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| Posted: Thursday, June xi, 2022 8:58:37 PM |
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These are 25 questions from the test at learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
But I was scored with 94% and intermediate level although I selected in each option with "sure" on the answering of the question "Are you lot certain? Non sure. Fairly sure. Sure."
ane.
Choose the best discussion to complete the sentence.
The babe boy saw ... in the mirror and started to weep.
a. itself
b. herself
c. himself
2.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
A lot of trains ... late today due to the heavy storms.
a. are run
b. run
c. are running
3.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
... was a strong current of air last night.
a. At that place
b. Here
c. This
4.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the judgement.
Firstly, I want to congratulate you all. Secondly, I would like to wish you practiced luck and ... I promise you take enjoyed the course.
a. in the end
b. at terminal
c. finally
v.
Cull the best word or phrase to consummate the judgement.
You ... clean your teeth twice a day to avoid having problems.
a. can
b. should
c. will
six.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
The children idea they were ... when they saw the bull.
a. in a danger
b. in danger
c. in the danger
7.
Cull the best give-and-take or phrase to complete the dialogue.
Jack: I remember it's going to pelting.
Jill: I ... , the clouds are immigration.
Jack: Nosotros'll before long see.
a. disagree
b. complain
c. fence
8.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the judgement.
I really don't like this meal. ... money in the globe wouldn't get me to consume information technology.
a. Whatever
b. Enough
c. All the
9.
Choose the all-time word or phrase to complete the sentence.
Last year, Joanna bought two ... coats in New York.
a. long, blackness, leather
b. blackness, long, leather
c. leather, black, long
10.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I must report to the coming together that Cyrus completed his commencement piece of work well ahead of schedule. ..., notwithstanding, his work has been handed in late.
a. Sequentially
b. Subsequently
c. Consequently
11.
Choose the all-time discussion or phrase to complete the sentence.
That's very good of yous simply you ... take paid me dorsum until tomorrow.
a. needn't
b. wouldn't
c. couldn't
12.
Choose the all-time word or phrase to complete the judgement.
I ... intending to stop smoking even earlier I got this bad coughing.
a. would have been
b. had been
c. take been
13.
Choose the best discussion or phrase to complete the dialogue.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new TV show concluding night.
Jo: Was it any good?
Anne: Yeah. ... the TV ready is so old I could see very little.
a. Mind you
b. Notwithstanding
c. By the way
14.
Choose the discussion or phrase which has a similar significant to:
consider
a. think about
b. seem well
c. go for
You lot removed a bulletin
15.
Choose the give-and-take or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
talk
a. stroll
b. point out
c. converse
16.
Choose the give-and-take or phrase which has a similar pregnant to:
complete
a. finish
b. go through
c. full
17.
Cull the discussion or phrase which has a like meaning to:
return
a. account
b. go back
c. opposite
18.
Cull the word or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
report
a. go afterwards
b. account
c. respect
19.
Choose the all-time give-and-take to complete the judgement.
She hit her ... while she was playing football.
a. motor
b. tail
c. shoulder
xx.
Choose the all-time word to complete the sentence.
The ... went to the law.
a. crime
b. solicitor
c. shoulder
21.
Cull the best word to complete the sentence.
It was bad just it was not a ... .
a. gate
b. magazine
c. crime
22.
Some words are often used together, e.thou. smelly + socks. Cull a give-and-take which is often used with:
concrete
a. builder
b. thrill
c. proposal
23.
Some words are frequently used together, e.g. evil-smelling + socks. Choose a give-and-take which is often used with:
tender
a. nutrition
b. words
c. beast
24.
Some words are frequently used together, eastward.one thousand. smelly + socks. Choose a discussion which is oftentimes used with:
sophisticated
a. wearing apparel
b. purse
c. send
25.
Some words are oftentimes used together, east.g. smelly + socks. Choose a discussion which is often used with:
blunt
a. movement
b. proffer
c. musical instrument
| Posted: Thursday, June eleven, 2022 9:45:08 PM |
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The only one I would question is #12
12.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I ... intending to stop smoking even before I got this bad coughing.
a. would take been
b. had been
c. accept been
I would have chosen C. "have been". It could be argued that using "had been" gives the impression you gave upwards the intention before getting the bad cough. Using "take been" conveys an intention that was on-going when you lot got the cough. I don't know why yous scored 94, however. With 25 questions, each should exist worth 4 points each, so you should have scored a 96.
| Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2022 eleven:29:05 PM |
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Very interesting. I pretty much concur with all the choices marked as correct.
Just I have some commments:
--In #4, the words should be "First" and "2d", not "Firstly" and "Secondly". But "finally," is the correct pick.
--In #9, in my opinion the choice "long, black, leather coats"--though better than the other ii choices--isn't really good. It ought to be "long black leather coats" without the commas.
--In #12, different FounDit, I prefer "had been intending..." to "have been intending...". To me, "had been intending" does not mean you ceased intending to stop smoking.
--In #thirteen, I have to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Mind you"--I would prefer "All the same--but "However" that wasn't ane of the choices, and "Mind you" is better than the other two.
--And in #22, "concrete proposal" seems a ameliorate matched pair than "concrete builder" in about contexts. In the absence of a context for the sentence, "concrete architect" is an acceptable answer.
| Posted: Friday, June 12, 2022 2:18:33 AM |
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tautophile wrote:
Very interesting. I pretty much agree with all the choices marked as correct.
But I have some commments:
--In #4, the words should be "First" and "Second", non "Firstly" and "Secondly". But "finally," is the correct pick.
--In #ix, in my opinion the choice "long, blackness, leather coats"--though ameliorate than the other ii choices--isn't really good. Information technology ought to be "long black leather coats" without the commas.
--In #12, unlike FounDit, I prefer "had been intending..." to "have been intending...". To me, "had been intending" does not mean you ceased intending to stop smoking.
--In #xiii, I have to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Heed you"--I would prefer "However--simply "However" that wasn't 1 of the choices, and "Heed you" is improve than the other two.
--And in #22, "physical proposal" seems a better matched pair than "physical architect" in nigh contexts. In the absenteeism of a context for the judgement, "physical builder" is an acceptable answer.
#4 Firstly and secondly are unremarkably used in British English.
I concur with FounDit for #12 I adopt "take been", it's how nearly British people would use that phrase.
#xiii Mind y'all is the phrase that an ordinary British person would use.
#22 is a question of association it is not about forming an actual pairing builder and concrete go together in the aforementioned fashion staff of life and baker or bat and cricketer do.
Remember the British Council is trying to teach people to speak English as information technology is used in United kingdom today, on behalf of the British Regime, some of its usages won't match American English language.
| Posted: Friday, June 12, 2022 6:57:30 AM |
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The ones I saw were #12 and #22.
In #12, I could see circumstances in which all three choices could be the "best choice".
Personally, I'd use "has been" or "was" in most circumstances.
In #22, "physical proposal" is a common phrase. "Concrete builder" isn't.
A builder may use concrete occasionally, but there's no such job every bit "concrete builder".
Yes, I'd commonly use "mind you".
Mind you, it is a little "archaic"
, in that the verb "listen" meaning "pay attention" is non now used intransitively; AND imperatives don't nowadays accept that form with the 'person' afterwards the verb. "Listen you lot" = "(You) take notice!" = "but I'm mentioning so that yous can accept discover"
| Posted: Sabbatum, June xiii, 2022 3:15:06 AM |
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My "native speech" is AmE, simply I lived in England for four years and have many British friends, so I'g very familiar with BrE. My first wife grew upwardly in Gateshead and after in Banbury, then I know both Geordie and Thames Valley speech--and so much so that when I saw the picture show "Baton Eliot" [2000]--ready mostly in Tyneside and total of Geordie accents--in the theater here in Illinois, I was the simply person in the audience who understood all of what was beingness said.
I know, for example, nigh "mind y'all"--which is the best choice of the 3 put forrad in #13. It'due south a well-known BrE phrase, and is not unknown in AmE. Of the 3 choices given, information technology's the one I would choose.
But, if one of the choices for #13 were "However", that is the one I would pick. It'due south perfectly good BrE and AmE.
I have seen both American and British usage guides that prefer "first" and "second" to "firstly" and "secondly". About usage guides agree, though, that the "-ly" forms are acceptable, and more formal.
| Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2022 viii:38:31 AM |
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Gateshead to Banbury - couldn't exist much unlike, dialectically, and stay in England!
Like FounDit, I'm curious how 25 questions can requite a score of
94%.
That means one question wrong and one "half-right".
Most of the questions (existence multiple choice) tin't be 'half-correct'.
| Posted: Sun, June 14, 2022 nine:54:59 PM |
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Howdy Anybody!
Give thanks you lot all very much indeed,
Merely, exercise you not think we must have a comma subsequently "mind y'all"?
There is no comma in the original question question. Then, I excluded the 'a' and 'c' since both must have a post-obit comma if they initiated a phrase.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new Boob tube show terminal nighttime.
Jo: Was it any adept?
Anne: Yeah. Listen you the Television set set up is so former I could run into very little.
I read Guide for Mixed Tense Exercises:
Quote:
Fourth dimension give-and-take: Before:
Fourth dimension clause tense: Elementary present, Elementary past
Main clause tense: Simple futurity
Earlier Karen leaves for work, she volition roller-skate effectually her house iii times.
Fourth dimension word: Before
Fourth dimension clause tense: uncomplicated by
Main clause tense: Elementary past or past perfect
Earlier Karen left for piece of work, she (had) roller-skated around her house three times.
So, in no #12, the speaker is talking virtually two deportment, "I got cough", and "the "intend to stop smoking". "Intend to stop smoking" happened before "I got coughing". So, I think that the past perfect progressive must be used in the main clause tense(I had been intending to stop smoking) and the past simple in the time clause tense(before I got this bad coughing).
I had been intending to finish smoking(master clause tense) even earlier I got this bad coughing(fourth dimension clause tense).
a. would have been
b. had been
c. have been
| Posted: Tuesday, June sixteen, 2022 5:31:35 PM |
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PS. FounDit , forth with Dragonspeaker , I am lamentable I was wrong that I said I scored 94%. I scored 96%, really.
Yep, each question of the 25 questions tin can give a score of 4%.
So, four% X 25 = 4/100 X 25/100 = 100/100 = 100%.
For the 12th question, when I selected "have been", my score decreased by four%. However, when selecting 'had been', I scored 96%. That means another question incorrect.
| Posted: Midweek, June 17, 2022 12:57:39 AM |
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Yous're right on #12 - the virtually "grammatically correct" is the by perfect (plus the uncomplicated past), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each thing happened).
The i yous had wrong is #22 - concrete proposal.
Take a await at the north-gram graph hither.
Information technology'south probably only a phrase you've never come up across - it'due south mostly a business or legal-blazon idea.
con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual thing or case; real; perceptible; substantial: concrete proof.
2. pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular as opposed to full general: concrete proposals.
Still, I'd say 96 is a
skillfulscore. Well done.
| Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2022 10:37:14 AM |
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Drag0nspeaker wrote:
You lot're right on #12 - the most "grammatically correct" is the past perfect (plus the simple by), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each affair happened).
The one you had wrong is #22 - concrete proposal.
Take a look at the northward-gram graph here.
It's probably simply a phrase you've never come across - it's by and large a business or legal-type idea.
con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual matter or instance; real; perceptible; substantial: concrete proof.
2. pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; item every bit opposed to full general: concrete proposals.
All the same, I'd say 96 is a
goodscore. Well done.
I wondered when I read the score of 94 if two points had been taken off for the "builder/concrete/proposal" question. But since there was no mention of that, I assumed either answer would be given credit, since "builder" and either "physical" or "proposal" fits. That was actually a poor question. But 96 is an excellent score. Well done.
| Posted: Thursday, January 7, 2022 2:23:53 PM |
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Physical / Proposal is the correct reply
| Posted: Tuesday, Apr xx, 2022 x:49:21 AM |
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Babouri Salim wrote:
CONCRETE / Proposal is the correct answer
Yes, exactly: all the answers by A cooperator are right except 22c: "concrete proposal".
Non that "concrete builder" per se is wrong, it's simply that they wanted us to choose the well-nigh frequent lexical collocation, which is "physical proposal".
Just stick to all the answers given by A cooperator - except for 22 - and you'll score 100%!
| Posted: Tuesday, April twenty, 2022 12:xxx:49 PM |
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Past the mode, the phrase "Mind you" in #13 should have been followed by a comma: "Listen you, the Tv gear up is then old...." rather than "Mind you lot the Television receiver set is so one-time...".
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