Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
We really appreciate your help, without which we couldn’t have got our task done in time.
A. feel thankful for
B. depreciate
C. require
D. are proud of
We couldn’t help laughing when he took _____ his teacher so well
A. up
B. over
C. off
D. out
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each on the following questions.
In a restaurant, if we want to call the waiter, we can raise our hand and wave it slight to signal that we need assistance.
A.slight to signal
B.if we
C.assistance
D.wave it
We were so looking forward to stretching out on the beach in the sunshine, but it ___ the whole time we were there.
A. poured with rain
B. rained dogs and cats
C. dropped in the bucket
D. made hay while the sun shined
We were late because we had some car problems. By the time we ___________ to the station, Susan ____________ for us for more than two hours.
A. are getting/had waited
B. got/waited
C. had got/had waited
D. got/ had been waiting
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions below.
Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years; but they have been talking for much longer, doubtless ever since there have been human beings.
When writing did develop, it was derived from and represented speech, although imperfectly. Even today there are spoken languages that have no written form. Furthermore, we all learn to talk well before we learn to write; any human child who is not severely handicapped physically or mentally will learn to talk. a normal human being cannot be prevented from doing so. On the other hand, it takes a special effort to learn to write. In the past many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill, and even today many who speak languages with writing systems never learn to read or write, while some who learn the rudiments of those skills do so only imperfectly.
To affirm the primacy of speech over writing is not, however, to disparage the latter. One advantage writing has over speech is that it is more permanent and makes possible the records that any civilization must have. Thus, if speaking makes us human, writing makes us civilized.
We sometimes think of writing as more real than speech because ______.
A. writing is secondary to language
B. human beings have been writing for at least 5000 years
C. it has become very important in our culture
D. people have been writing since there have been human beings
I’m afraid we no longer sell that model of laptop because we had_____a lot of complaints.
A. so
B. such
C. enough
D. too
After we each had been assigned an installment part of the object, we came back to our _____ section.
A. respectful
B. respectively
C. respect
D. respective
After we each had been assigned an installment part of the object, we came back to our _____ section.
A. respectful
B. respectively
C. respect
D. respective