1) Grammar test
1. was a very course, but we managed to get through it.
a) strong b) heavy c) strict d) demanding
2. My boss has decided to send me to China to do a course in Mandarin. It's
very intensive - 8 hours every day for 10 days.
a) crash b) fast c) speed d) high-speed
3. I read the newspaper every day to keep up with events.
a) real b) actual c) current d) actually
4. If you apply to a university in the UK or Australia, you might get a offer
of a place on the course; the university may require you to pass the IELTS exam or go on
a short English language course.
a) condition b) conditional c) conditioned d) conditioning
5. Excuse me, I wonder if you could help me? Do you Business English
courses at your school?
a) run b) give c) study d) all of the above answers
6. Universities are now running more courses than they did in the past; that
is, courses that prepare you for a particular job or career path. I even saw a course for
golf course management!
a) vocation b) vocational c) vacation d) vocational
7. This book is so good – soon people will be describing it as a novel.
a) class b) classic c) classical d) classically
8. I thought for a long time, and the end I decided to take the job.
a) in b) on c) at d) to
9. I’ve been given a really exciting to go and study in China.
a) chance b) opportunity c) possibility d) probability
10. I sometimes find it difficult to social gatherings with my wife’s family.
a) fit to b) fit in at c) suit d) suit myself to
11. He was an extremely child; he would get upset very easily.
a) sensible b) sensate c) sense d) sensitive
12. New Orleans is a city still with the task of rebuilding itself.
a) dabbling b) plying c) putting up d) grappling
13. She's recently experienced a number of personal problems but seems to be taking it
all in her and shows the same enthusiasm for life as ever.
a) pride b) stride c) - d) hand
14. I have no idea how they will react to the news, so we'll just have to play it.
a) off by heart b) from memory c) by ear d) safe
15. They were finally forced to up to the truth. Their marriage was a failure.
a) live b) give c) make it d) face
16. Three of the words below go together with 'HEAD' to make a new word. Which word does not make a new word?
a) ache b) line c) master d) man
17. Three of the words below go together with 'NEWS' to make a new word. Which word does
not make a new word?
a) reader b) magazine c) paper d) flash
18. Three of the words below go together with 'BIRTH' to make a new word. Which word does
not make a new word?
a) day b) mark c) control d) baby
19. Three of the words below go together with 'AIR' to make a new word. Which word does not
make a new word?
a) conditioning b) mail c) port d) pilot
20. Three of the words below go together with 'BOOK' to make a new word. Which word does
not make a new word?
a) shop b) worm c) maker d) library
I have visited my family
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"I have visited my home.
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I have visited your homes.
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I have visited too many homes where people were zoned to build on dangerous land, only to see their properties begin sliding downhill.
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I had visited Suleiman a week earlier, at his home in Amman.
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In some homes I've visited, it looks closer to 80 percent.
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Think about the people who have visited your home in the last month for social reasons.
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It is much harder to demonize someone when you know his family or have visited his home".
It was my late father who introduced me by chance to English words. He loved reading. For that, in his spare time he went downtown to buy some used-books from street vendors. Someday, my father came home and brought some used books where I found an English book of fairy tales among others. I couldn’t read even its title, for sure, since I was at second grade of my primary school, but I found some interesting pictures in it and some keywords on the outer column of each page. So, I chose a picture and asked my father to read the story about it. I sat down side by side with him and he began to read a full sentence in a deep voice and then gave me its translation. Once in a while he got stuck in the meaning of a word, and so he opened English – Indonesian dictionary in order to figure it out. That was my first English reading session as well as my first experience to know how to use dictionary. Ever since, reading English become our regular agenda whenever my father was at home.