the South American cane toad, the results were catastrophic. The cane toad did not eat the cane beetle and the toad population spread leading to the decline of native species of mammals and reptiles.
Choose the best sentence that can be made from the words given.
If / I / be / you / I / plant / vegetables / garden.
Choose the best sentence that can be made from the words given.
It / strange / see / you / short hair.
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I / not / interested / look / new / job/ now.
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My pure / find / one / the cleaners.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences.
Melissa's father was very busy. He still played with her.
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Mr. Smith is very interested in our plan. I spoke to him on the phone last night.
Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
I have not met her for three years.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the following sentence.
"I can solve this problem," Sue said.