How Long Can Half and Half Be Left Out
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| Posted: Thursday, June xi, 2022 8:58:37 PM |
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Hi Everyone!
These are 25 questions from the exam 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 y'all sure? Not sure. Fairly certain. Certain."
1.
Cull the all-time word to complete the sentence.
The baby male child saw ... in the mirror and started to cry.
a. itself
b. herself
c. himself
2.
Cull the best give-and-take or phrase to complete the judgement.
A lot of trains ... tardily today due to the heavy storms.
a. are run
b. run
c. are running
3.
Choose the all-time discussion or phrase to complete the judgement.
... was a stiff air current last night.
a. In that location
b. Here
c. This
4.
Choose the all-time give-and-take or phrase to consummate the sentence.
Firstly, I want to congratulate you all. Secondly, I would like to wish yous proficient luck and ... I hope yous have enjoyed the course.
a. in the end
b. at last
c. finally
5.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
Y'all ... make clean your teeth twice a day to avert having issues.
a. can
b. should
c. will
6.
Choose the best word or phrase to consummate the judgement.
The children thought they were ... when they saw the bull.
a. in a danger
b. in danger
c. in the danger
seven.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the dialogue.
Jack: I think information technology's going to rain.
Jill: I ... , the clouds are clearing.
Jack: We'll soon see.
a. disagree
b. complain
c. argue
eight.
Cull the all-time give-and-take or phrase to complete the judgement.
I actually don't like this meal. ... money in the world wouldn't get me to eat it.
a. Whatever
b. Enough
c. All the
nine.
Choose the best discussion or phrase to complete the sentence.
Final yr, Joanna bought two ... coats in New York.
a. long, black, leather
b. black, long, leather
c. leather, black, long
10.
Choose the all-time word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I must study to the coming together that Cyrus completed his first piece of work well ahead of schedule. ..., still, his work has been handed in late.
a. Sequentially
b. Later on
c. Consequently
11.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
That's very good of yous but you ... take paid me back until tomorrow.
a. needn't
b. wouldn't
c. couldn't
12.
Choose the all-time word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I ... intending to stop smoking even earlier I got this bad cough.
a. would accept been
b. had been
c. accept been
13.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the dialogue.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new Television receiver evidence concluding night.
Jo: Was it whatever skilful?
Anne: Yes. ... the Television receiver is then old I could encounter very little.
a. Mind you
b. Withal
c. Past the way
14.
Choose the discussion or phrase which has a like meaning to:
consider
a. call up about
b. seem well
c. get for
You removed a message
xv.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
talk
a. stroll
b. point out
c. converse
16.
Choose the discussion or phrase which has a like meaning to:
complete
a. end
b. go through
c. full
17.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
return
a. business relationship
b. go dorsum
c. opposite
18.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar pregnant to:
written report
a. become after
b. business relationship
c. respect
19.
Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
She hitting her ... while she was playing football game.
a. motor
b. tail
c. shoulder
20.
Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
The ... went to the constabulary.
a. offense
b. solicitor
c. shoulder
21.
Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
It was bad but it was not a ... .
a. gate
b. magazine
c. crime
22.
Some words are often used together, east.one thousand. smelly + socks. Choose a word which is frequently used with:
concrete
a. architect
b. thrill
c. proposal
23.
Some words are often used together, e.g. smelly + socks. Choose a give-and-take which is oftentimes used with:
tender
a. diet
b. words
c. brute
24.
Some words are ofttimes used together, e.g. smelly + socks. Cull a word which is often used with:
sophisticated
a. wearing apparel
b. handbag
c. ship
25.
Some words are often used together, e.g. smelly + socks. Cull a word which is often used with:
blunt
a. movement
b. proposition
c. instrument
| Posted: Th, June xi, 2022 9:45:08 PM |
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The only ane I would question is #12
12.
Choose the all-time discussion or phrase to complete the sentence.
I ... intending to stop smoking even before I got this bad coughing.
a. would accept been
b. had been
c. take been
I would have chosen C. "take been". It could be argued that using "had been" gives the impression you gave upward the intention before getting the bad cough. Using "have been" conveys an intention that was on-going when you lot got the cough. I don't know why you scored 94, however. With 25 questions, each should be worth 4 points each, so you lot should have scored a 96.
| Posted: Th, June 11, 2022 11:29:05 PM |
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Very interesting. I pretty much agree with all the choices marked every bit right.
But I have some commments:
--In #4, the words should be "First" and "2d", not "Firstly" and "Secondly". But "finally," is the correct option.
--In #9, in my opinion the choice "long, black, leather coats"--though better than the other two choices--isn't really good. It ought to exist "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 non mean you lot ceased intending to cease smoking.
--In #13, I have to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Listen you"--I would adopt "All the same--but "However" that wasn't one of the choices, and "Mind you" is meliorate than the other two.
--And in #22, "concrete proposal" seems a improve matched pair than "concrete builder" in well-nigh contexts. In the absenteeism of a context for the sentence, "concrete builder" 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.
Only I have some commments:
--In #4, the words should exist "First" and "Second", not "Firstly" and "Secondly". But "finally," is the correct choice.
--In #ix, in my opinion the choice "long, black, leather coats"--though ameliorate than the other two choices--isn't really practiced. It ought to be "long black leather coats" without the commas.
--In #12, unlike FounDit, I adopt "had been intending..." to "accept been intending...". To me, "had been intending" does not mean you lot ceased intending to terminate smoking.
--In #13, I have to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Mind you"--I would prefer "Notwithstanding--merely "Nevertheless" that wasn't one of the choices, and "Mind you lot" is better than the other 2.
--And in #22, "concrete proposal" seems a better matched pair than "concrete architect" in most contexts. In the absence of a context for the sentence, "physical architect" is an acceptable reply.
#four Firstly and secondly are usually used in British English.
I concur with FounDit for #12 I adopt "accept been", information technology's how most British people would use that phrase.
#xiii Heed you is the phrase that an ordinary British person would apply.
#22 is a question of clan it is non about forming an actual pairing architect and concrete get together in the aforementioned way breadstuff and bakery or bat and cricketer do.
Call back the British Council is trying to teach people to speak English as it is used in Britain today, on behalf of the British Government, some of its usages won't match American English language.
| Posted: Friday, June 12, 2022 6:57:xxx 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 architect" isn't.
A builder may employ concrete occasionally, merely there'south no such chore every bit "physical builder".
Aye, I'd ordinarily use "heed you".
Mind y'all, it is a niggling "archaic"
, in that the verb "mind" meaning "pay attending" is not now used intransitively; AND imperatives don't present accept that form with the 'person' afterward the verb. "Listen you lot" = "(You lot) take detect!" = "merely I'g mentioning and so that you can have notice"
| Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2022 3:15:06 AM |
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My "native spoken communication" is AmE, but I lived in England for iv years and accept many British friends, so I'm very familiar with BrE. My start married woman grew upwardly in Gateshead and subsequently in Banbury, so I know both Geordie and Thames Valley oral communication--then much so that when I saw the pic "Baton Eliot" [2000]--set up mostly in Tyneside and full of Geordie accents--in the theater here in Illinois, I was the just person in the audience who understood all of what was being said.
I know, for case, nigh "mind you"--which is the best choice of the three put forward in #13. It's a well-known BrE phrase, and is not unknown in AmE. Of the three choices given, information technology'southward the one I would choose.
But, if one of the choices for #13 were "Notwithstanding", that is the one I would pick. Information technology's perfectly good BrE and AmE.
I take seen both American and British usage guides that prefer "start" and "second" to "firstly" and "secondly". Almost usage guides agree, though, that the "-ly" forms are acceptable, and more formal.
| Posted: Saturday, June thirteen, 2022 viii:38:31 AM |
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Gateshead to Banbury - couldn't be much different, dialectically, and stay in England!
Like FounDit, I'm curious how 25 questions tin give a score of
94%.
That ways one question wrong and one "half-right".
Most of the questions (being multiple selection) can't be 'half-right'.
| Posted: Sunday, June 14, 2022 9:54:59 PM |
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Hi Everyone!
Cheers all very much indeed,
But, do you lot not remember we must take a comma after "heed yous"?
There is no comma in the original question question. And so, I excluded the 'a' and 'c' since both must have a following comma if they initiated a phrase.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new TV show last dark.
Jo: Was information technology any good?
Anne: Yep. Mind you the Idiot box set is and then former I could run into very little.
I read Guide for Mixed Tense Exercises:
Quote:
Time word: Before:
Time clause tense: Uncomplicated present, Simple by
Main clause tense: Simple time to come
Earlier Karen leaves for work, she will roller-skate effectually her house three times.
Time word: Earlier
Fourth dimension clause tense: elementary past
Main clause tense: Unproblematic past or past perfect
Before Karen left for piece of work, she (had) roller-skated effectually her house 3 times.
So, in no #12, the speaker is talking well-nigh two actions, "I got coughing", and "the "intend to stop smoking". "Intend to finish smoking" happened before "I got cough". So, I call up that the past perfect progressive must exist used in the main clause tense(I had been intending to stop smoking) and the past elementary in the time clause tense(earlier I got this bad cough).
I had been intending to stop smoking(main clause tense) even earlier I got this bad cough(fourth dimension clause tense).
a. would have been
b. had been
c. have been
| Posted: Tuesday, June xvi, 2022 5:31:35 PM |
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PS. FounDit , along with Dragonspeaker , I am sorry I was wrong that I said I scored 94%. I scored 96%, really.
Yes, each question of the 25 questions tin give a score of 4%.
So, 4% Ten 25 = 4/100 X 25/100 = 100/100 = 100%.
For the 12th question, when I selected "have been", my score decreased by 4%. Nonetheless, when selecting 'had been', I scored 96%. That means another question wrong.
| Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2022 12:57:39 AM |
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You're right on #12 - the most "grammatically correct" is the by perfect (plus the unproblematic past), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each thing happened).
The one y'all had incorrect is #22 - concrete proposal.
Take a look at the n-gram graph hither.
Information technology'due south probably just a phrase y'all've never come up across - it'southward mostly a business or legal-type thought.
con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual thing or instance; existent; perceptible; substantial: physical proof.
2. pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular equally opposed to general: concrete proposals.
Still, I'd say 96 is a
practicedscore. Well done.
| Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2022 10:37:14 AM |
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Drag0nspeaker wrote:
You're right on #12 - the most "grammatically correct" is the past perfect (plus the unproblematic past), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each thing happened).
The one you had wrong is #22 - concrete proposal.
Have a look at the n-gram graph here.
It's probably but a phrase yous've never run into - it's mostly a business or legal-type idea.
con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual matter or example; existent; perceptible; substantial: concrete proof.
2. pertaining to or concerned with realities or bodily instances rather than abstractions; detail equally opposed to general: physical proposals.
Yet, I'd say 96 is a
goodscore. Well washed.
I wondered when I read the score of 94 if two points had been taken off for the "architect/concrete/proposal" question. Just since there was no mention of that, I causeless either reply would exist given credit, since "builder" and either "concrete" or "proposal" fits. That was really a poor question. But 96 is an excellent score. Well washed.
| Posted: Th, January 7, 2022 2:23:53 PM |
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Physical / Proposal is the correct answer
| Posted: Tuesday, April xx, 2022 10:49:21 AM |
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Babouri Salim wrote:
CONCRETE / Proposal is the correct answer
Aye, exactly: all the answers by A cooperator are correct except 22c: "concrete proposal".
Not that "concrete builder" per se is wrong, it'southward merely that they wanted us to choose the virtually frequent lexical collocation, which is "concrete proposal".
Just stick to all the answers given by A cooperator - except for 22 - and you'll score 100%!
| Posted: Tuesday, April 20, 2022 12:xxx:49 PM |
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By the way, the phrase "Mind you" in #thirteen should have been followed by a comma: "Mind you, the Tv fix is and then old...." rather than "Listen you the Tv is so old...".
| Posted: Tuesday, April 20, 2022 4:35:54 PM |
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Does everyone realize this post is from June 2020?
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