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Weights and Measures
English weights and measures are very difficult to (1) foreigner.
For general use the smallest weight is 1 ounce (written oz) and there (2) 16 ounces in a pound (written lb). The English buy ___ (3), tobacco and sometimes cigarettes by the ounce while most___
(4) or fruit, such as apples, (5), strawberries, by the pound,
half-pound or quarter-pound.
Fourteen pounds (6) 1 stone. The English always give people’s
weight in stones and pounds. For example, a man (7) 11 stones
9 lbs (not 163 lbs).
112 lbs make up 1 hundredweight (written cwt) and (8) are
20 hundredweights in a ton.
Liquids are (9) in pints, quarts and gallons. There are 2 pints in
a quart and 4 quarts in a (10).
Finally, for length the principal (11) are inches, feet, yards
and miles.
The easiest way to remember them, perhaps, is a little (12)
like this:
Her baby always sleeps after breakfast.
He can’t talk to you now. He is going out.
The programme starts at nine o’clock every night.
I am sorry, but my friend is waiting for me.
They are going to the beach now.
She never wants to go to the cinema.
Look at my daughter! She is reading.
Is your grandmother sitting in the garden now?
Is she cooking dinner now?
They go to the cinema very often.
It’s nine o’clock. Jane is still playing chess with her father.
Does Mary drive to her office every day?
Is he in the library now?
I am not studying at the moment.
Nick and Jane are in their room. They are speaking.
He leaves the office every day at five.
What magazine are you reading now?
Wait a minute! I am putting my coat on.
Listen to Helen! She is singing a new song.
Where is your husband? - Is he fishing now?