25.07.2024

 

1. People ---- the Earth was flat until Aristotle ---- that it was not.

A) believed / was proving
B) had believed / proved
C) had believed / would prove
D) have believed / proved
E) believed / had proved

2. Ever since I stopped working, I ---- to save money by ---- at home.

A) have tried / having being cooked
B) am trying / cooking
C) have tried / cook
D) tried / cooking
E) have been trying / cooking

3. My girlfriend and I ---- to find the right agent who ---- us find the perfect home.

A) had tried / has help
B) were trying / will help
C) will have tried / will help
D) have been trying / will help
E) are trying / will have helped

4. He ---- the one who crashed your car yesterday, he was with me the whole time.

A) may have been
B) must have been
C) shouldn't have been
D) can't have been
E) may not have been

5. Computer records ---- that they ---- us before the product was shipped.

A) showed / had paid
B) has shown / have paid
C) had shown / will pay
D) showed / would be paid
E) were showing / have paid

6. Every time we go there, we take a lot of pictures ---- we take a drive along the beach to see the surfers.

A) so that
B) as
C) whereas
D) even if
E) lest

7. All inclusive resorts are best for families with kids, ---- unmarried couples.

A) as well as
B) so as to
C) consequently
D) thereby
E) notwithstanding

8. Andriy Shevchenko, ---- goals I have watched over and over, was a legendary soccer player.

A) which
B) whose
C) where
D) what
E) who

9. This is the place ---- James inadvertently had his first kiss.

A) which
B) what
C) where
D) that
E) whose

10. It is very distracting if the students chatter around while the teacher ----.

A) would lecture
B) were lecturing
C) drove
D) is lecturing
E) will lecture  

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Multiple Choice Cloze Worksheet 1

For each question, choose which of the four possible answers fits the space best. Also think about why the other three answers are not possible.

1. Lance is ___________ knowledgeable on this subject.
a) smartly
b) powerfully
c) firmly
d) highly

2. I need a good explanation of all the costs ___________ in buying a new car.
a) affected
b) involved
c) concerned
d) implied

3. There was a ___________ debate about the Middle East, then they moved to a vote.
a) lively
b) flexible
c) main
d) nimble

4. The doctor told him to lose weight quickly or pay the ___________ later in life.
a) fee
b) fine
c) price
d) cost

5. Jet lag causes problems with our ___________ clock.
a) biological
b) botanical
c) natural
d) rhythmical

6. This species of seagull is not a ___________ of the island, but will sometimes rest here a while.
a) neighbour
b) national
c) citizen
d) resident

7. Doesn't it ___________ you as strange that it's the middle of May and it's snowing?
a) hit
b) occur
c) strike
d) touch

8. I didn't stay behind because I wanted to, I did so because it was my ___________.
a) work
b) duty
c) shift
d) chore

  

Tilting Tower Of Pisa

A
One of the world's most famous buildings, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, has recently reopened after ten years of closure, and later in the year, tourists will once again be allowed to climb the ancient monument. The free-standing bell tower of Pisa cathedral started leaning to the south as soon as building started. As it was completed in stages over nearly 200 years, the builders compensated for the tilt by bending the tower as it went up. The problem was that the soft sand and clay under its foundations were compressed by the tower's weight. Over the centuries it leaned more and more, and in 1990 it had to be closed to tourists. Professor John Burland of Imperial College, London, who supervised the stabilisation work, says it was near to collapse: "We can't say when it would have gone, because that would have been a random event like an earthquake or a storm, but we knew we hadn't got long; we knew we had to do something very quickly."

B
Previous efforts to slow the progress of the tilt had failed to help; in fact some had even accelerated it. The committee appointed by the city of Pisa to plan a rescue considered several options, including pumping water out of the sand, and weighing down the ground on the northern side, opposite the lean. But tests on a concrete model of the Leaning Tower suggested that the best method would be to dig out small amounts of earth from boreholes drilled at an angle under the northern side. Instruments measured the results to the millimetre, as Professor Burland guided the operation by fax from his London office: "We had 41 drill holes going in under the tower over its full width. On any one day we would perhaps operate from four of them at the most, and each day we extracted a maximum of 100 litres, which is really just a few bucketfuls."

C
Professor Burland and the team were well aware that, while allowing the tower to collapse would have been a disaster, straightening it too far would have done Pisa's tourist industry no good either; few visitors would come to see a Vertical Tower of Pisa. But he's satisfied that the drilling has gone just far enough: "We've reduced the lean by about 10%; the tower was leaning about four-and-a-half metres near the top. It's now leaning just a little bit over four metres, which is enough to stabilise the tower, but not enough for a tourist to look at it and say, "Ah! They've reduced the lean". It's not visible." The Leaning Tower is now stable; even if it were to return to its former rate of tilt, it should survive another 300 years before more action is needed and from November onwards, tourists will once again be allowed to look down from its overhanging eighth storey.

Source: bbc.co.uk

The reading passage has three paragraphs. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-C from the list of headings. Write the correct number.

1. Paragraph A _______
2. Paragraph B _______
3. Paragraph C _______

1. Random Tests
2. Tilt Compensation
3. Repeating History
4. Lean Reduction
5. Model Method

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?

Choose either True, False or Not Stated if there is no information on this in the reading passage.

1. The tower's closure has been expensive for the city of Pisa.
2. By 1990, the tower could have collapsed at any time.
3. Some of the previous attempts at slowing the lean rate had had the opposite effect.
4. The tower leans towards the north.
5. Professor Burland's job was at risk if they had straightened the tower too much.