English Grammar/Vocab
Define homophones
Words that sound the same when spoken, but have different meanings and often different spellings
In Python, which symbol is used to start a comment?
#
Pound or Hash depending on region
Quand j’étais petit, je ___ (jouer) au football tous les jours.
jouais
Question: What number comes next? 3, 8, 15, 24, 35, ?
48
Which country has the largest land area in the world?
Russia
Identify the literary device in: “The wind whispered through the trees.”
Personification
Graphics Processing Unit
Change to the passé composé: Je mange une pomme.
J’ai mangé une pomme.
All A are B. No B are C. Can any A also be C?
No
Which layer of Earth’s atmosphere contains the majority of the ozone layer?
Stratosphere
“The scientist’s explanation was so ______ that even experts struggled to understand it.”
A) coherent
B) lucid
C) esoteric
D) mundane
C) esoteric
x = 17 y = 5 print(x // y) print(x % y)
3
2
Si j’avais plus d’argent, je ___ (acheter) une nouvelle voiture.
j’achèterais
A farmer needs to cross a river with a wolf, goat, and cabbage. The boat can carry the farmer and only one of the three at a time. The wolf cannot be left alone with the goat, and the goat cannot be left alone with the cabbage. What is the minimum number of crossings?
7
What are all the planets in our Solar System known to have liquid water oceans on its surface?
Earth
Which sentence(s) is grammatically correct?
A) The professor, along with her assistants, were responsible for conducting the experiments.
B) The professor, along with her assistants, was responsible for conducting the experiments.
C) The professor, along with her assistants, have been responsible for conducting the experiments.
D) The professor, along with her assistants, are responsible for conducting the experiments.
Only B
n ASCII, the character A is represented by the decimal value 65. What is A in 8-bit binary and hexadecimal?
01000001 and 41
Replace the indirect object with the correct pronoun: Je donne le livre à Marie.
Je lui donne le livre.
A clock shows exactly 7:40. What is the smallest angle between the hour hand and the minute hand?
10 degrees
Why does the sky appear blue during the day?
Rayleigh scattering causes shorter wavelengths of visible light, such as blue, to scatter more strongly than longer wavelengths such as red.
What does the word “ubiquitous” mean?
Present, appearing, or found everywhere.
A computer has 4 GB of RAM. How many bits of data can the RAM theoretically store?
32,000,000,000 bits (32 Billion, 3200 crore)
Translate: “I didn’t know that he had already finished his homework.”
Je ne savais pas qu’il avait déjà fini ses devoirs.
You have two ropes. Each rope takes exactly one hour to completely burn, but they burn at unpredictable rates along their lengths. How can you measure exactly 45 minutes?
Light both ends of Rope 1 and one end of Rope 2 simultaneously. Rope 1 finishes in 30 minutes. Then light the other end of Rope 2. It finishes 15 minutes later. 30 + 15 = 45 minutes.
Which ancient civilization built Machu Picchu?
Inca civilization